Global Scarves American Outlaws Designs

So the reason I've been so quiet on the concepts front is because I have a regular day job designing scarves for a company called Global Scarves. Between the youth soccer teams, rugby tournaments, and breweries, sometimes I design scarves for the American Outlaws. 

Each chapter needs a different look, one that stands out from the others. So that's why I decided on posting all the AO scarves I've made in the last 2 months in a nice little Behance piece.

Check out them all here

Seattle Mariners Rebrand

I posted this on my Behance, but I felt like I should post it here too!

One of my least favorite brands in the MLB is the Seattle Mariners. I feel like their current brand is too cluttered with outlines, and doesn't represent a bold identity. This concept stems from an idea I've had for a while, adopt the color scheme the other pro teams in Seattle use. I was going for a bold refresh of a past identity, similar to the Houston Astros.

MLB Cap Concepts

I'm in a 6 person group chat with some great designers my age. When one of us high jacks a conversation to talk New Era fitted caps/snap backs, we call it #hatchat.

So you might remember a template I made where I traced the New Era cap on their website. Well, that was on Inkscape. Since then, I've moved on to Illustrator, which uses layers like Photoshop. Recently, I updated my template to make it Illustrator friendly.

First, I got a Rays cap from the 2016 MLB All-Star Game with the heather pattern and star buttons. Here is me playing with the template on some old brands.

I also cataloged my caps on a new twitter header for myself.

Finally, I made a list of teams with the worst branding in the MLB. The Mariners and Indians were 2 of the top 3. Here is my quick rebrands that I want to turn into a full rebrand.

Life Update!

Hey all, so obviously I haven't been posting on here too much. Just wanted to post about what has been happening this summer. 

So I got a gig with Global Scarves, a company based in Seattle that makes knitted scarves(like you'd see at soccer games), Their main designer had to go to the hospital, and I am taking the huge work load and doing a lot with them. Here are some stuff I've made.

So that is like 95% of stuff I've been doing. I've been doing it all on my brand new desktop computer. My laptop needed to just be retired, and I set up a great computer and a 27 inch monitor to get to my full designing potential. I love it because I don't think I've ever had a loading time for anything.

Lastly, I am a weekend away from graduating from Florida State. I'm getting two degrees, one in Geography and one in Sport Management. I'm wanting to break into the field doing graphic design for a team/ I might post some stuff I did in the spare time. but that's me updating you all!

Southern World Cup of Hockey

Being from Florida, which is a hockey market, I think 30 degrees North is a good mark of where climates are cold enough to play hockey. If you look at all the hockey power houses, they all are north of this line.

 But I believe there is a whole untapped hockey market, using 30 degrees South! There are 6 nations that are reasonably south of this line of latitude.

So I present to you, the Southern World Cup of Hockey! Here is the logo I made.

Here are the 6 teams that compete in the games, which take place in their Summer.

2016 Nascar Racing 3 Xfinity Cars

So I did something I hadn't done before, gone farther than the Cup series! Here are 40 Xfinity Series cars I made over the last month. I'm relieved that I can move on.

One thing I've also been doing is updating the tracks. The game is very dated with tracks, and theres a nice little modding community to fill the gaps in the series from 1999 to now. With mods, the track images and info become very inconsistent. So I took it upon myself to fix this. With my 40 tracks, I updated the "trkinfo" and "trkshot" files

(yes, the Indy car track)

Every year, I edit the calendar file to reflect the changes to the Sprint Cup schedule. With those mods, the race logos range from "pixelated" to "none". I went through and fixed that for every Cup and Xfinity race this year.

So I've been doing a lot of work on it, and I'm really glad it's all over.

But I wanted to go even further for what I consider one of the best games ever.

Download the entire game, my mods and all, right here.

Enjoy!

2016 Nascar Racing 3 carset

Hey guys! So after a very productive week, post an exciting Bristol race and buying Talladega tickets, I have finished my 2016 set of Sprint Cup cars. After a week of testing, and a change of my rating system, I'm releasing it to everyone.

Here's some pics for everyone.

Downlad the cars here!

And in the mean time...