Showing posts with label soccer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soccer. Show all posts
Roger Milla: The Indomitable Lion
In 1990, Roger Milla came out of retirement and led the Cameroon National Team to an improbable run on the world's greatest football stage. His four goals helped the Indomitable Lions make history as the first African team to reach the Quarter Finals.
PUMA has teamed up with artist James Blagden to tell Milla's story, accompanied by music from Duke Amayo of Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra featuring members of Fu-Arkist-Ra and Joel Saladino.
Illustrations and directed by James Blagden .
For more information, head to pumafootball.com
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Adidas: Barbershop
On the streets Africa, from Cape Town to Kinshasa, from Lagos to Mombasa, the true measure of fame is having a haircut named after you on a barbershop sign. The streets are full of ‘The Obama’, ‘The Oprah’ and ‘The Denzel.’
This ubiquitous barbershop signage is an African art form or African graphic art with its naïve renderings and pragmatic use of wood, metal and any material that is close at hand.
To celebrate the Confederation’s Cup being played for the first time on African soil, adidas commissioned a series of ‘barbershop’ artworks that honour their galaxy of stars like Gerrard, Messi, Kaka and Pienaar. A ‘cut’ was created for each player according to their skill. So, ‘The Kaka’ is all about dribbling skills while ‘The Gerrard’ is about powerful strikes.
Essentially, we Africanised international players. The word Kopanya is a South African word for ‘together’, which effectively makes this artwork an African interpretation of adidas’ global advertising position of “together I am strong.” Kopanya is also the name of the official adidas ball, that will be used at the Confed Cup.
cred:
TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris
Cape Town, South Africa https://sites.google.com/site/mayuradocs/PinIt.png
This ubiquitous barbershop signage is an African art form or African graphic art with its naïve renderings and pragmatic use of wood, metal and any material that is close at hand.
To celebrate the Confederation’s Cup being played for the first time on African soil, adidas commissioned a series of ‘barbershop’ artworks that honour their galaxy of stars like Gerrard, Messi, Kaka and Pienaar. A ‘cut’ was created for each player according to their skill. So, ‘The Kaka’ is all about dribbling skills while ‘The Gerrard’ is about powerful strikes.
Essentially, we Africanised international players. The word Kopanya is a South African word for ‘together’, which effectively makes this artwork an African interpretation of adidas’ global advertising position of “together I am strong.” Kopanya is also the name of the official adidas ball, that will be used at the Confed Cup.
cred:
TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris
Cape Town, South Africa https://sites.google.com/site/mayuradocs/PinIt.png
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