The Ken King Jersey Discussion Thread

[Joborule]

Originally Posted by playmaker

Though I'm in favor of keeping a small amount of black on our jerseys (previously posted Bastian Schmulling's concept is my favorite) recently I've been playing with retro ideas for slight modifications if the Flames decide to go full retro. Here is a concept I created:





Notable changes:
* the red flaming C should be outlined the same way as it is on our current road jersey, yet using red instead of black. In order to unify the outlined look of the logo on both jerseys, the white flaming C would be quite a challenge to adapt but the red and yellow outline combo turned out to be good looking. Same for the numbers.
* Lettering - the goal was so that slighly italic and double outline numbers match the logo. As for the typeface itself, I've used the freeware 'New Athletic M54' font which IMHO combines the best of both worlds - sans-serif style from the original retro font and gently rounded corners from the new one.
* Squared off yokes are a bit contrversial but I found them perfectly fitting for Stars and Wild simplistic designs. It's one of those nice little modern touches I'd include, like them a lot.
* As for the shoulder patch, I was quite surprised when I photoshopped out the black because to me it looks sharper without it on both home and road uniforms

any thoughts ?

Hot damn. Good job.

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Yeah, wow.

Lost in all the ugly that is the current 3rd's are what a home run the Flames hit with that shoulder patch. Love that you've kept them and altered the colour scheme to match.

Slight criticisms...
-Prefer a bigger logo that the Flames went with instead of the classic smaller one
-Don't like the cartoon font on the number

Those concepts are my favorite so far. Outstanding work.

Fully agree on the shoulder patches. Would be over the moon if the Flames decided to, at the very least, drop the flags and go with the new shoulder patches across all three sets.

As for the larger logo on the front, they look better on the ice but when I am wearing my replica it feels like I have a chestplate on. Very cumbersome.

I actually don't mind the font. It's kind of a hybrid of vintage and contemporary that compliments the jersey quite well. Of course I also like the original font, too.

[sun]

Looks great, but don't love the font. Improvement over the current font though for sure. Dig the squared shoulders.

Ken King, please read.

[bc-chris]

Originally Posted by playmaker

Though I'm in favor of keeping a small amount of black on our jerseys (previously posted Bastian Schmulling's concept is my favorite) recently I've been playing with retro ideas for slight modifications if the Flames decide to go full retro. Here is a concept I created:





Notable changes:
* the red flaming C should be outlined the same way as it is on our current road jersey, yet using red instead of black. In order to unify the outlined look of the logo on both jerseys, the white flaming C would be quite a challenge to adapt but the red and yellow outline combo turned out to be good looking. Same for the numbers.
* Lettering - the goal was so that slighly italic and double outline numbers match the logo. As for the typeface itself, I've used the freeware 'New Athletic M54' font which IMHO combines the best of both worlds - sans-serif style from the original retro font and gently rounded corners from the new one.
* Squared off yokes are a bit contrversial but I found them perfectly fitting for Stars and Wild simplistic designs. It's one of those nice little modern touches I'd include, like them a lot.
* As for the shoulder patch, I was quite surprised when I photoshopped out the black because to me it looks sharper without it on both home and road uniforms

any thoughts ?

man.... that red concept looks familiar.....






playmaker - that does look sweet - i really like the should patches.


edit... found my original post: http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpos...&postcount=734

[Yeah_Baby]

I need to stop coming into this thread. It just makes me more upset that we don't have a jersey like those.

[Mr.Coffee]

Number font should be the same font it is on our home / away just sans black, that number style has become part of the Flames identity. Shoulder patches look great and all the best concepts these days have zero black. Also would like namebars to have the large font like minnesota aways have now, looks better than small namebars.

[Tyler]

It will really bother me if we're forced to see our great young players stuck having to wear our ugly patch quilt monstrosities for another year

Full time retros moving forward please.

[underGRADFlame]

Originally Posted by playmaker

Though I'm in favor of keeping a small amount of black on our jerseys (previously posted Bastian Schmulling's concept is my favorite) recently I've been playing with retro ideas for slight modifications if the Flames decide to go full retro. Here is a concept I created:





Notable changes:
* the red flaming C should be outlined the same way as it is on our current road jersey, yet using red instead of black. In order to unify the outlined look of the logo on both jerseys, the white flaming C would be quite a challenge to adapt but the red and yellow outline combo turned out to be good looking. Same for the numbers.
* Lettering - the goal was so that slighly italic and double outline numbers match the logo. As for the typeface itself, I've used the freeware 'New Athletic M54' font which IMHO combines the best of both worlds - sans-serif style from the original retro font and gently rounded corners from the new one.
* Squared off yokes are a bit contrversial but I found them perfectly fitting for Stars and Wild simplistic designs. It's one of those nice little modern touches I'd include, like them a lot.
* As for the shoulder patch, I was quite surprised when I photoshopped out the black because to me it looks sharper without it on both home and road uniforms

any thoughts ?

