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adidas UCL Third Shirts | Designer Q&A

In amongst the madness of the #BeTheDifference World Finals in Marseille we ducked out of the scorching heat to catch up with adidas Football Senior Product Manager, Florian Baeuerlein, the man responsible for overseeing the new majestic 'Spark in the Night' UCL third shirts and the Finale '15 match ball. He's kind of a big deal.

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Chelsea Model Proposed Stamford Bridge

Following on from artists impressions of the proposed new stadium design of Chelsea's Stamford Bridge, the club have unveiled a model that showcases the reworked design.

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Nike Most Wanted Packaging

Ever appreciative of all aspects of our utterly beautiful game, this welcome pack that is awarded to each participant in the Nike academy is a work of art.

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Nike Glove Concept by Rayyan Toh

'Goalkeeper Gloves Need A Revolution', while performance wear and boots get stronger for the attack and outfield game, designer Rayyan Toh has created a concept glove that counters this, providing a sketchbook look at gloves of the future.

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Mbroidered Concept Yeezy Boost 350

If like us the Yeezy Boost captured your sneaker loving mind then this latest concept from serial mash up master Federico Maccapani will collide with your football obsessed eyes as it has ours. Emphatically.

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adidas MESSI15 Design Sketches

The final piece in the adidas Revolution jigsaw was the MESS15 boot, designed for a player that has both the control and chaos characteristics of the ACE and X boot. Giving in an insight of how they made the perfect tools for the world's greatest player adidas have revealed their early design sketches.

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adidas X15.1 Design Sketches

Giving an insight into the process of designing the X15.1 boot adidas have unveiled early sketches of many different concepts as they embarked on an adventure of re-designing and revolutionising the brand's football footwear collection.

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adidas ACE15.1 Design Sketches

adidas have shared some of the first stages in their journey towards creating the ACE15.1 silo. By unveiling a number of their initial design sketches adidas show the many stages of development and prototypes produced within the design stage of a new football boot.

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Marco Müller | adidas Revolution Interview

In amongst the madness of the adidas Berlin Base and on the morning of the Champions League Final we caught up with Senior Product Manager Marco Müller to talk about his role in the adidas Football revolution ahead of X and ACE making their on-pitch debut in the German capital.

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adidas Release Ace15 Documentary

Some are scared of change, some are sceptical, others embrace it. Usually it's a slow transition through all three of those stages. adidas are speeding up that transition by releasing a documentary on the new ACE15 boot outlining the precise research and development that went in to revolutionising their football footwear collection.

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adidas release X15 Documentary

Still need some convincing on the new adidas X15? Now you can hear from the faces behind the boots that have everyone talking as adidas release a documentary detailing the creation of the new silhouette.

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Phil Woodman On Designing The Hypervenom II

We recently sat down with Nike Football Footwear Designer, Phil Woodman, to talk about facilitating the inspiration and innovation that's gone into the Nike Hypervenom II.

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Max Blau | Nike Football X Interview

As Nike unveiled their FootballX collection at their Innovation Showcase at St George's Park we caught up with Max Blau, VP Nike Football Footwear to talk about how FootballX can influence and is influenced by the small-sided game and its players.

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Messi Pibe de Barr10 | Design Q&A

Ignacio Valentini is the man responsible for Leo Messi's latest signature F50 adizero. The graphic designer, from Messi’s hometown of Rosario in Argentina hooked up with adidas to create an exclusive boot inspired by the streets where the Barca man grew up.

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Umbro Velocita Design Interview

The Umbro Velocita Pro has taken the boot world by surprise this week. Yeah, it's happened and yeah, it's good. We spoke to Umbro Footwear & Equipment Product Manager Simon Bowsher, who gave us the low down on the R&D behind the boot.

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Nike Suing Former Designers: The Claims

Full details of Nike's lawsuit against their former designers Denis Dekovic, Marc Dolce & Mark Miner, who switched allegiances to bitter rivals adidas, have been revealed.

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