Rebranding FantasyHockeySim.com

Rebranding FantasyHockeySim.com

I launched FantasyHockeySim.com as a spinoff of DetroitHockey.Net last summer and the visual elements of it were a rush job.  Getting the site out the door was my priority, so I stole design elements for FHS from DH.N and put together a logo that didn’t say “fantasy hockey” at all. Awhile ago I ranted about […]

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Fixing the Joe Louis Arena Farewell Season Logo

Fixing the Joe Louis Arena Farewell Season Logo

Given my recent history, it would seem that I’m contractually obligated to dislike any graphics package any team in the Detroit Red Wings’ organization puts out. I didn’t like the Red Wings’ Winter Classic jerseys in 2014 or their Stadium Series jerseys for this year.  I don’t like their Hockeytown logo.  I didn’t like the […]

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Code, Crafts, and Craic: The NextJen Mobile Blog

Code, Crafts, and Craic: The NextJen Mobile Blog

My friend Jenny operates as NextJen Mobile, which led to me creating a NextJen logo last fall. Recently, Jenny decided to pull her development blog – Code, Crafts, and Craic – off of Blogger and onto the NextJen site.  I ended up coming up with a type treatment that ties Code, Crafts, and Craic into […]

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Solve it Saturday: New York Islanders

I wrote a piece for the “Fix it Friday” feature over at SportsLogos.Net but they decided not to run it, so I’m posting it here. The idea of that feature is to take the uniform set of a sports team and point out what’s wrong with it, then propose an alternative.  My focus was the […]

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DFHL 25th Season Logo

DFHL 25th Season Logo

The 25th season of the DetroitHockey.Net Fantasy Hockey League coincides with the 20th season of the main site itself (possible because DFHL seasons don’t typically last and entire year), so I’ve been working on a lot of commemorative logos of late. The logo, like DH.N’s 20th season logo, is based on the “promotional” version of […]

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DetroitHockey.Net 20th Season Logo

DetroitHockey.Net 20th Season Logo

Today marks DetroitHockey.Net’s nineteenth birthday and over at the site, I’ve unveiled the 20th Season logo. The logo is based on the “promotional” DetroitHockey.Net logo featuring the site’s shied logo inside a roundel. This roundel is broken by a bar featuring the years 1996 and 2016. The top half of the roundel says “DetroitHockey.Net” in […]

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On the “Hockeytown” Logo and a Concept

On the “Hockeytown” Logo and a Concept

I’ve ranted on DetroitHockey.Net (and related environs) in the past about my dislike of the “Hockeytown” name by the Detroit Red Wings.  I think it was a cheesy slogan that would have been gone after a year had the Wings not happened to win the Stanley Cup that year. And the logo…  What an awful […]

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Grand Rapids Griffins 20th Season Logo Concept

Grand Rapids Griffins 20th Season Logo Concept

The Grand Rapids Griffins unveiled their 20th season logo today and my immediate reaction was of serious disappointment.  Not like when I wasn’t happy about what choices they made for their “fan designed” jersey contest.  This was professionally designed.  There’s no excuse for this. The Griffins say the following about the design: The logo, designed by […]

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