Competition Merger Of The Week 1: Melbourne Hawks

[Willo #6]

Understand, I find it was hard to come up with a good looking colour combination, although I really liked Aidan's blue & gold.

 

[Exe Gesis]

My second entry.
Thought I'd go with the three best colors for a combination.

 

[Gibbsy]

Too be honest I thought that brown and red clashed a fair bit.

And on the topic of the blue red and gold looking too much like Adelaide, those were the colour that the merger were going to take.

 

[Exe Gesis]

Three colors different from many AFL teams who use red-blue, or red-blue-gold, or blue-gold. A color combination that would be a bit different from the typical.

 

[El_Scorcho]

That's quite good GG. The fact that the brown, yellow and red are all similar colours actually makes that design look less busy. Would look quite good on field IMO.

I think brown needs to be kept because it's the one colour that will differentiate this club from others in the AFL. Unless you leave out a dark colour altogether and go yellow/red which has already been tried once (and quite successfully).

 

[Exe Gesis]

Cheers.
Also because dark blue and dark brown are fairly similar darkness, so probably no need to incorporate the blue as well (imo, how i thought about it).

 

[Ochre]

i swear ive seen a very similar design with same colours posted here before

 

[Exe Gesis]

Lol, probably. Ideas are in the air.
But be gentle with me if you find it and crucify me, cos I didn't know.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Cheers.
Also because dark blue and dark brown are fairly similar darkness, so probably no need to incorporate the blue as well (imo, how i thought about it).

Exactly my thinking. You can't really go two predominantly dark colours, unless you have a fairly amazing bit of design it doesn't work too well.

 

[Exe Gesis]

Tho that flies in the face of my black-charcoal love from the other thread.

 

[PaulieG]

Thanks Furla, ThunderPower, aidancdaman and Muse for the positive feedback on my Melbourne Hawks entry. It is very much
appreciated.

I did have the thought that my home guernsey has the same colours as an existing team (in Adelaide). But, I guess that is
why we have clash guernseys.

 

[LeeARM]

After a week of trying to find a colour combo that wasn't ugly or Adelaide I decided to take a different approach by mixing the colours. I went with Orange (red+yellow) and Black (navy and brown... kinda) along with white as they both share it on their clash jumpers.

 

[Gibbsy]

Orange a bit bright but overall an awesome design.

 

[Exe Gesis]

Leearm...

nice thinking behind all that.
that home guernsey (which is very nice) kinda reminds of a merger between melbourne, hawthorn and the wests tigers.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Can I change my entry? I noticed the Hawthorn logo is a similar shape to the yoke part of the Melbourne guernsey and it kinda just went from there.

I decided to just get all the colours into there. Hey, if 4 colours is good enough for Freo... I think it ends up being fairly balanced colourwise.

 

[Ochre]

you are allowed two entries TP14

 

[just_kick_it]

The home jumper is sort of inspired by the 1996 merger talks between these teams. As you can see the yoke/vee is the longer one that the Dees wore in 1996 and the yellow/gold is the shade the Hawks were wearing in 1996. I used the royal blue and blood red because surely the Crows would've kicked up a massive sh!t storm if they used yellow, navy blue and red so if they change the shades just a bit they might be able to get around this.
Home

The away strip is inspired by the hawks "retro" type 1996 pre-season jumper but the thin stripes have been modified to make a quad vee. This is because there was four stripes on the original jumper, Melbourne use a vee/yoke and Hawthorn used to use a single vee vee.
Away

 

[shanenine]

Hi Guys,

Here is my version for the Melbourne Hawks (So happy we didnt merge!!)

My theory on Away / Clash jumpers is that they should be based on the home jumper but change the colours to have different looking jumpers.

Clash based on 80's Melbourne Colour & Hawks 2002 pre season!

Home


Away


Clash

 

[Willo #6]

Love it shanenine

 

[hack]

 

[Exe Gesis]

Great work, hack.
That logo is badass, and the color combination (like i tried to do) is actually quite good.
Also, that's a good example of when/how a logo slapped on the front of a top really works....due to the V and the style of that eagle, kinda like how a badge on top of a band found on a bottle of scotch or a cigar works.

 

[hack]

Great work, hack.
That logo is badass, and the color combination (like i tried to do) is actually quite good.
Also, that's a good example of when/how a logo slapped on the front of a top really works....due to the V and the style of that eagle, kinda like a badge on a bottle of scotch or a cigar works.

thanks mate, i kept the brown predominantly red based so it would work well with the actual red, i must admit that when i first put them together on the logo i was very surprised with how well it worked.

 

[Exe Gesis]

Clever with the red-washed brown hue, i didnt notice it at first, but now i can see it.
It's an awesome color combination actually, joining my other personal favorite (black-charcoal).
I really dig that look of a bird of prey logo placed over the top of a band in the middle. The 'band' being the gold V in this case.

 

[Exe Gesis]

I would buy that guernsey if it were manufactured.

 

[hack]

I would buy that guernsey if it were manufactured.

... even with the logo emblazened across the front?