1. Tinker Hatfield was born on April 30,1952, in Hillsboro, Oregon.
15 Facts About Tinker Hatfield
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Tinker Hatfield attended Central Linn High School, where he was an exceptionally talented basketball player, an All-State football running back, and an All-American track-and-field star in hurdle events and pole vaulting.
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At the University of Oregon, Tinker Hatfield studied architecture and continued his track and field career under the coaching of Bill Bowerman, co-founder of Nike.
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Tinker Hatfield set the university record in the pole vault and placed sixth in that event at the 1976 Olympic trials.
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Tinker Hatfield finished his college studies in the fall of 1976 and was awarded a bachelor's degree in architecture from the university in 1977.
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Tinker Hatfield joined Nike in 1981, and in 1985 started working on shoe design.
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Tinker Hatfield realized that his architectural skills could be applied to shoes.
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Tinker Hatfield was published for the architectural design of his Portland, Oregon home.
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In 1987, Tinker Hatfield designed the Air Max 1 Running Shoe after visiting the Centre Georges Pompidou; and in 1990 released the third in the Air Max line, the Air Max 90.
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Tinker Hatfield designed the bat-boots for Michael Keaton to wear in Batman and Batman Returns.
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Tinker Hatfield created the graphic design on the basketball court at the Matthew Knight Arena at the University of Oregon; the facility opened in 2011.
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In 2013, Tinker Hatfield worked on both Nike and Jordan brand concept car designs for Gran Turismo 6.
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In 2014, Tinker Hatfield indicated that Nike would unveil a shoe with power-lacing technology, as worn by Marty McFly in the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II, which partially takes place in the year 2015.
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Tinker Hatfield was profiled in the first season of the Netflix documentary series Abstract: The Art of Design.
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Tinker Hatfield was the lead designer of Air Jordans III through XV, XX, and XX3.