the ugliest trophy award and germany's logo goes cute

OK, the World Cup trophy looks like some Sculpture 101's student attempt to make something a New Age Rodin might have on his mantlepiece next to a bronze cast of a dolphin leaping from the waves. It is grotesque, but the German World Cup logo with the trio of smiley faces alluding to soccer balls is a sad attempt to cutify a country that wants to take this opportunity to rebrand itself as fun-loving. But this -- from the place that gave us Bauhaus design aesthetics and its modern design principles?

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