Twins rebrand (in progress)

[Blitz]

Hey guys,

I was getting frustrated with my Houston rebrand, thought I would try my hand at a rebrand for the twins, would love some C&C...

Thoughts on the primary? Trying to make the identity more representitive of the twin cities....

[bigmike]

This freakin kicks ass man, I like all of the choices, but I think the 2nd one is the best, I really like where this is going...can't wait to see the rest.

[CAB]

I love this. I think that C is best if you were to add a Minnesota script above it. Real nice idea, I always thought the Twins could go with something like this with a skyline. Also, are those real buildings in the Twin cities?

[tBBP]

Now THIS...is an idea I can get behind. This definitely has loads of potential.

One suggestion, though? Ax the beveling and find a "friendlier" script, if that makes sense. (Kinda ties into the "twin cities"/shaking hands thing.)

Will be keeping an eye on this one, for sure.

[aci]

I like C best, if for no other reason than that the 'MINNESOTA' wordwark seems uninspired.

[patsox]

Switch the Twins wordmark from red to white and BOOM! WINNER!

[oddball]

The block text isn't working. Stop and think of how it will look on a jersey, that's going to look horrible. A beveled block script is going to look absolutely clunky on a baseball jersey. As far as the rest of the logos, the Minnesota is actually competing with the building because you have the spires invading the Minnesota space. I think the buildings look great and have a great feel to them, I just think a unique script font without bevels is going to make it have that really classy look, or even some stylized font. This block font screams the team is slow and is a last place team that will never amount to anything.

[LEWJ]

I love these!

Great job so far.

I'm really liking B & C.

Keep up the great work.

[CS85]

Awesome! Advice - try to make the I and T of Minnesota line up with the tower points of the buildings maybe?

[Epiphanic]

I dig the idea. Option C is definitely the best. The lightning rods interfere with "Minnesota" on A and B. I echo the calls to lose the beveling. Not sure why that's there.

[9erssteve]

I think I'd be inclined to go with B but i'd look at removing Minnesota from the blue circle and finding a way to incorporate it (probably with a softer font, possibly even a script which could appear on an alt shirt maybe?) with the Twins text at the bottom.

With C I think you're overselling it, everyone already knows they're a baseball team I dont really feel the need to depict a baseball to ram the point home plus I feel the red stitching is interfering with the red building.

They are all exceptionally well rendered designs, so whatever way you decide to go I think you're off to a great start.

9erssteve

[-kj]

Generic buildings that don't exist. Clunky, beveled block text for the team name. Is that Arial for "Minnesota"?

I'm trying to come up with something positive to say here, but I'm failing. Sorry.

[slapshot]

If you're going to represent the Twin Cities, maybe you should put some specific landmarks in the cityscapes.

[Joshawaggie]

I'm not really understanding the idea of using buildings for the Twins. They aren't named after any "twin towers" or anything.

[Bmac]

I like the idea behind this, but I agree with what the others have said so far. The first thing is that IMO this is too generic for the Twins. Two random buildings and a blocky, over-beveled script? I would try to make it more Twin Cities specific, like slapshot mentioned. I would try to make it "feel" more like the two twins shaking hands logo. Something that we know is from the Twin Cities. When I step back and take a look at it, I think of the Mets, skyscapers in the background. And like others have said, that Twins script is working. Too blocky and too much beveling. I would try to tie it in to the scripts the Twins have used in the past, but it's up to you. As for the concept itself, it's a good start. I hope you use all of the advice you have been given to put together an awesome concept. I cain't wait to see how this turns out.

[Blitz]

If you're going to represent the Twin Cities, maybe you should put some specific landmarks in the cityscapes.

Yeah... I did try that first - unfortunately both St. Paul & Minneapolis DO have very generic skylines. As well, having two different skylines kinda negates the whole "TWIN" thing...

[-kj]

There are plenty of unique buildings that can be used to represent Minneapolis and St. Paul. At least, I found a few for a logo I made a while back:

[patsox]

There are plenty of unique buildings that can be used to represent Minneapolis and St. Paul. At least, I found a few for a logo I made a while back:

Way to show Blitz up!

For real though, that's an AWESOME logo, Mock...very gay.

[vikmurphy]

Absolutley love C it really gives them an identity with the Twin Cities not just Twins written on a baseball good work!

[slapshot]

There are plenty of unique buildings that can be used to represent Minneapolis and St. Paul. At least, I found a few for a logo I made a while back:

Is one of those the Travelers/St. Paul building?