Design + EURO 2008

To celebrate Germany’s win in the quarter-finals, I thought it would be fun to post a few Fussball-related items.

The following 2 were found via QBN:

Steve Rura created an awesome collection of T-shirts for Nike representing each country that qualified for Euro 2008. I LOVE the German one, and thought that the collection overall looks great.

On a goofier note, Germany’s Otto has been promoting their Mission: Color campaign through this micro-site: Malt Mich An! (Paint Me!). The flash site allows soccer fans to paint the man with a click of their mouse while watching video of the actual Malt-Mich-An-Man getting painted at the Euro 2008 games. I would comment on the effectiveness of the promotion, except that Fussball Feber defies conventional logic. For example, we saw this at Munich’s FanFest for World Cup 2006:

Yes: that IS a van with a mohawk.

Tags | Euro 2008, fashion design, fussball, micro site, promotion, soccer, typography