Coca-Cola promotions

Coca-Cola glass 8oz 2014 FIFA World Cup commemorative bottle. A nice little green and yellow World Cup trophy imprinted on the bottle. The carrying case has a different design on each side. the side not shown features a red soccer ball Coke label amidst smiling green and yellow faces.

2014 FIFA World Cup Brasil

label form the 20oz coke plastic bottle

2012 Summer Olympics - Coca-Cola has released a set of 8 commemorative cans from the design studio Tucker Duckworth. The cans feature the silhouettes of 8 American athletes - Alex Morgan - Soccer, Henry Cejudo - wrestling, David Boudia - diving, Marlen Esparza - boxing, John Isner - tennis, Shawn Johnson - gymnastics, David Oliver - track, Jessica Long - swimming.

A new can design will hit the markets every 2 weeks, with the design also being used on bottle labels..

Coca-Cola has been issuing promotional cans for soccer and various other sports issued from various countries for many years. Coke BR News blog has an excellent display of these items...

2010 FIFA World Cup... not one of their better designs.....

originally published 2012.06.20

USA - 2010 World Cup

Team USA

The South African illustration house Am I Collective was commissioned to create 32 murals for ESPN's 2010 World Cup campaign, under the direction of NY ad agency Wieden and Kennedy. Each mural celebrates each of the 32 teams competing in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The mural for Team USA replicated Washington Crossing the Deleware

2010 World Cup - Time magazine

2010.06.14 - cover illustration by Douglas Fraser
The magazine featured articles on the World Cup Preview, America's Soccer Bloom, David Beckham on US Soccer success, and the History of the Game...

Article - Stepping Up - Four players to keep an eye on - Steven Pienaar, South Africa; David Villa, Spain; Gianluigi Buffon, Italy and Tim howard, US...

Article - One on One with David Beckham
What is the state of the American Game - It's the best it's been for a while.
US Plays England in the first group match - If we were up against the US 10 years ago people would say it's going to be easy. Now times have changed, there is no easy game. US has got talent...Expectations on our team is huge...

Article - Yes Soccer is Americas Game by Bill Soporito
Please stop lecturing us. We know it's called football everywhere else and it's the global game, the beautiful game. Americans call it soccer because there's a perfectly great sport here already called football, one that is not inclined to surrender its moniker anytie soon. So don't get your football knickers in a twist about it.

Soccer it is.

Back cover - Louis Vuitton advertisement featuring Pele, Zinedine Zidane and Diego Maradonna...wouldn't you love to have been at this photo shoot!

2010 World Cup - Cap America

Steven Cedre, Jr. is a talented artist whose medium is basketball shoes. A graduate of California State University of Long Beach, Cedre studied art. After seeing another artists work on shoes he knew he could do better. Cedre uses his his influence to design and paint works of art that will redefine sneaker culture...

The 2010 World Cup - Captain America, feautres Captain America with the Team USA shield in place of his own round shield. Captain America's first shield was similar to the US Soccer shield but had to be changed due to it's similar appearance to the shield carried by The Shield...

Check out his designs at Soul Junkie