edjb93 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Hi, everyone! I'm back with a new concept series which combines American football with something that's close to my family's business and the fruit of watching YouTube in 2023: aviation. For some weird reason, I see the tail graphics on a commercial airplane as a possible design on the football helmets, while the fuselage and the nacelle of a plane's engine comprise the rest of the uniform. With that being said, I finally got to make it a reality and made the airline liveries translate into football uniforms. Each airline will have 3 uniform designs: home, road, and alternate (which can be a full-on alternate or a throwback design). However, I'll apply the primary-clash-alternate designation (similar to football/soccer) on some concepts. Since almost all airlines feature a white fuselage on their liveries, some uniforms will feature designs that are usually found on the airlines' promotional materials instead. Because there are so many airlines around the world, I would like to apologize in advance if I won't be able to complete every airline, but I'll do my best to finish the prominent brands. STAR ALLIANCE Africa: Ethiopian Asia: Air China | Air India | ANA | Asiana | EVA | Singapore | Thai Eurasia: Turkish Europe: Lufthansa | Swiss North America: Air Canada | United Oceania: Air New Zealand ONEWORLD Africa: RAM Asia: Cathay Pacific | JAL | Malaysia | Oman | Qatar | Royal Jordanian | SriLankan Europe: British | Finnair | Iberia North America: American Oceania: Qantas SKYTEAM Asia: China Airlines | China Eastern | Garuda | Korean | Saudia | Shanghai | Vietnam Europe: Air France | ITA | KLM | SAS North America: Aeroméxico | Delta VALUE ALLIANCE Asia: Cebu Pacific NON-ALLIANCE FULL-SERVICE Asia: China Southern | Emirates | Etihad | Gulf Air | PAL | Royal Brunei | Starlux Europe: Aer Lingus NON-ALLIANCE LOW-COST Asia: AirAsia North America: Southwest | Spirit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjb93 Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 UNITED AIRLINES Since the livery redesign in 2019, I consider United's as one of the best-looking liveries in the world, especially with the different shades of blue found on the tail. The tail logo is directly translated onto the helmet, although my gradient application is not accurate (it's actually halftone in the livery, not a real gradient like mine). The waves found on the sleeves are translated from the design on the belly, while the socks are blue because of the engine nacelle's color. I made two separate pants: a white one and a silver one. Both pants can be worn with either the blue or the white jersey. For the alternate, I chose a classical design that's still synonymous with United up to this day. While it's safe to say that the globe is here to stay, whenever we think of the airline, the Saul Bass tulip logo automatically comes to mind—and so does the livery that came with it. If you look closer, the back of the helmets features United's slogans from their respective eras: the current uniforms have "Connecting people. Uniting the world." while the throwback has the familiar slogan "Fly the friendly skies." 6 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjb93 Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 PHILIPPINE AIRLINES The current Eurowhite livery of Philippine Airlines has been there since 1986, and this comes to my mind whenever I think about my home flag carrier. Since it's predominantly white, I had to go through one of PAL's promotional designs: the one used for the airline's 75th anniversary in 2016. It was during that year when the airline's current slogan "The Heart of the Filipino" was introduced, and it was also the inspiration behind the usage of red throughout the uniform as an accent color. To perfectly distribute the colors, I went with the pre-2006 Houston Texans route when it comes to pairing the pants and the socks. The throwback uniform that I made harkens back to 1979, when the airline introduced its first Airbus aircraft, the A300, and was fondly called "The Love Bus". During that time, PAL still sported cheatlines. 40 years later in 2019, albeit in the Eurowhite, PAL reintroduced "The Love Bus" on a newly-delivered A350, signaling the airline's long-time partnership with the European aircraft maker. The helmet's back bumper features one of PAL's most iconic slogans, "Shining Through". 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavybass Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 A Paint friendly version you say? "interested" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FCMacbeth Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 I wonder what will you when you get to Malaysia Airlines and AirAsia. Maybe the former if you're doing major airlines first before delving into budget-friendly ones. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjb93 Posted January 3 Author Share Posted January 3 On 1/2/2024 at 9:45 AM, Friedrich Stuart Macbeth said: I wonder what will you when you get to Malaysia Airlines and AirAsia. Maybe the former if you're doing major airlines first before delving into budget-friendly ones. Yes, MH will be on the lineup. As for AirAsia, I'll do the main airline, as there are so many AirAsia's in the continent (even my home country has one; at some point, we had two, but has since merged into one Philippines AirAsia). