I have to say that I'm rather impressed with the number, variety and quality of those alternative Watford badges, most of which I prefer to the current iteration.
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I really like that half the badges look like a home counties third division Ice Hockey side. The Stevenage Stingers or something.
I think the pendulum has swung too far in favour of graphic-designy, clean versions of """traditional""" badges and the time is ripe to capitalise on nostalgia for bad '90s graphic design.
From that perspective R, L and E are easily the best and the ones that look like rejected designs for a Manchester City Council rebrand are the worst.
I also like the origami wasp in P and B is kinda cool.
C, D, K, N, Q, S and T can all fuck off for not being fun and the less said about O the better.Last edited by Bizarre Löw Triangle; 12-09-2019, 16:10.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostDid someone say ice hockey?
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AC Milan update their crest by doing... well not much really, it's more of a identity rebranding than a badge redesign.
Edit: Sake, how hard can this thing make it to add a simple link
Opinions on corporate and brand identity workLast edited by Mumpo; 19-09-2019, 10:41.
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It is interesting (at least to me) that they have decided to give the oval such prominence.
I interpret that as an attempt to set them apart from the other two "Italian giants", noting that their city rivals use a circle and guessing that they would not have gone as all in on the shape had Juventus not first abandoned their own oval.
The other clubs with a similarly shaped badge in Serie A at the moment are Atalanta, Bologna, Cagliari, Hellas Verona, and SPAL.
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Originally posted by JM Footzee View PostCandidates for a new Watford badge
The club has held an open contribution for fans and this is the subsequent longlist. A group of 900 fans will vote to cut to a shortlist of five, which will go to a vote alongside the current badge. They asked the fans on the panel not to distribute the longlist designs, which has gone about as well as you'd expect.
But the idea is fucking terrible though. If the past few years have taught us nothing, it's that allowing people to vote on stuff comes at a massive price. Ipswich did this with the kit years back, which meant that the eight designs put forward were all shit, and we ended up wearing this monstrosity for two years:
It's got a fucking bend in it.As a homage to... Coca Cola, who sponsored the league at the time.
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- Jan 2015
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- Wrexham... ish
- R. + R. McReynold's Travelling Circus, The Jurgen Klopp Farewell Tour XI, Page's Boys
- Ginger Nut
Looking at their old crest, maybe MLS were on their case.- MLS is based in the USA
- USA uses dollars as currency
- Dollar bills have picture of the all-seeing eye
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Originally posted by JM Footzee View PostCandidates for a new Watford badge
The club has held an open contribution for fans and this is the subsequent longlist. A group of 900 fans will vote to cut to a shortlist of five, which will go to a vote alongside the current badge. They asked the fans on the panel not to distribute the longlist designs, which has gone about as well as you'd expect.
Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostWere they specifically instructed to kill off the Hart?
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Originally posted by JM Footzee View PostI, J, Q, R and T make it through to the next round. I got the process slightly wrong, there's now a vote on these five and then one will go up against the current badge. I suspect the status quo will prevail - I'm not sure any of the strongest designs made it through, but we'll see.
(where it seems highly likely it'll get hammered in by the current badge)
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- An oasis in the middle of Somerset
- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
A bit of a round-up,
That Watford competition makes me realise that, when we have a badge vote next year, we shouldn't have a longlist.
It also make me wonder why Watford's spirit insect is a hornet and not the much more alliterative wasp. I could look it up but I prefer to be informed by OTF.
As far as the Wales badge is concerned, I never got on board with the last badge but it was emblematic of our most successful era so, you know, sometimes aesthetics are overshadowed.
Lastly, my reflections on Gloucester are that it seems to be lots of distinctly different areas - the rugby ground area which is exactly as Ray described it, the high street is bucolic with the potential to turn very gammon-mental, the football club is under water and the docks are the best hidden docks ever. I expect they were never bombed.
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