It's been a while, and I apologize. I knew when I started this blog that it would be tough to post regularly, but I didn't see the onslaught of freelance work that would take all of my free time as of late. If you're interested in writing a guest post, let me know. I HAD to write something now becaus...
Read MoreWell, hello. You may remember me. I'm the guy who used to post about sports and design. As I feared they would, things have gotten too busy as of late to post regularly. I'll get back to posting weekly; I've just hit a large patch of freelance work, and unfortunately the paying gigs have to come before the non-paying gig. That said, I was asked recently if I'd be interested in having others wri...
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I have a treat for you today. In a previous post about the history of each NFL franchise's logo, I mentioned a few times that some of my favorite NFL logos were designed by a guy by the name of Mark Verlander. I discovered Mr. Verlander while in design school after being given the task of presenting an inspiratio...
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The Buffalo Bills have done away with the ugliest set of NFL uniforms. The monstrosities they had been wearing since 2002 looked like 3 different uniforms pieced together; all bad. They couldn't decide if they were navy blue, royal blue, or both, and they had more helmet stripes than the rest of the NFL teams combined. Thankfully, the redesign has brought the opposite: simplicity. They're not e...
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The College World Series is about the only time most of us pay any attention to college baseball (if we even do then). From a design standpoint, it's fun for me to look at because college baseball isn't on TV very often, so I haven't seen many of the uniforms before. It's interesting to see how schools adapt their identity to baseball uniforms. Many ditch their primary logo used for most other spo...
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The Mountain West Conference unveiled a new logo today. I've seen it compared to Nintendo 64, White Castle, and the BBC show Dr. Who. No mentions of anything sports or conference-related, though, and for good reason. It doesn't look like a sports conference logo. Not that that's necessarily the worst ...
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After a few posts about team colors, I wanted to look at the evolution of team logos, much like I did with team colors. First up is the NFL. Using the great sportslogos.net, I compiled the chart below. Stick around below the chart and read my team-b...
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Sticking with the team colors theme of the last couple of posts, I decided to take a look at the colors of college teams. I promise, up next will be something about logos, uniforms, team names, courts/fields, etc. I went abou...
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In the comments on my last post, Team Colors by Sport, loyal reader (of all of two weeks), Chris, mentioned that it would be interesting to look at how and when teams changed colors. I liked that idea, so I took a look. If you look at the chart below (click to see full size), you'll see every color change from the...
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With baseball season going on, as little as I pay attention, I've noticed most times I see a game I see a lot of red and blue. Baseball is a very old and traditional game, so the standard patriotic color schemes make sense. I wanted to take a look and see just how much of the major leagues are red and blue and how that compares to other sports. I was also interested to see what colors are more pre...
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The Sports Design Blog is a combination of my two passions - sports and graphic design.
This blog is just a hobby, but I hope to post as regularly as I can, providing lots of information about sports design mixed with a little opinion and some ideas of my own.
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