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomba Tomba Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Gotta have KLM and Lufthansa in there for some iconic color schemes 1 Quote If you read on the card you'll be cheating on your heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjb93 Posted January 4 Author Share Posted January 4 IMPORTANT NOTICE: Out of respect for the original creator of the first template I used, both uniform concepts for United and PAL have been transferred to a newer template, which is an updated version of the one I used for my NFL, college football, AAF, and XFL uniform concepts. This shall be the template that will be used on the succeeding concepts. Thank you for your understanding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjb93 Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 (edited) ETIHAD AIRWAYS Ever since unveiling its "Facets of Abu Dhabi" livery in 2014—then solely for its A380s but eventually applied to its entire fleet—Etihad, for me, is one of the elegant-looking airlines in the world. The colors blend well and speak very highly of its origin. This will be the first set where the primary-clash-alternate designation is applied, as I think that the main color of the airline's livery should be worn as the primary uniform. The clash uniform, on the other hand, will have a brown jersey and gold pants. Both these two feature UAE's emblem on the sleeves and on the pants. For the alternate, I decided to use Manchester City's colors as the airline is a primary sponsor of that football club. The nine stripes on the front of the jersey symbolize the nine Premier League championships that MCFC won throughout its history. So, you could also say that this might be how Manchester City would look like if they were an American football team. As to why I did not go with Etihad's old livery—which contains the colors of the UAE flag—those colors shall be reserved for my Emirates concept. Edited January 9 by edjb93 Adjusted the dark brown shade 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjb93 Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES The world's oldest airline still in operation has one of the most recognizable brands in the air: its iconic blue fuselage. Throughout the years since the 70s, it saw various changes but the overall theme remained the same—which brings me to the concept I made for "The Flying Dutchman". If you're curious, I specifically took the 2002 redesign as an inspiration—although the 2014 version is a modified one. With a white tail, blue fuselage, and white belly, I thought that the helmet should be white as well, and there should be a differently-colored shoulder yoke to signify the overall separation of colors on the fuselage. I went with traditional football socks instead of mono-colored ones to conform with the theme. The KLM logo on the sleeves is enclosed in a circle, paying homage to the old logos. For the alternate, I went with the airline's Orange Pride livery, but instead of making it half-orange, half-blue, I made the uniform orange-themed all throughout. While the wavy design on the sleeves look similar to my United Airlines concept, the Orange Pride was unveiled after 2014, and so I had to conform to that. The Dutch tricolor is featured as an accent, just the actual livery, and the KLM logo remained blue on a white background. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silence of the Rams Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 1 hour ago, edjb93 said: KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES The world's oldest airline still in operation has one of the most recognizable brands in the air: its iconic blue fuselage. Throughout the years since the 70s, it saw various changes but the overall theme remained the same—which brings me to the concept I made for "The Flying Dutchman". If you're curious, I specifically took the 2002 redesign as an inspiration—although the 2014 version is a modified one. With a white tail, blue fuselage, and white belly, I thought that the helmet should be white as well, and there should be a differently-colored shoulder yoke to signify the overall separation of colors on the fuselage. I went with traditional football socks instead of mono-colored ones to conform with the theme. The KLM logo on the sleeves is enclosed in a circle, paying homage to the old logos. For the alternate, I went with the airline's Orange Pride livery, but instead of making it half-orange, half-blue, I made the uniform orange-themed all throughout. While the wavy design on the sleeves look similar to my United Airlines concept, the Orange Pride was unveiled after 2014, and so I had to conform to that. The Dutch tricolor is featured as an accent, just the actual livery, and the KLM logo remained blue on a white background. Ok Google. Play "Super Max" on loop. Love the orange alt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomba Tomba Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Yes! That's what I'm talking about, always been a fan of those beautiful blues (but the orange is good too) 1 Quote If you read on the card you'll be cheating on your heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjb93 Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 MALAYSIA AIRLINES Malaysia Airlines has recently put an emphasis on Malaysia's national flag with its Negaraku livery, which was initially a special livery but eventually made its way to become the primary livery for the entire fleet. And since it would be difficult to put up a great dark uniform design while integrating the national flag, I decided to make this set the second ever to possess the primary-clash-alternate designation. The primary uniform features an abstract version of the country's national flag on the sleeves. I chose an all-white combo for the primary as an homage to the new livery, but it won't be a "stormtrooper" look due to the socks with a design inspired from the stars-and-stripes of the flag. The clash uniform, meanwhile, features the songket pattern found on the airline's promo materials and the tail logo on its Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleet. Both the primary and clash uniforms are partnered with a white helmet containing an oversized logo, done to mimic the way it is designed on the tail. When it comes to the alternate, it's back to MAS. Back then, Malaysian Airlines System (as it was called during those days) used red as its primary color, and I applied