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 […]
Six years after I doodled a 10th season logo for HockeyBird.com, I was contacted about doing another logo for the site. HockeyBird.com had undergone many changes in the six years since I last did a logo for them and were looking for “a still here after all these years kinda thing.” We had missed the […]
The logo for the DetroitHockey.Net Fantasy Hockey League’s 20th season was heavily based on the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup Finals logo from the second half of the 1990s. It started with a circle with a ribbon covering the bottom portion. Along the edge of the circle were the words “DetroitHockey.Net Fantasy Hockey League” and […]
Retro Hockey Challenge was a proposed charity event to raise money for Child’s Play charity. It would have been a video game marathon centered around 1990s-era hockey video games. The logo for Retro Hockey Challenge was designed to invoke an “old-time hockey” feel, deliberately older than the video games that would have been played. A […]
For DetroitHockey.Net’s fifteenth season, I designed a logo in the style of something that could be worn as an athletic jersey patch, like you would see a sports team do. I started with a vaguely-triangular shield shape, with an outlining pattern similar to that of the DetroitHockey.Net shield logo. That logo itself was perched at […]
The HockeyBird.com Tenth Season logo evolved from the Illustrator equivalent of a set of doodles. I was working on another project and was a little stuck so I started putting together ideas for a logo for HockeyBird.com’s upcoming 10th season. A set of three were developed, all with the same design but slightly different styling. […]
My wife and I were planning on having a luau-themed party on July 1, 2006. Even though we were in the U.S. we jokingly referred to it as our Canada Day luau. As the joke continued, I decided to make a logo for the event. The shape is meant to resemble the look of the […]