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On 5/10/2024 at 5:51 PM, Section30 said:
I think that works a lot better for the home and road, but now I miss the rounded wordmark on the alternate lol
One day I'll listen to my gut and not make the extra, unnecessary change.
And with a new team ready to go:
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Football - I'll admit that Monmouth was one of the first schools that I was pretty much in the dark on in all facets. And this feels like an odd thing to say about a thread that I'm technically the admin of, but this feels like the first truly creative design I've done. Hopefully that continues down the line. Starting off with the Hawks' football team, the helmets lose their stripes and the hawk head logo becomes the main helmet logo on the silver and white buckets, with an alternate option using the stylized-M. The jerseys get a little more fun, with a "wing" pattern of sorts, born from roughly the weights of the beak from the logo, mixed up with a color scale based on the jersey's base color. A new number font joins the fray that closer matches the team's wordmarks. Pants have the team logo on the front hip and the wing stripe up the sides.
Hockey - I couldn't get a clear read on the current existence of the Monmouth club hockey team. They have a social media presence but it hasn't been updated since early 2022. The more positive outcome would be that they're just on hiatus and the worst case is the club is no longer skating. While I wanted to keep the pointed stripe idea on all the uniforms, it really only ended up flourishing on football, so the stripes sit on the sleeves like normal stripes, even if the stripes are anything but. The unique part of the home and away jersey hem stripes flip direction. The grey alternate moves the stripes to run down the sleeves and the hem does as good of a point as it could on the hem.
Baseball - I actually really like the current Monmouth baseball uniforms, but their crime is just not being modern enough. But the v-necks stick around, with the wing stripes taking up space on the sleeves. Hawks and Monmouth take their places on the home and away uniforms. Added in the contrasting collars, which was just enough to tie the tops together. The headgear options are either all-navy or navy/grey with the M on the front. Pants are either white or grey, with the wing stripe up from the bottom of the pants, a la the Diamondbacks and their attempts with the snake skin.
Basketball - Finishing us off on the hardwood, a similar take on the tops as baseball, minus the sleeves in this case. The stripe moves down from the non-existent sleeves to the sides of the jerseys. Wordmarks do the same thing as baseball. The shorts take the stripes and run them up at an angle, using the shorts cut out as their starting point. Contrasting waistband adds some contrast between tops and shorts, and the Monmouth wordmark can be found under the stripes.
C&C welcome! I'm hoping to start updating the website soon, hopefully can get started next week!
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On 5/7/2024 at 12:32 PM, Section30 said:
Robert Morris looks good, though I do think the hockey jerseys might look a little better with the Colonial man head logo instead of RMU on the front.
I did go back and forth on it before I posted them originally, just because RMU has been trying to de-emphasize their use of the Colonial man logos (which they've technically retired them all) but since I used the headshot on the baseball hats changing the hockey jerseys would work too. I went with the headshot logo that's combined with the wordmark. It filled the space a lot better. I also dumped the two-color collars and swapped the circle wordmark out for the previous Rangers style jersey treatment.
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Hopefully these get a warmer reception than my small opinion on the Tigers' City Connect uniforms ...
It's just dawned on me that I forgot the hanger effect on all these so that'll be addressed shortlyHanger Effect fixed.
Home - Away: Like I did in my first MLB series, I went with claret/maroon/burgundy and light blue as the new old colors for the Phillies. The MLB does have a pretty big blue and red problem, so what's an easy fix? Move the sliders on the shades of the colors. The shade of red is different from the team's original shades, going for a little darker red with just a little tinge of purple in there. Also new to the uniforms are some slightly tweaked logos. I modified the wordmark to be a little less bubbly and returning from the mid-30s is a tail on the wordmark. The P modifies to match and the number font is also tweaked to be less bubbly.
- Headgear - all-burgundy with the P on the front.
- Jerseys - Unlike my previous take, the pinstripes remain. Added to the uniforms is the trim from the 1947-1948 uniforms that inspired the team's cream uniforms. The sleeve number is replaced by the City Connect's hat logo that is now part of the team's logo rotation. Updated wordmark on the chest of the uniforms. The grey roads dump the pinstripes.
- Pants/Socks - White pants have the pinstripes and no stripes. Grey pants have no pinstripes and matching stripes to their jersey.
Alternate: While this does ruin the light blue throwback market in Philadelphia, it would give them a shot at doing something new with their throwbacks, something I did not do here.
- Headgear - A new addition, a light blue hat with a burgundy brim and a burgundy and white P. To the best of my knowledge this would be a first in their history.
- Jersey - The script goes away in favor of the Liberty Bell logo, anchored by the number on the other side of the placket, with the same stripes as the home/away.
- Pants/Socks - Light blue would be the primary with these uniforms, but I added in a pair of pinstripe-less white pants for use with these as well, and with the 4th uniform as well.
Liberty: Not the most creative name, but I didn't want to call it a Reverse Retro or anything similar to that. But in reality the idea was very much inspired by the reverse retro ideals.
- Headgear - same burgundy as the home and away.
- Jersey - All-maroon returns, this time with light blue getting to play along. Biggest differences from the original uniforms are the larger stripes down the sleeves and the V-neck collar.
- Pants/Socks - Maroon with the larger stripes down the side would be the primary wear with these, but the white pants from the alternate jersey would be able to slot in here too.
