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  1. ...and there's a wonky numeral. Not the worst I've seen, but that 3 could certainly be improved a lot. However, the pant stripe looks great and provides that much needed pop of red to the mix. I do really respect the move to be flexible and share an official image after recognizing that the leak was making the rounds. I've said this before, but as much as I love leaks for the sake of discussion here, they're such a hype killer and awful for shaping the public perception of new designs. The way it looks on real athletes in professional lighting versus the video model wearing an oversized jersey in a cellphone pic is just a night and day difference. Kudos to the Texans for getting ahead of it.
  2. Honestly, this looks fine. Will need to see the jersey striping better and the likely stripe-less pants will be a donwgrade, but the number font looks pretty cool and it still really resembles the current well-liked road uniform. That said, I could also easily see this being the most tame of the upcoming set. There are supposed to be 4 unique designs, right? This would likely check the "Toro" look off the list.
  3. The current Colorado Avalanche look just makes me think of an ICEE, especially when the red and blue flavors start to bleed together. Would it be too derivative to do something like the Colorado Rapids and change the current denim blue to a sky blue? Would provide much better contrast at least.
  4. The Flames finally have it pretty much perfect with their current set. The classics are right for the main look while the Blasty alternate is a prefect switch up that scratches any itch I have to see the black incorporated with the red and yellow again. It doesn't hurt that the Blasty alternates are some of my favorite jerseys in the NHL. Don't get me wrong, this is a really nice, well-balanced set visually, but it always irks me from a logic perspective. The "C" is obviously on fire, so it shouldn't be colored as though it is burnt charcoal or something like it is here. That's me overthinking of course, but it still crosses my mind everytime I see this Flames look.
  5. I like the current logo, but I really enjoy this concept done by Twitter user @lolwtferic that emphasizes the proportions of a Clipper ship in a more traditional way. Well, it's great except for trying to cram the "LA" into the top sail at least.
  6. I would be interested to see what this could have looked like with all of the red replaced with orange. I get why they wouldn't go that route, but would've been a singular color scheme for them and I could envision it looking super sharp
  7. This rebrand feels so opposite of a normal Steve Ballmer decision in that it's very restrained and traditionally-inspired, but there's no question that these are an upgrade. The script's return is a big win.
  8. I think you're correct to an extent, although I wouldn't be so sure that it's quite as malicious or even planned as you say. I don't necessarily see Nike as designing planned obsolescence in their football uniforms, but most teams requesting new looks are ones that wish to mark new eras in their franchise and tap into a younger, more trendy image that they likely lack currently. The nature of trends of course is that what was once fresh and futuristic quickly becomes stale, so a sort of cycle is created as the fanbase quickly tires of the once trendy look and yearns for something more nostalgic. It's a phenomenon that's acutally pretty natural in lots of areas of design I think.
  9. This new Lightning third jersey is mediocrity to a tee. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it, but that's also why it feels so forgettable and uninteresting to me overall. The only things that I really like are the embroidery treatment on the logo and the drop shadow on the numbers. The rest just feels like a catalogue order for a college club team.
  10. The logo moving down from the base of the collar is the biggest question mark for me with this new template. There's literally no advantage to removing it from where it was before, and you're further cluttering that space where the names have already been shrunken down. The only reason behind it that it could potentially streamline production to keep the elements closer together so that they can be applied in fewer steps, but that may just be some of the Fanatics reputation affecting my thought process
  11. Does this entail a logo change as well for the Jets? Or will they revert more to the Sack Exchange with a logo swap?
  12. I agree, it's ultimately the element that kills the uniform as a whole. To me, it screams design by committee decision after they had likely moved far along in the process with the sword yoke design before realizing that would only feature columbia blue on the sleeve cuffs (which would be obscured on half of the players) and a thin number outline. It was a total switch in color balance that probably freaked a lot of executives out, and as a result led to throwing that in at the last minute. The current uniforms could work if you eliminated the armpit squares, rework the number font, and match the pant stripes to the helmet stripe. They wouldn't necessarily be my favorite Titans uniforms and would still suffer from color balance issues, but they would at least work as a cohesive idea.
  13. Titans official reporter says no new uniforms coming this year. I could still see perhaps some minor tweak that most people wouldn't notice being behind the sources saying otherwise, but that likely ends that rumor.
  14. I think that the only chrome helmet setup that even kinda works is LA, and those would still look 100x better if they were simply a metallic sliver finish. I'd much prefer more teams to try a matte finish like what the Coyotes opted into with their third jerseys. Would fit most teams' jerseys better and still adds a really nice elevated touch to the uniform
  15. This is a great breakdown of something I think that can be seen a lot in new logo designs. I think that everybody loves meaning behind design decisions and wants great storytelling to help sell their ideas, but going too far with it can come at the cost of a better and simpler idea. The logo that the Browns ended up picking for the Dawg Pound is a great example of this problem I think. The design is mostly fine, but it has some odd visual aspects simply because the designer wanted to create something that had as much local symbolism in it as possible rather than something that simply portrays a dog well. There are some instances that incorporate the symbolism pretty naturally, like the helmet stripe that nearly all of the concepts featured. However, did the dog really need an unnatural, lumpy highlight in its ear that can sort of be skewed to look like Ohio? Or the weird helmet shape over the right eye? We're losing sight of the point and making the form take a backseat to every idea of what Cleveland is that you could possibly think of. For the Falcons and Eagles, I see those as sort of happy design coincidences. If you see an F or an E in those logos then that is like a fun easter egg for the viewer, but it's definitely not what the logo aims to depict. To compare them to something like the Bengals B logo that is literally just a letterform with a texture is not accurate.
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