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BLOOD IN, BLOOD OUT Series by Floor Wesseling
The football shirt is the most true medium to show off where your from while walking down the street in any country. You always wear them with pride to your nationality or club. The imagery of football is an international visual language and these shirts stand for the flags, shields and passports of tomorrow. With a mixed background you need to wear a Blood in Blood out shirt.
JUST FOR KICKS by Jiggery Pokery
Our machine, is an interactive swirl of flailing legs, arms and colourful footballs that, with a strike of luck, one could score a goal but on the other hand could just as easily be given the red card for foul play. To sum up; our creation gives you table-football crossed with a bingo machine, old funfair/psychedelic style signage and a few sexy legs, just for kicks. There is something very kinky about a whole load of nude-coloured mannequin legs and throwing in the odd arm makes for a nice little pop-up 'handball' sign. The various football terms featured decoratively are just a bunch of haphazard shouted words to us during a football game. Dotted about our machine, they are intended as a confusing muddle of words that don't make any particular sense.
THE CORE by Patrik Soderstam
The Core is a sculpture of a man I have done. He is dressed in a bomber jacket made up like a classic football. From his head, his mind comes footballs that rise up towards the upper corner of a room.
The footballs symbolizes the mans spirit and soul.
The stigmata wounds on his hands symbolize the almost religious experience of football.
The jacket and the shirt is my design and I have made them myself.
The upper corner symbolizes for me a gateway to another dimension. Here we can experience things we are not able to do in the reality we live in.
The sculpture visualises the true state of mind the man is in. He lives for football - it is his passion, his love and religion - his meaning of life.
My idea is for people to see and feel how serious and important football can bee. Football is one of the things in our age of time that is a substitute to religion, a place where we can find the meaning of life, where we can feel at home and somewhere for us to escape to.
Brian Sweeney
there is only one thing you remain truly faithful too in your life and that is your football team.Anyone who changes their team has no soul,should not be trusted and probably works in finance.
Rok5008
1. Find an object with some real history, maybe a flattened old leather ball, maybe a placard from a game, maybe a seat from a stadium, 2. Find an image that inspire passion and insight, maybe Brian Clough, maybe Stuart Pearce scoring the penalty against Spain in Euro 96, 3. Fuse them together into something brand new but classic and timeless.
STREETPLAY by Rae Martini
My manifesto; Observe, sketch, subvert, go straight to the problems, eat well, don't sleep too much, have fun!!
Oudhout
Oudhout (literally Old Wood)´paints´ photorealistic with salvaged colored wood. The wood is found in dumpsters, on city dumps, in old farms and along coastlines. Oudhout lives in Holland but travels extensively around the globe. He always returns home with a suitcase full of old wood. Goal of Oudhout is to make nice, shiny and very desirable things out of stuff that people have thrown away and dicarded of. Recycle art in optima forma!
Oudhout started out doing monumental (over one meter wide) pieces of classic cars, but now is turning toward everyday themes (drinks, shoes, garbage). Oudhout would looove to do Old Skool Nike sneakers/soccer kicks or - starting with Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruijff - some other (international) soccer players in Old Wood, preferably wood from their own country....
Danielle Mudd
A massive part of football is the team spirit. An array of completely different characters coming togther in support of the same thing.
My idea would see the creation of a team of different characters, made up of a mixture of handmade plush toys and cardboard character cut-outs, posing together for their team photo.
The variety of characters illustrates how football does a fantastic job of bringing together a diverse mix people and characters from all walks of life, all working towards the same goal.
FOOTBALL TABLE by Oscar & Ewan
We’re interested in highlighting the community aspect of football. For us, the art of football isn’t just what happens on the pitch, but how it becomes a central focus for so many people of different backgrounds and cultures. We want to highlight this by literally creating a central point by use of a table. The table being the central point of a home, an object associated with family, sharing and discussion.
By bringing together these ideas, we plan to create a miniature stadium within an oval table which people can congregate around, look at and talk about what they love, football.
The table top will be laser cut with the lines of a stadium from a birds eye view as shown on the previous page. This will create independent parts which we can then lower layer by layer to build up a simplified topographical stadium, see the following page.Around the edges of the table there will be table lamps to simulate the lighting of a stadium and bring focus to the pitch.
THE ULTRA ULTRAS LEAGUE by Angelo Von Sindaken
bring back the gladiators!
JFFC by Mizo
Japanese Fetish Football Club, photography inspired by Japanes anime.