Hanger Effect - Colonial typeface honoring the work of the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia with the team's phrase RING THE BELL and a subtle visage of the Liberty Bell logo.
Batting Practice:
- Hat - Burgundy and light blue with the Liberty Bell logo on the front.
- Tops - Light blue with the triple stripe on the cuffs of the sleeves and on the hem. Liberty Bell logo with an arched PHILLY above it, which is inspired by the 1900 PHILA wordmark.
Now while my work pays me to be decisive with my designs, Chris doesn't pay me to be decisive here. Matter of fact, he doesn't pay me at all.
Home - Away: These designs are pretty much the same as above, just in the team's current colors. So pretty self explanatory when you look at them.
Alternate: With the collar and sleeve striping coming from the uniforms that inspired the cream uniforms, they are retired in favor of returning the red uniforms.
- Headgear - The blue hats stick around and wouldn't be married to these uniforms, but just the one they got paired up with.
- Jersey - I never liked the way the wordmark was treated on red backgrounds so now it flips to white with an additional outline to make it work. But otherwise the uniforms are pretty much the same as the grey tops, just color adjusted.
- Pants/Socks - Another set of pinstripe-less white pants, just with the current colors.
Throwback: No fancy nickname for this one, as it's just a straight up throwback, which entitled it (based on my completely arbitrary rules on the Cooperstown branding) to having the Cooperstown Collection logos. You could call them 1980 throwbacks, but they're the team's light blue uniforms from the majority of that decade.
Hanger Effect:
- (home/away/alt)- Colonial typeface honoring the work of the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia with the team's phrase RING THE BELL and a subtle visage of the Liberty Bell logo.
- Throwback - honoring the World Series winning team, "The Cardiac Kids" is found on the inner collar with the team's series wins from that season below.
Batting Practice: Same designs as above, just in red, white and blue.
C&C welcome!!
On 5/3/2024 at 10:41 PM, jbayer said:The vintage Yankee alternate is a brilliant idea! It has me thinking what a jersey would look like based on the 1950s era jackets.
Definitely bookmarking this for later!
On 5/2/2024 at 4:58 PM, BlueMoon18 said:Oh my days....this is some genuinely amazing work you've done so far...I'm excited for my local team, the Rangers (though I am aware that is going to come much later on)!
The Rangers are closer than you'd think ... (not up right away but not far away )
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we're like the Looney Tunes in 2003: Back in Action!
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For Robert Morris, I was immediately drawn to the hockey uniforms, and specifically, the Rangers' WC clones the team was wearing before they were demoted to club status and the club team continues to wear them. I was originally going to swap out white for the cream color of those jerseys, but end result was not what I was hoping for. But the northwestern stripe was already being utilized by the football team and it made sense to keep it going.
Football - So football really is just a clean up project. The helmets stay largely the same, with the navy helmets gaining the same stripe as the white helmets. The jerseys get the stripes on the sleeves, white jersey drops the colored sleeve caps. The Colonials also introduce a new number font, which is a little more athletic than the Atlanta Thrashers' style font previously used on the navy and grey jerseys. Bucking the Nike trend of plain pants, all three options have the northwestern stripe with the team's star logo on the hip.
Hockey - As I touched upon in the preamble, hockey at RMU has gone from a varsity program to a club program and back to a varsity hockey. I also felt like they had the best uniforms out of their sports teams (though I guess it could be argued football is pretty much the same style before I got a hold of it). What changes the most for hockey is the triple stripe skates away for the northwestern stripe, but I kept the shoulder yokes, including the white one on the navy jersey. white yokes are unique and work well when done well. RMU on the chest of the home and away uniforms. Alternate stays largely the same, with some changes to the sleeve stripes and a circle style wordmark set-up on the chest.
Baseball - One I think I really appreciate about RMU is they really seem to treat their club sports like their varsity programs and as a former club athlete, that is really cool to see. For baseball, the recently retired Colonial logo returns to the hats, which the club team has been using and I felt like it worked better on the hats than the current branding. Navy/red and tricolor serve as the headgear options. The jerseys are of the two-button variety, with the northwestern stripe around the neck and sleeves. RMU on the home/away tops and a script Robert Morris on the red tops. Pants have the stripes to match.
Basketball - I took the Under Armour uniforms from recent years and took the modern elements out and made things a little more traditional I guess. On the shorts, the stripes now connect around the bottom of the shorts and run up the sides to meet up with the stripes on the sides of the uniforms. Home and away uniforms have a wordmark sandwich and the red alt borrows the circle combo from the hockey jerseys.
C&C Welcome as always!!
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Just now, projectjohn said:
I don't hate it? Like I feel like I should but this is oddly nice
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On 5/2/2024 at 8:10 PM, DCarp1231 said:
Well, WVU… you had me, then you lost me.
A little off but just a few years too early
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Happy Saturday! Today's special is gonna be a little bit boring, but not without some changes.
Home - Away: I said it the last time I messed with the MLB, and I'll say it again, if you're expecting anything crazy, you're in the wrong area of town. HOWEVER, there are still some slight tweaks here and there.
- Headwear - Nothing changes.
- Jerseys - A carry over from my last swing at the Yankees is the streamlining of the team's logos. Look I get the tradition, the history, heritage, all that jazz. But I personally believe that the hat logo is the better of the 3 NY logos used on the uniforms. The grey uniform has all the changes that were done to it undone.
