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The first of Bend's two teams! East Division AC Bend Bend, Oregon Championships: 0 DETAILS:

Thank you! I hope I won't disappoint with this league I realize now that I was indeed pretty limited by hand-drawn concepts, but I assure you these teams all start out as paper sketches still! Unfortunately, I don't think I'll digitize my entirely-fictional leagues. I tried digitizing my Alton Baseball League last year (I think), but it kinda fizzled out as I'm more motivated these days to make fictional teams for real-life places around me Thanks for the support! --- South Division Sporting Florence Florence, Oregon Championships: 0 DETAILS: I always get a kick out of the exploding whale story, and you can see it for yourself here!

I'm up against some pretty stunning designs in this round, so great job to you all! Wales #1 by gswansea Wales #2 by Josef_Bretones United States #2 by MDGP Ecuador #2 by dsaline97

They unveiled their look on Twitter this morning!

After redesigning license plates for the past few months, I'm back making to making fictional soccer teams! Back in August, I moved from northern California to Corvallis, OR to follow my partner as she went to grad school at Oregon State University. In an effort to learn more about my new state, I decided that another fictional soccer league would be a fun way to go about that! This is in the same universe as my California Soccer League and California Soccer League 2 concepts, where statewide soccer federations dominate American sports. For the sake of full creative freedom, all real-world teams (except for one!) don't exist in this world, so don't expect any Timbers concepts out of the Oregon League. The Oregon League is a 50-team soccer league spread out across Oregon, with the distribution of teams correlating with the population of the state: I've already figured out the locations of the teams, but I'm free to any suggestions from y'all about how to uniquely represent Oregon communities through my soccer teams With all that said, time to move on to the first two teams! I revamped my presentation templates to better show off the tiny details I put into my concepts, and those detail graphics will be inside spoiler tags. --- Here's the first of the three Eugene-area teams! Central Division Track Town SC Eugene, Oregon Championships: 1 DETAILS: --- Followed by the first of five teams within Portland city limits North Division Portland SC Portland, Oregon Championships: 3 DETAILS:

The Oregon League 2023 season Northwest Division AC Chehalem Valley Beaverton Sporting Columbia SC Forest Grove SC Fort Astoria SC Hillsboro Semiconductor SC McMinnville Town Multnomah Athletic Club St. John's SC Tillamook County United North Division Club Sportif des Dalles End of the Trail SC Gorge Athletic Milwaukie-Lake Oswego United Mt. Hood SC Portland SC Sunnyside Sunbreaks Tabor Park SC Unión Deportivo Gresham Vanport AFC Central Division Club Atlético Marion Corvallis SC Lincoln City Linn County Wanderers Polk United Salem SC Springfield Isotopes SC Track Town SC Tualatin Tigers Yaquina Bay SC South Division Ashland Town Brookings SC Cavemen SC Coos SC Eugene United Medford Vortex SC SC Cottage Grove SC Klamath Falls Sporting Florence United Roseburg SC East Division AC Bend Baker Blues Hermiston Town SC High Desert Wanderers Old Mill SC Ontario SC Pendleton Cowboys Prineville 1870 Wallowa AFC Warm Springs SC --- Compilation Graphics --- Oregon League Map Oregon League Logos

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Count me in for this one!

We've reached the golden finale for the Canadian leg of United Plates of America! YUKON The history of this Arctic territory is largely influenced by the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, so this license plate design is given a rugged gold rush look. The miner seen on Yukon plates since 1952 has been redrawn and updated, and the single speck of gold in his pan is now a golden map of the territory with the “shine” that brought many to the Yukon. To top this design off, the gold paint on the border, territory name, and the speck of gold has a metallic shine to it. --- With the completion of Yukon, here is a compilation of all 13 of my Canadian license plate redesigns! You can also read more about the Canadian plates (and the other 56 American plates) on my Behance page! --- Thank you to everybody that followed along this little journey through the world of Canadian license plates! As always, it was really fun learning more about our neighbors up north (if you're American) As far as my next series is concerned, I'll be doing some more soccer concepts! I moved up to Oregon a few months ago, and I thought that an Oregon League series would be a fun way to learn more about my new state; stay tuned for that in the coming months!

