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[Kickpuncher]

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Collingwood Breast Cancer Awareness.
I might try one of these with all the teams if it hasnt already been done

 

[Cory]

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Great Design Port Adelaide .

Like how you Kept the Tradition of the Stripes.

BTW I Agree with GG Mascots are Used way too much these days,they should keep Jumpers Simple and Traditional,like Port Adelaide's new Home/Away Guernsey's.

 

[InCase]

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Great Design Port Adelaide .

Like how you Kept the Tradition of the Stripes.

BTW I Agree with GG Mascots are Used way too much these days,they should keep Jumpers Simple and Traditional,like Port Adelaide's new Home/Away Guernsey's.

Don't agree with him, he wants stupid ass numbers and names plastered all over it instead.

 

[exe ex machina]

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Example, InCase...that jumper in your avatar.....the eagle head there is pointless and detracts from the design. Take that away and leave the yellow shoulder wing things...that would look so much classier and better as a top.

This infatuation with mascots on the front, and now where they're mega large covering half the front and half the back, is just the epitome of tacky.

It's not "classical" at all. Classical stuff lasts longer, never dates.

 

[InCase]

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Example, InCase...that jumper in your avatar.....the eagle head there is pointless and detracts from the design. Take that away and leave the yellow shoulder wing things...that would look so much classier and better as a top.

This infatuation with mascots on the front, and now where they're mega large covering half the front and half the back, is just the epitome of tacky.

It's not "classical" at all. Classical stuff lasts longer, never dates.

Most mascot designs do look crap, as they are poorly done. A well done design such as Fremantles, Sydneys, West Coasts, and Brisbanes before they changed the logo looks far better than a standard set of stripes used by thousands of sporting clubs around the world.

I see wings on a guernsey I know that is West Coast, I see an anchor, it could only be fremantle (fremantle being ruined only by the amount of colours).

A design that uses symbols and icons within the guernsey will always outclass a standard guernsey when done right. The problem is, it usually is not.

 

[exe ex machina]

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Fremantles anchor works for two reasons....a) it's flat. It isn't a detailed anchor. So, b) it ends up looking like an evolved V, a traditional shape. Same with WCE's wings.

But Freo's jumper where they have the angled anchor, and/or the detailed anchor, looks crap.

Imo Freo's is one of the best guernseys in AR history, the purple with red and green on either side of the white anchor. Port's new one is up there. And you would all agree they're awesome because they're simple traditional designs.

Look how many jumpers have been done last few pages here which are all copying the Port look.

Also, the 2010 Port one is far better than the 2009 Back in Black one, also because they've taken the large Port logo from under the V and put it as a small chest logo.

 

[InCase]

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Fremantles anchor works for two reasons....a) it's flat. It isn't a detailed anchor. So, b) it ends up looking like an evolved V, a traditional shape. Same with WCE's wings.

But Freo's jumper where they have the angled anchor, and/or the detailed anchor, looks crap.

Imo Freo's is one of the best guernseys in AR history, the purple with red and green on either side of the white anchor. Port's new one is up there. And you would all agree they're awesome because they're simple traditional designs.

Look how many jumpers have been done last few pages here which are all copying the Port look.

Fremantle's is not a traditional design, Ports to an extent is. Fremantle use their symbol to great affect, as other clubs need to learn to do. When these symbols are used well, they do look far better than simple standard designs.

There is a big difference between using symbols and mascots well and not. When they are used well they are easily the best looking guernseys in the league, when they aren't, they are easily the worst. If we all stuck to the middle ground, in this case traditional standard guernseys, life would just be boring.

 

[exe ex machina]

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What's a good usage of a large mascot splashed across the front?

The only one I can think of is that C'wood one which resembled the Prison-bars...that had the magpie spread across the chest, with no stripes above it.

 

[InCase]

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What's a good usage of a large mascot splashed across the front?

The only one I can think of is that C'wood one which resembled the Prison-bars...that had the magpie spread across the chest, with no stripes above it.

Already given you two, if by mascot you mean animal mascot, as for Fremantle the anchor is indeed a 'mascot' and for Sydney the oprah house is an icon/symbol. Eagles, Brisbane, both have animal mascots which were two of the best guernseys in the league. Should also add the bulldogs to that list.

But then on the other hand, add an overcomplicated logo - North Melbourne, Richmond, Collingwood, Essendon, on to a guernsey and yes of course it's going to look horrible.

 

[exe ex machina]

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I dont class Freo as a mascot, more as an evolved V---detailless, flat.
I meant more like the giant bird faces and feline bodies, and in great detail, that are just plonked on the front or stretch both sides.
All those are ugly.
Then you have needless ones like Bulldogs and Eagles, where the little face detracts from the design.
The Swans Opera House is like again a plain detailless shape cut into an existing V. Different from what I was referring to.

 

[PaulieG]

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When I joined this forum, all but one of the AGOTW rounds were completed. So I thought I would publish some Away and Clash jumper designs that i put together a couple of years ago. Some of these designs are similar to designs that have already been posted, but I thought I would show them anyway. I have transferred the designs to the current templates, but I didn't add any of the sponsors. Anyway, here they are.

Adelaide
Based on the state of origin jumper, with a Crows logo from a minor league US football team (Austin, I think)

Brisbane
Logo taken from US College team, Loyola Marymount

Carlton

Collingwood
Based on 2002 clash jumper

Essendon
I'm proud to say that a junior club in metro Perth is now using a slight variation of my design for their clash guernseys.

