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World Cup Stadiums By Portugese illustrator André Chiote.

The 2014 World Cup is wrapping up and it’ll be another four years before football fever takes over the world again. Unless you have been living under a rock for the last month, you probably know that the current World Cup games are being played out in Brazil, with the final four teams playing the last semi final matches this week. Over the last month teams from around the world have played in 12 stadiums across Brazil, and Portugese illustrator André Chiote has illustrated five o them focusing on unique architectural details, using a color pallet based on the Brazilian flag with green blue and yellow. The illustration style is clean and simple with a nod to the international style of the 1960’s that brings a strong visual impact to the posters. Great stuff.

2010 FIFA World Cup Beer Posters.

With all this World Cup stuff going on, there is a ton of great World Cup related design popping up on the web these days. For example this wonderful series of posters created for the 16 qualifying teams, brought to you by Moxy Creative. I love these, simple graphics with a great color pallet. A slightly distressed look to the backgrounds, and limited editorial that commemorates the event. The posters are available on Moxy’s website $25.00

W+K’s Wonderful Press Kit for Nike. “Write the Future” FIFA World Cup.

With the World Cup in full swing, companies are pulling out all the stops for tie in advertising. Nike having eclipsed Adidas in football sponsorship is no exception. Nike’s agency of record W+K hired Diem Chau, to carve a series of crayons as football players. The players make up team members in an exquisite press kit for the “Write the Future” campaign. All of the football players are personified in crayon carvings and wrapped up in a beautiful fold down museum box. The box contains the full color printed booklet, a walnut block that holds the crayons, and doubles as a display stand, and a description of all the players in the set. Absolutely wonderful.

Bend It Like Jabulani

If you have been watching any of the world cup action, you might have noticed that the Adidas designed ball for this years games seems to travel a bit farther and faster than others. According to Professor Derek Leinweber, who heads the School of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Adelaide in Australia, it is because Adidas “Grip and Groove” surface on the ball creates greater levels of turbulence around the ball. This increase results in longer flights, with greater amounts of spin. This increase in spin will also have some of the world best goalies on their toes due to the unpredictable way the ball moves in flight. The ball meets all FIFA regulations, although it is a relatively small and heavy ball. Because of this game play should be faster and harder.

“Players are also discovering new opportunities to move the ball in erratic ways, alarming the world’s best goalkeepers,” said Leinweber. “By the time the ball reaches the goalkeeper, the Jabulani will have swerved and dipped, arriving with more power and energy than the Teamgeist.”

This is the eleventh ball that Adidas has designed for the World Cup, and the name Jabulani means “To Celebrate” in Zulu.