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A Series of Made Up Athletic Identities For a Series of Made up Colleges


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Hello again guys I'm back with some new material that I hope you all enjoy. In this series there will be no real outcome I'm trying to achieve, I'm not trying to create a league or anything or fill a quota. I've always just loved college football and all the tradition and pageantry that comes with it. So, for this I am just "creating" some madeup colleges in little cities that I think are cool and don't already have universities (excluding community colleges). I already have a couple of that I'm working on. Since these are supposedly smaller colleges I come up with, I'm going to try to come up with a mix of realistic and more out of left field identities. For now, I am concentrating on general school branding and football uniforms, In the future I hope to include some baseball and basketball uniforms. However it is too early for me to be thinking about that right now, so without further ado, the West Virginia A&M Shiners!

So here we are with the first team, located in Lewisburg, West Virginia. Here is the link to the behance page (I'll do these pages for all the teams) https://www.behance.net/tedcrrane

For those who do not like links, I very heavily based this school in the Moonshine culture I read about, as they are called the West Virginia A&M Shiners. The colors are a very dark brown and a darkened old god color, accented with some white. The Primary is an interlocking W and V, the secondary is a coonhound with a cowboy (Moonshiner) hat. (Another reason to visit the behance page, that coonhound is the mascot and is named Hooch, the WVA&MU battle cry is "Sic Em Hooch"). The tertiary is, yes, a jug with the school logo. The uniforms are pretty traditional, gold helmets and pants for home and road with striping on the jersey.

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I will figure out a better way to present this all, (or ya'll can just check out the behance page wink wink). Also the fonts I used were Starkville by Conrad (who else) Anywho I hope you all enjoyed it, comments and criticism are appreciated as usual thank you!

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Naming a college team the Shiners would probably stir up controversy, but team name aside, the look is solid. On the uniforms, use the same stripe using altered colors for both of 'em. EX: G/W/G for home, G/B/G for road.

Yea I realize in reality this would be frowned upon to say the least, I just had this bloodhound image in my head and it went from there. I will definitely try that I was just trying to echo the helmet pattern on the sleeves G/B/W/B/G

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I agree with what's been said above. But I have a question: What division would these made-up colleges play in? D-1? D-2? D-3? Because there could be a potential rivalry with Marshall or West Virginia.

 

 

 

 

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The uniforms are a solid start, but the text is off center (to the right), and in some cases it's too large.

Yes I'm fixing the centering right now, could you clarify what too large means?

Add a white outline to the first logo

There is an outline it shows up on the helmet

I agree with what's been said above. But I have a question: What division would these made-up colleges play in? D-1? D-2? D-3? Because there could be a potential rivalry with Marshall or West Virginia.

Ok yes for most of these I'm thinking D-1AA? Because they are located in much smaller cities, but are still pretty sizeable schools. So there was a very heated rivalry with both of these other schools, especially Marshall in more recent years. But now the other WV schools left for D-1A and now West Virginia A&M was left alone.

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Not sure about those logos. I don't like the fact that the "v" in "WV" is upside-down, and I had no idea that that was a coonhound. I also think the jug looks extremely dated, and the name might stir up controversy. It really doesn't look like dark brown either. Unis are okay, though.

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Not sure about those logos. I don't like the fact that the "v" in "WV" is upside-down, and I had no idea that that was a coonhound. I also think the jug looks extremely dated, and the name might stir up controversy. It really doesn't look like dark brown either. Unis are okay, though.

There was no real reasoning for the V besides I thought it looked interesting, and some other interlocking arrangements did not work. Is there anyway I can increase the coonhoundiness of it? Haha no dice on the jug that's a keeper. FOR SURE this name would stir up controversey I have no doubt about that. For the sake of this little project I just thought it would be a fun identity, I promise the next one will be a more realistic identity, with less traditional uniforms What does this brown look like?

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Alright so I've centered the uniforms and updated that in the main post and behance. I'd still like some help on the secondary logo making it more coonhoundish. I'm still in the sketching phase of the next school so that'll be out soon. More comments and criticisms are welcome!

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You say that the logo is an interlocking W and V. Did you mean W and A? Where is the V? Is it up in the top right in brown? I also can't figure out why you chose to make the parts brown that you did. It isn't a beveling or shading because you don't add the brown to consistent sides. The brown looks slapped on the yellow without any real cohesion.

As far as the coonhound...it's a good idea. But I couldn't tell what was going on until I read that it was supposed to be a dog. I actually thought it was supposed to be a moonshiner with dog ears. The white and gray nose (?) in the middle is shaded to give it a 3D look, but then you put a brown shape with holes in it just below it and that is completely flat. And I have no idea what the shape is supposed to be. Is it a mask of some kind?

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Here is a coonhound I found through a very simple google search. Looking at this, your dog's head is too wide and you need to create a snout that incorporates the nose and the mouth.

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You say that the logo is an interlocking W and V. Did you mean W and A? Where is the V? Is it up in the top right in brown? I also can't figure out why you chose to make the parts brown that you did. It isn't a beveling or shading because you don't add the brown to consistent sides. The brown looks slapped on the yellow without any real cohesion.

As far as the coonhound...it's a good idea. But I couldn't tell what was going on until I read that it was supposed to be a dog. I actually thought it was supposed to be a moonshiner with dog ears. The white and gray nose (?) in the middle is shaded to give it a 3D look, but then you put a brown shape with holes in it just below it and that is completely flat. And I have no idea what the shape is supposed to be. Is it a mask of some kind?