a similar motif from its livery to the uniform. Since the full name won't fit on the jersey, I just reduced the front script to read simply "Malaysian", while the full name is relegated to the helmet's back bumper. I went with silver pants since the aircraft belly at the time was bare metal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FCMacbeth Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 19 hours ago, edjb93 said: MALAYSIA AIRLINES Malaysia Airlines has recently put an emphasis on Malaysia's national flag with its Negaraku livery, which was initially a special livery but eventually made its way to become the primary livery for the entire fleet. And since it would be difficult to put up a great dark uniform design while integrating the national flag, I decided to make this set the second ever to possess the primary-clash-alternate designation. The primary uniform features an abstract version of the country's national flag on the sleeves. I chose an all-white combo for the primary as an homage to the new livery, but it won't be a "stormtrooper" look due to the socks with a design inspired from the stars-and-stripes of the flag. The clash uniform, meanwhile, features the songket pattern found on the airline's promo materials and the tail logo on its Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleet. Both the primary and clash uniforms are partnered with a white helmet containing an oversized logo, done to mimic the way it is designed on the tail. When it comes to the alternate, it's back to MAS. Back then, Malaysian Airlines System (as it was called during those days) used red as its primary color, and I applied a similar motif from its livery to the uniform. Since the full name won't fit on the jersey, I just reduced the front script to read simply "Malaysian", while the full name is relegated to the helmet's back bumper. I went with silver pants since the aircraft belly at the time was bare metal. I love everything about your design! It took me a minute to find the songket pattern on the clash before I realised you have to zoom in to clearly look at it, but I love the subtlety of it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomba Tomba Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 A second RWB team? I dunno man Maybe this could be the red heavy one while the Philippine Airlines one is the blue heavy one? 1 Quote If you read on the card you'll be cheating on your heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjb93 Posted January 16 Author Share Posted January 16 On 1/16/2024 at 7:12 AM, Bomba Tomba said: A second RWB team? I dunno man Maybe this could be the red heavy one while the Philippine Airlines one is the blue heavy one? Sorry, that's really the way the airlines are right now, and they're heavily influenced by their respective countries' national flags. We still got the likes of Air France, American Airlines, British Airways, and Delta coming. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjb93 Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 LUFTHANSA Germany's flag carrier has gone to a simpler look nowadays, and so, my concept might epitomize the "less is more" mantra. Starting off with the home and road uniforms, there are no additional design elements other than the small yellow strip on the sleeve cuffs and the yellow collar tag on the back (similar to the feature on Los Angeles Rams' uniforms). The Lufthansa script is placed on the top-right portion of the front of the jersey, to pay tribute to the hanky found on the flight attendants' uniform. That same script can also be found at the back of the pants but in a larger size. The throwback uniform illustrates the airline's retro livery from the 70's, which is applied on a Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental. It also features the same collar tag from the previous two uniforms. Overall, I would say, when you want a definition of something done in Paint, then this could be it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjb93 Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 SINGAPORE AIRLINES When it comes to designing concept uniforms, I'd say SIA is an easy call, since it has a recognizable livery and with it comes a recognizable cheatline design. Thus, I applied that on the entire uniform except for the helmet, which features the tail design. The airline name script on the front is much larger than usual, paying homage to the first aircraft to don the tweaked livery, the Airbus A380. I'd been thinking about which throwback design should I do for SIA, before finally settling on an airline that's no longer with us: SilkAir. Singapore Airlines' regional wing was absorbed into the main airline in 2021, so it's just fitting to pay tribute to a brand that recently bid farewell from the skies. Unlike its parent, SilkAir has only one design element: the tail logo. That proved to be quite challenging for me, until I decided with the striping pattern from the wings of the bird logo. I went with dark pants as an homage to the final uniform design of the airline's flight attendants. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomba Tomba Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Kinda expected more yellow on the former, but that works too 1 Quote If you read on the card you'll be cheating on your heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walk-Off Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 So far in this thread, I have noticed that if an airline belongs to Star Alliance, SkyTeam, or Oneworld, the logo for that alliance can be usually found on the same parts of the uniform as the league logo on a typical professional gridiron football team's uniform or the conference logo on a typical US college football team's uniform. Personally, I find that small touch to be a very nice flourish of detail. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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