Twisted Tradition – Concept Sports Logos

There are many classic, timeless logos that have adorned the uniforms of teams over the years. Many of them are iconic and even have affected life outside the sports world. My idea in this concept logo series is to take some of the most classic, timeless, revered logos and change them up a bit. These are logos that people would never want their team to mess with. There’s too much history connected to these logos. But my purpose, I will be doing that very thing.

First up, I have two of the most iconic symbols in the baseball world. The Yankees and Red Sox logos.

With both of these logos, gone are the curves and rounded edges. Everything is angular and edgier. It still has the same basic shape, just modified.

I hope to take some other classic logos, from all around sports, not just the MLB, and put my twisted take on theirs as well.

What do you guys think of these?

GIMP Tutorial – Creating a Decal Effect for Football Helmet Logos

You may have seen the helmet logo concepts that were going around the internet.

(You can see a lot more, and quite frankly, a lot more well executed ones at Chris Creamers Sportslogos.net Forums).

Anyway, I decided to create a little tutorial for a small detail that can have a big impact on the overall look of the concept.

First, find the logo you want. If you are using your own logo, hopefully it is a PNG image since those are easier to work with in these situations. Larger images are also more helpful.

For this tutorial, I am using a Patriots logo from wikipedia.

NOTE: Not pictured in the tutorial. After Step 2, duplicate the layer.

STEP 1. Paste the logo into your GIMP image.

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Here is an example of the logo on a helmet. (Helmet template by Fraser Davidson).

Thanks for reading, hopefully this tutorial is helpful in creating some concepts.

Fixing the Ugly Front End on the 2014 Jeep Cherokee

I like Jeeps, especially the newer Grand Cherokee of the last few years. I also want to like the new Jeep Cherokee, but I can’t like it 100%.

That front end is hideous. It has this tiny little squinting lights and this weird nose that sticks out and bends the famous Jeep grill.

I turned to photoshop to try to remedy this look.

The top pictures are stock, bottoms are the photoshopped ones.

 

 

I would buy this one ^.

Please Jeep, fix the front end when you change up the style in a few years.

 

 

NFL Uniform Concepts Day 14 – San Francisco 49ers

Another team with a classic look today. Here’s a brief rundown of what I’ve changed to the 49ers uniforms

-Removed black outline on helmet logo, gave logo a white outline

-Removed sleeve stripes (that were always cut off thanks to the jersey pattern) and moved gold and white stripes to the shoulders

-Moved numbers to the sleeves

-Added gold and white stripes on the socks

 

The main reason for moving the stripes to the shoulders was the sleeve stripes have basically become nonexistent on the current uniforms thanks to the jersey cut and the way players prefer them.

Here they are in Montana’s days

and today, 1 full stripe and and inch of the second one. Not even enough room for the third stripe.

NFL Uniform Concepts Day 12 – San Diego Chargers and Philadelphia Eagles

I missed a blog for these yesterday so I have two for today.

First up, the Chargers.

The chargers have ALWAYS had the lightning bolt on the shoulders. So to be different, I had to change it up. They are still on the shoulders, but this time they go horizontal and also act as a trim for the top of the jersey to be a different color.

Helmets went from white to powder blue as well. Many teams have white helmets, none that I could think of have a powder blue helmet currently.

And the Away uniforms

Next, its the Eagles.

Went back to the kelly green that everyone seems to like so much. I also added grey to the color scheme.

Kind of a throwback look with a modern design.

Should have a new set for tomorrow.

NFL Uniform Concept Day 2 – Oakland Raiders

March 2nd brings the second concept. For today, it’s the Oakland Raiders.

The Raider’s have by far the most simple and plain looking uniforms in all of the NFL. No logos on the jersey, no stripes, no number outline. Just solid numbers and text on a solid color jersey. There was a lot of room to mess around with this, but I kept it pretty basic and only made a few changes.

The most obvious is the Raider shield on the front of the jersey with the number in the middle. I also added a white stripe going across the shoulder pads and down the arm/sleeves (like Texas A&M). This is a single solid stripe as opposed to A&M’s double stripes.

The other change was the facemask. From grey to black. I’m a fan of contrasting facemask/helmet shells, so this was an easy choice.

The other minor change was no white on the socks. This part of the uniform doesn’t mean too much considering every player has their own take on how they want to wear their socks. Mostly white, no white, whatever.

The inspiration for this uniform was the Packers throwbacks, with the big circle with the number in the middle. I liked how this was different and something no other team uses so I modified for use with the Raiders.

That’s it for today, tomorrow brings a new concept.

March Madness – NFL Uniform Concept Edition

It’s March. That means it’s time for some madness. But this isn’t the fill-out-a-bracket-with-the-best-most-comprehensive-way-possible-only-to-lose-to-some-lady-who-made-her-picks-based-on-jersey-colors March Madness. This is time for some crazy, and what I like to consider, some cool looking NFL concept uniforms.

The point of this whole thing is to change up the look of all 32 NFL teams. Some may be very drastic, others a little more subtle, but they will all be different in some way or another.

Every day for the month of March I’ll post a new concept uniform for an NFL team. This will be in no particular order. Completely random. These will be all made by me. I’m not a 100% sure, but I think I got the template off Deviant Art from user Rezland. It was a few years ago though. Anyway, on to the concepts…..

To start things off on the first day of March I have the first team alphabetically: The Arizona Cardinals. (Click for full size pic)

For this concept, I used the state flag of Arizona as the “theme” for the entire uniform, bringing in blue to the color scheme (something that was done as an alternate jersey years ago). The blue pants mimic the blue bottom of the flag and the rays of sun on the shoulders do the same for the top of the flag. I also carried over those stripes to the socks. I got rid of the black on the logo and changed it to navy blue.

Arizona Flag

It may be obvious to some, but this uniform was heavily inspired by the University of Maryland Flag Uniforms

That’s it for today. Tomorrow brings another team.