New Club Badge

[Mayfair Seagull]

Originally Posted by 16bha:
Will it be round?

Yep!

 

[Helter]

Just so glad it's round. Really dislike the shield.

 

[Dominoid]

I actually quite like the shield design, maybe it's a little on the plain side, but I don't like designs that are too busy personally.

 

[16bha]

Cheers - all the work was a big effort to try and influence the club to replace the amateurish badge we've had since the Gillingham days. It worked. A few months ago Paul Camillin showed me the designs that the club have been developing for a new badge and they were very similar to mine. Paul was first class - a really decent bloke.

Whilst I believe my designs are far stronger than KSS's work, they had been given the contract to build the stadium and to rebrand the club, so there was not a lot more I could do. For the record Superphil, I'm a professional brand identity designer with twelve years experience.

Hopefully when the final design is revealed we'll all be pleased.

Many thanks for all the support from NSC on this... it's been really really appreciated and has made all the difference.

Does the Seagull fly in a different direction?

 

[The Brighton Bear]

The seagull isn't flying anywhere, it's sitting in an image of Falmer pond.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Some good points in Mayfair's post but it seems a bit odd that Superphil is criticised for saying that he preferred the club's design but Mayfair Seagull is allowed to say the present shield is amateurish and imply that KSS only got the job of replacing it because they've got a contract to do other work for the club. From the descriptions people have given I think I might take the view that the new badge is better than MS's offerings but of course that is just a personal opinion and not meant to be disrespectful at all. I liked what he did and admire his self-confident claims for his work.
I do however think that it is presuming a bit much for him to claim that his design persuaded the club to replace the shield. The club surely intended to do that anyway.

 

[Turkey]

Arsenal's problem was that they'd never copyrighted the Cannon so needed to swap it round to make it different enough to claim it as their new brand.

I think this may have been the case with our badge too.

 

[strings]

Lincoln Imp makes some very good, fair and well presented points. That is all.

I look forward to seeing the new design.

 

[Mayfair Seagull]

"Mayfair Seagull is allowed to say the present shield is amateurish and imply that KSS only got the job of replacing it because they've got a contract to do other work for the club."

Did I imply that KSS only got the rebranding contract because they had a contract to do other work?? or did I merely state that "they had been given the contract to build the stadium and to rebrand the club"!?!

 

[Nottseagull]

Just as I have grown to love the present crest they go and change it again. I don't see the connection with having a new stadium; you might as well say change the colours to red and white for the same reason.

 

[Capricorn]

I'm really looking forward to the new crest, the current one doesn't look very good in my opinion. Does anyone know when it will be unveiled? Or is it just 'sometime after the new year'? Cheers.

 

[JBizzle]

I'm really looking forward to the new crest, the current one doesn't look very good in my opinion. Does anyone know when it will be unveiled? Or is it just 'sometime after the new year'? Cheers.

Its good enough for your profile pic...

 

[The Large One]

Cheers - all the work was a big effort to try and influence the club to replace the amateurish badge we've had since the Gillingham days. It worked. A few months ago Paul Camillin showed me the designs that the club have been developing for a new badge and they were very similar to mine. Paul was first class - a really decent bloke.

Whilst I believe my designs are far stronger than KSS's work, they had been given the contract to build the stadium and to rebrand the club, so there was not a lot more I could do. For the record Superphil, I'm a professional brand identity designer with twelve years experience.

Hopefully when the final design is revealed we'll all be pleased.

Many thanks for all the support from NSC on this... it's been really really appreciated and has made all the difference.

So when you say 'similar to mine', I guess you mean 'similar to the 1977 badge'.

 

[The Large One]

Some good points in Mayfair's post but it seems a bit odd that Superphil is criticised for saying that he preferred the club's design but Mayfair Seagull is allowed to say the present shield is amateurish and imply that KSS only got the job of replacing it because they've got a contract to do other work for the club. From the descriptions people have given I think I might take the view that the new badge is better than MS's offerings but of course that is just a personal opinion and not meant to be disrespectful at all. I liked what he did and admire his self-confident claims for his work.
I do however think that it is presuming a bit much for him to claim that his design persuaded the club to replace the shield. The club surely intended to do that anyway.

This.

 

[The Grockle]

meh

 

[The Grockle]

I know it doesn’t mean much now it has been designed but I would have loved something simple like the wolves badge but obviously with a seagull facing forward looking like it’s about to peck someone’s eyes out, seagulls are after all tenacious and menacing not fat and friendly like our current one.

Either way it can't be any worse than our current one.

 

[strings]

I know it doesn’t mean much now it has been designed but I would have loved something simple like the wolves badge but obviously with a seagull facing forward looking like it’s about to peck someone’s eyes out, seagulls are after all tenacious and menacing not fat and friendly like our current one.

Either way it can't be any worse than our current one.

Whilst I agree, I think you slightly miss the point of why the Wolves badge is so good. 'Wolves' is a brand. Nobody around here calls the club 'the Wanderers', 'Wolverhampton', or anything else. The club are simply known as 'the Wolves'. That, for me, is why the badge is so simple - it is the entire clubs brand summed up in one image.

Unfortuantely, I don't thing our branding is strong enough to get away with such a design, which is a shame.

 

[Capricorn]

Its good enough for your profile pic...

At the end of the day though, it's the Albion crest. Whatever the Brighton crest looks like i'll endorse it.
Besides getting the new crest is a brilliant reason to replace my current pic.

 

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