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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NextJen Mobile Logo

NextJen Mobile Logo

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 […]

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Retro Portfolio: DFHL 20th Season Logo

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 […]

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Retro Portfolio: Retro Hockey Challenge

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 […]

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