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I'm putting these two here side by side. I'm torn, personally. I think that the darker blue, although it doesn't contrast well with the black, is much more in line with team tradition. I guess a little more context is necessary, but the team's blue uniforms have existed from 1897-1901, 1912-1923, and 1937-41; 46-Present. The blue has almost always been a royal shade, making it kinda their *thing*, I suppose. An excerpt from their original name story is below. I understand aesthetically wanting to shift to a lighter blue, but the more I think about it, I would rather keep it as close to the original blue as possible due to its importance to the team culture. Maybe the squad changes colors after a year? from the lighter blue to the darker blue? Idk tell me y'alls thoughts
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Slight update to show the jerseys. Note that a few things have changed in terms of the actual uniform construction of the era. Most teams are using Reger Maris-style sleeves and colored away uniforms are more common, although not ubiquitous. A paler blue was chosen for manufacturing limitations of the period, and the stroke was thickened on the bird for the same reason. (the primary is just a vectorization of the sleeve logo)
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hey y'all! back at it again. I've had some time off from some things and have been working in the background on a fake league. I don't really have any sort of objective, just going to drop some things into the thread and hopefully y'all can tell me if it's era-appropriate. If y'all wanna read about it, go visit here: https://ahsports.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=432 First up, Brooklyn Jays Founded: 1884 Design Yr: 1949 Context: The Jays will most likely end up finishing the season champions, but their new president could pose a challenge to the established order. While his focus is not necessarily on the roster (it's one of the best in baseball), there's a sense that he wants to create a new look for the team. Inspired by a set from the 1930's, he wants to bring back the block B and add a better-rendered blue jay. I'm not sure how well this would go over with the fanbase, but the previous logo only exists for about 8 years or so. If anyone has any notes, please feel free to share, unlike my most recent stuff on here, None of this is anywhere near finished.
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I happen to like the shoulder stripes, but def to each their own there. The base design of the numbers and wordmark are pretty solid, and I don't think any of their helmet offerings made the stripes look out of place. They drew attention, sure, but the rest of the uniform didn't look nearly as busy and gave breathing room to a pretty busy visual element. I think we're probably just in disagreement about particular aesthetics, but I think Louisville's numbers are fantastic. the 2021 reintroduction of the drop shadow also helps tie together multiple eras of UL's football, and the slanted TV numbers were strange, sure, but they accentuated a unique sleeve design and fit the direction of the uniform (quite literally). The EMU and Bowling Green sets are from 2013, which admittedly aren't great. That's why I put the cut-off around 2015, when things started trending upward. I outlined also that the half stripes also irked me just as much as anyone else, but the WVN template should fix that for most schools. And it's not like those designs are particularly appalling, it's just that I'd assume the template didn't allow them to print all the way across (if you look at teams who did use the primeknit and had full sleeves, like UW and Miami, they had stripe insert panels on their sleeves). I was just trying to say that recently, Adidas has done right by their schools with very few misses, and hopefully the switch to the WVN as a more affordable option should let schools like Ohio, LA Tech, Northern Illinois and Southern Miss get their stripes back (Wyoming also wears the WVN template, and their stripes are all the way across).
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Adidas gets a really bad rep here for their worst stuff, but they haven't made a bad primary look for a school since arguably UCLA in 2015? USF 2015? I argue that Texas A&M, Washington, Rutgers, NC State (I love the shoulder stripes and the new set), Louisville, USF (starting 2018), Miami, Georgia Tech, Mississippi State, Nebraska, and in the last few years BC, Kansas, and UTEP look as good, if not better, than they ever have. The alternates can get kinda quirky, sure, but for every "The 'Ville" set, there's 5 throwback sets that are lovingly researched (2018 Miami, 1939 and 1956 Texas A&M, 1990 UW, anything Mississippi State, anything Nebraska, 1950's Louisville) or a Mississippi State Statesmen/GT Black Watch sets that show a deep appreciation for their source material. Their templates have been really strong since 2019 (the WVN A1 was released in 2019 and they fixed the collar on the primeknit), and their new top-end template, the A1 Ghost, looks to be their answer to the Vapor Untouchable. Their templated offerings with the primeknit left a lot to be desired with the weird half stripes, but if UTEP, Arkansas State's 2022 white uniform, and LA Tech's powders are anything to go by, most schools seem to be switching to the WVN that gives them as many templated sleeve offerings that go all the way across the caps, as well as UCLA stripes. Put some respect on their name, Adidas does almost all FBS schools right and will accommodate for CD's designs as well (UTSA's Christopher Muñoz designed their current set). At this point, their hit rate is arguably higher than Nike's, and any proprietary numerals (2012 or 2020 A&M, UW, Louisville, GT [although I think these were designed by someone externally], NC State, Nebraska, Indiana, USF) go toe to toe with anything Nike has pumped out in the last half decade.
