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Oregon Ducks Concepts

Posted on January 7, 2015 | 2 comments

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I Knew Something Gray & Fugly Was Coming To UCLA But…….

Posted on July 16, 2014 | 2 comments

I knew something Gray and FUGLY was coming to UCLA because well I was given some of the design ideas before this design became official. I used what I was given to make a few helmets that followed some of the guidelines. I was told the helmet would Matte Gray and the first thing I asked was have they already bought them (hoping the answer was no) Sadly UCLA or Adidas or both had already decided that Gray which is a trend that is dead by the way was the way to go. You can see what I came up with for the helmets here. 

I shook my head and said ok I will see what I can do with what I have been given. The uniform I was not given a chance to look at but I knew it would be gray and thus FUGLY. Adidas pushed their current bad design ideas and we got the uniform you see today.

I am not a fan of this whole Hollywood nights or LA Steel or whatever stupid name you call it uniform trend. UCLA is a classic school that has lost its way. I am all for teams trying something new but someone has to be willing to tell the brand no or you end up being a laughing stock.

Adidas and its so called marketing and brand managers think that it is a good thing to have the world laughing at you. Yes, we are talking about Adidas but they have become the Lindsey Lohan of uniforms (a drunken mess that the world just keeps shaking its head at)

Lets start by looking at the uniform and breaking down where this train went off the tracks.

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First of all stop with the patterns. Adidas you are the only person that thinks this pattern on everything look is a good idea. Gray is dead. It was dead two years ago. It is still dead this year. It will be dead next year. Navy they can use gray and get by with it but UCLA? UCLA is gold and light blue with a little navy blue thrown in.

The helmet should never be black, gray, or navy blue this is just a rule. Gold is great. I can even support white. I even like the idea of light blue but after that just stop please. The skyline in the UCLA logo is an idea I can go along with but just use the gold helmet. Black_UCLA_unis

This pattern that has shown up on all Adidas uniforms is not needed and takes away from every single uniform Adidas has made the last two seasons. If this pattern serves some purpose make it the same color as the rest o the uni.

I like the metallic screen printing.

The numbers are ok but scream Toronto Blue Jays to me.

This uniform just like every other Adidas designed uniform of the last two years chooses to ignore tradition at every school in favor of this stock high school uniform template approach that a single designer working half days could knock out every NCAA in a week.

The Adidas approach to uniform design has destroyed one of the greatest things about college football. That thing is tradition and uniqueness. Adidas takes once proud schools and jams them into this prepackaged marketing driven box that makes every school under the brand name look cheap and unimportant.

Adidas you need to wake up and realize that you need a new design direction. A design team that focuses on what makes each school special. A uniform that with no logos on it can be identified by a grad from 1910 or 3rd grader. Schools have a soul but you are forcing them to sell it to you in favor of this corporate clone idenity some idiot in marketing thinks is a good idea. You as a brand need to fire the marketing guys that must be pushing this uniformity and allow talented designers to embrace and showcase the heart of each school.

This shit is not that hard Adidas but you keep fucking it up time and time again.  UCLA_black_jersey

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CHANEL Announced As New Primary Sponsor For College Football Playoff Championship Game

Posted on July 14, 2014 | Leave a comment

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In a marketing move to get women trapped in front of the tv by their football crazed boyfriends to care about who wins the game Chanel has decided to become the primary sponsor of the College Football Playoff Championship Game. The new trophy will be a larger than life sized version of Chanel’s newest lipstick called CHAMPION.

The new lipstick will feature colors of every National Championship team in NCAA history.

 

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Kansas City Chiefs Rookies

Posted on May 14, 2014 | 5 comments

Chiefs Uniform Concepts White, Red, Yellow, Black, Helmets KC Wolf Shirts Shirt Ideachiefs ford CHIEFS GAINES Chiefs DAT CHIEFS FULTON

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Honoring Army Ranger Pat Tillman On Field The Proper Way

Posted on May 10, 2014 | 5 comments

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I posted several designs for a Pat Tillman Tribute Decal/Patch for the 10 year anniversary of his passing. Those two posts got 40-50 retweets which is shocking since most cat videos get 60. I sent my post with ideas to my cousin Sam who is stationed over in Germany. He told me to write another post and tell everyone what I told him.