Before the next Canadian province, here's a commonly requested redesign of my redesign... IDAHO 2.0 ORIGINAL POST: I received at least three different comments about how my first Idaho redesign looked more like a Montana plate, so revamping my Idaho redesign was inevitable. However, I kept on pushing this one back due to extreme creative block for Idaho, as there was really nothing going for this state at all. This new redesign for Idaho’s license plate is inspired by the various green-on-white license plates used between 1968 and 1991, as well as the white-on-black Idaho state highway signs used until 2020. The wordmark features an “h” in the shape of Idaho, and the serial divider is a reference to Idaho’s “Gem State” nickname (first suggested by @BrySmalls). As a nod to the state’s famous potatoes, a mountain landscape is depicted using French fries. Now back to Canada! --- SASKATCHEWAN My Saskatchewan redesign retains the elegant simplicity of the current plates but adds the prairie province’s famous fields of wheat. An Alberta-style script font adds organic character to the license plate while the serial divider is now a map of the slightly non-rectangular province. --- One more Canadian license plate left!

QUÉBEC My Québec license plate is an homage to the symmetric, modernist design that flourished in Montréal in the 1960s and 1970s. The royal blue of Québec’s provincial flag shines prominently, and each corner is adorned with a French fleur-de-lys from the flag. The provincial slogan (meaning “I Remember”) is retained as a symbol of Québec’s strong French-Canadian identity.

Thanks so much! I'm glad you're enjoying them --- PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND My Prince Edward Island license plate is essentially a modified version of the provincial flag. The flag colors have been adjusted to better reflect the island’s landmarks: the red is darker to represent the unique red soil and the green references the setting of Anne of Green Gables, a famous children’s novel. The generic “island” on the provincial flag has been now changed to be a map of the province.

Moving on from Canada's most sparsely populated territory to the province that contains ~40% of Canada's population... --- ONTARIO Improving upon the disastruous 2020 license plate redesign, my Ontario license plate is an embossed white-on-blue design that features the centered crown used on license plates from 1938 to 1966. This design retains the classy serif fonts from the current plate but uses the slogans from the 2020 redesign, itself taken from “A Place to Stand, a Place to Grow,” the unofficial anthem of Ontario. The three leaves from the provincial coat of arms are found in the lower corners.

NUNAVUT In honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day today, here's a license plate for the land of the Inuits! My license plate design for this remote Arctic territory features the inuksuk, a stone navigational tool used by the native Inuit population. The inuksuk (also found on the Nunavut flag) is shaped like the territorial map, and the 25 stones represent the 25 communities scattered across the vast territory. The North Star found on the flag is above the inuksuk. Similar to the current license plate, the Nunavut wordmark is also shown in the native Inukitut alphabet.

NOVA SCOTIA Inspired by Nova Scotia’s Scottish heritage, my license plate redesign features blackletter typography that resembles Gaelic scripts used in Scotland and Ireland from the 16th to 18th centuries. The province’s Gaelic name is featured at the bottom, and the Nova Scotia coat of arms (seen only on Camper plates) serves as the serial divider in full color.

Welcome, and I'm glad you enjoyed the series! I'm a huge fan of the light blue/brown color scheme and love using it any opportunity I can, but here's a version with dark blue letters just for you: I do agree with you that some states with older, dated-looking license plates do need some refreshing. California needs a fresh coat of paint too! I'll look at other ways to tackle Idaho's license plates. It's really tough when Idaho's current plate already sums up everything the state has going for them You know, you're absolutely right there! I tightened up the kerning, lightened up the font, and played with some ligatures on the New Brunswick plate so that it all fits between the bolt holes now! Thank you very much for your feedback! --- NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Inspired by the Northwest Territory’s Aurora borealis souvenir license plates, my redesign of the iconic polar bear license plates features a bright green aurora above a nighttime forest scene. (On a side note, my 1993 NWT bear plate is one of the crown jewels of my license plate collection back home in California)

Thanks so much! I try to avoid it as much as possible in my designs, but there are a few real-world cases of text overlapping the mount hole. Ones I can think of off the top of my head are Georgia, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. As far as New Brunswick is concerned, I only did it because of how busy the license plate design is and how awkward the bilingual province name is laid out --- NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR My Newfoundland and Labrador license plate is based around the province’s location at the easternmost edge of North America, positioning it as the first part of the continent to see the sunrise. Illuminated by the ocean sunrise are some pitcher plants, the provincial flower. The Atlantic puffin, the provincial bird, serves as the serial divider and is colored like the provincial flag. (I tried to incorporate the province's unique wordmark, but there were so many visual inconsistencies with the font heights and widths to properly redeem it )

I got stuck on this one pretty hard, but finally here's the next province! --- NEW BRUNSWICK The main inspiration behind my New Brunswick license plate is the heraldic-style flag that the province flies, with two lions on either side of the bilingual province name and the ship serving as the serial divider. A star has been added to the ship as a reference to New Brunswick’s French-speaking Acadian population. The “Picture Province” slogan used on license plates from 1958 to 1971 returns as a bilingual slogan.

