Tuesday
Aug122008
IHA Poll: Hartford Bears
54 Comments
Cast your vote and leave a comment about your decision. If you chose a non-finalist, tell us which one. Then tell all your friends to drop in and vote! The more voices heard, the more accurate the results!
Starts Tue Aug 12
Ends Fri Aug 15
Below are a handful of the logos that were submitted but not selected as finalists. If you think one of these should be the Hartford Bears logo, select "non-finalist" in the poll and tell us your pick in the comments.
Reader Comments (54)
Non-finalist #2, nice and simple.
Non-finalist #1, no question. Who cares if it's a throwback?
Is there a reason you Changed my Blue. I made it darker becasue of the Green colour you gave us..i even added the colour in the bar you provided. :S Now it looks like crap!
This is a tough one...
#1 doesn't have enough weight - too much white.
#2 looks like a decapitated bear's head
#3 looks like a polar bear and Seattle's Seahawk mated
Non-finalist #2 it is.
Non-finalist #1. 'Nuff said.
non finalist #1
#2 is the logo for the Hartford Undead Bears
non-finalist #1
@ Mike Phoenix and for anyone else:
Can you please mention which logo is yours so other posters know what you're talking about? Thanks.
#1, Period.
First off, N-F #1 is awesome! simple, clean, vintage look how the W was made into a B and claws incorporated like the back whale fin!!!
Finalist #1 is sweet besides the arm and claws need a paw cus that looks kind of goofy.
N-F #2 is simple secondary logo
but hands down N-F #1 gets my vote
non finalist #2 gets my vote
non finalist 1 !
Mine is the Bear Pulling up his Sleeve.
N-F #1
Here is the orginal colours i put it is I know its not going to change the vote about mine but i just feel a little Pissed that my work was altered. With out question. as an artist that kind hurts. Its only a few shades darker Blue but it make the world of diffrnece to me. i think. Sorry chris for Flamin here. but it just really buged me that this happend with out asking or questioning it. Please Correct me if im wrong here.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TKLHhhuDKT8/SKHBFv7WZuI/AAAAAAAAADY/HqJVLluy-m4/s1600-h/Bears.bmp
I vote for this non-finalist: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r8tWGVHrjGI/SKGxXyUmqcI/AAAAAAAAFoE/d3VWtY3BD4Q/s110/hfda.jpg
No vote here. F#1,2,3 are all good secondary logos, but not primaries. Almost voted for N-F#6 (outline of white bear face), but just not feeling it. And any of the N-F's with "H" and "B" made me think of Hersey Bears
LOL Dolomite Are you ever going to Vote. your so 2D when it comes to fiction.
I vote for this one LOL
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sportslogos.net/images/logos/2/525/thumbs/7vepky59p91ew432gsp2xqyyf.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php%3Fid%3D525&h=100&w=150&sz=4&hl=en&start=49&sig2=mKEoNKEoPsN97jmwel-aKg&um=1&tbnid=V7g50tCsK0qUjM:&tbnh=64&tbnw=96&ei=dL6hSLbIBZaigALT1IC-BQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3DWhalers%2Blogos%26start%3D36%26ndsp%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1GGLQ_ENCA260%26sa%3DN
Another vote for non-finalist #1 - I love the twist on the old Whalers logo with the "H" in the negative space from the "B".
just feel a little Pissed that my work was altered. With out question. as an artist that kind hurts. Its only a few shades darker Blue but it make the world of diffrnece to me. i think. Sorry chris for Flamin here. but it just really buged me that this happend with out asking or questioning it. Please Correct me if im wrong here.
Hey Mike. Sorry that bothered you. I change colors on all logos submitted unless asked not to. I wrote out specific guidelines so that they would be followed not because I was bored. (Sorry if that sounded sarcastic.)
I wrote: "Try to stick to the assigned colors. Change them only if you deem it necessary and then explain why you made the change."
non-finalist #1
Heh, good to see I'm not the only one that thought Seahawks with Door #3.
Are you kidding me? How are the same people that voted Montreal's classic "CH" logo the best of all-time voting for these lame single-A baseball logos??? #1 is by far the corniest of all the logos here yet it is dominating the competition...
Baffling.
non-finalist 1
Mike,
I do like your logo better with the blue you chose. One question though, why does your bear have a human hand...?
everyone vote for non finalist 1!
why would we have 2 bear logos in the same division(cause everyone will vote for the 3rd glacier logo)
non-finalist #1, return of the Binghamton Whalers
I vote for the old Whaler logo turned sideways with claws attached.
NHL Jeff. Does Yogi Bear Have claws? Things dont have to be totaly Realistic.Besided when i put a small claw on it it looked like my bare has Nail polish on. :S
Lol Looks like no one has ever see the Binghamton Whalers logo. well all but CTYANKEEBOY.
Now they have Mike:
http://www.sportslogos.net/images/logos/2/525/thumbs/7vepky59p91ew432gsp2xqyyf.gif
non-finalist #1
None of the finalists do anything for me. Non-Finalist #1 gets my vote. A clever reference to the Whalers while incorporating a bear claw.
Non finalist #2 gets my vote
I had to vote for #1 because it reminded me of the hamster from www.joecartoon.com.
For example:
http://www.joecartoon.com/cartoons/142-joe_fish
non finalist 1
Non finalist #1, clearly!
non finalist 2 for me. although the sweet throwback whalers logo is damn good. (go whale!)
I give a very lukewarm vote to Non-Finalist #2. I have to say, however, that IMO this has been the weakest batch of this project. The only one that I thought was really clever was NF#1, but it's far too derivative to get my vote. I also appreciate that NF#6 tried something different, but it just didn't work. As for the finalists, all I have to say is "No, no, and no."
first non finalist.
Finalist 2 looks like a panda bear and Non-Finalist 6 looks like a pig.
I went with Non-Finalist 1.
Imo NF top row, left and F #2 were tied but I voted for NF top row, left because F #2 is seemingly out of the running. I really like the ghostly look to F #2 (it looks like a grizzly to me) and the simpleness to NF top row, left.
"Is there a reason you Changed my Blue..." - Mike Phoenix
Ya, he changed the colour for my Edmonton Seahawks E with the feathers too... granted mine was a lighter blue and a darker green, but when you're told that you can alter the colour palette a bit and then it's changed back to the original palette colours, why tell us that we can change the colours in the first place?
when you're told that you can alter the colour palette a bit and then it's changed back to the original palette colours, why tell us that we can change the colours in the first place?
You see what you want to see. This frustrates me. Why do you guys only pay attention to some of what I say and not all of it? I said you can change the colors IF YOU OFFER A GOOD REASON. Otherwise, I assume the correct colors were lost in translation somewhere. This isn't a difficult concept to grasp.
I apologize for being short. Like I said, it frustrates me a little.
Those three finalists are horrible choices.
"Fast-looking" logos always seem to cheapen the sport into a gimmick, and are also the pinnacle of poor art direction.
Boo. "Other please".
PS - Non-finalist #1 with NF #2 as shoulder logo.
No third jersey. They are the worst concept in sports.
Non-finalist #1
lol look at how much participation there was at the start of the project... Atlanta had like 2400 total votes, there most recent ones are at 1300... one word for this "project": FAIL