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East side, maybe. Or the rich white kids in West U or Memorial who act like what they think the fifth ward is and pretend to listen to the Houston rap scene (but really just Travis Scott). Houston is really odd in that if you were to ask 20 people from across town (including suburbs who say they’re from Houston) what “Houston Culture” is, you’d get about 20 answers. Montrose is different from is different from rice village (okay maybe those two are kinda similar) is different from bellaire is different from magnolia park is different from third ward and so on. Keep in mind that the most rabid Texans fans sure as hell aren’t in the loop, or even beltway 8. Admittedly, that’s because their branding and marketing mostly goes out towards the whiter suburbs, and it probably helped them secure places like spring/the woodlands/Conroe/Sugar Land/Pearland/Missouri City/etc. by having a “great white hope” as their largest spokesperson (nothing against Watt btw, seriously a great dude and did a LOT across Houston during his time here). The pivot towards communities inside of Houston proper just seems insincere, is all. Also, the Texans would look SOOOO much better with a white facemask.
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Just a reminder that the Browns haven't narrowed down voting options to 10, you can vote for whatever you want! Might I suggest another design (currently sitting at #17, and has a thread in concepts to explain its subtleties... ) Also on the Panthers, here's the size of the TV number on the draft jersey. I know it's darkened (damn fullscreen video overlays) but can anyone tell if it's larger this year?
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So, I don't know if y'all have heard, but the Cleveland Browns are asking fans to submit logo concepts for the rebrand of the Dawg Pound. I thought it'd be nice to throw my hat in the ring and show off what I've picked up over the years. Here's a look at what I submitted! Be sure to go vote! https://web.witcontests.com/browns/v/eRk0xQO
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North Texas got some new uniforms! The Wing helmet looks to be the new primary maybe? There's expected to be a full green and black set coming soon enough. I'm a fan of sublimated number textures so I gotta say these are nice
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Oh my god I am so sorry! I love the new update and I like the reshaping of the right ear a lot, the panther feels much more threatening. Here's the fix I tried a hand at. Didn't redraw anything major, just rotated stuff around lol
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I like this a lot, but i think a couple of things are a tad off about it. I like the shape of the right ear, but rotating it a little bit more down and shortening it up a little might tuck it a tad more back, conveying a better sense of motion. The right eye and whiskers need to be rotated a bit down too, because rght now they're angled up if you were to look at the panther from head-on. Lastly, I like the idea of the thinner neck, but you're losing a bit of that forward motion the original had. I think that sacrifice is fine, but that's the trade-off anyways. I hope this is fine, but I straightened as much as I could out to describe what I mean. As you can see, the original sketch is very wonky in its perspective, but all the bones are there. Just rotating some stuff around and shortening up a few areas on the right, everything beings to point in the right direction.
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a couple of like perspective things are throwing me off about this. The bottom part of the jaw is a little wonky, with the far tooth being larger than the near tooth and a lack of indention to delineate where the bottom jaw starts on the far side. The far ear is a tad off too, it looks more like it's flying higher than the more pinned back shape of the fully shown ear (I think something like the original sketch might be better for that). I love the new shape, but it is now kinda missing that original "vaguely north and south carolina" shape that made the head uniquely built for the panthers. To remedy this, maybe try to incorporate something *sorta* like this shape? I have no clue if it would work and I don't think it really needs it, but using it as the nose or modifying the snout could possibly make it work. This has been my favorite series on here in a minute, and this panthers logo looks like a great refresh! And uh, white whiskers
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Yeaaaaaa, could you use literally any other astros uniform set , the use of Columbia and red was definitely the right choice but I would love to see either their current set (or a modification of the post-sunrise 80’s set) used as the base. Love the series though, and the recolor away from sand and brick at least made this look palatable lol
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One thing I wish I could get a better read on is the number font for a lot of these teams. I think one of the coolest things about early football uniforms was a lack of standardization in both size and shape, and only showing 11's doesn't allow for that, if that makes sense. Maybe using a famous player number (20, 22, 7, 81 for the lions, 15, 14, 36, 92, 4, 12 for the packers, etc.) For the Texans specifically, I think a darker red or red/orange would look great, and the helmet design feels reminiscent of the Astrodome, actually. Maybe making it a slightly more overt reference (with like a circle at the top or something) might make it feel more connected to the city the way that others are. I also don't know about the sublimated H, I think something you could do that could keep the H in the design is make the vertical bars of the H into shoulder stripes, while the crossbar of the H becomes a stripe similar to Indianapolis' on the shoulders. I love this series tho, and will probably come back to comment more about some other teams in the future. Kickass stuff, fr
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