Discussion Strange or Interesting AFL Photos

[FXD_]

I hear everyone’s arguments about logo shadowing and inverting and reject the argument entirely as the solid blue logo works better in the overall context of the guernsey design, and in the context of the clubs history, heritage and when shown in conjunction with the royal blue guernsey.

Edwards’ guernsey yesterday and seeing it in real life only solidifies my position further.

 

[magpienato]

I hear everyone’s arguments about logo shadowing and inverting and reject the argument entirely

It's not even an argument really, more of just an obvious observation that the logo is not designed to be invertible.

 

[magpienato]

Just did a quick mock-up but you can see by just making the logo less shadow reliant, it begins to look a heck of a lot better when inversed.



And here's the non-inversed just for comparison.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Without the eyeball it looks like the old logo.

All for the right side.

 

[GoldbergsGold]

What he's trying to say is with the current Weagles logo, the inverse looks horrid, and it does. Because the logo relies on a darker colour (blue) to be the shadow, it doesn't work when you inverse it because it goes against a lighter colour.

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The difference is night and day.

Then modify slightly, make the gaps less larger, small fix. The yellow Eagle on yellow is unfaithful to the original guernsey it's imitating, nor does it stand out.

 

[GoldbergsGold]

Just did a quick mock-up but you can see by just making the logo less shadow reliant, it begins to look a heck of a lot better when inversed.

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And here's the non-inversed just for comparison.
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I do hope they change to the blue Eagle for the yellow clash after this episode.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Perhaps on the yellow jumper they could make the yellow part of the solid eagle ochre instead. *clutches chest in pain* Then... you could have... a... solid... eagle. *dies of ochre poisoning*

 

[jroam82]

The back collar section of one of Taylor Walker

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's indigenous guernseys was sewn inside out so the message was on the outside.

 

[Dazzler9]

I hear everyone’s arguments about logo shadowing and inverting and reject the argument entirely as the solid blue logo works better in the overall context of the guernsey design, and in the context of the clubs history, heritage and when shown in conjunction with the royal blue guernsey.

Edwards’ guernsey yesterday and seeing it in real life only solidifies my position further.

I concur with all of this. Furthermore, in the middle of a game of footy, nobody can see the finer details of the inverted logo anyway, so the shadowing issue is irrelevant.

 

[magpienato]

in the middle of a game of footy, nobody can see the finer details of the inverted logo anyway, so the shadowing issue is irrelevant.

I think the shadowing issue is entirely relevant when you consider that the jumpers are going to be sold as merchandise and worn.

 

[GoldbergsGold]

I hear everyone’s arguments about logo shadowing and inverting and reject the argument entirely as the solid blue logo works better in the overall context of the guernsey design, and in the context of the clubs history, heritage and when shown in conjunction with the royal blue guernsey.

Edwards’ guernsey yesterday and seeing it in real life only solidifies my position further.

That's what I think was thinking, very articulate explanation from you. The nitpicking from others here I don't get, because just the idea behind the blue Eagle on yellow is what I mean is best. Modifying it so it works better seems so easy to do, too.

 

[FXD_]

I’m not saying what Edwards wore is perfect, I just think it’s the better of the two that we saw on Sunday.

What really should have happened is the Eagles should have briefed the designers to design a logo that could be inverted easily as even contemplating a yellow guernsey with a yellow eagle head should never have occurred.

 

[Supercheapgiants]

Found this on reddit

 

[magpienato]

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Found this on reddit

They are sponsored by them I suppose haha

 

[Mr Eagle]

One club logo gone AWOL.

 

[Gibbsy]

The Geelong 2011 Premiers guernsey omits the Toyota logo, leaving a weird red gap

 

[rabbitoh21]

The Geelong 2011 Premiers guernsey omits the Toyota logo, leaving a weird red gap

Yeah I wouldn't want my primary sponsor's competitor on my memorabilia either tbh

 

[Gibbsy]

Yeah I wouldn't want my primary sponsor's competitor on my memorabilia either tbh

didn’t happen for Richmond / Jeep, and I don’t think the AFL would let such an omission happen again now tbh

 

[magpienato]

didn’t happen for Richmond / Jeep, and I don’t think the AFL would let such an omission happen again now tbh

Jeep is more of a luxury brand wouldn't it be? Toyota and Ford both sort of have that middle/lower class market.

 

[Red Crow]

didn’t happen for Richmond / Jeep, and I don’t think the AFL would let such an omission happen again now tbh

I reckon it'll be because Ford has sponsored Geelong since before Toyota came on board with the AFL. I think they get a few extra benefits that other clubs who have signed with car companies since Toyota's deal started don't get. Most interesting would be to see if North get the same benefits if they win a flag, seeing as they also had Mazda prior to Toyota's league sponsorship.

I haven't taken enough notice to see if its still the case, but when Toyota started sponsoring the league in 2004, the only logos at Cats home games were the two ground logos and the goalposts. There was no boundary advertising for Toyota. Geelong actually tried to buy out all the Toyota advertising space including ground logos, but were obviously unsuccessful.

 

[Gibbsy]

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wearing his shorts backwards

 

[Gibbsy]

"Assless Chaps"

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Surely there's a photo of Corey Enright in his Reg Grundy's.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

"Assless Chaps"

Didn't realise that was Chappy.

Thought it was Josh Hunt.

Sorry Chappy.

 

[Storm20]

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