Circled in red: Anyway, not a bad concept. I think if the blue continued to the bird on the top and the red bars continued to and stopped at the bird on the bottom it'd look even better. And yeah, I'd say a bald eagle look would be better for a US crest.
Anyone think it's possible to put pressure on USSF to implement a new logo? Emails? Voicemails? Pitchforks and torches?
Thank you very much Neuwerld and Footy Fan for all your help. For some reason, I just don't see any of those symbols. No green boxes, no add attachment button, no anything. Just a message box and 14 icons from which to choose. Do you have to be a paying member? I'm not. I've tried in IE, forefox, chrome... nothing seems to work. I'll try working on shrinking the bald eagle to fit into the crest better. What about one of those floating banner looking things with maybe the establishment year on it or "indivisible?" Maybe some rivets around one of the exterior borders to more simulate a real shield? Something akin to the bundesliga trophy?
The guy who made this one rules! I changed the gold hue to a grey/black scheme. I think it would be strongest in blue and red, not sure why he went for gold. But yeah it's not even close, guy who made this is my favorite by far
Mad rattlesnake on a ball > eagle. Who wants to mess with a pissed off rattlesnake? Too many teams (including mexicLOL) associate with the eagle. Screw what's on the Mexican flag, or the Tea Party. U.S. Soccer and the Gadsen Flag have been around much longer than this one, specific political movement, and U.S. Soccer has absolutely nothing to do with the Tea Party. On top of that, much of the Tea Party hates soccer to the point of viewing it as part of the Communist invasion upon America. Of course, the irony is that people who hate this country probably don't support its national team, and start supporters groups based around patriotism. Anyway, we have a history with the snake. I believe it represents our team well.
anybody else hink the crest would look better if they changed the ball to one of those old laced ones?
It would look more classic, and if we did a very classic-looking coat of arms type of crest, it might look very appropriate. For the average logo, however, I think in the USA it would be confused with a volleyball. There's no reason to give the impression that we are being deliberately inaccessible. I think the bucky ball design is probably the best for USA Soccer, but I would like it done without the skyrocket lines. It looks daft like that. What, was it shot into the upper deck? What's to celebrate about that?
This logo is centered on the ball, and the aspect of movement makes it work. Remove the 'motion' and the ball looks out of place. I really like the stars in this version, never thought having large ones made sense with a soccer logo.
So on a patch that is three inches across, those stars are 1/16 of an inch across, no embroidery machine has the resolution to make that look like a star. Need to go with bigger stars.
I didn't consider that. Hm. In which case, I'd just support going with a revamp of the 1950 crest. No stars, letters saying either USA or USSF, and 11 stripes for the 11 players on the field.
Then that is most likely a player issue model. However, that doesn't discount the tons of replicas that will still exist with embroidered logos. You also have to think in terms of clarity when designing a logo. Will you able able to identity that those little tiny white blobs are stars when the logo is shrunken down to a smaller size for media purposes? Is it going to be identifiable on a website? These are all questions you must consider.
You sure they can't embroider those stars? See below. They won't have the same resolution as the example, obviously, but they will unmistakably be stars. That's all that matters.
Now THAT's starting to really look bad-ass to me. I get the foreign association with eagle over snake, but for our soccer federation/national team, I really like the association with the Gadsen flag.
I'm not saying it looks bad from a design perspective, I just think it's too obviously the invention of "non-soccer" types. It's a baseball thing for the ball be shown shooting up the air like that.
Yes. For openers. The other aspect is that the shooting ball feels... dated. Not "classic," but "dated."
Thanks for the feedback guys Sadly our logos are worth nothing unless Sunil were to come across one of them AND like them AND approve a change for the federation. Don't mean to be a negative Nancy but.. That's pretty much the deal :/
Nice! But a style that has been done before. A quick Google check reveals a few US colleges which have similar ideas. As a logo, nice. But how would it work on a shirt? I'll take on a pissed off snake. Thick boots and an axe.
Must confess, that thought had flitted through my head. If we follow that line, then it bares the hallmarks of the British Olympic logo http://www.olympics.org.uk Did also find this rather snazzy clipart, too... http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&...&w=433&h=450&ei=00T8TtbeGZHKmQWQp6yrAg&zoom=1