Niagara nighthawks concept

[epper]

here's a concept i made for my buddy Bill, (SpecialK) that will be used in the TNFF fantasy football league this year. Unis and Helmets will be released at a later date. lemme know what you guys think!

[GMac]

i like the colours and the overall design... but the tongue is somewhat distracting... looks like its got a worm caught in its throat

[CC97]

It reminds me of the old Philadelphia Eagles logo

[ezreiter3]

I think the tongue makes it look menacing, or maybe just childish one or the other

Great colors

Travis

[NJTank]

Not bad but I would lose the tounge too as well as getting rid of the shaddow on the wordmark tehy are both distracting.

[Stampman]

Not bad--it will look good losing to the other bird team in the league the Calgary Peregrines--logo still to be released, although preliminary uniform screen shots were posted way back when the league was first announced.

[misterhabs]

I love this. The Hawk looks almost as if it's made of water, like water crashing at the bottom of the falls.

And I'd keep the tongue, just make it less pronounced.

Ben

[obiwantok]

I like the direction that this concept is going. But when I look at it, I think of two suggestions:

One, the feather design and pattern seems a little arbitrary for my taste. A more regular, knife-shaped feather pattern would only add to the menacing feel already indicated by the body position. But, I also like the idea of the body shape being water-like. Intentional or not, that's really clever, and makes me wonder if changing the feathers (especially in the wings) would be a bad idea.

My other suggestion is regarding the tongue. As it is, it looks like a worm dangling out of the beak. That, or a tongue hanging outside the mouth because the bird is fatigued. Like a panting dog. But I think that the tongue is a good idea. I have been expereimenting with a few bird logos recently and like the aggression a tongue can add. So to change the tongue, I would make it more wedge shaped, and gradually rising in front. It might then look like it is screaming in attack.

So take that or leave it. I really enjoy that concept.

Did yo uever consider sending this into Niagara University? I go to school about a hour from the falls, and often the NU logo is in the Buffalo papers. I can think of few logos that are worse than that one. blech.

[slapshot]

Remove the drop shadow on the wordmark...the font is not the most legible by itself, but the shadow makes it that much harder to read at first.

[epper]

thanks for all the comments guys.

On the tongue:

I will most likely make some modifications to the tongue, probably making it a bit smaller, but just for reference,  here the pic i based the head off of. Just so you guys can see where im coming from. The mouth looked empty without a tongue, and i really do think that it adds to the menacing look of the Nighthawk