Illustrator Lee documents Euro 2012 with excellent graphic project 15 Nations Fall

Date
19 June 2012

The best thing football provides is melodrama, an excuse in an increasingly cynical and coolly unimpressed world to revel in glory, failure, trump and disaster. It’s why the highlight of any major tournament is the England-knocked-out-montage a collection of heart rending clips set to something mournful by a band like Embrace.

Illustrator Lee has certainly got into the spriti of things with his evolving project “15 Nations Fall” which documents the destructions of different nations’ crests as they are eliminated from Euro 2012. But this is much more than just a clever idea with some lovely illustrative touches on display – I particularly like the fallen Russian eagle and the Swedish badge which looks like it’s been roughed up.

Scroll down to see the before and after images of the crests and, if you’re English, keep your fingers crossed that our sad three lions stay off the site for a few more days.

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Lee: 15 Nations Fall (Sweden)

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Lee: 15 Nations Fall (Sweden)

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Lee: 15 Nations Fall (Russia)

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Lee: 15 Nations Fall (Russia)

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Lee: 15 Nations Fall (Croatia)

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Lee: 15 Nations Fall (Croatia)

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Lee: 15 Nations Fall (Denmark)

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Lee: 15 Nations Fall (Denmark)

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Lee: 15 Nations Fall (The Netherlands)

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Lee: 15 Nations Fall (The Netherlands)

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Lee: 15 Nations Fall (Poland)

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Lee: 15 Nations Fall (Poland)

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Lee: 15 Nations Fall (Ireland)

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Lee: 15 Nations Fall (Ireland)

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Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

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