John Martz

Posts tagged “logos”

OpenSRS sports team logos

Several weeks ago, Ken at OpenSRS asked if I’d be interested in helping him invent some sports teams to exist in the OpenSRS universe — sports teams that the mascots and characters that populate their website would potentially join or be fans of. These teams would be realized in the form of t-shirts for OpenSRS staff and clients. Here are the final designs, which I think turned out great. In addition to designing the logos, I also got to brainstorm and give the teams their tames.

I thought I’d share some of my process. After zeroing in on the team names (rejected ideas included the Zambonis, Netizens, Dribblers, and Bowl Weevils) I sketched up some rough ideas:

Ken liked these, but wanted these shirts to be tied closer to the OpenSRS branding. I took my favourites from the various roughs, and redesigned them to incorporate the colours, shield, and star from the OpenSRS logo:

Eventually we used different colours for each sport, but these refined roughs were enough for me to then create the final versions.