Posters have been released for each of the cities in Brazil which will host World Cup games in 2014.
Each poster features something which ties in with the history or the nature of the city it is for.
Meanwhile Brazilians have selected the name 'Fuleco' for the three-banded armadillo mascot for the competition after a three-month voting process that was branded undemocratic by fans.
An assumption about football design in the 21st century is that it should be high resolution. That's not necessarily the case.
The blog at 8bit-football.com subversively showcases its creations in the limited style of the old 8-bit video game systems (most memorably, the Nintendo Entertainment System - commonly known as the NES - and the Sega Master System and Master System II). The trick that those old football games occasionally pulled off, and 8bit football has mastered, is duping the mind's eye into seeing more than was on show.
The Footbonaut is a ball feeding machine erected on a 14 metre square grid which is the brainchild of Berlin-based designer Christian Guttler. The player who needs to brush up on his reaction time and ball control enters the arena and takes his place in a centre circle.
From then the ball is randomly fed in to him, at a variety of heights. It is then the player in question's task to control the ball and deliver it to one of 64 targets within the cube, signified by the lighting up of a square.
Salford-based design collective Raw have refreshed the brand and Molineux stadium identity of Midlands Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers (Wolves).
Work began in 2011 and the development has incorporated the new Stan Cullis Stand and its housing of the club superstore and new museum, running the new consistent stylings throughout.
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