Fremantle
Based on the heritage triple vees

Geelong
Logo taken from US college team, Weber State

Hawthorn
Previous Hawks logo

Melbourne
Flames at bottom of jumper are similar to Perth Demons jumper from 1997-1998

North Melbourne
Previous Roos logo with stylised stripes that double as 4 white goal posts

Port Adelaide

Richmond
Logo taken from US football team, Cincinnati Bengals

St Kilda
Variation of the cross design

Sydney
The logo incorporates the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House and Centre Point tower (as used on public transport in Sydney)

West Coast
Variation of the eagle wing design with logo taken from US college team, St Josephs

Western

 

[InCase]

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I dont class Freo as a mascot, more as an evolved V---detailless, flat.
I meant more like the giant bird faces and feline bodies, and in great detail, that are just plonked on the front or stretch both sides.
All those are ugly.
Then you have needless ones like Bulldogs and Eagles, where the little face detracts from the design.
The Swans Opera House is like again a plain detailless shape cut into an existing V. Different from what I was referring to.

But it isn't different, if you are going to class symbols and mascots in the same bracket, that means ALL symbols and mascots. As I said, that is the difference between well designed ones, and poor designs. I completely agree with you that poorly designed mascots and symbols and jumpers look absolutely disgraceful, and far worse than a standard guernsey feature. However the well designed ones are better. Which includes Fremantle and Sydney.

The Eagles and Bulldogs add to the design, they have done it to a point where it isn't overdesigned and looks good, the exact middle ground you need. Without it, the Bulldogs in particular is just another striped guernsey in their colours.

 

[hack]

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But it isn't different, if you are going to class symbols and mascots in the same bracket, that means ALL symbols and mascots. As I said, that is the difference between well designed ones, and poor designs. I completely agree with you that poorly designed mascots and symbols and jumpers look absolutely disgraceful, and far worse than a standard guernsey feature. However the well designed ones are better. Which includes Fremantle and Sydney.

The Eagles and Bulldogs add to the design, they have done it to a point where it isn't overdesigned and looks good, the exact middle ground you need. Without it, the Bulldogs in particular is just another striped guernsey in their colours.

i'm siding with InCase on this one, there really isnt a whole lot you can do with stripes and V's before you're doing the same thing as another team, which there are many examples of. at the end of the day, football has become a business, a point a lot of Lions supporters are failing to realise, Guernseys are these days more about standing out in a shop to get people to buy them than they are anything else. if a club splashes a mascot across the front of its guernesy, they're doing it because 10,000 kids will then be whining to their mothers that they want it for christmas. Clubs are wanting to forge a brand, and make themselves immediately recognisable to outside markets, a guernsey with a bulldog on it will do that far more effectively than one with just red, white and royal blue.

i myself am probably the worst offender for puting logo's and mascots on guernseys, but i do agree that just having tham haphazardly pasted looks terrible, which is why i always attempt to incorporate them into the design aspects as much as possible.

 

[just_kick_it]

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I have just recently started working at Domino's and there is a few people I work with that play football, so I decided to design a jumper for Domino's.

When I looked at it afterwards I thought maybe it could be a good design for GWS if the sashes were made a bit thinner and were on the shoulder.

Also would anyone be keen for a "Create a Brand Name Jumper" thread. It wouldnt be a comp just a thread like LeeARM's Crossovers thread.

 

[Kickpuncher]

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Shouldnt the sashes on the back be the other way around? Unless you were going for that look.

 

[just_kick_it]

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Shouldnt the sashes on the back be the other way around? Unless you were going for that look.

ohh s**t I forgot about that. Changed now

 

[Damo Crows Fan]

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Adelaide
Based on the state of origin jumper, with a Crows logo from a minor league US football team (Austin, I think)

Really like this one as a crows supporter, the logo looks a shit load better than our new one and could potentially work well as an away strip

Carlton

Collingwood
Based on 2002 clash jumper

These three would look better then all of there current clash strips (bar Hawthorns, kinda counter productive going back to old designs)
Port Adelaide

I love the fact that Power Jumpers CAN look really good like this one, it just takes someone from OUTSIDE THE CLUB (like an eight yr old or yourslef) to come up with them!!

 

[Willo #6]

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Also would anyone be keen for a "Create a Brand Name Jumper" thread. It wouldnt be a comp just a thread like LeeARM's Crossovers thread.

Not a bad idea

 

[exe ex machina]

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First one should be a Big Footy guernsey.
That could be a comp thread and you could actually have Chief/Fred judge the best three or something who all win a year's platinum BFSC.

 

[Willo #6]

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First one should be a Big Footy guernsey.
That could be a comp thread and you could actually have Chief/Fred judge the best three or something who all win a year's platinum BFSC.

I like it

 

[exe ex machina]

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Even tho i'd be ineligible, I'd be keen to enter the comp and give it a go creating one.

 

[Damo Crows Fan]

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Melbourne Away strip i've been working on

 

[aidancdaman]

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Even tho i'd be ineligible, I'd be keen to enter the comp and give it a go creating one.

No, that membership is mine .

 

[Gibbsy]

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Also would anyone be keen for a "Create a Brand Name Jumper" thread. It wouldnt be a comp just a thread like LeeARM's Crossovers thread.

Suggested by me yonks ago but no love back then

First one should be a Big Footy guernsey.
That could be a comp thread and you could actually have Chief/Fred judge the best three or something who all win a year's platinum BFSC.

All for this

 

[just_kick_it]

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Suggested by me yonks ago but no love back then

Yeh I thought I remeber something like that a while back. Your keen, Wilo's keen I might start one up and if no one participates it will eventually die.