Wednesday
Jan262011
Concept Collection 3
Wednesday · Jan 26 · 2011 | 10:00 AM PSTThe newly reformatted concept art has been quite a popular feature lately. I can't remember the last time these posts have had so much feedback on a consistent basis. So let's keep it rolling. I've got another mish-mash to share this morning.
Paul had a similar idea to Mike Ivall's concept from the last post. Once again, there's just something about that color combination for me. The Cats can keep the light blue as a trim color so long as they keep the red. That's my decree.
Coming up this week: Mike Ivall has sent in enough new artwork fill another post. He's been working hard lately. He's covering the Preds, Isles and Thrashers among others.
Reader Comments (23)
I LOVE this panthers concept! Only thing I would do is angle the arm bands.
And the preds concept is different, pretty ugly, but different
I just want to add a note to my Predators concept: The only reason that the gold makes a re-appearance is because, for some reason, EVERYONE in Nashville LOVES that old 3rd jersey. Everyone else I know hates it, but in Nashville, they love it.
Sorry BUT NO WORDMARK for the Pens
I like the Pens one, but I'd opt for a logo crest on the home sweater and keep the wordmark for the road.
@drew
Yeah I honestly don't think there was ever an uglier color for a jersey than the old preds third, you did improve on that one haha
Pens jersey screams "BRUINS!!!"
I love the penguins jersey, however, what it would look like with the robo-pen as the secondary? I always love the robo-pen, just not as any sort of primary.
@Harrison
Haha, thanks. I knew that both the yellow and steel blue versions of the jersey would be hated, but at least the yellow would (maybe) be popular in Smashville and the design may be considered cool-ish elsewhere. I didn't know (of the steel blue and the yellow) which color would be hated more here. Haha.
Have a new "Rebranding the NHL" series with Mike Ivall
i think its time pittsburgh went back to black and yellow...the current black and "light" gold just looks dead. i LOVE mark's penquins concept. im still surprised the pens didnt go with the black and yellow for the winter classic especially it being at heinz field
Love. LOVE the cats concept.
The Preds and Pens are "ok", not bad but i'm sure they could be better.
Love the Pens idea (reminds me of the 1995 aways), but the striping on the shoulders has to go, otherwise we won't hear the end of it from Boston fans...
The cats would much better in these than in anything else they've ever worn IMO.
just want to point out that i designed the pens jerseys as a 3rd jersey option,m and just wasnt sure which one i liked better, so submitted both.
had it been a home and away set, one would have the primary logo.
just thought you should know!
My two cents....
Pittsburgh.... nah..... looks decent on the whole, but the name of Pittsburgh is too long to be stretched like that across the front.
All-Star - meh. No complaints, but no real selling points either.
Florida - pretty solid, actually. Red and blue may very well be overused in today's NHL, but that combo looks mighty fine to me.
Nashville - while I like the idea of a yellow jersey.... just not that. The checkerboard for all three looks too big and out of place, and personally prefer the other logo.
Hartford - the blue one is fantastic, and the only thing holding back the green and the white from being equally as good is how relatively plain they look. Add the blue armstripes on the green and green on the white (and get rid of the triangle at the end of the sleeve) and that's a great uniform combo.
panthers concept is excellent. There's something about this one i like more than the one a couple days ago. The Penguins jersey is nice, although i gotta say i don't like the wordmark although i am a fan of going back to black and yellow. Nashville looks wierd, but i could see people liking the "off yellow" jersey, but the current third is very sharp. All star jerseys are decent, but i think they should move away from trying to make everything so modern at a time in the NHL where they seem to want to be looking at the history of the league a lot with a lot of teams going to more traditional styles.
Like I said before, NO to Pens word mark. YES to the return of the black/yellow gold. The vegas gold worked on the CCM jersey(when Mario brought back the Skating Penguin logo in 2000) BUT since the RBK EDGE Crap came out it looks more Tan/Beige than gold. Boston already complained once bout Pgh goin' black/yellow gold in 1980 and LOST due to the fact that Pittsburgh's first professional hockey team Pittsburgh Pirates(circa 1924-1930) wore black/yellow gold, during that same time frame Boston wore Brown/yellow gold.
The pens is a nice throwback to the old away jersey we used to have here. I like the idea and the colors, but i really hate any jersey with just letters.
I love the Pens concept, but I'm seriously getting Bruins vibes looking at it. Should keep the design, but ax the wordmark in favor of the current logo. Also change the gold jersey to the current Vegas Gold color.
I"m a die hard Panthers fan and have been since they came into the league in 1993-1994. The Red jersey is the Florida Panther and I love this design it brings back the good ole days all be it not too long ago for this proud franchise. One thing i noticed was the shoulder patch I hate that FLA crap the sun/palm tree/hockey stick was is so unique and so south florida it needs to stay.
The panthers concept is ALMOST perfect. i agree that the stick-n-palm tree should remain the shoulder logo, but i dont mind the FLA being on the pants corner.
That Penguins concept is sharp, much better than their current look that is just to bland. The Vegas Gold they currently have as an accent is just to dull, I'd love to see them return to their previous colour scheme, just far more striking. And I've got to agree with Chris again, those colours for those Panthers concepts are such a great blend. I do have a soft spot for their use of bright gold however, again, just a striking accent. A return to red however would be great. Too many variants blue in the NHL these days.
i like the penguins uniform, but they remind me of the bruins.