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Voting Starts Early For The Leafs Re-brands

I received a LOT of submissions for the Original Six: Toronto Maple Leafs Re-branding Competition, but the submissions have completely died down now. SO, rather than hold up the next competition, it's been decided that submissions will no longer be accepted and we will get on with the voting!

The voting officially begins on Wednesday, February 10th and the winner will be announced the following Monday morning (Feb. 15th). I'll be hiding the results so there's some suspense.

Important note: I am removing one team from the competition. The awesome Toronto Toros design by Roccot, to me, is not a true re-brand and will have to be removed from consideration. My reasoning is, if the real Toronto Maple Leafs were going to undergo their own re-branding initiative, they wouldn't use imagery and history from a completely different franchise from another league.

One last Leafs thing: Designers, check out the official Leafs re-brand page to make sure your design is there. I'm pretty sure I have everything covered, though...

All that leads to this: The next Original Six team to be re-branded is ... The New York Rangers!

Rules and details will be coming soon, but feel free to get started. But remember, this is a re-branding competition, not a logo/uni tweak competition. So get creative!

UPDATE: Here's how the votes broke down for the selection of the next Original Six team re-brand.

 

Logos shown here courtesy of SportsLogos.net

Concepts and Stuff

Couple of things for your Monday...

Here's another entry into the Original Six: Toronto Maple Leafs Re-branding Competition sent in by Mike Ivall. This team gets a new name: The Toronto Titans.

Discuss away!

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And for you DIY-ers, here's a Germany Olympic hockey jersey made by Will Scheibler. Will created the eagle crest and sewed it on top of the existing screen print. He also created the name plate and sewed it on top of the sponsor logo.

Pretty cool stuff. I'd love to see more of this DIY (Do It Yourself) type stuff!

 

  

Here's what Will did to create his jersey:

Found a picture of a German eagle online. "Blew it up" to a bigger size and printed it out using the free version of the program Posteriza (good simple program if you want to enlarge and print out images larger than 8 1/2" X 11" or 8 1/2" X 14"). Glued, with a glue stick, the printed out paper onto some thin cardboard (from case of pop or something similar) to make a template and cut the eagle shape out with scissors (may have also used Exacto knife). Used the template to draw on the back of some tackle twill material (bought from a local seamstress who does all the numbering and the like for the local sports shops) and cut out the tackle twill eagle shape and 'shield' shape. Took the eagle crest and 'shield' to a local shop that does vinyl number transfers, and got them to heat press the crest on the jersey; to make extra sure the crest stayed on permanently, I then sewed the crest onto the jersey. Normally I'd just iron on the crest with a normal iron at home, but the! re were too many points and angles for a good temporary hold. The points and angles made sewing it on more than somewhat tedious.

For the name plate: Printed out my name in a common sports font; glued the paper name to some thin cardboard for a template, and cut out the letters and used them to draw on the back of some tackle twill material. Ironed and sewed the black letters onto a white rectangular piece of tackle twill and iron and sewed that onto the jersey.

The jersey itself i got from a trade of jerseys from a team mate. It had some screen printing on the front and on the back above the numbers. Part of the reason i made the eagle so big was to completely cover up the screen printing on the front - personally think it looks pretty good that size.

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Just the other day -up at the About section of the site- I put up a little note about having some guest writers create some content for PuckDrawn.com. I love the site and love dedicating my time to it, but I feel that my lone voice may be a bit boring day after day, month after month! So, to break things up, I'm gonna have some guest writers entertain you now and then.

Glen Cuthbert looks to be the first guest writer here, and we're looking at the first post by him to be on Friday. I'm lookin' forward to seeing how this works out. Hope you enjoy it.

If you're interested in writing, send me an e-mail and we'll see what we can come up with that's interesting and on topic.

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Ok, only one concept ... sorry.

Leafs And Bullies, Oh My!

It's a snowy Saturday here in the northeast, so if you're snowed in and bored, you at least have a couple of concepts to check out and discuss.

The first concept is Sledgehammerr's Maple Leafs re-brand.

I like this one, even though it incorporates the "standard" large maple leaf and blue/white color scheme. It's less of a total re-branding/re-imagining and more of a modest re-design of the current Maple Leafs uni.

For the primary, I like the simple and clever use of the "T" stem acting as the stem of the leaf. And I'd like to see the secondary mark represented on the shoulder since it's part of the presentation.

Overall this is a nice, clean and simple concept. Can't complain.

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And out of nowhere, Mike Ivall sends in his Philadelphia Flyers / Broad Street Bullies concept design. 

 

I'm partial to the Flyers' flying "P", but since the team being represented here is the Broad Street Bullies, the logo has changed to better fit the new team name.

My only criticism (aside from touching an un-touchable logo) is that the black jersey is not an orange jersey instead. But that's just me.

Last Minute Leafs Concepts

We're coming down to the final week of submissions for the Original Six: Maple Leafs Re-branding Competition. I'm kinda surprised at the amount of designs I have gotten so far!

Again, I'm gonna let the people in the comments section lead the discussion. That seems to be the most fun.

First we have Chad B. Stilson's entry. Chad had the winning design in the Anaheim Ducks Re-branding competition and I expect him to get a lot of votes for this contest as well.

And here's Patrick Bouchard's entry.

 

Olympic Hockey Uni Concepts

PuckDrawn reader Eric Westhaver e-mailed me the other day to ask if I had any interest in posting some of his Olympic hockey uniform concepts. Well, of course!

Eric's concepts are designed in that 2-D/pixel-art style. I think I'd go blind trying to design like that, so much credit to Eric on that feat.

Here are a couple of my favorites. You can view the entire Olympic Rebrand album here on Eric's Photobucket page.

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On a side and semi-related note, I'm just now starting to push my new blog, SportDrawn.com. It's much like much PuckDrawn, but dedicated to all sports, not just hockey.

So check it out and let me know what you think so far.

And you concept designers are welcome to submit your baseball, basketball, football, and soccer designs!

-SportDrawn.com