- Pants/Socks - No changes.
- Hanger Effect - A subtle visage of the Yankee Stadium frieze with a script "Pinstripe Pride" wordmark.
Alternate: In 1974, a radical idea was put forward to replace the iconic road greys with a navy jersey and white pinstripes. What a world we might be living in now had that happened.
- Headgear - same as home/away
- Jersey - color flipped version of the grey roads with a YANKEES wordmark in the same style as the NEW YORK one.
- Pants/Socks - In a perfect world, this uniform would be worn on the road, hence the grey pants featured, but I did add a pair of plain white pants. But lets be real, the chances of the Yankees wearing a navy uniform in a regular season game at all are about as likely as the grooming policy going away.
Legends: The Yankees don't even need a third uniform, so what on Earth would you do for a fourth? I envision this uniform being treated a lot like the Lakers' Lore Series of uniforms, honoring a team legend, so the Yankees honor the catalyst for the dynasty of the 1920's. The overarching inspiration for the uniform, beyond the Babe, is a sweater he wore in 1922.
- Headgear - Went to 1921, the last time the Yankees wore a non-navy hat, which at the time was a white hat with navy pinstripes. To better match this uniform, the hat goes to a faux-wool grey pattern.
- Jersey - I believe the sweater I used for inspiration on this uniform was a team-issue, not unique to Babe Ruth, but the overall style lent it self well to a fauxback style design. Full color placket color, larger than your standard baseball sleeve stripe, mimicking the full color sleeve cuffs. Era-appropriate logo on the left chest.
- Pants/Socks - knee length faux wool pants, navy stirrups and black cleats.
Batting Practice:
- Hat - I was struggling with these and ultimately defaulted to this years model, with the NY logo set on a pinstripe circle.
- Tops - Nothing wild. I tried fitting in some pinstripes on these but felt the simpler route was better. The hat logo comes down to the chest. Player number on the sleeve.
C&C welcome!
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Colgate has a long history in college athletics and deserved a look befitting of that, but a lot like Harvard has a modernized identity that can shine through a design that isn't templated. Like the intro post image says, the overarching design comes from a short-lived helmet stripe that existed for just a season, maybe two.
Football:
- Helmets - Ironically, the inspiration for the whole design can't be found here. I felt like it was a little too cluttering. But the shells remain pretty similar to the IRL buckets. Crimson and white, primary helmets get the team's 'GATE wordmark on the sides, with an alternate helmet using the team's C logo.
- Jerseys - The new jerseys replace the templated double stripe look with the new stripe, that bears a similar resemblance to the Vikings throwback tops, with the larger stripe being un-outlined.
- Pants - Pretty scratch here, with the pants having the stripes on the sides.
Hockey:
- Jerseys - Probably the biggest departure. The jerseys take the team's shoulder stripe uniforms from the past season and adds the new Colgate stripe to them, creating a quasi-90's Flyers look. The alternate jersey goes a little more traditional with chest stripe and the Raiders' alternate logo.
- Pants/Socks - Like a few teams before, plain pants to not clutter every thing up. Socks match their jerseys.
- Equipment - Crimson all around. Helmets have the 'GATE wordmark and the 13 stripes shield.
Baseball: Baseball used to be a varsity sport at Colgate until the program was shuttered in 1996 due to Title IX concerns and limits, but the Raiders did make it all the way to the CWS in the 50's, losing their lone trip to the eventual champs, Wake Forest.
- Headwear - Crimson and silver for all 3 uniforms. C logo front and center.
- Jerseys - A little sampling of everything. Full stripes on all 3 uniforms. White jersey has a wordmark, Crimson does the number-logo combo and the grey alts go for a V-neck with the 'GATE wordmark and slightly bigger stripes.
- Pants - A much simpler take, just a single stripe down the sides. Socks are all striped.
Basketball:
- Jerseys - Another similarity to Harvard in that, almost anything would have been an improvement on the IRL uniforms. Another somewhat traditional take, just with new elements. Single color stripes on the arms and neck with the full stripe running down the side. The grey alts are the only uniforms to make use of a triple stripe and the full sides go away.
- Shorts - Pretty much a mirror of the jerseys. Alternate moves the stripes to the bottom and features the C-Shield on the sides.
C&C Welcome as always!
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On 4/19/2024 at 11:01 PM, coco1997 said:
Can't say I'm a fan of the new trim on Chicago's home and road unis. I like the use of the City Connect logo on the black jersey, but I think it would look odd to pair the black pinstriped jersey with white pinstriped pants.
I felt like that the pinstripes might be a potential issue. First things first, I went back to the two stripe trim the team currently uses. I can't remember what the rationale for the original change was but it was iffy, even while I was designing it. As for the pinstripes, I went to grey across the board which might create more issues on the white jersey, but everything is now consistent across the two jerseys. But the potential other option of pinstriped jerseys/plain pants wasn't even a halfway decent option.
On 4/19/2024 at 11:01 PM, coco1997 said:However, I LOVE that throwback, and I'd buy that white front paneled cap in a heartbeat. If I could make one suggestion, I'd slap some numbers on the pants which could be a reference not just to the team's '82-86 but their '87-90 look as well.