Looks awesome! I'm actually curious what it would look like without the shoulder yokes on the aways, and just the secondary logo.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by playmaker

Though I'm in favor of keeping a small amount of black on our jerseys (previously posted Bastian Schmulling's concept is my favorite) recently I've been playing with retro ideas for slight modifications if the Flames decide to go full retro. Here is a concept I created:





Notable changes:
* the red flaming C should be outlined the same way as it is on our current road jersey, yet using red instead of black. In order to unify the outlined look of the logo on both jerseys, the white flaming C would be quite a challenge to adapt but the red and yellow outline combo turned out to be good looking. Same for the numbers.
* Lettering - the goal was so that slighly italic and double outline numbers match the logo. As for the typeface itself, I've used the freeware 'New Athletic M54' font which IMHO combines the best of both worlds - sans-serif style from the original retro font and gently rounded corners from the new one.
* Squared off yokes are a bit contrversial but I found them perfectly fitting for Stars and Wild simplistic designs. It's one of those nice little modern touches I'd include, like them a lot.
* As for the shoulder patch, I was quite surprised when I photoshopped out the black because to me it looks sharper without it on both home and road uniforms

any thoughts ?

I usually think that most of these are horrible, but this one is almost perfect. The only difference I would have is a more square number lettering, I think the rounded numbers look a little out of place.

Other than that ... bad ass.

[Jimmy Stang]

I'd buy both a home and an away of that. And I'm a cheapskate. And I'm picky about jerseys.

[Reign of Fire]

Originally Posted by playmaker

Though I'm in favor of keeping a small amount of black on our jerseys (previously posted Bastian Schmulling's concept is my favorite) recently I've been playing with retro ideas for slight modifications if the Flames decide to go full retro. Here is a concept I created:





Notable changes:
* the red flaming C should be outlined the same way as it is on our current road jersey, yet using red instead of black. In order to unify the outlined look of the logo on both jerseys, the white flaming C would be quite a challenge to adapt but the red and yellow outline combo turned out to be good looking. Same for the numbers.
* Lettering - the goal was so that slighly italic and double outline numbers match the logo. As for the typeface itself, I've used the freeware 'New Athletic M54' font which IMHO combines the best of both worlds - sans-serif style from the original retro font and gently rounded corners from the new one.
* Squared off yokes are a bit contrversial but I found them perfectly fitting for Stars and Wild simplistic designs. It's one of those nice little modern touches I'd include, like them a lot.
* As for the shoulder patch, I was quite surprised when I photoshopped out the black because to me it looks sharper without it on both home and road uniforms

any thoughts ?

I like these, especially with no flags on the shoulder patches

[Pliddy]

This may have been brought up before, but how in the hell can a bunch of amateurs post about 100 different jerseys and almost everyone of them (there were a couple that were iffy) are light years ahead of the Zellers pajama tops that they picked. presumably Ken King hired someone, paid them $1000's of dollars, came up with several models and put them to a vote with some very smart business people . What went wrong? I'm pretty sure they could have all the designs on CP for a lunch with Mcgrattan. It ticks me off because I held off replacing my son's Iggie Jerseys for the thirds and when they came out even my 8 year old said no thank you

[Tyler]

Easy. Ken King knows how to sell newspapers. Not jerseys.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Pliddy

This may have been brought up before, but how in the hell can a bunch of amateurs post about 100 different jerseys and almost everyone of them (there were a couple that were iffy) are light years ahead of the Zellers pajama tops that they picked. presumably Ken King hired someone, paid them $1000's of dollars, came up with several models and put them to a vote with some very smart business people . What went wrong? I'm pretty sure they could have all the designs on CP for a lunch with Mcgrattan. It ticks me off because I held off replacing my son's Iggie Jerseys for the thirds and when they came out even my 8 year old said no thank you

Design by committee is usually what destroys these things.

[Day Tripper]

I think now that even if they wanted to change the primary jerseys to the retros, they wouldn't be able to because teams need to wait three years between new jerseys. So because the Flames introduced those horrific third jerseys this season, they can't go with the retros for three years.

[EVERLAST]

reminds me of a jersey from the past

[ForeverFlameFan]

I don't think we really need to change the jerseys we have right now except we need to find an alternate jersey better than the current one. I hate that jersey, I hate it even more now that we all know that it's a curse.

[Joborule]

Originally Posted by Day Tripper

I think now that even if they wanted to change the primary jerseys to the retros, they wouldn't be able to because teams need to wait three years between new jerseys. So because the Flames introduced those horrific third jerseys this season, they can't go with the retros for three years.

I don't think that would apply to the primary uniforms. Flames can't change the alternate perhaps.

[sun]

Originally Posted by Pliddy

This may have been brought up before, but how in the hell can a bunch of amateurs post about 100 different jerseys and almost everyone of them (there were a couple that were iffy) are light years ahead of the Zellers pajama tops that they picked. presumably Ken King hired someone, paid them $1000's of dollars, came up with several models and put them to a vote with some very smart business people . What went wrong? I'm pretty sure they could have all the designs on CP for a lunch with Mcgrattan. It ticks me off because I held off replacing my son's Iggie Jerseys for the thirds and when they came out even my 8 year old said no thank you

I think there was a quote where King said they took bits and pieces from everyone's concepts. A little from here, a little from there type thing. The evidence is on the jersey - an unaesthetic, incohesive cluster#### that even eight year olds don't like. Embarrassing jerseys. The "curse" adds to their awfulness.

[djsFlames]

One of a handful of mockups I did for fun last year...and completely forgot about...