Category : Design
A Decade Of Kits: from the designer’s viewpoint
http://blog.umbro.com (960 hits)Football shirt design has changed considerably over the past ten years. No one knows this better than Umbro’s senior designer David Blanch, who joined the company exactly ten years ago, and has played a major role in developing Umbro’s shirt designs ever since. Here, he looks back at the last decade of kits and how they’ve shaped the shirts of the future. More... (Design)
Eminent Victorians
historicalkits.co.uk (212 hits)Before professionalism was recognised by the Football Association in 1885, the game was dominated by amateur teams from the south of England, largely drawn from the public schools where the game had originated. In Scotland, thanks mainly to the pioneering efforts of the Queen's Park club, the game quickly took root among the working classes in the 1870s. This gallery features some of these early pioneers, who were later eclipsed by the rise of the professional sides. More... (Design)
True Colours - Almost Weekly Blog 22 November
truecoloursfootballkits.com (286 hits)I’ve just come back from a week away in Herefordshire where despite not being near a computer I managed to get a football kit fix in Tintern Abbey gift shop of all places! I spied on the rack this wonderful card featuring a selection of historical Bukta kits from an old advertisement reproduced from the National Archive. More... (Design)
2010 UEFA Champions League final logo Launched
designfootball.com (1199 hits)Famous footballing figures, local dignitaries and scores of journalists gathered at the headquarters of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) to witness the unveiling of the logo for this year's final, which will be held at Real Madrid CF's Santiago Bernabéu home on a Saturday, 22 May, for the first time. More... (Design)
