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Red Wings Rebranding Competition Winner - Ryan Muraro

Another Original Six Rebranding Competition is in the books. The Detroit Red Wings Rebranding Competition winner, with 30% of the vote, is Ryan Muraro. A total of 459 votes were cast and Ryan led pretty much the whole time. Congrats, Ryan!

Here are the official results in case you wanna see how everything shook out.

 

The Original Six Rebranding Competition has three more teams to go in the project, but will go on hiatus until after the WHA Redesign Competition is complete.

Last Day For Red Wings Concepts!

Designers, you have until 5pm (EST) today to get your Original Six: Detroit Red Wings Rebranding Competition concept into me.

Here are the designs that came in over the weekend.

Detroit Purple Gang design by Marchawg

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This Wings concept was sent in by Joel Masson.

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Courtney Fathers sends in this Wings design.  

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Finally, this Detroit White Wings concept sent in by Ethan Proulx.

 
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No time to comment and critique these designs today because of the power outage I had this weekend. Gotta catch up on some missed work and grab some beauty zzz's.

Take this time to discuss amongst yourselves.

Red Wings Rebrand - Gary Punzak

Just a quick post for today as I start working on the WHA Redesign Competition rules. It's a slow day at work, so I may as well take advantage...

Here's a Detroit Red Wings rebrand by Gary Punzak. It's a simple approach: A winged-D. It has a good overall form and the design is not overdone, which is nice. I don't think every feather needs to be illustrated in a wing logo. I think the "D" letter form could stand to be stylized a little more, but that's just how I see it. Your thoughts?

Well, I think I have enough designs now that I won't have to extend the submission deadline. The deadline to get designs in is March 15th. The voting will begin on Tuesday morning.

Red Wings Rebrand by Koho

Just a quick post today.

Here's Koho's Detroit Red Wings Rebrand. Interesting idea, but I'm not totally sold on it yet. I think the bird head needs to be a little more refined - and less sparrow looking. My favorite part of the whole design is the wing treatment on the jersey sleeves.

  

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There are more designs to check out on the AAHL Davidson Cup Logo Contest page. Some real fine work coming in. Nothing like a little cash to get those creative juices flowing, eh?

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Hey PuckDrawn designers, get your portfolio pages up to date because there's gonna be a new feature/page here on the site. Details to come.

Detroit Pegasus Concept - Mike Ivall

Mike Ivall finally decided to send in his REAL Original Six: Detroit Red Wings Rebranding Competition design and it definitely hits the mark on what we are looking to accomplish in this contest. A rebrand, rather than an update.

Gone is the winged-wheel, but carried over from the original is the red wing. With that, I'm not sure why the name was changed from "Red Wings" to "Pegasus"... Seems to me that "Red Wings" would work perfectly fine with this concept. It would represent Detroit more if the emphasis was on the auto industry, because you have a nice tie-in with the horse/horse-power imagery.

All in all, this is a clean and strong logo.

  

Keep in mind, this competition is just to push designers to think differently. We're not here to replace the existing Red Wings logo with any of these concepts. So, having said that, when you're approaching your rebrand, perhaps move completely away from RED and WING. I'm guilty of this, too. I'm trying to re-invent the wheel (pun intended), when I have free reign in this competition! So, I'm scrapping my design and will be thinking outside the box. No red, no wing, no wheel. Maybe I'll post my unfinished (and now scrapped) design over on the PuckDrawn forums.