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  1. I know it's been a bit, but I wanted to finish the current NWSL cities at least, and ended up pulling a few more together. Rounding out the actual NWSL, it's Washington: The Spirit needed a new logo IMO, so I looked to the District's previous women's soccer team for inspiration, with a cherry blossom detail to spruce it up. The home takes the real 2018-19 striped kit and adds marble details from the Lincoln Memorial as well as the DC flag. The away is a design based on my stylization of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Finally, a fauxback jersey to the 2010-11 WPS-era jersey:
  2. So I've kinda been struggling with DC, so instead I've turned to the first expansion team: Sacramento. The minor league California Storm have been around since '95, and even boasts alumnae like Brandi Chastain & Alex Morgan. Recently they have been partnering with the Republic and playing at their stadium, so I could imagine that they could make the jump to the NWSL as the Republic's women's side. The new logo places the Tower Bridge behind an S combined with lightning bolts. The Republic's star sits at the bottom. The gold and wine home jersey converts the city's Capitol Mall into a sublimated sash, inverting the traditional look of the men's side. The magenta away jersey references Sacramento's nickname, "Camellia City," by arranging those flowers to form a rough map of the Sacramento-American river confluence. Finally, the fauxback, slightly inspired by their 2017 jersey, uses the Storm's actual colors and my cleanup of their current logo to form the Sacramento flag. Let me know what you think!
  3. Thanks for the kind words! I look forward to seeing your take. After seeing your series, though, I can't even imagine comparable logos for Utah or Washington for mine In my second take, I played out my preferred scenario where, instead of becoming an OL farm team, the Reign and Sounders organizations merge. The logo was designed so it and my own Sounders concept (shameless plug) work alongside each other, restoring the fearless queen and adding the mountains of her dominion. Also, in my wishful thinking, the Seattle Reign name is back (it's just too clever to give up so easily!) The home jersey is a rainy silhouette of Washington state. The Reign's traditional blue is back as the primary color. The green away incorporates the needles of the native western red cedar into an abstract mountain design: Curious to hear what look you all prefer! C&C appreciated.
  4. Next is up is version 1 for the Reign. I am pretty peeved about the team's rebrand. It was hard enough to see them leave Seattle for Tacoma, but now to add insult to injury the new owners have replaced the classy, locally-relevant brand with an awkward name and generic logo that represents Lyon more than the Pacific Northwest. While I'd rather they kept the old logo, I wanted to try to find a better way to combine the Lyon and Reign brands than the actual design. The new crest takes the shape and colors of the OL logo, but adds the Reign crown, and incorporates the "Olympique" moniker by showcasing the nearby Olympic Mountains. The home's vertical stripe is inspired by Lyonnais's '70s designs, and uses a sublimated Mount Olympus design. The away is black (one of the Reign's old colors) and has a simple diagonal design in a map of Puget Sound: I think this is a tad more palatable. Let me know what you think! Coming up soon, my personal preference for the Reign.
  5. Time for Chicago: So I had no expectation of outdoing one of the best soccer jerseys I've ever seen, but hopefully my home jersey, which depicts the skyline reflecting on Lake Michigan, is solid. The away uses the neon Chicago Municipal Device on the iconic Chicago Theater marquee. Thanks for checking it out!
  6. Thank you! The research can be tedious, but it helps me to avoid the blank t-shirts we see all too often IRL As for MLS, I've posted some concepts here, but I haven't done a league-wide series yet mostly because logos take a while and MLS could use some rebrands, IMO. I certainly hope to get that going in the future. And now, an unorthodox take on Sky Blue: Because the team just moved to Red Bull Arena, likely as an appeal to fans in NYC, I tried to create designs that can rep both New Jersey and New York at once. The home jersey has a sunset sky and a silhouette of the George Washington Bridge, which connects Manhattan to the Jersey suburbs. The kit is in NYC blue and orange. The away might be a bit polarizing, but I wanted to capture multiple aspects of the region's history in broadcast. Centered around the crest is a vintage TV test pattern (often seen as a technical difficulties screen.) This is meant to reflect NYC's role as a TV filming & broadcasting hub. That design is combined with radio waves emanating from a stylized depiction of the Armstrong Tower, the New Jersey site where FM radio was developed. All of this is done in the official NJ state colors of blue and buff, as seen on its flag and old license plates. Let me know if you have any advice for the execution here, because it's feeling a bit off to me.
  7. Thank you for the feedback! The big stripe angles matched the sublimated chevrons before, but here it is matching the crest's shape: I can't decide if I like the matching angles better or if the small chevrons feel awkward now, but it feels subtle either way. I also added some chevrons to spice up the shorts stripe. Thanks! Your criticism is fair, but I figured I could get away with a shell & rocket themed jersey given the precedence of the Apollos claiming Cape Canaveral... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  8. Thank you! Yeah, I'm just tired of Nike and Adidas releasing bland jerseys all the time, so it's fun that we can show them up here on the boards Next up is Houston, who gets a rebrand: So the Houston Dash have a kinda generic, forgettable brand. That's why I renamed them the Frontier, showcasing Houston's historical role as a city of pioneers. The train is inspired the one on the city seal (which apparently signifies the "spirit of progress"). The moon reflects Houston's significance in space travel, and I use it in the monogram. No research went into the home jersey, but I knew from the start I wanted this chevron pattern and nothing says Houston like Tequila Sunrise. The away, on the other hand, is an homage to the fallen crew of the Challenger space shuttle. The colors match the mission uniform, and the pattern places the HF monogram in Resnik Crater, the memorial for astronaut Judith Resnik (who lived in the Houston area during her time at NASA) and one of few lunar craters named for women. C&C appreciated!
