Design and football, is there anything sweeter when mixing the two? …Perhaps a few things, but it’s a pretty good combo to say the least.
That’s one of the reason’s New York agency Hyperakt (who have done some other nice stuff including (one of my personal past time fav’s) info graphics for GOODmagazine) has done what every agency aspires to do, and mixed the two into one very nice result, a World Cup poster to celebrate the end of a great tournament.

You can put a “pledge” down for a copy yourself, then if enough people hit the target of $3000 worth of pledges – the posters will be printed when the World Cup finishes. So to help the promotion of good design, or to just have a nice memento from the tournament, pledge one here.

There’s been quite abit of love for London going around amongst the artist community, and with the current sunny spell we’re all enjoying in this awesome city, why not.

Mike Lemanski has done a mini series of graphic posters (available to buy from NewLeavesStudio) with a particular striking one based on London -

There’s also this fantastic time lapse video of the big smoke too, by photographer Alex Silver. Really captures the summery vibe.

You’ve Got to Love London from Alex Silver on Vimeo.

KIT KAT capitalized on their classic ‘Have a break, have a KIT KAT’ slogan with the recent Wimbledon epic becoming the longest lasting match ever.

Lovely lay-out, and a really nice touch of using the worn out tennis ball, I’m most impressed with how quickly the KIT KAT ad agency got this produced, just a day after the game finished.

Yesterday John Isner, finally defeated Frenchman Nicholas Mahut 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, and 70-68, after 11 hours and five minutes spread over three days.

I wonder how many KitKat’s it would take to put the calories back on from the match?

Just been scoping this years awesome lineup for the 2010 Offset event in Dublin this October. One of the speakers is David O’Reilly who just blew me away with this beautiful piece of work -

A 10 minute about a troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in a wonderfully abstract and surreal future.
The film won the Golden Bear for best short at the 2009 Berlinale, the Cartoon D’or and several other awards. In 2010 it was given a distinction of cultural significance by the German ratings agency FBW.

This great little project was created by Paul Jenkins, who with 78 old Nike trainers was able to conjur up the creative power from industry titans in developing their own Nike inspired trainer.

It’s nice to see that the designers took part in this simply out of their love to create and the results look to be outstanding, with efforts ranging from the above Wieden & Kennedy Tokyo Lab’s goldfish bowl-trainers to an animation from 8bit guru eBoy. Below are more of my personal favourites, but you can find the whole collection at the Nike78 site. It’s also looking like it will be featured for a showcase appearance at this years London Design Festival.

Matthew Dent marathon book

Stephen Cheetham 'These shoes are made for kicking'

Jordan Nelson & Smith trainer brush

Erica Dorn 'Marathon Cake'

eBoy animated gif

With the World Cup starting this Friday there’s been quite a few design related posts popping up across the blog world. This one caught my eye in particular; David Watson of TrebleSeven has given the classic wall chart a rather nice typographic treatement. Initially, I found it a little confusing, but the colour and graphic detail makes this far more appealing than anything else out there. It’s all for a good cause too, with all proceeds going to Soccer Aid | UNICEF. You can purchase the poster directly from TrebleSeven, and Magma.
I’m heading down to Magma this lunch time…