April 22, 2014 marked the 10 year anniversary of the death of Pat  Tillman. The act of patriotism that Tillman showed leaving his NFL career to become an Army Ranger is something that no one should ever forget. Tillman should have a statue at every NFL stadium as far as I am concerned. (He has one in Arizona FYI)

I am guessing that for the 10 year anniversary of Tillman’s death the Arizona Cardinals and Arizona State would both have some kind of helmet decal honoring   this anniversary. I personally dislike the way that sports teams try to honor a fallen teammate or owner. The traditional logo/sticker is a black circle with the persons number or initials inside the circle in white. I would like to a honor logo/sticker that has a little more thought put into it. My thought is that if someone is important enough to honor shouldn’t we do something more fitting of that honor? The black sticker takes all of two seconds to make. We spend millions of dollars designing uniforms, shirts, hats, etc.. to sell but to honor someone a black circle with a white letter is just fine. Well that is bullshit in my book and just pisses me off. Since I design stuff. I came up with a few version of a decal/patch.

These designs cost basically nothing to make. The average helmet decal runs about 10-20 bucks a pair for the large main decal. I know this because I design football helmets. That is retail FYI. I will give my Pat Tillman Tribute decal to anyone wanting to wear it so there goes that cost. I am sure there is a decal company out there that will pony up the cash to make the decals that just leaves the Arizona Cardinals and NFL to OK it. I have personally tweeted the Cardinals and their Coach, the Arizona State Coach with no reply. I have also tweeted the NFL and Commissioner  Goodell  offering my design. They too have not replied. I tweeted the Arizona Super Bowl Committee the idea of adding the logo to the field for the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl. They fav’d my tweet and told me that the NFL would have to approve anything that went on the field.

 The only person to get back to me was Jake Plummer a former college teammate of Pat Tillman & NFL QB.

I wanted to have all 3 badges Cardinals, ASU, & Army Rangers plus the 10 and Tillman in the logo. Below is my Fav version. tillman 7tillman tribute helmet

I really like the idea of using the military name badge on this logo. I played around with a couple different versions of the 10 and added some yellow for ASU in a couple but the above logo is the best in my mind. The logo uses a Ranger badge I pulled from a military badge site. If it is not correct please let me know. I replaced the sides with both his college and pro team logos off to each side. The camo 10 represents the 10th Anniversary and finally I made a military name badge like he would have worn to rest below the logo. The 40 and 42 are the numbers he wore on the field. The logo as a whole represents all 3 of Pat Tillman’s teams. I really think that all NFL teams should wear the sticker on their helmet the week ASU and the Cards wear it as the main logo if that ever happens. All season would be better but I don’t know if you can get that to happen. I am guessing a full decal on all teams would never be OK’s but a back logo like this shouldn’t be a problem for other teams back of helmet 2 back of helmet

I would also like to see all of the service academies wear this sticker on their helmet too. If the Cardinals, ASU, any NFL team, any service school, or any school for that matter wants to use my logo creation they can free of charge just contact sollars85@gmail.com

The Total cost to make this happen if the Arizona Cardinals Only wear the decal and have to pay the top end price of $20 per set a team of 53 is only $1,060. I know that NFL teams never pay full retail they pay more like material cost plus a little so lets say it is $10 a pair that $530 for a pair. If the Cardinals decide not use the digital camo team logo that price drops to $265 to honor Pat Tillman doesn’t sound like a number a Billion Dollar company would flinch at if they wanted to do it.

Ok, the Cardinals wise up say we want to do it but can’t. Why can’t you? The NFL says we can’t. What will make the NFL say yes you can? Public support that is where you come in. Tell the Cardinals, Arizona State and the NFL you want to honor a true American Hero on the 10 year Anniversary of his passing defending our freedom. We should honor all fallen troops but honoring Pat Tillman I believe honors every solider that has fallen because we all know Pat Tillman did not think of himself but was a team player thinking of everyone else first in everything he did in his life. His choice to give up the fame and money of the NFL to become a Ranger is something everyone should be reminded of this year 10 year late.  


Let the NFL & the Cardinals know you want this to happen. Stop tweeting out cat videos and retweet this.

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