Resource The best Port Adelaide logos of BigFooty 3

[Contested Marx]

Are port the pies though? Always thought that was a collingwood thing

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Maggies

Pies is Collingwood

Pirates is ok but I'd have gone Raiders and this is a repeated discussion so

PS yes to Zeus as mascot

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Port Pirates discussion eh it's not bye week far ken

 

[Pappagallo]

I'm acutely aware of Pappagallo casting me off to Davy Jones Locker for a comment like this but in my utopian alternate universe where we entered the league as the Port Adelaide Pirates with a jolly rogeresque logo and a charcoal on black prison bar guernsey, a reworded version of this would be our club song.

On the contrary mate you’re one of the few on here with some actual design skills. DJ’s Locker Room is for teal-yoke Prison Bar abominations and the like.

 

[GremioPower]

Original post: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/logo-discussion-thread.997570/page-71#post-53421957

So, I have no talent whatsoever to draw anything. Still, I came up with a concept of "One Ring to Rule Them All" for the Port Adelaide FC's logo controversy.

As I see it, PAFC is one club, but with two distinct football teams: Power (AFL), and Magpies (SANFL). I imagine that the common identity for EVERYTHING related to PAFC should be based on the colours black and white, and a halo around the particular logos.

I did the halo and applied it to the Magpies, but I couldn't draw exactly what I have in mind for PAFC and for the Power. Although there is a logo for the Power below, it the Power badge wouldn't be like that.

Here, the halo - "One Ring to Rule Them All:"

Here, the new logo for the Magpies:

Here, the awful sketch for the Power:

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Someone with talent took his time to improve my concept:

Yeah, looks all right

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I would make the Power badge rounder inside, but I don't know how.

 

[chiwigi]

Now I want a mock up of the charcoal PB's with a teal skull and crossbones where our logo is (and obviously all the other logos eg. AFL, sponsor etc.

Anyone? I wouldn't know where to start. Cant even use paint without rage quitting.

 

[GremioPower]

If, like a certain franchise, we were minded to borrow very heavily from an NFL team's logo (which we shouldn't), the new LA Chargers logo could give us a bit of inspo with the LA/PA, Charge/Power connections:

 

[Pappagallo]

Now I want a mock up of the charcoal PB's with a teal skull and crossbones where our logo is (and obviously all the other logos eg. AFL, sponsor etc.

Anyone? I wouldn't know where to start. Cant even use paint without rage quitting.

Here ya go mate. I can’t take credit for the guernsey pr0n created by El_Scorcho but the logo is a ridgey-didge Fappagallo Original™.

 

[chiwigi]

Here ya go mate. I can’t take credit for the guernsey pr0n created by El_Scorcho but the logo is a ridgey-didge Fappagallo Original™.

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It's a little large, but the concept works for me.
I'd also have a white number panel on my 'ideal guernsey' though.

I love the charcoal PB's idea..

 

[Alberton Proud]

Now the mods have stripped this crap out of the other threads, can we lock it away forever - please !

 

[Contested Marx]

Grey (silver) prison bars with white number panel

and the grey fades a bit every season until 2035 when E. McGuire is on his deathbed and he sits up straight and lets out a final gasp as he sees on the hospital monitor us playing in our original maggies strip

it's not even bye week or offseason farken

 

[Dylan8]

Now I want a mock up of the charcoal PB's with a teal skull and crossbones where our logo is (and obviously all the other logos eg. AFL, sponsor etc.

Anyone? I wouldn't know where to start. Cant even use paint without rage quitting.

I was talking to El_Scorcho yesterday about falling down the wormhole of tinkering with different Port logos and he said he was thinking about fleshing out a full Pirates identity

 

[Magpiespower]

Port Pirates discussion eh it's not bye week far ken

Regardless, you've just kicked off at least two decades of pissing and moaning about "WE'RE NOT PORT PIRATES, WE'RE PORT ADELAIDE FARKEN!" yeah, great, nice one, Jimmy, sheesh...

 

[Doctor Feel]

I was talking to El_Scorcho yesterday about falling down the wormhole of tinkering with different Port logos and he said he was thinking about fleshing out a full Pirates identity

Not before he ******* finishes off his John Butcher magnum opus.

 

[Dylan8]

...falling down the wormhole of tinkering with different Port logo..

fwiw this is someone I came up with last night after tinkering with some old concepts I drew up (here and here)

When I'm trying to refresh the Port logo I try to roughly follow this brief:
- Make the word PORT prominent
- Include 1870 somewhere
- Don't explicitly refer to a nickname

 

[Doctor Feel]

fwiw this is someone I came up with last night after tinkering with some old concepts I drew up (here and here)

When I'm trying to refresh the Port logo I try to roughly follow this brief:
- Make the word PORT prominent
- Include 1870 somewhere
- Don't explicitly refer to a nickname

Something is off about it. I think it looks too much like one of those random and pointless logos on k-mart cargo shorts.

Maybe that's where you got the inspiration, from your wardrobe.

But seriously, I'm not sure a shield that sort of shape is an AFL logo friendly. I guess it would be something different though.

 

[Dylan8]

Something is off about it. I think it looks too much like one of those random and pointless logos on k-mart cargo shorts.

Maybe that's where you got the inspiration, from your wardrobe.

But seriously, I'm not sure a shield that sort of shape is an AFL logo friendly. I guess it would be something different though.

There's a thin line between simple+classic and plain+generic I guess

The shield shape is intentional. It's a move from our current logo (a ****in' rectangle) into something more conventional. The squared edges would be unique to the AFL where half of the logos are rounded, Cricket Australia style shields.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I'm beginning to wonder if we'll ever get a new logo. The current one is very dated, and not in a classic way.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Charcoal PB's or the All Black from more than 2 metres away lel

 

[Contested Marx]

Just did the member survey and made mention of prison bars in the closing comments but didn't think to say anything about the logo or the ports hat

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

I'm beginning to wonder if we'll ever get a new logo. The current one is very dated, and not in a classic way.

Feels like we are sticking fat with it don't it

 

[Doctor Feel]

Just did the member survey and made mention of prison bars in the closing comments but didn't think to say anything about the logo or the ports hat

I told them that I identified with Roma Gypsies

 

[Dylan8]

Feels like we are sticking fat with it don't it

I think there's two things coming up that could trigger change: 150th anniversary in 2020, and the introduction of the AFL reserves competition.

The former would be an ideal time to introduce a refresh and bring together the teams under one banner, and the latter maybe something which might force us to drop the Magpies logo and think about introducing a logo with a more PAFC slant as opposed to the POWER focused logo we use now.

 

[chiwigi]

Feels like we are sticking fat with it don't it

I disagree, I reckon we have strongly headed down the PA Monogram route this year, especially with players wearing stuff to games etc. I reckon we are going for a long time phase out type thing.

AFL reserves (as Dylan suggests) would accelerate this.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I'd love the monogram to become our logo, but it would have to incorporate teal somewhere which runs a very real risk of bastardising it.

 

[Dylan8]

I'd love the monogram to become our logo, but it would have to incorporate teal somewhere which runs a very real risk of bastardising it.

It's a legendary merch logo but it isn't strong enough to be a primary logo