Football: Designing the Beautiful Game

‘The Design Museum scores a winner.’ RIBA Journal

A large-scale exhibition revealing the untold design story of the world’s most popular sport. Featuring over 500 exhibits, the exhibition explores how designers and architects have pushed the game to its technical and emotional limits, providing a behind-the-scenes of football as sport and spectacle. Produced in partnership with the National Football Museum in Manchester, the exhibition includes rarely seen treasures from across the game’s history as well as work by contemporary architects, designers and artists including Eduardo Souto de Moura, Herzog & De Meuron, Juergen Teller, Martine Rose and Douglas Gordon.

April- November 2022, the Design Museum

October 2023- February 2024, FIFA Museum, Zurich

May- September 2024, Wolverhampton Art Gallery