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pThe plight of the soccer ball will be familiar to product designers and consumers alike: Here you have this object that seemed to work fine, but now it keeps relentlessly evolving into new forms even though you may have been completely happy with the one you grew up with./p

pSo why muck with a good thing? Core77 decided to take a look, from a design perspective, at some of the changes undergone by the ball in the last 30-some years. Here’s what we found:/p

pBThe Slazenger Special Edition, 1966 World Cup/B/p

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pThis is the stitched leather ball used in the 1966 World Cup, designed by British manufacturer Slazenger. It is often referred to as having 18 panels, but in some photographs it appears to have 24 or more. But whether it’s 18 or 24, the question is: Why so many panels? /pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/soccer_balls_design_influenced_by_manufacturing_techniques_television_sets_fifa_politics_and_the_quest_for_roundness_16735.asp”(more…)/a
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