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Here is a coonhound I found through a very simple google search. Looking at this, your dog's head is too wide and you need to create a snout that incorporates the nose and the mouth.

Thank you for the thorough feedback! When I said interlocking that was not the best way to describe it. I originally wanted an auburn style linked letter thing, but the letters were too thick and didn't really show up at all. That's when I just put the V upside down because it looked interesting. With the shading I didn't know how to bevel, but that's what I was going for. Would you mind helping me with that I thought I did the beveling right I guess not. With the dog nose and about area I'll work on that alot I knew that would be a point of work from the start. Thanks for the comment!

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I think it's more clear

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Also here is a little more of a different take on the WV. What do you all think about these changes? Also if anyone can point me to a good beveling tutorial or just PM with some assistance that'd be appreciated!

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The dog is definitely better. One thing I would do is make sure only the dark brown color is touching the edge of the logo; you mostly have this but the ears lose this. If you do this, it will allow you put the logo on a gold background.

The new WV logo is better in that its letters are actually oriented correctly, but being stacked the way it is makes it look like a blob. Have you tried putting the W inside the V? (This might be hard to explain, but leave your W alone, then take the V and place it outside the W so that its legs run parallel to the W's legs but extend below it.) I don't know if it would work, but it would take care of the blob.

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The uniforms are a solid start, but the text is off center (to the right), and in some cases it's too large.

Yes I'm fixing the centering right now, could you clarify what too large means?

Add a white outline to the first logo

There is an outline it shows up on the helmet

I agree with what's been said above. But I have a question: What division would these made-up colleges play in? D-1? D-2? D-3? Because there could be a potential rivalry with Marshall or West Virginia.

Ok yes for most of these I'm thinking D-1AA? Because they are located in much smaller cities, but are still pretty sizeable schools. So there was a very heated rivalry with both of these other schools, especially Marshall in more recent years. But now the other WV schools left for D-1A and now West Virginia A&M was left alone.

Yeah, that's understandable I guess. It would be a smaller school.

Another thing about the name: Most A&M schools are nicknamed the Aggies right? (A in A&M means agricultural after all.) I guess it's not very creative but it might go over better than moonshine. Also kind of important. The first thing I thought when I saw these uniforms was Wake Forest. That wordmark doesn't help tell them apart either.

 

 

 

 

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The dog is definitely better. One thing I would do is make sure only the dark brown color is touching the edge of the logo; you mostly have this but the ears lose this. If you do this, it will allow you put the logo on a gold background.

The new WV logo is better in that its letters are actually oriented correctly, but being stacked the way it is makes it look like a blob. Have you tried putting the W inside the V? (This might be hard to explain, but leave your W alone, then take the V and place it outside the W so that its legs run parallel to the W's legs but extend below it.) I don't know if it would work, but it would take care of the blob. O

Ok I'll try that with the dog, are you saing kinda like West Virginia U logo?

The uniforms are a solid start, but the text is off center (to the right), and in some cases it's too large.

Yes I'm fixing the centering right now, could you clarify what too large means?

Add a white outline to the first logo

There is an outline it shows up on the helmet

I agree with what's been said above. But I have a question: What division would these made-up colleges play in? D-1? D-2? D-3? Because there could be a potential rivalry with Marshall or West Virginia.

Ok yes for most of these I'm thinking D-1AA? Because they are located in much smaller cities, but are still pretty sizeable schools. So there was a very heated rivalry with both of these other schools, especially Marshall in more recent years. But now the other WV schools left for D-1A and now West Virginia A&M was left alone.

Yeah, that's understandable I guess. It would be a smaller school.

Another thing about the name: Most A&M schools are nicknamed the Aggies right? (A in A&M means agricultural after all.) I guess it's not very creative but it might go over better than moonshine. Also kind of important. The first thing I thought when I saw these uniforms was Wake Forest. That wordmark doesn't help tell them apart either.

For the sake of this project, I am going to leave them as a kinda controversial moonshiners topic. However I promise the next few teams will be much tamer/ based in reality. I am interested however how can I differentiate them more from Wake Forest? Is it just because of the gold because I thought traditionally Wake Forest wears all black with a lighter shade of Gold.

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Well here they are! The next team is the University Of Bismarck Boomers located in Bismarck, North Dakota. For those who don't know, I previously started a topic about this team but struggled to find a unique identity for them. I think I got it!
SO the name Boomer is from the economic boom later in the 20th century in North Dakota that was mostly started by by the oil industry. The Primary logo is a half teal half navy circle, with an oil rig thing in the middle. Now, the shaded part of this oil rig is meant to mirror the Bismarck Capitol Building, which gives the oil rig its weird shape. The secondary is another circle with a UB Monogram. The tertiary is the state pride sticker, the state outline of North Dakota witth an oil droplet in the middle. The uniforms are very modern, inspired by the seahawks to a certain degree. Yes their is a state pride uniform which I am interested to hear from you all about! As a series sidenote, I am refraining from creating a behance profile for each of thse teams until most of their elemants (logos, uniforms) are settled on. Thanks for all the comments and criticism so far, keep it coming!

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Also you might notice a slightly newer tempate, I will go back and update WVA&MU in this soon.

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Thank you! I think these teams will become more cohesive as I hit my stride more often. I came up with a little field template tell me what you think of them so far, more comments and criticism on either teams are welcome as always

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I also came up with a third thowback for WVA&MU, lovingly called by the people of Lewisburg "The Jughead"

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