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Originally Posted by bax
Not necessarily. I'm not sure who the Flames use to design their jersey's, but Carolina for example has an in house creative team that designed their new third jersey from scratch.
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Each team brings concepts to the table but the league and Adidas all have final say, based on the templates availabe from Adidas, the design concept for other logo and branded merchandise and a variety of other factors.
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Originally Posted by Matty81
Gotta be something with the league or jersey companies we don't understand here. Maybe the league won't let them drop the black because the wings scheme is too similar? That seems like a reach as well though because they are so similar to the sens color scheme right now.
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It certainly is the league. It take a full year or so to go from presenting a finalize design, to get approval, as a start (and from approval it may be a year from when it’s going to be updated). As mentioned above, the league looks into an entire branding or rebranding as part of a uniform change, making sure (now) Adidas can provide the template, things like socks and pants and gloves and those manufacturers can grt on board. And of course then also the fan merchandise, both the current stock which has been manufactured and wearhoused and basically renedered useless once this new uniform or identity comes out, is something the league has to work out with the team. If there is issues with the design of the uniform or other road blocks, things get pushed back and maybe situations then change and it’s back to square 1 with the team having to resubmit everything to the league to start it all over. And with the known change to Adidas over the last few years, teams had to put a hold on major changes because the Adidas template and contract and process was going to change everything again.
The logo itself, if tweaked as part of a jersey redesign, is also a whole process in itself. With contract limitation of how often you can change uniforms,jerseys and logos is another hinderance.
So it isn’t Ken King (solely) supposedly ignoring the fans and or getting crudely done uniforms from low level staff members, oblivious to everyone else’s opinions, it’s largely a league matter of a long drawn out approval process, based on design, sure, but also boring protocol for overall branding identity, trademark checks, design limitations based on suppliers and manufacturers for jerseys, uniforms and fan merchandise, and the current stock of branded merchandise, contractual agreements etc etc that dictates both particular designs, and timings.
And if he is (ridiculously)the sole person to take blame for the current uniform set, does he not get the credit for the 2004 set?