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andrewharrington

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  1. Yeah, but “feels like” doesn’t mean it was true. I’ve been doing this a lot of years and a client insisting on their own preferred font for a wordmark isn’t really a thing that happens in this landscape. Kansas would be the only example I can think of, 10-15 years ago, but that’s about it, and they’ve since brought back the circus lettering on multiple occasions.
  2. A is an angular letter. Millions of fonts mix angular As with round Rs and Os. You really think a guy like Bosack just picks a font and calls it a day?
  3. If you think people will pay a lot of money for an exclusive license to your font, I suppose it might be worthwhile, but unless you’re a globally recognized type designer, I don’t see much of a collectors’ market for rare OTF files popping up anytime soon lol.
  4. Exactly. Now, one could certainly argue there’s bad intent there depending on the situation, which could affect the legality. Eriq likely got a cease and desist because his font names contained the names of leagues and teams (if I recall), or a lawyer was bluffing him.
  5. You can’t own any of that stuff in a legal sense (design of a number or letterform, team colors, stripe designs, etc.). It’s just simple branding and competitor exclusivity at play. The only parts of a typeface that can have legal protection are the name and the actual digital file (the font itself). You have to purchase a license and follow the terms to use the font.
  6. I’m assuming most counterfeiters are humans, a species that has shown a tendency to collectively improve these skills over time.
  7. Yet counterfeiters still get them wrong every time, and knockoffs are very easy to spot as a result.
  8. The OG fan versions are even better.
  9. He’s likely talking about the one with the huge NY on the chest.
  10. When someone sponsors Tuesday night at the MoMA, everyone gets to walk into one of the top five art museums in the world for free because company x literally bought the tickets as an advertisement. Sports teams want to collect on the :censored:ty name *and* make you pay for the “privilege” lol.
  11. The seam itself is held together with stitching. Stitching on top of a seam would not pose an issue lol. @tBBP How the numbers are constructed and applied usually differs team-by-team; some may use the contract/OEM vendor, some may use a local shop, and some may do their letters and numbers in-house. I think everyone is at least using some type of sewn-down technique now, whereas a few decades ago you’d see a mix of sewn and screen-printed jerseys, depending on the team.
  12. No, it’s legitimately difficult to match sublimated fabric with dyed fabric. I think the University of Toronto is the main obstacle there.
  13. Alcohol, tobacco, and gambling ads are not allowed in certain countries and leagues.
  14. I believe most pro shirts are delivered “blank” (with only crest and apparel branding) at the beginning of the season, and additional ads, numbers, and names are pressed by the club. That’s how they’re able to trade shirts every game and alter the advertisements match-by-match based on the laws of the country in which they’re playing. What situation were you referring to with brands not being able to accommodate athletes during the season?
  15. Southern California “hot” is not the same as Florida hot. Wearing white at home to beat the heat is still silly.
  16. It’s more just a refresh of the existing Team Classics line; not sure what the future holds for it. It is, however, the first time we (that is, the identity design crew) have touched a project like this, so the art will be more accurate to the OGs than they have been in the past.
  17. Look at it this way… When it comes to licensed apparel on a commercial scale, finding out who’s playing less than a year before the event is like someone saying, “Design me a uniform in ten minutes, and it’s due 5 minutes ago.”
  18. Only so much you can do when you find out who’s playing less than a year before the game. Essentially, it limits you to templates and colors that already exist at the factory.
  19. I’m assuming the originals were blue and white. We thought about trying to do something in blue and red, making the shorts the same color, adding a short logo, stuff like that, but in the end, this one seemed the most out there, and KU loved the idea. ASU, A&M, and NC State have also worn theirs (NC State was only willing to play with the trim colors, but I still dig it).
  20. Kansas got a win in their 1922 Reverse Retro last night, honoring their first championship squad. We chose the colors to look like the sepiatone reference photos.
  21. There’s exactly one thing “the same” about them, and that’s the warm-hued floating stripe on a dark field around the forearm and calf. Like, that’s it. They just don’t look anything alike aside from that one particular element, as evidenced by this game.
  22. The HBE crew took inspiration from traditional African dress, specifically purple garments worn by historical kings and queens. The orange was chosen to represent vibrancy, sacrifice, and passion (sort of a red + yellow = orange idea, also colors common in traditional African textiles). There are probably better sources, but this was the easiest one I could find at the moment: https://www.sikaa.com/blogs/blog/the-meaning-behind-the-colour They’ll be coming soon. The four that have already shown up were created on a different timeline, so that shipment apparently came in first.
  23. Weren’t 2017 and 2018 the only years to feature four uniforms, regardless of format?
  24. New Honoring Black Excellence uniforms have started to pop up (men’s on left, women’s on right): This is the first time in a long while I’ve worked on basketball, and the first time I’ve designed a collection this large on my own (18 teams total, each with a men’s and women’s squad). Each one uses a different pastel color set off with a custom floral pattern. The flowers are either state flowers (like the goldenrods for Nebraska and the violets for Rutgers) or flowers that are native to campus (like cherry blossoms for UW). All the men’s wordmarks come from jerseys worn by the first black players at each school.
  25. I’ll just say that the final version is rarely the best version. That’s just how it goes.
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