8BW14 Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 As a fan of St Louis sports and the aesthetics of soccer crests, I’m very interested in the new St Louis MLS team. I have no idea what they will actually do, but the announcement that they would be releasing the logo/name/colors in a couple weeks got the creative wheels turning. St. Louis is a cool city with a ton of imagery and history to draw from. I chose to use the Arch for the overall shape of the crest, with the Apotheosis statue in Forest Park, which depicts King Louis IX, the city’s namesake, as the primary imagery within the crest. I also include the striping pattern from the city flag as a reference to the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. I struggled to settle on a color scheme. I think red/blue/gold is a no-brainer, but two MLS clubs already use those colors. Besides that, Burgundy/Gold was my next choice but I’m not 100% sold on that either. I rendered the logo in 6 color schemes and any feedback on the and/or crest would be appreciated. Thanks for your time. Whoops, the year got messed up in the brown/orange logo. I’ll update that ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostOfNormMacdonald Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 I like the brown/orange and the maroon/navy/gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_DietDrPepper_ Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Maroon, navy and gold definitely is my favorite. The crest looks fantastic, great work! Follow the NFA, and My Baseball League here: https://ahsports.boardhost.com/index.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsSlothy Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Blue/Green and Maroon/Navy/Gold are the best ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueYankee26 Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Orange and Brown & Maroon, Navy and Gold trueyankee26.wordpress.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridleylash Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Maroon/Navy/Gold is still basically the Missouri flag combo, just in different shades; so I'd go with that as the best of both worlds deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRed618 Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 The three up top would be my picks. Brown/orange if I had to choose just one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brave-Bird 08 Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 give me orange and brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vtgco Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 This would be a great look for the team. The Apotheosis statue always looks good. I'm also partial to the red/blue/yellow but certainly the navy/wine/gold are close enough to work fairly well. Not feeling the bottom one so much. That said I think the white outline of the wave, while accurate to the flag, is too thick to go with the inner white stroke of the arch. I'd make it thinner to match and shift the text down. Also, I think "AC St Louis," like the defunct USL team, rolls off the tongue better than the reverse. Great work! Hopefully the real logo is as nice as this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8BW14 Posted July 22, 2020 Author Share Posted July 22, 2020 Appreciate all of the feedback guys. I’ve narrowed the color scheme down to four: Burgundy/Gold, Green/Blue, Brown/Orange, and a couple variations of Red/Gold/Blue. I really like all of the color schemes and I still can’t pick just one. I’ve also got a few updates to the crest. I cleaned up the statue and added some highlights. I also thinned out the white river stripes and flipped to AC STL, per the advice of @vtgco. I think both are improvements. I’ve also included some wordmarks and a black and white version of the crest. Let me know what you think of the updates and thanks for having a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridleylash Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 The fourth and fifth ones are the clear winners, for me. 2 and 3 look very similar to the Sounders/Canucks and Browns, and 1 feels a bit too monochromatic. Between the two, I think the text color on the fourth one is better, but I prefer the color position on the fifth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostOfNormMacdonald Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 the 3rd and 4th are great. The 5th is a close second. Awesome work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maroon Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Tbh I'm a big fan of all of these. My only qualm would be that there's so much detail on the Apotheosis statue that it's difficult to retain that level of detail on printed materials. That being said, I love, love, love that you incorporated a symbol that is so iconic to the city and that should really be utilized more - and you did it tastefully and with class. StL Cardinals - Indy Colts - Indiana Pacers - Let's Go Blues! - Missouri State Bears - IU Hoosiers - St Louis City SC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vtgco Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Good update here. I think the highlighting on the statue is really nice and makes the design even classier. However, the navy statue on burgundy feels a bit muddy, so you might need to lighten the burgundy background or switch the statue to gold & white to get enough contrast on 4 & 5. It looks best on 3 because there's such good contrast between the orange & brown. The river stripe looks better but could be slimmed down even more, so that it matches the other white outline, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhutchcraft89 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 I don't think they can go wrong with any of the color schemes. I like the orange and brown best because it would be a nod in a way to the St. Louis Browns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFight Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 The St. Louis Browns one is the winner for me, classic and an awesome throwback. I love that, and what's more, no other teams in the league use a comparable scheme. I would roll with that one. I'm imagining how awesome the kits could be with those colors, is making me geek out real talk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8BW14 Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 I’ve got a few small updates to the crest: I made the inner stroke a hair thicker so it matches the River stripe. I also increased the size of ACSTL and the 1764 ever so slightly as well. There are now some highlights on the face of the statue, which I think makes a big difference. I think I’ve settled on Red/Navy/Gold as the color scheme. I did lighten the red a couple shades to give more contrast with the navy blue. I really like the brown/orange/white, but I think it’s just too similar to the old STL Browns with the Apotheosis statue and fleur de lis imagery. The MLS team should have a unique look that. I think this a pretty close to a finished product but please feel free to offer any C&C. Thanks for all of the feedback on the logo/colors. I’ll go ahead and get started on some uniforms and hopefully have those done soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-kj Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 That monogram reads as SLT to me. It's an interesting idea, but overally there's so much jammed into such a small space. The apotheosis disappears into the background and the text elements have no room to breathe. I think you've got a good set of elements (even if I'm not a fan of the font), but the arrangement doesn't work. Buy some t-shirts and stuff at KJ Shop! KJ Branded | Behance portfolio POTD 2013-08-22 On 7/14/2012 at 2:20 AM, tajmccall said: When it comes to style, ya'll really should listen to Kev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmegaRed Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 On 7/23/2020 at 2:19 PM, -kj said: That monogram reads as SLT to me. It's an interesting idea, but overally there's so much jammed into such a small space. The apotheosis disappears into the background and the text elements have no room to breathe. I think you've got a good set of elements (even if I'm not a fan of the font), but the arrangement doesn't work. I agree with these points above. I think you’ve got some good stuff happening here, but you may need to look at the overall flow. It does seem like there isn’t much breathing room for the elements. Maybe its the overall shape you can rework. Like this could be pretty cool as more of an oval, still allowing the top half to keep the arch motif, while giving you more room for everything else (think AC Milan crest shape with your elements). I get why you went with this shape, however I think it creates a bit of an awkward shape within a shape... but it might be the white border throwing me off. Something else to consider is the thickness of those borders. Right now (IMO) they seem too thick and the white competes with the outer blue border. Colours are cool, but the blue statue over the burgundy will disappear. Might need to lighten the red. Or maybe the statue becomes a single colour like gold, and you just use the red to distinguish the details in shadow etc. Could look amazing! Great start here... awesome concept... but I think you can push it a bit more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian in Boston Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 On 7/23/2020 at 8:20 AM, 8BW14 said: What about taking this color way and either... * Flipping the Gold and Navy elements on the Apotheosis of St. Louis, or * Making the Navy elements of the Apotheosis Gold and the Gold elements White? Also, in the SLT monogram, the T needs to be shrunken a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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