General NUFC stuff: club crest to be changed (Official)

[SteV]

18 minutes ago, Big River said:

get an agency or a designer in place who understands the club and its heritage and it'll be good. crowdsourcing designs never works. it's nonsense.

But not them that done that monstrosity for Leeds

[JT24]

1 minute ago, Sempiternal said:

Genuinely happy to be proved wrong but can anyone point to a badge being changed in the modern era that got better? In my mind they have all been terrible 

Norwich

[Dr Venkman]

5 minutes ago, Sempiternal said:

Every date is arbitrary, but my opinion is changing something that has been in place nearly 40 years, after being in control of a club for 4 is not right. Just the way I see it. Especially for the transparently BS reasons they are giving. I like our badge, I like the fact it’s not just corporate sludge. 

 

Are you suggesting there's a badge change conspiracy?

[KDT]

2 minutes ago, Sempiternal said:

Genuinely happy to be proved wrong but can anyone point to a badge being changed in the modern era that got better? In my mind they have all been terrible 

Arsenal but that was 20 years ago. 

[Elma]

32 minutes ago, Marquee Moon said:

Don’t think we need to change, but I quite like this modernised version of the old badge if we have too. Just hope it’s not some Juve style shite.

 

That's my favourite club crest - would have no objection to reverting to that and that modernised version is very good.

 

Feel it will be more like the Norwich City update at the end of the day. Hope we don't go back to the "NUFC" round one permanently.

[Yorkie]

I feel like I made peace with this inevitability years ago that I can't muster any strong views at this point.

 

I love our badge, it evokes a really strong emotional response in me whenever I see it out of context, and it'll always be 'my' badge.

 

However, we must dumb down if we're to keep up. That's the principal rule of anything you might vaguely define as football iconography these days. 

[STM]

2 minutes ago, Sempiternal said:

Genuinely happy to be proved wrong but can anyone point to a badge being changed in the modern era that got better? In my mind they have all been terrible 

 

It's down to opinion though. I prefer Spurs badge to their old one and Chelseas to theirs.

 

And while those old coat of arm badges hold historical significance, they aren't necessarily easy on the eye.

[Sempiternal]

Just now, Dr Venkman said:

 

Are you suggesting there's a badge change conspiracy?

 

No ofc not. I don’t believe that the issue of it being a “digitally replicable asset” is remotely severe enough to warrant a change. 

[Sempiternal]

3 minutes ago, JT24 said:

Norwich

Fair enough I prefer the old one but it’s not much of a change tbf 

[Maggies]

35 minutes ago, Marquee Moon said:

Don’t think we need to change, but I quite like this modernised version of the old badge if we have too. Just hope it’s not some Juve style shite.

Just watched the video and they ruled out a Juve style change.

 

It’s going to be something like the change Inter or Man City did. The survey then asks which part of the logo are most important (flag, lion, castle, seahorse, shield and ribbon) - I would guess they’ll just simplify it by removing those that score lowest….

[Sempiternal]

3 minutes ago, KDT said:

Arsenal but that was 20 years ago. 

Aye that is a good one, but as you say a long time ago. Does look nice though 

[Paullow]

It's a shame. Those over 45 will have seen badge changes, some of them multiple, and those under 20 won't have been as accustomed to it, depending on how long they have been I to football, but those in and around 40 will have known it for 30 or so years and will have been all they have known, so that age range will probably be affected the most. Obviously we'll see what they come up with, but if you have a design that's lasted the entirety of the Premier League era, then it just feels needless. I also like the fact it is one of very few that his changed in my lifetime.

[STM]

It's the real reason something to do with owning the rights to the badge and making more money? I might be wrong. Also the more simple the badge, the more shit they can stick it to and the more money there is to be made.

[Kilcline]

Found the survey a bit daft asking about the individual components. It's everything together that makes the badge what it is

[JP]

Already done apparently. PL ruling that clubs have to ask fans for input - hence email today.

 

Same/very similar badge but freshened up/modernised. 

 

Similar to Norwich badge rebrand.

 

 

[geordie_b]

[Sempiternal]

Just now, JP said:

Already done apparently. PL ruling that clubs have to ask fans for input - hence email today.

 

Same/very similar badge but freshened up/modernised. 

 

Similar to Norwich badge rebrand.

 

 

Where have you seen that? If that’s true that’s palatable. 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

18 minutes ago, STM said:

I think something like this would be ace. I imagine whatever they do will lack alot of detail though.

 

Gorgeous. 

 

FWIW must PL badges are not ultra simple, so I expect something closer to this style of design. 

[TBG]

Theirs for 500k, cash.

 

 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by TBG

[AyeDubbleYoo]

4 minutes ago, Sempiternal said:

Where have you seen that? If that’s true that’s palatable. 

 

That's also the direction they say on the press release (minimal change).

[JP]

3 minutes ago, Sempiternal said:

Where have you seen that? If that’s true that’s palatable. 

 

Friend in the graphic design world who has had jobs with premier league itself/clubs prior.

 

Don't want to come across as that ITK wanker mind 

[Ash]

33 minutes ago, Sempiternal said:

Perhaps they could spend money updating our academy? What happened to that? 

 

How it's relevant to this topic I have no idea but what an odd thing to level at them. 

[JT24]

2 minutes ago, TBG said:

Theirs for 500k, cash.

 

 

 

 

Fuck the lion off and put a magpie there and we can split the 750k

[Sempiternal]

Just now, Ash said:

 

How it's relevant to this topic I have no idea but what an odd thing to level at them. 

Well according to them this is modernization ?this would be way down my list of things to update personally. It’s needless and we have pressing needs elsewhere. 

[Groundhog63]

I couldn't give a rat's arse, tbf. 

 

"Legacy" Karen tears, tho