I completely forgot the pants number! It was right in front of me on my reference images and my reverse retro design I was pulling stuff from and it just didn't make it onto the final design.
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I've drug my feet on these long enough, which we'll discuss on the alternates. The White Sox have a historical record and timeline that suggest they shouldn't be messing with a modern look. Well the City Connect look got me thinking because if you ask me, it sort of completed the current branding for the ChiSox. So let's dive into it.
Home & Away:
- Headwear - No change. Like their Massachusetts counterparts, changing the brim color didn't work for the full time.
- Jerseys - Despite my documented and well-iterated disdain for pinstripes and unlike the last time I worked on the MLB, I kept the pinstripes around this time. The white jersey remains largely the same, with a triple stripe now being found on the sleeves, and positioned up from the cuff, which has some historical precedence to the team. The black jersey is where things get a little off the books, which for starters now unseats the grey uniforms as the road look, and becomes a color flipped version of the home tops. Replacing the SOX logo is the CHI logo from the City Connect hats. Also coming over is the font from the CC jerseys. It felt like a natural addition and really rounds out the newish identity.
- Pants/Socks - White pants just have the triple stripes join the sides. Black pants also join the rotation, complete with the pinstripes as well.
- Hanger Effect - While their City Connect jerseys were among the best, their lasting impact can be felt throughout the uniforms now, and this applies to the collar, which now features a greystone pattern with the Southside wordmark.
Alternate: Maybe a little bit of a let down with the changes to the primary uniforms but keeping the alternate a little more mundane felt like a good breathing point.
- Headgear - no changes from home/away.
- Jersey - The grey jersey doesn't change too much. The wordmark gets updated to closely resemble the wordmarks from 1967-1968, 69-70 & 71-75, adding the tail and WHITE SOX to the tail.
- Pants/Socks - Other than a color change, no changes.
South Siders: Because I can't just call a heritage uniform a heritage uniform, the South Siders uniform does, you guessed it, celebrates over 100 years of White Sox baseball (minus that snafu in 1919) & I liked how my reverse retro uniform turned out for them, like Cleveland, and wanted to rework it again.
- Headgear - We go to navy, featuring the team's jersey logo from the late 30's, with two added outlines.
- Jersey - I feel like it's a pretty sensible statement to say the chest stripe jerseys from the mid 80s are one of, if not the most iconic uniforms the team has worn. So we start there. The v-neck collar stripes change to the 1967-1968 style, which is also where the light blue comes from. The sleeve and chest stripes are pretty much as they were in the 80s. Replacing the wide SOX wordmark, is a spurred/Tuscan font, which represents the big collar/shorts uniforms. My personal favorite part of these, is the modernized logo on the sleeve which resurrects the 1949-1970 logo.
- Pants/Socks - Pants stay easy, with the same stripe as the collar down the side. Socks are all navy or stirrup navy.
BP: I don't plan on making a habit of having two distinct BP sets but the 4th uniform needed it's own in this case.
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- Hat - tri-color, Diamond Sock on the front.
- Jersey - Larger stripes on the lower half of the sleeves, Sox logo on the chest.
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- Hat - also a tricolor (homaging the 80's hat) with the same logo as the on-field hat.
- Jersey - light blue, chest stripe, smaller stripes on the sleeve cuffs. Modernized logo front and center.
C&C welcome!
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On 4/15/2024 at 11:56 AM, coco1997 said:
The sleeve stripes resembling wings is a genius idea! I also love the new red alt using just the "C" instead of the full "Guardians" script. I dig the "Land" alternate, though the base color looks a little too saturated to my eyes--it's almost peach-colored.
It definitely was. I toned the peach out of it some but left it there a little to be visually different from Boston's.
On 4/17/2024 at 10:57 AM, CLEstones said:Uhg. The Guardians font is so bad. The script has grown on me (was never a fan of the Jndians script). But the block letters are so bad. The previous block C was such a great look, a great monogram, and had such a historic presence to it, that could have added another layer of connectivity to the previous brand.
I go back and forth on it. I feel like the block letters work better than the winged logo, but that's a different conversation. After having to illustrate one of the Guardians of Traffic for work and then do some other Guardians related stuff, I felt that maybe an art deco avenue could work but I didn't like what I came up with for work and what I wanted to try here, but it also fell short here.
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8 hours ago, vtgco said:
Fauxback hat looks great; thanks for humoring me! I actually didn't mean modern BP tops, but they do look great! I was just suggesting trying out the fauxback and fauxback BP specifically to have a bigger "Boston" wordmark and smaller logo. Sorry to be confusing, but the results turned out nicely regardless : )
Well that'll go down as a bogey on the scorecard...
But let's take a look at it. I personally think the larger wordmark works better on the BP tops than the uniform. It feels a little less fauxback-y to me but I'll let you guys see what you think about it.
And since we're here:
Home & Away - I think I've finally come around or have at least turned the corner to the name change. The G logo still leaves a lot to be desired but I don't quite have a solve for that that I like enough. So anyways. I felt that even though the Cleveland franchise has over 100 years of history, that we could go a little more modern with it, but ever so slightly.
- Headwear - No major changes, other than the all navy hat getting dropped from the rotation.
