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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Nike World Cup Crayons

A project by crayon carver, Diem Chau and W+K for Nike celebrating the world cup. It is a press kit for the Write the Future campaign. All the soccer stars are personified in crayon carvings and beautifully packaged

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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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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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