Beautiful game. Ugly truth.

Football might be the beautiful game, but this World Cup hides an ugly truth.
Much of the tournament’s infrastructure has been built by migrant workers under appalling conditions including physical, verbal and mental abuse.

ICO Design, as a studio of football fans, felt wrong to sit idly by as FIFA – the sport’s international governing body – continues to turn a blind eye to corruption and exploitation.

In response, I was asked by ICO Design to contribute to a project called Humanity FC – a collaboration between 32 international artists to create one uniquely illustrated football. In response to what has become a controversial World Cup, this football is being raffled to raise money for Equidem - a human rights and labour charity. To win the ball, buy a raffle ticket at HumanityFC.com with 100% of proceeds going to Equidem.

You can read the complete report about discrimiation and explotation of migrant construction workers on FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Stadium Sites here.