REVIEW: 'Football: Designing the Beautiful Game' Exhibition at the Design Museum
By Cosmo Fusco
Football, Designing the Beautiful Game - Design Museum.
In the build-up to the 2022 World Cup, the Design Museum presents the first major exhibition on the design of the world’s most popular sport, football. Football is a game of utter brilliance created in 1863 by a person called Ebenezer Cobb Morley in Britain. It is the most incredible game and the exhibition shows why. I know you're interested, only a fool wouldn’t be, so come and follow me, we are going on the trip of a lifetime.
Kicking off on Friday 8 April 2022, the Design Museum’s exhibition Football: Designing the Beautiful Game, showcases the ways in which design has shaped the world’s most popular sport. You (the clever people who booked a ticket) journey through more than 500 objects, films and interviews in sporting performance, kit and poster designs, stadium designs, toy kit making and much more. Defining moments from football history including iconic objects telling the stories of club legacies and items worn by legends including Pelé, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, George Best, Johan Cruyff, LevYashin, Diego Marardona and a film screening of Zinedine Zidane’s final game. Which I was really excited to see.
This exhibition features the master-planning of the world’s most significant football stadiums such as the new Tottenham Hotspur stadium (my team), the Munich Stadium and The Camp Nou.
These are some of the pictures:
Football boots are made from specific fabrics some of the main industries (brands like Nike and Adidas) .
The graphic design of team badges are (in my opinion) made perfectly by graphic artists. Here are two images for two of my favourite teams: Tottenham Hotspur and Paris St Germain.
At the exhibition there is an amazing amount of vintage retro kits, so if you're a collector why don't you go to have a look; you might see some that look appealing! I was shown around by the assistant curator called Rachel, who knew a lot about football, but nothing compared to my in-depth football knowledge! I love football and surely all you fans do as well, so what do you say, why don’t you come to the place filled with facts and imaginative displays.
This exhibition even has a section for games that have been created to play football online with your favourite stars and with friends. The video games that have taken storm are the likes of Fifa 22, or Fifa Mobile, and Esport(pes).
They have unbelievably realistic features (my favourite being Fifa’s).
Please come to the Design Museum to see the Football: Designing the Beautiful Game exhibition. It is open until 29th August. In my opinion, as a young football fan, it is truly mind blowing!
Report By: Cosmo Fusco (age 10).