  9. Thanks for the positive response, everybody! And now, Orlando! The home builds on their current Lake Eola design, adding some color and the fountain from the crest to reference both the Pride flag and the Orlando flag. The away turns the Florida horse conch, the state's official shell, into the exhaust of the Saturn V rockets launched from nearby Cape Canaveral. Also, I've been kind of stuck on ideas for Sky Blue, so if anyone has any suggestions, that'd be appreciated. Thanks!
  10. Thanks for the kind words! Inkscape has a cool feature to do just this! I used a grayscale topographic map of Utah, then selected a vector icon (in my case the little silhouettes), then went to Tiled Clones > Trace. Then I set it to pick the lightness "L" from the drawing, and "apply the value to the clones'" size. That left the map design! Speaking of maps, here's my take on the infamous Portland Thorns: I wanted to see the return of red & green as the primary colors for the Thorns, so black is limited to the crest. The home jersey turns the rivers of the Willamette Basin into thorny vines, with the crest right over Portland: The away is a recolored version of the old iconic PDX airport carpet. Your feedback is appreciated!
  11. Here's Utah: The logo is already really nice; I just got rid of the unnecessary soccer balls on each side. The home incorporates the Arch from the logo. The away is a topographic map of Utah made up of smaller Utah silhouettes: Let me know if you have any comments!
  12. Thank you for the feedback! I've updated the fauxback text; definitely more legible. I didn't think to edit the template for a slightly different cut... Maybe I can try to mess around with it so I can implement it for some future jerseys. Next up is the return of the Western New York Flash: I've created a new logo for them, using their excellent script from their old look and placing it in a NY state outline. The home has a lightning bolt pattern on a center stripe. The away is inspired by Rochester's "Flour City" nickname from its once-flourishing milling industry, with the sash representing the Erie Canal, which once traveled through Rochester until its reroute in the 1910s. I wanted to capture an old-timey feel with the jersey, so it's not super ornate. The jocktag is the municipal symbol of Rochester. EDITED 03-12: switched to different jersey cut, added collar to away jersey. See the original version here.
  13. 2020 Entries: 2020 Alternate Takes: 2022 Additions/Updates: Hey folks! I've had some NWSL concepts cooking for a while now, and after some free time spent improving them, I wanted to start sharing them! I plan to do kits for the current league, as well as bringing back some old teams and creating a couple new expansion teams. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Starting things out with Carolina: The Courage have a pretty good look already, but I wanted to get rid of their monochrome uniforms, so I added a pale Carolina blue to the color scheme. The home jersey's design includes blueprints from Raleign inventor Beulah Louise Henry, sometimes called the Edison of her time. Click the square below for a closeup of the pattern: The away jersey is inspired by famous North Carolinian civil rights activist and singer Nina Simone. The colors are based on her outfit on her first album cover, while the stripes are waveforms generated from her songs "Old Jim Crow," "Feeling Good," "Four Women," "I Loves You Porgy," and "Mississippi Goddam," from top to bottom. I'm not very familiar with her work, so if any of you are fans of hers, please let me know if you think a different album cover would be better inspiration or if there are better songs to use. Finally, the third jersey is a 2002 fauxback to the Courage's WUSA days. C&C appreciated! Thanks for checking it out and I'll post more soon!
  14. The new logos look great! Either version is an improvement from what they've got, but the flag isn't really necessary. The primarily orange set is really cool and feels much more Florida (the red does feel too Atlanta.) I agree with the others, though, it needs some red. Maybe the number outlines + names? I think that the away jersey would benefit from an swooping orange stripe above the sleeve sword. Maybe that stripe could be red on the home...? Good work! One of the better Buccaneers concepts I've seen.
  15. The name hasn't been confirmed, has it? It looks like the article is just calling them "Ottawa CPL" for now. That would look really cool, but if you're thinking about other teams' jerseys, both Halifax and Pacific have very similarly-colored jerseys.
  16. WOW that Minnesota concept is beautiful! Quebec and Mexico City also look great! My only real complaints anywhere are that the gray and blue for Toronto don't have enough contrast with each other, and that the name Kraken doesn't make any sense for Sacramento. Great work!
  17. Here you go! I like the red better, personally, but this works too.
  18. I like it, though the top-down view of the head and tongue sticking out is a bit similar to Arizona. I'm not feeling the Expos-style jersey aesthetically... I imagine it'd just be treated as a new team, anyway. Maybe try red or black script on the sand & yellow jerseys, and/or dot the i's with a spade? The black jersey looks nice!
