A powerful colour
Tuesday March 29th: footie night! 5 Dutchies, 4 Brits, 2 Germans, 1 Scot, 1 Hungarian, 1 Canadian and 1 Spaniard; a mishmash of nationalities all geared up and ready to see the Dutch football team conquer the Hungarians. With beers and burgers in our stomachs we headed to the Amsterdam Arena raring to go and [...]
In: Sports branding, Viewpoints, What are we up to? · Tags: Amsterdam, Colour, Dutch love of orange, Football, Orange
Will it be a Happy New Year for Brand Rooney?
He’s the second highest earning English football player behind David Beckham, with a portfolio of sponsorship deals that take his already monstrous salary onto another plane. New Year’s Day even saw him scoring again, ending his four month league drought – and his marriage seems to have weathered the storms of last year. On paper, he’s [...]
In: Sports branding, Viewpoints · Tags: Celebrities, Football
Design Bridge team win Design Week football league
Check out the coverage on the Design Week Blog – our football team topped the Design Week league for Spring 2010, beating strong competition from Winkreative and JKR. Our team won 12 out of the 14 games, with Will Hodgess (top left) bagging 31 goals during their triumphant run. Fingers crossed we can defend the [...]
In: News, What are we up to? · Tags: Design Week, Football
Favourites found this week
A bit of a mish-mash of favourite stuff found this week. Loving Veronika Wildgruber‘s series of sculpted wooden chairs – a nice play on the nature of materials. Found via Today and Tomorrow Our London studio has discovered (and loving) the Vuvuzela app for iPhone – not annoying at all… Couture Car Covers created by [...]
In: Art, Film & Animation, Ooh that's nice, Product design · Tags: Animation, Automotive, Football, iPhone, Sculpture
World Cup kick off lunch in aid of Boots for Africa
Being a bit of a mixed bunch of nationalities here at Design Bridge we thought it would be a nice idea to have an international-themed lunch in aid of Boots for Africa, to celebrate the start of the 2010 World Cup. We sampled delights from South Africa, Poland, Denmark, New Zealand, USA, France, UK, India, [...]
In: What are we up to? · Tags: Boots for Africa, Charity, Football, International
Global branding, air wars and the Rainbow Nation World Cup
I always admired what British Airways did with those tailfins. What an inspired idea: the people’s carrier linking the nations of the world through design. But alas it was ahead of the curve. Famously derided by Prime Minister Thatcher, who unceremoniously draped her hanky over a scale model of an offending fin in front of [...]
In: Brand communications, Viewpoints · Tags: Airlines, British Airways, Football, Virgin, World Cup 2010
Nike Writes the Future for football and me
I’m not into football at all, but Nike’s Write the Future ad got me really excited about a game that I know nothing about. That’s pretty impressive for someone who only knows that ‘football is NOT the one where they kick the squashed ball through the big H’ (that’s rugby, apparently). This advert made me [...]
In: Advertising, Brand Experience, Ooh that's nice, Sports branding, Viewpoints · Tags: Football, Nike
Back of the net!
Have you ever wondered how a football is made? If not, then look away now! If you have then take a look at this Youtube video of the production process of the official 2010 World Cup match ball ‘Jabulani’. The Adidas designed ball has recently been unveiled and is named Jabulani, an Isizulu word meaning [...]
In: Structural design · Tags: Football
