Starchild Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 Been working on this one for a while. Actually, I finished the primary logo and uniforms within a day, but the secondary logo has been eating at me, so I finally ditched my original idea and went for a more text oriented scheme.Colors are the Maccabi Tel Aviv official colors.The idea behind the logo/uniforms are simple. Maccabi Tel Aviv are the Lakers of the Israeli league. They've always been the number one team, in fact, out of something like 48 championship titles, Maccabi has won like 42 of them. Some of their talent is home grown, the rest are signed from the USA (for instance, Quincey Lewis of the NBA played for Maccabi), Croatia, and elsewhere. Also, to much of the world, Israel is considered as "the little brother" to the United States. So I decided to keep that going and gave the Maccabi identity a bit of American flavor - mixing their current identity with a more "LA Lakers" vibe. The secondary logo has the Hebrew letters "Tet" and "Alef" which of course begin "Tel" and "Aviv" respectively. "The true New Yorker secretly believes that anyone living anywhere else has got to be, in some sense, kidding." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avenger Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 The primary logo is a little cluttered, but the secondary owns.Really nice job overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waffles Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 I agree with Avenger on the primary/secondary...the secondary is short and to the point and just plain filthy good...and you know I'm not crazy about the blue/purple, but those are their official colors...Also, I'd make the 8 on the front bigger and more centered.Great work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceCap Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 mazel tov! PotD 26/2/12 1/7/15 2020 BASS Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal Regular Season Champion 2021 BASS NFL Pick'em Regular Season Champion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tajmccall Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 The Hebrew Lakers. I like it.Id suggest some white in the typesets of the primary.I LOVE the alt.Good ish as always Star Store 1 Store 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braden Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 Yoffi! Simply amazing Starchild... I would buy one of those jerseys in a second! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yh Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 Very nice concept, although the yellow is a bit bright. Are these Maccabi's colors? If not, I'd switch out the yellow with a lighter blue a'la the Lakers' former color scheme. And who's Parker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiznit1083 Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 That's real nice. Great package. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starchild Posted May 20, 2004 Author Share Posted May 20, 2004 Very nice concept, although the yellow is a bit bright. Are these Maccabi's colors? If not, I'd switch out the yellow with a lighter blue a'la the Lakers' former color scheme. And who's Parker?Yeah, these are Maccabi's colors (not just for basketball, the color schemes remain the same for the Israeli soccer clubs by the same name). And Parker is just a player I chose from Maccabi's roster. He wears no.8, so I figured I'd use it as an Israeli equivalent to Kobe Bryant. No other reason behind it, just serves the purpose of the concept.BTW - Thanks to everyone for the comments thus far. I'm going to be editing the primary logo to make it less cluttered and I'll be slightly editing the front of the jersey by making the 8 larger and slightly more centered. "The true New Yorker secretly believes that anyone living anywhere else has got to be, in some sense, kidding." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starchild Posted May 20, 2004 Author Share Posted May 20, 2004 Here are 2 revised versions of the primary. I tried to make it less cluttered by getting rid of the Nokia logo and shrinking/moving "Maccabi".Are either of these better than what I originally have? "The true New Yorker secretly believes that anyone living anywhere else has got to be, in some sense, kidding." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc49erfan15 Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 I like, I like. Where did you get that Hebrew font? I could use it for a project I'm undertaking. Very clean, realistic concept and I agree, the secondary logo rocks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starchild Posted May 20, 2004 Author Share Posted May 20, 2004 The Hebrew font I used, unfortunately isn't even a font at all.In Microsoft Word, under the insert symbols thing, aside from being able to insert things like the degrees symbol, there's also the alphabet in Latin, Hebrew and Arabic.The only problem is, you have to insert each letter individually, and backwards. Then when you copy & paste it into photoshop, it reverses the word so it looks correct. Bit of a pain in the ass, but luckily the words I used are small. "The true New Yorker secretly believes that anyone living anywhere else has got to be, in some sense, kidding." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waffles Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 I like, I like. Where did you get that Hebrew font? I could use it for a project I'm undertaking. Very clean, realistic concept and I agree, the secondary logo rocks! If you use Internet Explorer and go to any site with Hebrew text, it'll likely prompt you to install a Hebrew package if you don't have it yet. The package has about 5 or 6 fonts in it (you can do the same for other international characters) and they'll be available in just about any program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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