Brazil 1950 Football World Cup Poster san diego Sheffield's street names and landmarks

Sheffield's street names and landmarks haven't changed much in the last 150 years - so it's nice to find your favourite street and imagine what it might've looked like all those years ago

Redouté's art is characterized by the intricate use of color and style

Fortified cities marked with distinctive symbols

and whaling ships populate the coastal areas

though some of the more recent mixes are obviously not on here

Brazil 1950 Football World Cup Poster san diego Sheffield's street names and landmarksCreated for the Brazil 1950 Football World Cup, this poster is a dynamic celebration of the beautiful game by an uncredited designer whose name has been lost to history. With a streamlined, modernist approach rooted in late Art Deco, the composition sets a boldly angled footballers legpatterned in a mosaic of national flagspoised to strike a ball. Issued for the first World Cup after World War II, it speaks to renewed internationalism: distinct flags