  19. That fauxback for Connecticut is a lot of fun! No complaints with that. The main set is a bit muddy, given the perfect storm of dark colors, outlines, and drop shadows. Definitely feels 2000s though. Going back a bit (since I haven't commented in a while) I prefer your first roundel primary for Monterrey, but good call with the crowns on the alt jerseys. NJ is solid but I'd swap the hats on the alts, and go navy wordmark with light blue outlines for the yellow jersey.
  20. So inspiration struck for an exciting idea in this series, so here's another. Hope you like it! Johnny Canuck is a lumberjack, after all, so plaid is definitely appropriate. I've seen the occasional plaid concept for the Canucks before, so I figured it's not too out there! The primary logo is a plaid-ified version of the Johnny-in-V logo. The secondary is brand new, with a two-man saw, blue plaid water, and the Vancouver skyline. It's partially inspired by the Denver Nuggets skyline logo. Finally, my geometric, full-body Johnny dons plaid flannel for the alternate. The home and away jerseys are fairly simple, with striping based on the primarily logo. The alternate jersey is my take on the Canucks' odd 2001-06 alternate jersey, with plaid replacing the gradient. Hopefully you think it works! The font is High School USA Sans. C&C for any of these concepts is welcomed, and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
  21. Hopefully you all can entertain my nerdiness on this next installment... Let's get vexillological! The main crest combines the shape of the shield from the Vancouver flag, the waves and sun of the BC flag, and a maple leaf. The monogram is based off of this unused Canucks logo. The secondary logos are an Orca logo and a streamlined Stick-in-Rink. The home is based on the Vancouver flag, with the green chevron and blue wave pattern. It has a bit of a Whalers feel--then again, so do the current Canucks jerseys! The away is based on the British Columbia flag. It's heavy on the blue with only sparse amounts of green, given the flag's color scheme. The alternate is a 1970 Canucks fauxback, with the striping changed to match the Cascadian flag. No yellow at all here. All uniforms' respective flags are used as shoulder patches. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ I appreciate the nice words... but as previously mentioned, I'm hesitant to trust the aesthetic judgements of the '90s! I'm happy you think so, but I think you and I both agree that's a pretty low bar... http://vtg.co/sports/canucks/grizzlies_flying_v2.png I'm not sure it looks quite as good when I keep adding colors to the mix... However, I gave it a go! ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Please let me know what you think! C&C is gladly accepted. I'd also really appreciate your suggestions for new variations! Thanks!
  22. I've updated the Variation with a backside for the Flying Skate set! Thank you for that suggestion; I hadn't really considered it before. Hopefully you think it's like a good product of the '90s and not like one of the many terrible ones! Here are both my Johnny Variations in that color scheme. I don't think it's amazing, but it's certainly not bad: Thank you both for your feedback!
  23. Here we are again! Thank you for the nice words; it's a high honor to hear I've fixed the flying V for you! ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Speaking of fixing, here's my attempt to salvage my own least favorite Canucks uniform, the Red Flying Skate: I'm not a big fan of the Flying Skate era, since it seems so messy, so I've tried to clean it up a bit here. The logos are pretty straightforward. I tried to keep the motion line idea from the original. Note that the "primary logo" is shown in a standalone format, but would normally appear as part of a wordmark as it does on the jerseys. My uniforms are mostly inspired by the aforementioned abomination 1990s alt. Rather than using gradients, I incorporated the motion lines and the primary logo in the chest and pants striping. I'd like to think the whole thing is a tad more clean and classy than the original! I think that this logo & uni set works even better in West Coast Express or Whitecaps colors: http://vtg.co/sports/canucks/new_skate_colors_display.png Now that they're in blue, the motion lines double as water reflections! Much more locally relevant, IMO. Tell me, was I able to save the red Flying Skate jersey, or is this at the same level? I've got another Variation planned out, but in the meantime, C&C and suggestions are appreciated! 2022 EDIT: The original concept remains above, but an updated version is posted in A FOLLOWING COMMENT!
  24. Haha, you found my ulterior motive! Yeah, glad to hear that someone else agrees that the blue & red works well for Vancouver!
  25. Glad to hear you like it! There's definitely more stuff on the way. Always a good sign to hear that a fan of the team likes it! Here's a quick mock-up of your idea. I found that a darker maroon looked better than black for Johnny. I briefly tried that for the retro style, and thought it looked a bit muddy in my darker color scheme (navy & brick red). However, maybe I'll give it another go when I return! Thank you for your feedback! ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Another Variation for your enjoyment is AVAILABLE HERE. In this edition, the Canucks would match the colors of the old Vancouver Grizzlies, and go all out on the Coast Salish nations' art style. The 1997-present Orca logo had that inspiration, but really only took that style halfway. 2022 EDIT: I'll leave my original concept linked above for reference. TWO updated versions have been posted later in the thread: The first is with the logos created by Tsimshian artist Chase Gray for the IRL Canucks' First Nations Night, AVAILABLE HERE. The second is with my own custom orca logo based on the '90s vibes of the Grizzlies logo, AVAILABLE HERE. I'll be out of town without my computer for a brief while, but I plan to work on a couple more Variations after that! In the meantime, if you have any comments or ideas for future Variations, please leave them here!
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