From shoe designs to canvas, Nike has just launched a new gallery show in the US that explores the brand’s graphic and creative history. The exhibition at Portland’s Compound Gallery features a series of pop-art designs including a eighties-style ghetto blaster radio painted over with the Nike logo, and a collections of boxes that turn the sports brand into a detergent powder. The work has been created by a roster of young artists such as Colin Flynn, Wil Green, Elesben Montoya, Ian Saiki and David Mellor.

What’s more, all profits raised from the exhibition show will go towards a relief fund that will benefit regions in Japan that were affected by the tsunami. We like that Nike - a brand with such an iconic and protected logo - has allowed artists to play around with its identity to create a series of new and unexpected designs.

Head down to the Compound Gallery in Portland during September to see the show for yourself.