- Jerseys - Despite the history, Cleveland is the first team in the series to drop grey. It was going to be Boston, but I felt more at ease dropping Boston's navy tops. Some actual stripes join the party, with the single color striping going away in favor of outlined triple stripes that terminate at the ends like the wings of the Guardians of Traffic statues have. The Winged G goes on the right sleeves. The new number font sticks around, but the NOB font changes to a serif font that I felt fit the vibes a little more.
- Pants/Socks - Nothing crazy, matter of fact nothing going on the pants at all. Socks have the same style stripes as the jerseys.
- Hanger Effect - Also nothing crazy, STAND GUARD in red/white.
Alternate -
- Headwear - No changes.
- Jersey - Design flips to a red jersey, with the wordmarks going away for a logo - number combo not seen on a Cleveland jersey since the 60's.
- Pants/Socks - Only real change is the socks turn red.
The Land - (I promise not every team is getting a vintage white 4th jersey) - Cleveland digs back into their history, basing it off my Reverse Retro design which itself is based off of the 1933-1935 uniforms.
- Headwear - all navy returns to the field, with a G based off wordmarks of the era. The batting helmet goes red, based off the team's use of red hats in the past, and I used it on the RR design and I liked the way it looked.
- Jersey - vintage white with a full color placket design. Same G as the hat, both having a small drop shadow based on the one-year only uniform from 1970. Joining the design are the late 80's to mid 90's shoulder stripes that I swear were in a movie somewhere.
- Pants/Socks - vintage white, navy belt with red loops. Socks go to navy stirrups with solid red stripes.
Batting Practice:
- Hat - Red/navy with the Flying G.
- Tops - A little less designed than Boston, but putting the stripes on there made it look too Adidas so these tops stay pretty basic. Player number moves a little lower on the sleeve. The Flying G on the chest, STAND GUARD down by the hip.
C&C welcome!
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On 4/10/2024 at 11:28 PM, vtgco said:
Definitely an improvement by adding the more interesting sleeve striping.
Love that fauxback vintage white uniform. Would be curious to see at least the BP jersey with a larger wordmark and smaller logo (a la '70s Blue Jays) and possibly a fauxback cap with the old version of the socks logo.
I figured you meant the more modern BP tops with the wordmark logo treatment so I tried it out on both colorways. Also tried out the fauxback sox logo on the hat with the Fenway jersey.
On 4/11/2024 at 9:41 PM, MJD7 said:I'm so glad to see you're going through with this! And I'm honored that I could be an inspiration for it, as your original baseball series is one of my favorites that I took a lot of inspiration from myself!
Boston looks great, I especially love the "Fenway Heritage" uniform, I wish that was one I could've come up with myself. I'm looking forward to following the rest of the series!
It was the uniforms that inspired your Red Sox jersey that gave me the inspiration for the vintage approach, but wanted to do something different than the Boston sock logo from that era.
On 4/12/2024 at 8:06 AM, CLEstones said:Please please please tell me there is a .PSD version of this template. Please.
On 4/12/2024 at 6:12 PM, Telemundo219 said:Or an .AI version and I'm not talking Allen Iverson.
The version I use is built in Illustrator and at the moment that's the only version it exists in at the moment. When the series wraps, I'll have a PSD version done and both will be made available.
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Football - Howard U is really one of the first schools in the FCS that I knew existed but beyond that I really didn't have too much off the dome to work on. I knew they are one of the few schools at the FCS level to be affiliated with the Jordan Brand and they had a huge upset over UNLV but that's where my knowledge ended. After doing my work, there was one thing I wanted to change almost immediately and that was the grey. They use a lighter shade of silver and so does Hampton. Really no issue, except that Howard has a nice unique grey already. So the teams switch over to that shade. The team's existing stripe carries over, but now ends in a horn point (sorry Texans, I've had this idea since 2021). The number font keeps the spurs but changes ever so slightly. I also went with the leaping Bison logo on the two helmets, which work better IMO than the static bison head. I tried shoe-horning the stripe onto the pants, but it fell flat in every attempt so plain pants with the logo on the side.
Hockey - Howard joins NC Central in the creation of a hockey team, but as I found out, Howard U is in the process of starting a ice skating team, becoming the first HBCU do so. Pretty cool if you ask me. As for the hypothetical hockey team, the horn stripe ends up sitting much closer to the numbers than a traditional hockey stripe would. As a result, I added a second stripe at the bottom of the sleeves. Bison head logo anchors the chest. Alternate uniform swaps out the second stripe on the sleeves for a solid navy stripe, and moves the hem stripe up and makes it a chest stripe with the full Bison + Leaping logo. Silver helmets and navy pants for all the uniforms.
Baseball - So Howard currently has no baseball presence. I can't find much information on their varsity team or when it shuttered. Their club team's Facebook page's last post was in 2013. So for the most part we are starting from scratch. but it's a baseball uniform and I kept some traditional conventions in place. It's seemingly a paradox when you look at the basketball uniforms that I created a new wordmark for, but I didn't do the same because I didn't like how the current ones fit on a baseball uniform. So I went with the Bison head opposite a player number, with the horn stripe on the sleeves. Pants have the unencumbered stripe down the side. Alternate tops go to a v-neck with a 70's Blue Jays style logo setup. Headgear is navy/grey with the Bison head. The white hat is about the one thing I could find from their baseball history, which was worn in the late 50s.
