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andrewharrington

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  1. I dunno. Adding a bunch of detail back there doesn’t seem right, either.
  2. All the flower illustrations and patterns are made of torn pieces of paper, and the side view just didn’t translate, so we went with the top view because they kinda look like spurs. @dont care https://texassuperstar.com/plants/maroon/realmaroon.html
  3. Definitely one of my favorites. The sunflower, the primary colors, bringing the circus home lol…
  4. All the wordmarks on the men’s jerseys are throwbacks to what the first black players at each school wore, so that’s the past element. The present/future element is the “give ’em their flowers while they’re still here” patterns on the side panels and in the wordmarks, which were created with either the state flower of each school or one that is iconic to campus (like the maroon bluebonnet on the Aggies’ uni).
  5. Just imagine if the uni was black like the Arizona night! Lol, I get it. We worked through the crest for a looong time trying to figure it out, trying alternatives, old things, new things, etc., but they kept coming back to the rocky Arizona wordmark.
  6. It’s supposed to look rocky. Rhuigi’s vision was a shooting star over Camelback Mountain. The stripes and the way they turn up the side are meant to evoke a classic bandanna design, something that he sees as a symbol of Southwestern and Latin culture and a motif that shows up often in his early work.
  7. I know the font thing can be fixed at the time of pasting. At the bottom of the pasted text, click the “place as plain text” link and the big font will go away.
  8. Cleveland used a custom color for its brown going back to the Reebok days (2006 maybe?), and officially they carried that color over through the identity update. In 2021, however, they quietly switched it back to PANTONE 412, which is their classic brown that was used prior to 2006. This brown is actually lighter than the previous custom color. In textile, however, the Reebok-era Brown would have been a brown in Ripon’s palette. Now, I’m not sure if they actually dipped a custom color or simply used their stock brown. You’d have to check out a 2005 gamer vs. a 2006 gamer to see if the color actually changed. All manufacturers have limited color palettes, and there are business decisions centered around factors like minimums, efficiency, waste, etc. so generally, if it’s close, a stock fabric is going to be used instead of dipping a new color that’s very similar to the existing one. My guess is that the anecdotal difference people are seeing between a Reebok jersey and a Nike jersey is simply the difference in the stock browns used by both brands’ respective manufacturers, but again, you’d have to look at two gamers to compare and/or talk to someone who worked in development on either side to know for sure. And yes, someone in Philly is likely being far too picky about the kelly green if they haven’t been able to get an approval by now. I can understand it with midnight green, as that is a unique color that no one would carry in stock and you’d want to really get it right from the jump, but this long of a timeline for a basic green is not normal. — Unrelated: is the mobile version of the message board becoming unusable for anyone else? The ads make my phone hot, and constant lock-ups/freeze-ups are followed by random page reloads. I’ve resorted to composing posts in the Notes app on my phone and pasting in because I can’t get the message board to work long enough to type a post, which is why I haven’t been posting much
  9. I mean, of course it’s okay to post comments and critique, but if it’s questionable critique, you’re probably going to hear it coming back the other way. So, you raise, I call? The added ankle support on the back skate is the only edit I made to any of the proportions (so the two skates looked roughly similar instead of one being a low top and the other a high). Legs are true to the OG.
  10. What are you on about here? There’s like a single legitimate crest still around from this era on the entirety of the internet, and it’s what I used to draw the RR version (obviously, I had to take some liberties and use my own interpretation on some of the missing details and general cleanup, but you get the idea).
  11. The Vikings, Rams, and Eagles helmet designs aren’t really “logos” though (and I’m not sure if any of them carry the helmet graphic itself as a stand-alone piece within their identities). They’re certainly not commonly used on merchandise.
  12. Man, that brand toolkit is awful. The fact that there are two diametrically opposite colorways for each background color and 6 (!) colorways for a white background? Come on. The worst part is classifying the helmet logo as a “secondary” mark. Just doesn’t make much sense and seems very confusing for a designer or licensee to use effectively.
  13. To be fair, wouldn’t painting be like, twice the nightmare? You have to apply the mask and then paint/clearcoat vs. just applying the decal.
  14. There are specks of navy on the logo, facemask, lettering, numbers, and every stripe on the uniform.
  15. Why would you assume that when the exact same source shows the Bears wearing brown leather lids in previous seasons?
  16. Forgive me, but why would the Jets lean into a phrase that’s so strongly associated with the Giants? I think it’s kind of unfair to call the Ravens a “culprit” when black makes perfect sense for them.
  17. I mean, the only discernible difference is the number style. Either one works with either pant. The stripeless pants just never needed to exist in the first place.
  18. It’s probably worth mentioning that the origin of spectator “color-outs” was likely Calgary’s “C of Red” in 1986… when NHL teams wore white at home. And the most well-known/marketed color-out across college sports (where it’s really become a phenomenon) is the Beaver Stadium white-out, in which the Nittany Lions wear dark blue jerseys.
  19. Technically, you can’t own the colors themselves, but it’s complicated by the fact that you *can* argue association and they (the Titans) would certainly have the point of view that the Oilers brand’s strong association with the colors and location would prohibit another team from using them in the professional football market (esp. in Houston).
  20. She’s a pro. If you look closely, you’ll see she’s drinking with a straw. The Groom is just wearing his white jersey (the one pictured on the cake) underneath his black sideline cape.
  21. Re: The Penguins I believe the name was actually inspired by the arena, which was already nicknamed “The Igloo”. Those little connections make it work.
  22. For better or worse, getting beat by Jordan/all the LeBron drama *is* their identity at this point. The visual part of it is just along for the ride lol. I think they might be the worst offender in pro sports when it comes to building a signature visual brand.
  23. Yeah, but the Yeti lives in the Himalayan mountains, and Bigfoot lives in the Cascades and Sierra Nevadas.
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