This Blog Rules | Why go elsewhere? » sports http://www.thisblogrules.com creative, art, street-art, strange news, music, movies, fun Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:14:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Fun virtual stickers for World Cup made by artists around the world http://www.thisblogrules.com/2010/06/fun-virtual-stickers-for-world-cup-made-by-artists-around-the-world.html http://www.thisblogrules.com/2010/06/fun-virtual-stickers-for-world-cup-made-by-artists-around-the-world.html#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:31:38 +0000 TBR http://www.thisblogrules.com/?p=4846 plaker-stickers

For the World Cup 2010 in South Africa, Plakker prepared for you an incredible initiative that unites the best of art and football. The first virtual “stickers” album! 67 “Stickers” made by 33 artists from 10 countries.

The album is divided in three sessions:  Brazil, with 25 Stars from our team. Teams, with 31 highlights from international teams, and finally, Gold, with 10 players that have marked the history of football.

Click on these 2 stickers to add them at your virtual album, the firsts 70 to complete the album will win Zupi Magazines. The Doni’s illustration was made by north-american artist Chelsea Greene Lewyta and the Obi’s illustration was made by Russian artist Fil Dunsky.

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If you are a World Cup fan ten we have more interesting stuff for you, check out how Nike made giant football player sculpture out of 3 000 football balls.  ESPN made these posters of 32 national teams that have participated this World Cup in South Africa.

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Nike is continue to impress with their advertisement methods. This huge sculpture, which has been named Ballman, is made with almost 3,000 footballs suspended from steel wire ropes giving the illusion that it is floating in the air. It is located inside shopping centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Ballman will stay in place for the whole World Cup tournament , and when dismantled, the plan is that the balls will be given away.

If you are a World Cup fan, then you will probably like these posters made for every team on tournament.

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To honor the biggest sport event of the year, ESPN TV station with New York ad agency Wieden + Kennedy made 32 original posters, one for each participating country at World Cup 2010 hosted in South Africa. Every poster symbolize football and national tradition of the country.

These posters can be seen on such places as print ads, billboards, bus shelters, hand-painted murals on buildings, food trucks, a print insert, 3’x4’ art gallery pieces, art books, digital banners and rich media banners.

spainSpain
south africaSouth Africa
sloveniaSlovenia
nigeria and south koreaNigeria & South Korea
paraguay-and-new-zealandParaguay & New Zealand
uruguayUruguay
slovakia-and-argentinaSlovakia & Argentina
portugal-and-brazilPortugal & Brazil
mexicoMexico
italyItaly
germanyGermany
japan-and-hondurasJapan & Honduras
ghana-and-cameroonGhana & Cameroon
franceFrance
england-and-hollandEngland & Holland
denmarkDenmark
serbia-and-greeceSerbia & Greece
australiaAustralia
cottedivoire-and-chileCôte d’Ivoire & Chile
algeria-and-north-koreaAlgeria & North Korea

]]> http://www.thisblogrules.com/2010/05/posters-of-32-national-teams-for-soccer-world-cup.html/feed 8 Huge bodybuilder advertisements lifting up city cranes and buildings http://www.thisblogrules.com/2010/04/huge-bodybuilder-advertisements-lifting-up-city-cranes-and-buildings.html http://www.thisblogrules.com/2010/04/huge-bodybuilder-advertisements-lifting-up-city-cranes-and-buildings.html#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:00:11 +0000 TBR http://www.thisblogrules.com/?p=3566 powerhouse-gym-ad-buildingPowerhouse Gym has made creative advertisements where they have used huge posters of bodybuilders in action. The posters are placed near city construction works so it looks like the bodybuilders are pulling up real cranes and pushing up building walls.

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One of the posters are placed on trash trucks so it looks like the bodybuilder is doing “leg press” with the truck’s back door.

powerhouse-gym-ad-truckpowerhouse-gym-ad-truck2Similar advertisements have been done by Vincent Dixon, but he used t-shirts instead of buildings and construction works.

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