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 […]
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 […]
Jenny Jensen of NextJen Mobile is a friend of mine, so when she mentioned she was having trouble coming up with a logo for NextJen, I got to thinking about possibilities. An idea popped into my head pretty much fully-formed and, while I admit it’s a bit cliche, she liked it and ran with with […]
As of a couple hours ago, the Grand Rapids Griffins’ alternate jersey contest is closed. I wrote about my submission early in the contest but with it done I feel a little more comfortable iterating on it a bit. After staring at my work for nearly a month, wondering if it would hold up to […]
I’ve written before about branding a fake hockey team, but with this week’s announcement of the Grand Rapids Griffins’ formerly-annual alternate jersey design contest, I got to try my hand at doing it for an actual team. The contest is still running so, unlike usual, all of the images included in this post are watermarked […]
I’ve been into simulated fantasy hockey for a long time and am currently in a league run through the forums at SportsLogos.Net, the NHA. Being attached to SportsLogos.Net, the NHA takes its team branding very seriously. Though not technically required, each team is expected to have a unique and appropriate name and logo, as well […]
Yesterday I went through with the fairly-uninspired April Fools Day joke of having DetroitHockey.Net become “ColoradoHockey.Net” for a few hours, with the site and its Twitter account apparently having been hacked by fans of the Red Wings’ formerly-bitter rivals, the Colorado Avalanche. The site’s logo changed, as did the name, avatar, and background of the […]
I recently did a soft rollout of a tweaked logo for DetroitHockey.Net and was inspired to go back and take a look at the history of the logo for the site and its affiliated projects. I only have backups of my graphics going back to 2002, at which time the site was still drwcentral.net and […]