About

At the start of 2020 I bought myself some leather working tools. I tinkered around for a while making random things, a wallet, a pencil case... then one day decided to try and make a ball.

The ball was awful. It was barely a ball at all. It wasn't round and the stitching was bad – but I enjoyed making it. As soon as I was finished I thought "If I made another one it would be better".

I've been in that headspace ever since, and now there's hundreds of balls in my apartment.

I started documenting the process of making each ball through short 60 second videos. People seemed to find them interesting! In my first year of uploading videos of my balls to the internet more than 100,000,000 watched them. This lead to some collaborations with some of the biggest brands in football (adidas, FIFA, Messi, Apple, MLS).

I never thought that making balls all day would be a viable career path but somehow I'm (currently) getting away with it. I'm now focused my own ball company (12 Pentagons) which is on a mission to make balls a little bit more interesting. We drop new ball designs a few times a year. The videos are a public R&D lab.