Basketball - Finally with basketball, like I mentioned up above, the biggest thing is the newish wordmarks, which keep the spurred look going but fit better on a basketball jersey. The design pretty much falls in line with the rest of the uniforms. Full stripes on the tops, with the horn stripe finding its place on the shorts around the legs. Alternate jersey loses the arm stripes and uses the Bison wordmark.
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So I've been living in Florida for about a year now and I got to take in a Rays game last April and this spring, finally got to experience Spring Training. What changed between April and now? Well Nike and Fanatics have apparently ruined baseball jerseys (and even though I work for that devil company, the jersey fiasco had nothing to do with me I assure you.) But that aside, between getting to watch baseball and see teams and the uniforms in action, and @MJD7's fantastic Cooperstown Collection thread (check it out here, a lot of great work!), I felt like taking another stab at the MLB uniforms after 7-ish years since my first attempt.
The title is a bit misleading because the designs themselves are good, but the production and other elements aren't. So what do I plan on doing? Well my first series was my first true attempt at baseball uniforms and it was alright, but not great. But I liked the forward thinking ideas I tried out on a few teams and I think I tried doing too much but I still want to move designs into the future but respect the traditions of baseball. So, as I always do, the ground rules:
- Eliminating Nike's 4+1 rule, which in conjunction is also eliminating the City Connect slot, but teams are going to be limited to 4 jerseys.
- Like my NBA series, there will be home, away, and alternate uniforms. The fourth slot is totally up to team discretion (straight throwback, fauxback, TATC, City Connect, take your pick)
- Grey uniforms remain optional. The old heads might disagree but I think we're reaching a point where more teams will start shedding them.
- I'm trying to limit hats and unique hat designs. Before you jump on this one, I'm talking about things like the Mariners having a navy/navy hat & a navy/teal hat. Just pick one.
- BP "jerseys" are going away, which seems to be the way the league is trending, instead replaced by a 3/4 sleeve shirt.
- Teams will now have collar decorations.
- Something I saw MJD7 doing in his aforementioned thread, using the Cooperstown Collection branding and the vintage Nike swoosh was something I liked a lot and I wanted to include that on the throwback and vintage designs. So the modern batterman logo on those uniforms would be replaced with the vintage batterman from the CC logo and the Nike swoosh would also swap.
I think that's it for the ground rules I was working with. Now for the team order, which I continuously find new ways to do:
- Teams will be posted in order of oldest perfect game to latest, which gets us 1-14. After the perfect game teams, same thing for the rest but with no-hitters.
American League
AL East: Blue Jays | Orioles | Rays | Red Sox | Yankees - AL Central: Guardians | Royals | Tigers | Twins | White Sox - AL West: Angels | Astros | Athletics | Mariners | Rangers
National League
NL East: Braves | Marlins | Mets | Nationals | Phillies - NL Central: Brewers | Cardinals | Cubs | Pirates | Reds - NL West : Diamondbacks | Dodgers | Giants | Padres | Rockies
Alright, I've talked enough, first up:
Home & Away - A classic start but not without some changes. After ending up at two Red Sox ST games, I came to one major conclusion: I don't like their City Connect uniforms. they're just too different when viewed next to the iconic red and navy. But the CC uniform sticks around in a couple different ways.
- Hat - no changes to the hat. adding a red brim was fine for the BP hats, but full time looked too much like Cleveland.
- Jerseys - the crux of the jerseys stay very much the same. But the white jerseys have so much more life than the drab greys and the biggest thing was adding more life to those uniforms. biggest additions is the Sox logo on the sleeves of both the home and away now, placket piping added to the navy jersey. the double stripe from the CC uniforms is added to the sleeves of both uniforms.
- Pants/Socks - Nothing too crazy, single color stripe, red on the white pants, navy on the greys. Solid red socks & striped socks modified from the pullover era uniforms.
- Hanger Effect - using the City Connect colors, BOSTON STRONG with the 617 area code in the middle.
Alternate -
- Hat - A red hat returns to Fenway for the first time since the late 70's but uses the 2024 Spring Training Hat color, with white taking on more of the leg work.
- Jersey - recolored version of the white home tops, but with similar conventions to the hat.
- Pants/Socks - same as white jersey
Fenway Heritage - not my most creative name for a uniform, but I felt it captured the spirit of the uniform as a whole.
- Hat - the throwback B comes from the 1936-1945, coinciding with the start of Ted Williams' career in Boston.
- Jersey - the tops combine the pullover look from the 70s, with skinny triple stripes on the collar and sleeves with a new old logo that blends the 1931-1932 sleeve logo with a font, similar to the wordmarks of the turn of the century Red Sox team, all on a vintage white base.
- Pants/Socks - these also take from the pullover era, with a faux waistband design. Striped socks go away in favor of a stirrup set.
- Hanger Effect - Boston Strong goes away for a simple Green Monster shade of green with "THE OLDE TOWNE TEAM".
Batting Practice -
- Hat - Like I mentioned, I didn't like the navy/red look for full time use but it worked for BP, with the Sox logo on the front
- Tops - navy and red options, both have the double stripe on the ends of the sleeves, number on the right sleeve. Navy has the Sox logo on the front, Red has the fauxback logo.
I've talked a lot, now I want to hear what you guys think!
