Google Is Crazy About The World Cup

We’ve seen Google change its logo for big events before, but this time it chose to do something different.

If you search for “World Cup" in Google, you’ll get a list of the upcoming World Cup games, but if you scroll to the bottom, you’ll see that the other Google logo, stationed above the result page numbers, has changed to Goooooooal!

Google has also added an awesome little easter egg to the service when one surfs through maps of South Africa: a vuvuzela clutched in peg man’s hot little hands!

Google owned YouTube has also decided to grace us with a dedicated vuvuzela button.
The football-shaped button sits in the lower right corner, and does precisely what you feared: It produces the dreadful vuvuzela sound!

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Evolution Of The World Cup Football

The NY Times made this interactive diagram to portray how the football evolved in the World Cup throughout the years.

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Nike Football Man

Not to be outdone by Coca-Cola’s giant dude (which I personally didn't find interesting enough to post about) at the World Cup, Nike worked with Ratcliffe Fowler Design to create this incredible hanging sculpture made up of 3000 individual soccer balls.

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FIFA 2010 Coca Cola Box Set

A few familiar faces are emblazoned on the cans’ side, and the fold-out box makes it seem as though something of value is contained within. The set makes for a great collector’s item and is available in limited quantities.

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Dutch Football Federation, 2010 FIFA World Cup: T-shirt

We've seen this done to tshirts before but still, kudos for thinking of applying the idea here.

Advertising School: Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Creatives: Bas van de Poel, Daan van Dam
Photographer: Milan Daniels

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The 2010 Chanel Sport Collection

CHANEL has expanded their line of sports equipment to include everything from boogie boards to bocce ball. Tons of snow skis, five snowboards, four different surfboards, a bicycle, five tennis racquets, two guitars, a scooter, fishing gear, golf clubs, Polo gear, a boomerang, a basketball, a football.... even inline skates. The luxury brand now has everything you need to compete in style whether riding a horse, or a wave.

As expected, they are all with CHANEL logos, cases and fine details.

But somehow, I feel they don't faithfully reflect the CHANEL brand. Or maybe its just because I'm not used to seeing the brand on sports equipment...

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Barbie Table Football

Barbie Foot was part of the DMY youngsters exhibition at DMY Berlin Design Festival 09. It is a Barbie doll-themed table football by french designer Chloe Ruchon, which combines the iconic doll with table football.

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Qatar 2022

Qatar is making its case for the 2022 World Cup. The identity shown above conceived by Future Brand artfully combines the concepts of international football and Qatari heritage, officials said.

"The 32 pentagons represent the surface of a football, using colours that reflect, what is claimed to be, the natural heritage of Qatar—warm, luminescent colours of sand and sun which spiral inwards, alongside the azure blues of the sea."


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