PuckDrawn NHL redesign contest

[dgnmrwrw]

I thought I'd try my hand at PuckDrawn's ongoing contest, to rebrand an existing NHL franchise. I've had tons of ideas/sketches/concepts floating around for a loooong time that I've yet to post (eventually most will be part of series), so being short of time I decided to adapt one of them as my official entry. But I have eight that I am considering, so I figured I'd let the community vote to decide which entry I should submit.

The requirements are as follows:

The team city/location name must remain the same;

A primary logo, alternate logo, and wordmark must be produced;

Home and road uniforms must be produced;

A color scheme must be included;

A 'pitch' must be included;

Only one concept may be submitted.

I haven't written any of the pitches yet, simply because I didn't want to take the time to do eight instead of one. So help me pick. I thought I'd let everyone vote on the initial eight concepts, then ideally narrow the vote down to two or three concepts to choose the winner. (I certainly have my own preferences, but I thought it would be fun to completely detatch myself from the process.)

Hopefully everything is self-explanitory. But if anyone has questions, go ahead and ask, and I'll try my best to address them.

Anaheim Avengers

Colorado Cougars

Dallas Dragons

Florida Herons

Phoenix Firebirds

Pittsburgh Drillers

San Jose Spiders

Vancouver Spirits

[DomTheAthlete29]

What font did you use for the Cougars? Excellent work!

[Whittier S]

San Jose. Worldwide Web. Spiders. I get and I like.

[chickenfish13]

Personally I think the Herons is the best. I love all of them though, and it's great to see some work from you again.

[nash61]

Avengers or Herons.

They're all fantastic.

[Jimmy1]

I think you should use either Avengers, Hernons or Spiders because these are the 3 best teams out of all the teams.

[henburg]

Definetly Spirits or Dragons. You never cease to amaze me.

[mania]

Spirits.

It's :censored:ing gorgeous.

[StevenGrant94]

This might be because Vancouver is my local team, but I like the Spirits the best. I think it works very well.

[aci]

I love the logos for the Spirits and Dragons especially, though almost all the logo work is absolutely excellent. The only things I'm not fond of logo-wise are the Firebirds logo, the font choice of the Avengers, while I consider the Cougars' font to be far and away the best script font of all your concepts. If that's a custom font, you deserve double bonus points for it... stunning.

In contrast, I don't really like your jerseys... aside from the Avegnder jersey, where the hem stripe is really cool, most of them are very underwhelming. The stripes in general are much too thin, and the placement is often really questionable.

[missouri tigers]

Great job on all of them!

If I had to pick my favorite(and it isn't that easy) I'd probably go with the Florida Herons. I just seems better designed than some of the other logos and has a nice sense of motion too.

The Cougars is my second favorite sans the primary logo. The secondary and script logo are flawless, however.

[Xodius]

Damn you for being able to dish out multiple amazing-looking identities just like that.

[Morgan33]

Vancouver spirits looks the best in my opinion... just wish the colour palette was a little more vibrant

[CityOfWalrus]

Dragons or Spirits.

I LOVE the spirits whole package if the home jersey was the dark blue.

[knnhrvy16]

Let me just preface by saying that you really can't go wrong with any of them - each identity is absolutely stellar. Incredible work.

That said, Vancouver is one of the best, most well-designed concepts I've ever seen on the boards. It is your strongest in a bunch that is very strong collectively in its own right. I say that one would be tops for me.

Fantastic, excellent work as always. VERY well done all around.

[walkerws]

I love the Vancouver set. What's the number font?

[Whittier S]

Voted for the Avengers. For a lot of the designs, I loved the logo, but did not like your choice of home jersey colour. I think I prefer more traditional colours for the main body of a jersey.

[mbannon92]

Love love love the Spirits. The logos are both amazing, and I love how the primary is a bear head and claw combined. Color scheme is really sharp as well. All of them are great though...you've got some serious talent.

[dgnmrwrw]

Thanks to everyone for participating so far. I'm certainly glad I posted these and got feedback, because I was leaning toward the Firebirds and the Cougars, two of the least-preferred entries. There definitely seems to be a consensus (at least of two or three teams) developing. So keep the votes and feedback coming, and I may go back and create a run-off poll to pick the eventual winner. (I'm also not against tweaking the winning entry based on your feedback.)

Regarding the typefaces/numerals, everything you see here is custom-constructed. That includes the Cougars' script, which was originally developed for a baseball concept. I liked it so much that I wanted to use it here (I could see it looking nice on an alternate sweater).

[Raymie]

They are all superb. Sheesh, that Cougars logo would be a huge upgrade for any sort of program with that mascot. ANY.