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Football - If there's any team or teams in this part of the series that don't need modern uniforms, that would be the Ivy League teams, and leading us off is the oldest "institution of higher learning in the United States" and one of the progenitors of the college football game many of us have fallen in love with. Now like I said, nothing crazy modern but that doesn't mean they're immune to changes. For starters, the updated branding does stick around, with the black outline returning to the H. But more importantly is what returns to the football uniforms, mostly the team's triple stripe, which had existed in on the crimson shells since 1964. The same stripe can now be found on the sleeve cuffs, a bit of a homage to the 1968 Harvard team, famous for the declaration "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29". Finishing us off on football is the same stripe also returning to the pants. Also for the first time, a black alternate shell is added, giving the option for a full blackout uniform.
Hockey - Much like football, there's a lot here that stays the same. The biggest changes are to the sleeves, which now fold into the same look as football, but much bigger obviously. Added to the sleeves are a smaller copy of the stripes. Despite it feeling like a tradition for their uniforms, I removed the front numbers in favor of the H-shield. I didn't like the look with the newer numbers under the arch. Other than that, everything comes over from football or previous real life existence and like football, the team now has the option for a black alternate uniform.
Baseball - If you can believe it, Harvard's baseball team predates their football team by almost 10 years. That little factoid helped inspire the new home uniforms for the Crimson. Where football uses the cream/gold/tan color for a pants option color, I thought it would make for a unique home uniform for the baseball team, which all fall into the newish look. Biggest change really is the single stripe becomes a triple. The wordmarks also feature an arch, which I think works better than the fully horizontal they currently are. Crimson road tops, which come with a set of white pants. Black alternate that replaces the wordmark with the full boat H & shield. Two sets of headgear, four total sets of socks: sold black and crimson, or black and crimson with small stripes at the top. A white jersey is present in their rotation, but because it's the same design as the home and away its just tucked behind the crimson jersey.
Basketball - And closing us out is basketball and out of the four sports, their uniforms needed the most help. Nothing overtly wrong with them from a design sense, but that's also what was wrong with them, there was nothing on them but names, numbers and a wordmark. When I was done with them, the design bears a recolored appearance to a professional basketball team based roughly 15 minutes away from the campus with no traffic. All in all, a very traditional basketball uniform set, also including a black alternate, which in this case, isn't a first for the hardwood team.
I feel like I'm repeating this every four teams, but the website is getting worked on, just haven't gotten time to finish up the updates and hit publish.
In the meanwhile, C&C is appreciated on the last bunch of teams!
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20 hours ago, chakdaddy said:
I speculate that the league doesn't want them to have a stylized helmet for a logo. They want a standardized helmet image that is the same style for every team. The Browns can use theirs for the primary logo, but i bet they wouldn't want them to deviate from that template to make a different primary emphasising a helmet.
Yes and no. The Browns helmet logo is their primary, but every team has a side view and a 3/4 view in the same graphic style, per our logo guides at work. However we can't use the side view and 3/4 view for the other 31 teams. We have use the newer Revo Speed helmets if we want to use a helmet in a design.
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On 4/4/2024 at 8:18 AM, DCarp1231 said:
good. the less I have to see of those fauxbacks for the M's the better.
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Happy Easter! I managed to get a little sidetracked, trying to get an MLB series set up and started and that took some time building out an updated template and layout. But I certainly haven't forgotten about my work here.
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Football - We double dip in the SWAC, with Texas Southern. (It's also the 2nd of 3 consecutive red teams, which means I need to have a lengthy conversation my list randomizer), but in a similar vein to Alabama A&M, classic felt like a good approach for the Tigers, which in this case starts with classic UCLA/Colts stripes on the home and away uniforms. The same stripe can be found on the helmets, which come in maroon and white options. Pants match their jerseys. I didn't want to go with just a color swap on the grey alternates, but wanted to keep the classic feel. So the stripes move to the sleeves and are joined by a subtle tiger stripe that fades in towards the tops of the sleeve caps.
Hockey - Another first timer to the good ole hockey game, the Tigers also opt for traditionally styled uniforms, but unlike LSU who in the last series got shoulder style stripes on their hockey jersey, I strayed away from that, going for the stripes on the sleeves and hem, and the added shoulder stripes, matched on the white jersey with an added shoulder yoke. The alternate functions like the football one, with the tiger stripe pattern now fading up from the bottom of the jersey itself and the sleeves. Maroon equipment for all the uniforms.
Baseball - Somewhat of a paradox when baseball is one of the more forward facing sets. I felt like vests were a good way to go for the baseball team. Can't really explain why, but I just liked the result. Went with one set of headwear, all maroon. The jerseys get the stripes around the neck and arm holes, a lot like the Pirates' Clemente-era jerseys. All three sets of undershirts feature the fading tiger stripes, and would be interchangeable within the uniforms. I also kept the maroon pants the team currently wears. Two sets of socks, solid maroon or striped maroon.
Basketball - Finishing up on the hardwood, the basketball uniforms fully merge the traditional with the modern, with the side stripes on the jersey and shorts blending the fading pattern within the stripe. Texas Southern sandwich on the home and away, this time in a block font. They've tried it with a script with a less than satisfying result. Grey alternate gets the abbreviated TSU.
C&C Welcome! for those that celebrate, enjoy the holiday!
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23 hours ago, MJD7 said:
Seattle Mariners
This jersey is based on the design the Seattle Pilots wore for their one year of existence in 1969.
