Los Angeles Rogues

This is fellow board member ChuckDownfield's team. His take on the team would be a shark logo with a rogue shark as the logo. I was skeptical at first, but started looking at shark logos and ran with it. Purple and black were the colors he choose, then we added a hint of red. The uniforms are pretty basic, just matching patterns on the sleeves and yoke. My favorite is the alternate. That was a lot of fun to make, and it'll look good in game.

Calgary Wranglers

The first logos in the league were for NewEra on the boards. He's from Calgary, so he did a home town team with an homage to the Calgary Stampede. Originally he wanted to be the Cowboys(which i turned down because we'd have the Cowboys, Chiefs, and Saints). I was going to do a cowboy character but it wasn't working out, so I decided to make a horse, I used some logos for reference and made this. Basically, a mean horse. The secondary logo has a rope pattern around a C. The jerseys in my head were a mix of team Canada, and the Leafs' original RBK edge uniform. The alternate is similar, but has barbed wire barbs in between the stripes.

Detroit Chiefs

For Detroit's team, my friend wanted an art deco style look. he sent me a lot of pictures of buildings in Detroit. One he showed me had an Indian head with a headdress. He settled on the team name Chiefs and I ran with it. I made a symmetrical headdress with my go to feather logo. He wanted the colors of Detroit City FC, so I hooked him up as well. The jerseys are simple, a classic striping pattern, with a yoke, and some chevrons n the ends of the sleeves. The alternate is similar to the Habs set, but have multiple stripes and a roundel. I think that's it!

North American Sim Hockey

Remember that big project I mentioned? Well I started up a sim hockey league. The premise is simple, even teams playing head to head trying to win the championship. All 8 teams will have a base 85 rating with players having 85 in each statistical category. In addition, every team will have one overall 99, two 95s, and three 90s.

The goal is to record the games, and upload them to YouTube with commentary. This site will be the home for news, reviews, and other things. So please bear with us as we continue to construct the league. Our goal is to be playing by New Years!

I will be releasing logos on here over the next few days. You can follow the league page here, and the twitter of the network that the league and the Sim Cup Series will be on.

Big Ten Rebrands

Two Big Ten concepts, originally for a big project, but fell through.

Ohio State

Fun fact: Ohio State's logo is kind of a mess too. Too cluttered, not bold enough. I wanted to make the set bold and run with it. I made an O logo with a buck eye the primary. My goal was to make it not look like a pot leaf(it doesn't right?) I used black instead of a dark grey, like i originally wanted. Yeah, not too much else about this one!

Penn State

Have you seen their logo? It's not that great. Everyone wanted a rebrand after the whole Sandusky incident to start over. I saw a proposal to use an old logo with an S in a keystone. I thought it could be a pretty good alternate. The use of a keystone for Penn State made tons of sense. I used the logos they had early last decade, but modified it. I wanted a sleeker, meaner lion. A Nittany Lion is just a mountain lion from Nittany Mountain, which i learnt doing this concept. Anyway here it is.

Triad Elite

In the past, I've done some work for the lacrosse gear company ZimaGear, and this is the newest deisgn. It's for a lacrosse team named Triad Elite(Greensboro, North Carolina area). Originally, I thought that the team wanted a refreshing of their current logo seen below, then eventually, I just redrew the whole thing and made what you see above. I think I made the right call.

New Brand!

Hey everyone, decided to rebrand my stuff for the future. Hope you all like. I redid my portfolio and I think it's worth checking out.

http://michaeltaylordesign.daportfolio.com/

Also gonna post some stuff in the near future, so stay tuned.