how i came to see soccer as the coolest sport
du Nord, June 2, 2008
I became friends with Bruce Du Nord or, as I prefer to call him, Wolf Druce almost twenty years ago and I was honored when he asked me to take a turn in the pulpit here while he's traveling. I emphatically accepted and assumed I'd write something about the intersection of soccer and design... maybe jerseys? maybe stadium architecture?... or something along those lines, since that's the world I live in and have a blog myself called rolu dsgn about art, architecture, music and design culture stuff. Easy and fun... right? Bruce and I at a friend's wedding Well, all the ideas I tried to chase after quickly became lame, uninspiring or had already been done. I remembered some posts about soccer at one of my favorite architecture/design blogs, strangeharvest. Maybe there was something there... the visuals in that post were super cool... I bet he'd let me use them (and even though I'm not taking that route, I'm still using them just because they're so cool. Thanks Sam) then it hit me... I really don't know shit abou