Gonna have to rethink my Mariners idea a little bit now
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Happy March Madness! Boise State is still winless in 10 tries in the tournament but at least that's better than... no one actually. Anyways:
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Football - This is a may or may not be a first for me, but I can remember maybe one other time that an individual player inspired a look for a uniform, let alone for a whole(ish) athletic department. In our case here with Alabama A&M, I believe its Joshua Williams from the late 2010's who in one picture was seen with 7 or 8 arm bands on that gives us our primary look here. I felt like AAMU has a pretty classic look about them to begin with and this carried it on. Helmets are pretty much the same, white and crimson, single stripe with the interlocking logo on the sides. Uniforms pare down the bevy of stripes to 5. Contrasting collars. New wordmarks and number font system round out the look. Pants match the helmet with a stripe. Alternate takes the newer double stripe look and puts it on a black base.
Hockey - The SWAC takes to the ice! And the first go around is a very simple look. The 5-stripes can be found on the sleeves with a solid stripe rounding it out on the hem. Interlocking logo on the chest of the home and away. Just went with the red equipment for all three uniforms. Pants actually receive the stripe this time. Socks match their uniforms. Alternate replaces most of everything. Bulldog logo appears on the chest, Double stripe takes over for the other stripes where it needs to.
Baseball - College is a fun place to experiment with uniforms and I want to try doing more non-traditional things, which feels fun doing it to a team that already has a pretty traditional look. So baseball replaces the 5 stripe with pinstripes, which I thought was a pretty equal trade, and adds a solid stripe around the collar and the sleeves. New wordmarks and numbers on the chest of the home and away. Red jersey also sees pinstripes. Black jersey also does something non-traditional, but not something new for AAMU. Headgear is similar to football, all crimson or white/crimson. Socks are striped either red or black.
Basketball - I finally get a basketball uniform that isn't a :censored: to translate. A little more modern take on the five stripes, with them being found on under the arm and on the sides of the pants, with one stripe forming a full stripe around the bottom of the shorts. single color stripes around the arm holes. Alternate gets a little more traditional, with the double stripe down the sides, with the interlocking logo replacing wordmarks.
C&C welcome and always appreciated!
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Football - When I started the planning for this, Valpo had announced in February of '21 that they were moving away from the Crusaders nickname (ironically the same thing my second university underwent in 2017). So when I got around to Valparaiso, they were nicknameless and if I had just waited a few more weeks, I would have known they'd be called the Beacons moving forward. But the new nickname worked very well within the new style I had picked out for them. The Beacons are the first football team that really gets the whole works, with three options each from helmet to cleats. While the "Shield of Character" logo works well, I went with a modified version of their lighthouse logo with a block V as the new primary, relegating the shield to secondary status. The main design feature is the "Beacon Stripe" which stays consistent across the three colors, which does result with some interesting results on the brown pieces. The stripe is also found forming a V on most uses. Pants combine the stripe with a simple wordmark.
Hockey - I was a bit surprised to see that Valpo doesn't have as much as a club hockey team, but that just meant a blank canvas to work off of. The same angled Beacon stripe can be found on the sleeves and on the hem line. V logo on the chest of the home and away. Socks match their respective jerseys. Alternate swaps out the angled hem stripe for a straight across and sees a college wordmark + number move the V to the shoulders. A common occurrence in the early hockey teams, but the pants don't get the stripes as I felt it was a little much for the pants when combined with the rest of the design.
Baseball - In most cases I try and reign baseball in when it comes to matching the other sports' designs. This wasn't really a case of that. I let the Beacon stripe still shine through on this one, with faux vest sleeves on the white and gold uniforms. Valpo script on the home and away jerseys, block Valpo on the alternate. Pants have a similar stripe to the football uniforms, just sans the wordmark. All-brown and gold/brown headgear with similar colored socks round out the look.
Basketball - A common theme here, basketball giving me the most issues. The lack of sleeves on (traditional) basketball uniforms make it interesting for some designs to translate and this one was a perfect case of that. The Beacon stripe becomes a stripe down the side of the jersey, which results in the brown jersey looking a little bit more plain than the rest. But the shorts get the full outcome of the stripe with a bold stripe angled across the bottoms of the shorts. In an inverse of the baseball jerseys, block Valpo on the home and away and script Valpo on the alternate.
Wyoming isn't the only school that can make brown and gold look good. Let me know if you agree!
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this series is making me want to take another swing at MLB designs. all very well done!
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Picked up a Suns "The Valley" jersey mostly because I think its one of the best City jerseys in the short history of the program
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The State of the Uniforms is Not Good: An MLB Concept Series
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Home - Away: I would have been content with not touching a hair on the Dodgers' figurative head. I think there's a convincing argument to be made that they have as iconic as uniforms as the Yankees, maybe even more so. But where's the fun in leaving things to the mercy of the status quo?
Alternate - Another step back into history but keeping an eye on the future, or maybe just the present.
Dodger Legacy - Spanning almost 150 seasons, two major cities and seeing the careers of countless legends of the game, the Dodger Legacy uniforms celebrate much of the team's history.
Hanger Effect - Vin Scully's signature introduction to Dodgers' baseball is immortalized on the inner collar.
Batting Practice:
C&C welcome!
It always feels like the biggest question mark with the Phillies. But IMO they can make either work for them really well.