simon
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Post by simon on Jul 20, 2024 8:05:57 GMT
Having seen all 3 plus the current badge together on one pic, I realised why our current badge looks so rubbish. The white background. The 3 new options all look better on the kit.
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Brophypants
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What are you doing with my badge? :(
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Post by Brophypants on Jul 20, 2024 9:47:38 GMT
Having seen all 3 plus the current badge together on one pic, I realised why our current badge looks so rubbish. The white background. The 3 new options all look better on the kit. You couldn't be more wrong if you switched to Histon twenty years ago.
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Post by funkymonk on Jul 20, 2024 11:24:11 GMT
Rip roaring stutes.
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Post by melpalmer on Jul 20, 2024 11:55:10 GMT
Surely if this about marketing to a new audience then whatever design we end up with we have to have Cambridge United built into it Only the well known brands can market with an Apple or a swoosh No body will spend the time working out who are are by unencrypting the shapes in our logo ? We need to shout who we are I know that you mean Mel and so have pissed about as follows: Having initially DENOUNCED option 2 as "crap" it is now my favourite! I think the Book and Ball typeface looks good with the asparagus Abbey arches (first of these three). I'm pretty sure a graphic designer will tell you the whole name doesn't work well. But it has been tried on Book and Ball, so... Beginning to like it For me it’s the first one but with typeface of 3 of your versions
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Dylan
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Post by Dylan on Jul 20, 2024 12:17:59 GMT
Makes sense. Typeface 3 is the one that's meant to go with that design (as you can see from the arch effects on some letters).
So you're saying that with the lamppost?
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Bendigeidfran
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Post by Bendigeidfran on Jul 20, 2024 12:43:59 GMT
I think option 1, but with a banner underneath would be better. Something like the design this clever clogs came up with on twitter. Either with UIE, or our name in it.
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Dylan
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Post by Dylan on Jul 20, 2024 13:36:47 GMT
Seen worse Bendi!
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Dylan
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Post by Dylan on Jul 20, 2024 14:09:49 GMT
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Brophypants
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What are you doing with my badge? :(
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Post by Brophypants on Jul 20, 2024 14:28:11 GMT
That last one is perfect. Just remove the arches and the Cambridge United and zoom in on the icon at the bottom right.
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TallPaddy
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Post by TallPaddy on Jul 20, 2024 16:32:42 GMT
Option 1, you would have to ask someone what it said and then they'd ask if you were from Carlisle or Chesham or catholic university. Option 2 and 3 have our club's name but 2 is just a bit too churchy for me
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Dylan
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Post by Dylan on Jul 20, 2024 17:05:52 GMT
The proper option 2 does not have our full name in it.
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Post by Mark Peters’ Bonce of Power on Jul 21, 2024 0:53:40 GMT
Serious question, does anyone else not really care? It’s difficult to articulate exactly why and I’m not entirely sure what my point is, but there’s just nothing about changing the crest or not that concerns me in the slightest beyond the basic awareness of it happening.
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nutsaboutamber
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Post by nutsaboutamber on Jul 21, 2024 4:40:14 GMT
I reckon 90% of us do care. What this last drivelling line of posts and images underline is that the three options on the table are just not fit for purpose.
By the way in my book a crest is something that sits on a bird's head somewhere. Here we are talking a BADGE, as in not a crest of honour.
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Dylan
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Post by Dylan on Jul 21, 2024 6:08:55 GMT
Surely you shouldn't be going down the road of 'my opinion = fact'?
Fwiw I think your badge is ok, but no more than that. Have you thought which parts can be used as secondary identities? It's a part of the club proposals I really like: the 1912 lamp post and the book n ball with just United in it.
A chap called Ben While on the Facebook group made the comment:
"If you look at a lot of businesses (which obviously rely heavily on brand and marketing) its the way a lot of them are going with simple clean designs which are adaptable without changing anything, something our current badge does not allow."
Does your design allow? (Or do you perhaps not accept the premise?)
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Post by El Goodo on Jul 21, 2024 10:29:05 GMT
Serious question, does anyone else not really care? It’s difficult to articulate exactly why and I’m not entirely sure what my point is, but there’s just nothing about changing the crest or not that concerns me in the slightest beyond the basic awareness of it happening. I'm in this boat too. Don't particularly like our current badge; don't particularly like any of the proposed ones; don't care if it changes; don't care if it stays the same. Sort of like the kits to me. Some I like more than others but by & large I don't really care, and it doesn't change anything about how I support the club. Our identity as a club doesn't really encompass the badge for me. Not in any truly meaningful way. For others it clearly does, and that's fine too.
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