29texan Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 They do have secondary logos for the gameWith some additions and connections (of course, take out the Indianapois and 2012), that would be a PERFECT logo for the game. If you'd want to add the Lombardi in there, you could even do that. Just as long as it's not the current "standard". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powersurge Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 But it's still corporate, unimaginative and most of all, lazy. Truth be told, I'd rather have a CRAP logo than this. Because at least the crap logo would be creative and not soul-less like this. And I, like every other sane person here knows that this really isn't a big deal at all. The NFL is still going to be the top league in this country and it will still be the Super Bowl.But I just hate it because it's another reminder that art is dying and corporations rule. It's also just a little reminder that the No Fun League is starting to live up to that nickname more and more. But hey, if ya like the repetitiveness and complete dull factor of this thing, go ahead.I can't help but feel that your post, while passionate is littered with points based around your opinions and generalizations without any real constructive critique of the design. I've seen plenty of crap logos but have never seen a "soul-less" logo; don't know what that is. sorry. ...alright.The Design: WHY have the Lombardi Trophy? We all know what it looks like and the "non-standard" logos before last year did fine without them and we don't need to see it to know it's the championship game. IT'S THE FRIGGIN' SUPER BOWL. That was one of the things that seperated them from NBA Finals logos or Stanley Cup logos or WS logos. They all felt different and special in their own ways. Second, what's up with the chrome finish? This isn't the 80's. I feel like all you need are random flashes around it and it would make a perfect cover for a Whitesnake album. The only thing I could forgive is the use of the same font for a few years in a row. Sure that's not as creative, but at least there's history with that. I could understand that. And just the way it looks on jersey is like a phallic symobl with the trophy sticking up like that. It just looks wierd on a uniform.Everything I just mentioned wasn't meant to be constructive, because that gives the impression that I want to HELP it. I hate this thing and I want to see it go away. I called it soul-less (and lazy) because they're basically taking the same logo and slaping a different stadium in the background. That's it. It just seems cold as if the guys in charge all got in a meeting and said, "Hey, let's just take a cookie-cutter and just place the stadium somewhere in there. Sure it'll take away from the host city that worked their asses off to get the game, but the NFL's image will be the ONLY feature in this and that's all that matters." You're talkin' to an architect major here, so I'm not too big on dull and monotonous. I feel that if you're gonna copy a style, do it ONCE and no more after. At least give it a different color scheme or something distinctive and I really don't think a different stadium done in the same grey and silver is that much of change. Be different.okay, that explains a lot See, now THIS is better...now we are talking about specifics; I get what you are saying now. I wish I had the time to create what I think would be an easy solution to this problem. I believe that just as you said, that putting the logo on TOP of the roman numerals creates an odd and overtly suggestive juxtaposition. If it were part of an emblem or shield similar to the previous SB logos then I think it would work so much better. The Stanley Cup is also a vertical trophy, as are the Grey Cup and the O'Brien Trophy. They each have the standard font and the same trophy incapsulated in the logo design each year but they also add something different to denote where the event is being held (similarly to how the NFL is doing it right now). The main difference is that the execution is much better. This is my ultimate point here...the IDEA is solid and intelligent in terms of creating continuity of the brand; the EXECUTION is poor. I don't mind the silver dominating the design. Thats fine with me. The Trophy is silver...no problem. Adding a little bit of color like they did in the last 3 or 4 CFL Grey Cup logos would make all the difference. It can work and hopefully it will sometime in the future. But in my opinion I would much rather have what they have now, even if its not as exciting and creative as many of the previous logos then to suffer through the total garbage logos that seemed to dominate the past decade of SB games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizzaman7294 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 the reason why the nba finals and the stanley cup "final" doesn't include colors or other things from the area is because they dont know where its gonna be!Something like this?????We got a winner!this is amazing. Somehow we gotta get that to Goodell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenTino Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I'm still annoyed that the logo for this weekend's round of the playoffs has "WILDCARD" as one word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPDesign Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Something like this?????That L is pretty rough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29texan Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 the reason why the nba finals and the stanley cup "final" doesn't include colors or other things from the area is because they dont know where its gonna be!Something like this?????We got a winner!this is amazing. Somehow we gotta get that to Goodell.He'll probably just not even look at it and throw it away.You know, because he has an "image to protect". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gothamite Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 And in this case, I think that's actually a good thing. Prior logos like that one are one of the reasons I don't entirely mind the new logo system. The Green Bay Packers Uniform Database! Now in a handy blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29texan Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 And in this case, I think that's actually a good thing. Prior logos like that one are one of the reasons I don't entirely mind the new logo system.What's so bad about this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmm Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I'm still annoyed that the logo for this weekend's round of the playoffs has "WILDCARD" as one word.It looks like the logo painted on the field at the Meadowlands has "Wild Card" with the space...maybe they needed to add the space because the 25-yard line got in the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenTino Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I'm still annoyed that the logo for this weekend's round of the playoffs has "WILDCARD" as one word.It looks like the logo painted on the field at the Meadowlands has "Wild Card" with the space...maybe they needed to add the space because the 25-yard line got in the way.And they've done the same in Denver. Both Fox and CBS have had it as two words on their graphics today (and two words is AP style too, for what it's worth). I've seen both on the NFL's website. Consistency, thy name is not Wild Card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duma Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 They do have secondary logos for the gameWith some additions and connections (of course, take out the Indianapois and 2012), that would be a PERFECT logo for the game. If you'd want to add the Lombardi in there, you could even do that. Just as long as it's not the current "standard".like this? http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/46 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbadefense1990 Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Something like this?????That L is pretty rough.I know. That was the hardest letter to make. Just copy an I and rotate 90 degress, then attach to another I as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbadefense1990 Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 They do have secondary logos for the gameWith some additions and connections (of course, take out the Indianapois and 2012), that would be a PERFECT logo for the game. If you'd want to add the Lombardi in there, you could even do that. Just as long as it's not the current "standard".I just don't feel like these logos say "Super Bowl" for me. But I heavily agree; these would be way better than the current crop of Super Bowl logo boredom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizzaman7294 Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 i wonder if the "patches" are going to be felt or whatever it was last year, again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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