Sorry about that! The picture link for Alberta should be fixed now I tend to re-upload these pics on social media and forget that the forum image is linked to the tweets I end up deleting (I know I can just upload my Flickr images to here, but the tweets usually come first)

I fixed the link for the Manitoba image, so hopefully it works for you now! Hmm, I'll probably make some more tweaks for the turquoise-on-brown for legibility and color balance stuff, but it could work as an alternate plate!

Glad you like it! Just for you, here's a turquoise-on-brown version of my BC plate! Frankly, it doesn't quite work as well as brown-on-turquoise in terms of the color contrast --- MANITOBA An important symbol for Manitoba, the plains bison is once again promoted to the focal point of my license plate redesign for the province. My plate combines the left-aligned bison from the 1971-75 plates with a lower bar reminiscent of the metal registration tabs that the province used until 1970. The wavy pattern references Manitoba’s 110,000+ lakes, and the colors are taken from the University of Manitoba.

BRITISH COLUMBIA My British Columbia redesign is heavily inspired by the unique brown-on-turquoise license plate used by the province in 1960 and the province’s “hand-crafted” tourism branding. A pattern inspired by indigenous Salish art decorates the top, and the waves from the provincial flag are drawn in a similar “hand-drawn” style at the bottom.

Thanks so much Michael, and I'm glad you enjoyed the tail-end of the American plates! Unfortunately, I don't think European plates are on my radar as I don't have too much of a vested interest in designing for Europe (as someone who's never been there) Nice catch there! I did deviate from Florida's normal stickers because of the visibility concerns about having a black-on-yellow sticker on top of a yellow background I really appreciate your kind words there! I'm glad that my efforts to give each jurisdiction an accurate and appropriate plate paid off As cool as an African series would be in terms of designs, I personally don't have too much of an interest in designing plates outside of North America --- After a month-long hiatus from design work due to my move to Oregon, I'm back to start off my Canadian license plate redesigns! ALBERTA My Alberta design revives the jagged, retro wordmark that the province used on their license plates from 1984 to 2019. Complementing the angles of the wordmark is an abstraction of the mountains of Banff National Park, with each “peak” shaped like a map of Alberta. The provincial coat of arms serves as the serial divider. --- I've only been to Canada twice in my lifetime, so I don't know too much about the Canadian provinces aside from what I learned in J.J. McCullough's YouTube videos. As I've done with the American plates, I'm opening up the comments to any design suggestions for any of the remaining 12 jurisdictions in Canada Looking forward to this (relatively) quick series!

I think it'd be cool to do other countries as well. Thanks so much! I do have plans of making Canadian plates, but those will have to start next month (at the earliest) because I'll be busy in the coming weeks. As far as other countries are concerned, the most I might be willing to do is my homeland of the Philippines The dots in the i's of the Wisconsin wordmark are already wheels of cheese. I like the use of the current shields. Especially for something traffic related. Thanks so much! I'm glad that someone finally caught on to the renewal stickers! I wanted to make sure that those and the serial fonts were as accurate as possible, right down to the sticker colors I have heard of the history behind the Wisconsin state highway shields, and it does make for an interesting design. I kept the cheese to the dots on the "I" to keep the cheese references subtle --- COMPILATIONS ALABAMA - KENTUCKY LOUISIANA - OKLAHOMA OREGON - WYOMING You can also read all about these plates on my Behance page! CALIFORNIA: https://www.behance.net/gallery/138247417/United-Plates-of-America-PART-ONE ALABAMA - MISSOURI: https://www.behance.net/gallery/138654139/United-Plates-of-America-PART-TWO MONTANA - WYOMING: https://www.behance.net/gallery/143973585/United-Plates-of-America-PART-THREE --- It was a real pleasure to work on this series, and I'm really glad it's gotten a relatively positive reception. To get some "local" insights and suggestions about certain places, I consulted several people to help me out on this project. A HUGE shoutout to @raysox, @DCarp1231, @NicDB, @stumpygremlin, @CDCLT, @tBBP, and @TenaciousG for making sure these designs are as authentic as I can make them --- As far as what's next, I am thinking of going through Canada's plates! That'll have to wait a month or so, though, so enjoy these 56 plates in the meantime

Thanks so much for helping out with Wisconsin, and I'm glad you liked it! I'd never seen that Something Special from Wisconsin logo before, and it's such a fun coincidence! --- Last but not least! WYOMING My Wyoming license plate is heavily inspired by a fictional Wyoming sports logo designed by Jordan Grimes, which features colors from the Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park. The hot spring motif is combined with the mountain scenes featured in previous license plates, and the red border and shade of blue is taken from the state flag. The historic bucking bronco used on Wyoming plates since 1936 remains. --- Compilations coming up a little later!