Rivermen to Sport Fan-Made 3rd Jersey
Thursday · Sep 27 · 2012 | 2:10 AM PDTThe AHL will very likely benefit from an influx of temporary new fans this season if this NHL lockout business keeps up. But the Peoria Rivermen are already benefitting from their existing fans in the form of a newly designed third jersey.
On August 27, the team unveiled this creation — the winner of a jersey design contest held over the summer. It beat out three other submissions with about 40% of some 1,400 votes cast over a three-week span.
The jerseys will be worn by the Rivermen in their game on Dec. 15 at Carver Arena against the Milwaukee Admirals. The jerseys will be auctioned off to the public following the game.
“I would like to say thank you to the Peoria Rivermen staff for creating such a unique opportunity,” said [winning designer Ryan] Malaschak. “Being a graphic artist and a passionate hockey fan my entire life, it has been a dream of mine to create a game-worn jersey at a professional level.”
The contest was opened on July 1 and these four finalists were revealed a month later.
It seems to me they were all great options. But I was partial to this one by Erik Kuhre.
Think you can do better? Submit your concept to icethetics@gmail.com and it may just show up on Concepts page someday soon.
Reader Comments (4)
Blue and gold seems to be fertile soil for interesting jersey design. There's not a poor design in the posting as far as I'm concerned. The Blues certainly could learn a thing or two.
The design with the big "P" in the middle looks like a ripoff of the Pensacola Ice Pilots (ECHL) logo prior to their folding in 2008.
That looks a hell of a lot like the Woodstock Navy Vets Logo
Appreciate the kind words. Very surprised they went with a logo that looks like it came from Clip Art or Print Show Deluxe. Oh well.