phightin21 Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Hey People, As a baseball enthusiast from Germany, I'm always trying to envision a European equivalent to the MLB. Cause Baseball isn't that popular in Europe there won't be anything similiar in the near future. Therefore I will try to do 30 concepts for Teams all around the continent. Because I have no clue how to use Illustrator and only own PS CS2 I will focus on designing unis not logos. With the wordmark and cap letters I mostly use existing ones, so credit for those goes to whoever designed them. So lets have a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phightin21 Posted October 12, 2017 Author Share Posted October 12, 2017 I started out with the North Western Division made up of London, Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin and Amsterdam. First up: The Amsterdam Chafferers Chafferer is an old word for trader, leaning on amsterdams history as a trade capital during the late middle ages. Therefore they wear the colors of the old west indian trading company. The three X are out of the City Flag of Amsterdam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phightin21 Posted October 12, 2017 Author Share Posted October 12, 2017 Next: The Glasgow Mungos St.Mungo is was the first Bishop of Glasgow and is the patron of the Scots. Mungo also is used as a word in the textil industry that had a huge impact on glasgow during industialization. So I went with kind of a Padres like church themed identity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phightin21 Posted October 12, 2017 Author Share Posted October 12, 2017 Next: The Dublin Heather Heather is a plant that can be found all over Ireland and its indistiguishable color gives a really unique identity. Heather also is known as a really resilent plant, that can grow in uninhabitable areas which could represent the resistence of the irish people versus the british. As with Amsterdam I again went with kind of a nation not city based road alternate. I'm not wether or not I like the home unis. They kind of have a 90s/00s feel to them with the black outlines everywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealCoachCarter Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 These are good...I actually really enjoy your explanations possibly as much as anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THEANGEL&THEGAMBLER Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 I like these well thought out identities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerlonmoura Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 All of these look great, I also love the nation inspired jerseys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEGH82 Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 I like this so far. Can I ask you what the division alignments are? What cities got picked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulv! Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 I really really like the Chaffs and Dublin Heather (also if the name is a bit out of the domain of usual baseball nomenclature...). Glasgow is simple yet classy but I'm not fond of the roundel you put like a badge on the chest, IMO it looks a lot better as a shoulder patch as in the alternate. If you want the roundel on the chest maybe you can try to eliminate the script in one of the alternates and just have an enlarged roundel on one side. Keep on the good work! My Behance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phightin21 Posted November 12, 2017 Author Share Posted November 12, 2017 Hey people, since I couldn't come up with good names for the London and Manchester teams yet, I decided to just go with whatever city I want to do, regardless of my "divisional alignment". To the people asking what cities I picked, I will list them below. I tried to include most countries even though there are few capitals of the balkan region, because I think they would be less profitable of a market. And also since I'm from Germany I kind of had a bias towards including more german cities. North West: Amsterdam Chafferers, Dublin Heather, Glasgow Mungos, Manchester, London North: Oslo, Helsinki, Stockholm, Kopenhagen, Hamburg North East: Berlin Wallpeckers, Prague Bohemians, Riga, Warsaw, St.Petersburg Central: Cologne Revelers, Paris, Brussels, Zurich, Lyon South West: Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Milan South East: Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Athens, Istanbul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulv! Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 Lyon maybe should be with the South West, Milan with the South East and Munich with the Central? This is more like I feel it. Of course if you wanted to have cities speaking the same language together then your division works well (except for some Germans scattered around ). My Behance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phightin21 Posted November 12, 2017 Author Share Posted November 12, 2017 Our fouth team is from the city I currently reside in: The Berlin Wallpeckers. Wallpecker is an etymology from the words woodpecker and wall. The german equivalent is "Mauerspecht" and is refering to the people who started "pecking" little pieces out of the Berlin wall that divided the Soviet sector from the French/British/American parts of the city during the time of divided germany. It is a pretty notorious story in the formative history of the city. The colors are the colors of the city flag, as well as the colors of the common woodpecker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phightin21 Posted November 12, 2017 Author Share Posted November 12, 2017 From the same division: The Prague Bohemians Prague is the capital of the general bohemian area which makes up about 60-70% of the czech republic. When I was in Prague the name was used everywhere. So while it might not be the most creative name, it certainly has a lot of symbolism to the city. If someone wonders, the logo I used on the hats for the home unis is the tip of the lions tail in the bohemian coat of arms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phightin21 Posted November 12, 2017 Author Share Posted November 12, 2017 After I had some really classic looking identities with the Bohemians and the Mungos, I wanted to something a little more extravagant. The city of Cologne is extremely well known for it's carnival. People from Cologne really view as their identity and they are really proud of the atmosphere and everything around it. Their own slang word for people who celebrate carnival is "Jecken", which I tried to translate to English. Some websites noted that the american word Reveler would be the closest equivalent. Their arm patch is a typical hat. Also the gradient I used in two of the home unis are little symbols out of the city's coat of arms. "Kölle" is how people from Cologne call their own city, while Köln is the regular german name. Cologne is also known to be the "gay capital" of Germany, so I couldn't resist to make them a colorful, pride like home alternate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whittier S Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 This is a marvelous series so far. You are very thoughtful and imaginative. I only wish you could get your hands on some proper design software, because I think you have a lot of potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulv! Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 I really enjoy the explaining of the background for each team. It really helps to appreciate better the design. That being said Cologne really trives from the amazing colour scheme of teal and orange, so vibrant and catchy. The Wallpeckers are a thing of old school beauty and I feel like the colour combination is very balanced. Prague is just average, the logo is a smart move but I really feel like the light blue jersey is out of place. White and cream are a perfect matching for maroon but that shade of blue just doesn't work, maybe you could try with a more powder blue like nuance, less bright. My Behance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phightin21 Posted January 30, 2018 Author Share Posted January 30, 2018 I finally found the time inbetween exams to create two new teams. So here we go: The Warsaw Insurgents Warsaw has seen it's fair share of occupying forces but it managed to uprise against most of them. Therefore I chose Insurgents as their nickname. The Mermaid and the team colors are once again out of the city's coat of arms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phightin21 Posted January 30, 2018 Author Share Posted January 30, 2018 Also the St.Petersburg Ambers. St.Petersburg has a rich history in the zar empires and in the 19th century the zar was gifted a room entirely made out of amber by the prussian emperor. After the so called amber room got stolen during WWII it was lost and it remains one of the most mythical treasures in eastern european history. I really enjoyed working with the color of amber and I thought a deep brown color would match with it nicely. I think this might be one of my favorites yet. Also it will give you a Padres retro vibe for the nostalgic people among you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smzimbabwe Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Given that pesapallo is the national sport of Finland, how well would a Helsinki team do? There are leagues all over the country, both male and female, and I just don't see American style baseball being more than a niche sport like American football is over there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phightin21 Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 As I said in the introduction there isn't really a chance that there would be an MLB equivalent in Europe. I doubt that any city outside Amsterdam, Rome and maybe London could support a professional Baseballteam above A Level. It's just a nice concept I like to imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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