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and i agree with them all except for the Islanders logo. while i am certainly no fan of hockey, i have always liked that logo and the color scheme with it. don't know why it was hated so much. dern hockey fans.

also, i thought possibly that brownie didn't deserve to be on this list but after some though...yes, yes he does.

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To me, over simple = lack of imagination which = crappy design. No reason for the Clippers or it's more successful and just a tad bit better looking twin the Lakers. not to be on that list.

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the blazers logo is fantastic - not only does it have the 5 on 5 element, it creates a 't' and a 'b' (or a t and a p depending on who you're talking to)...I like it, its graphically original.

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I have to back-up my Blazers on this one. The logo has stood the test of time because it was modernized at the right time, though the grey is unnecessary. Thankfully they never used a hokey covered wagon w\Lewis & Clark as the mascots. The pinwheel is about basketball, what the team should be focused on. It is the most unique logo in sports.

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I don't think it's fair to include the 1916 Cubs or that ?20s Tigers logo among the worst. Sure, they don't look so hot, but that's by today's standards. Designers at that time didn't have nearly the tools that designers have today. Really, pieces like this should only take logos from a specific era and compare them to one another. Otherwise, it's like comparing apples and ... well, not oranges ... maybe just really old apples.

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Nice of them to use logos from my site (even ones that I drew myself... you can tell which ones those are :) ) and not include a link to the site anywhere on there...

Contact them. That's the only way you can make something out of this.

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Nice of them to use logos from my site (even ones that I drew myself... you can tell which ones those are :) ) and not include a link to the site anywhere on there...

Contact them. That's the only way you can make something out of this.

I fired off an email just asking for a link or something -- we'll see.

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I don't think it's fair to include the 1916 Cubs or that ?20s Tigers logo among the worst. Sure, they don't look so hot, but that's by today's standards. Designers at that time didn't have nearly the tools that designers have today. Really, pieces like this should only take logos from a specific era and compare them to one another. Otherwise, it's like comparing apples and ... well, not oranges ... maybe just really old apples.

I completely disagree with this. Talent is talent and tools are tools. If billboards and post cards from the era can have great artwork, so can the teams. It's true that branding was an afterthought, but it doesn't change the fact that these teams accepted terrible artwork.

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Nice of them to use logos from my site (even ones that I drew myself... you can tell which ones those are :) ) and not include a link to the site anywhere on there...

Hammer those bandwidth bandits.

To be fair to them, they are not stealing bandwidth... they're just using the images.

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I don't think it's fair to include the 1916 Cubs or that ?20s Tigers logo among the worst. Sure, they don't look so hot, but that's by today's standards. Designers at that time didn't have nearly the tools that designers have today. Really, pieces like this should only take logos from a specific era and compare them to one another. Otherwise, it's like comparing apples and ... well, not oranges ... maybe just really old apples.

I completely disagree with this. Talent is talent and tools are tools. If billboards and post cards from the era can have great artwork, so can the teams. It's true that branding was an afterthought, but it doesn't change the fact that these teams accepted terrible artwork.

True, but the logos shown aren't necessarily the actual logos used by the team.

For example, the 1908 Red Sox didn't use this logo:

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They used this one:

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The second is the actual logo as it appeared on the jerseys. The first is a rough representation of that logo, commonly identified as the logo itself (including, unfortunately, this site).

If all you have in front of you is the rough version, you'd think that the artist had never actually used a pencil before (you might also wonder how they stiched all those squiggly lines on the front of the jersey).

I suspect that might be the case with some of the logos that he ridicules for being rough. I'm not willing to call out that Cubs or Tigers logo until we know for a fact that they are the actual logos.

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The first is a rough representation of that logo, commonly identified as the logo itself (including, unfortunately, this site).

You're not another user who sits on the accurate logos and then doesn't understand why I don't have them are you? I put up what I can get.

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No, not at all. I thought for sure that I sent you the vector of that other Sox logo. I'll send you the AI file again, if you like.

I understand that you're busy, and that you have a limited amount of time. I didn't mean that as a criticism of you. It's just that your placeholder graphics have a way of getting out there and staying.

Heck, the Brewers somehow found the old Beer Barrel Man graphics I created for an old website and are using it, much to my chagrin - I have him wearing his stirrups backwards. :o

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the blazers logo is fantastic - not only does it have the 5 on 5 element, it creates a 't' and a 'b' (or a t and a p depending on who you're talking to)...I like it, its graphically original.
i can see a "b/p" but where is the "t" ?
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No, not at all. I thought for sure that I sent you the vector of that other Sox logo. I'll send you the AI file again, if you like.

I understand that you're busy, and that you have a limited amount of time. I didn't mean that as a criticism of you. It's just that your placeholder graphics have a way of getting out there and staying.

Heck, the Brewers somehow found the old Beer Barrel Man graphics I created for an old website and are using it, much to my chagrin - I have him wearing his stirrups backwards. :o

If you sent it previously then my apologies :)

If you don't mind just fire me an email with the logo so I can get 'er up there; if you don't know my address send a PM and I'll send it to you.

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