Let's Talk about Branding

[kso_FAN]

Comic Sans 'I' for Illinois would be the best

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[MadCat]

Comic Sans 'I' for Illinois would be the best

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[1863]

Comic Sans 'I' for Illinois would be the best

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ILLINOIS FIGHTIN' ILLINI

[kso_FAN]

 

[1863]

Potential basketball jerseys would look great.

[Rough Rider]

Yeah, LSU really has been all over the place.
K-State's old logo sheets had some hideous crap:

ADJC has done a good job of consolidating the athletics side of the brand.

[Stevesie60]

UNC has it's own color. Like, it's named after the school. I guess I'd like to get to that point.

[Rough Rider]

Gildan makes shirts in Carolina Blue, Texas Orange, and Tennessee Orange. We really are falling behind our peers, here.

[HerrSonntag]

I just checked and I have several articles of clothing and apparel that have a power cat on them but lack the mandatory ®.  Do I self report myself to the AD or live the rest of my life in terror as a scofflaw, outcast.

[Rough Rider]

® iron-on transfers?
If they're embroidered, you're screwed. Throw yourself at the mercy of officer Daris

[Mikeyis4dcats]

everything but the Powercat and Old Willie are garbage.

[Mr Bread]

I must be missing something. 

[ydarg2012]

I like a lot of our Wabash marks.  It's too bad that they are restricted to Wabash Collection use only.  The old buff Willie with the sweater and cap is my favorite old mark.

[kslim]

I just checked and I have several articles of clothing and apparel that have a power cat on them but lack the mandatory ®.  Do I self report myself to the AD or live the rest of my life in terror as a scofflaw, outcast.

if you don't think we have a powercat purple you haven't been paying attention

[SPEmaw]

I just checked and I have several articles of clothing and apparel that have a power cat on them but lack the mandatory ®.  Do I self report myself to the AD or live the rest of my life in terror as a scofflaw, outcast.

if you don't think we have a powercat purple you haven't been paying attention

We do have our own Pantone color purple. "Regal Purple" :ksugrad:

[michigancat]

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[The Big Train]

This is sort of what my degree is in, I have a fleece blanket that my mom had made for me with a powercat on it. Now I know that the royalties help our great university, but I liken this to downloading songs illegally. The artists already make enough from other people, one person getting the song, or the powercat logo, for free, makes little to no difference.: )

[SPEmaw]

This is sort of what my degree is in, I have a fleece blanket that my mom had made for me with a powercat on it. Now I know that the royalties help our great university, but I liken this to downloading songs illegally. The artists already make enough from other people, one person getting the song, or the powercat logo, for free, makes little to no difference.: )

Apples to Oranges. Your mother making a blanket for personal use with no intent to sell the item is not infringing on the trademark. If your mother continues making these blankets with a KSU mark and begins selling them, however, that would be problematic. At the end of the day, getting KSU's brand out there as much as possible is a positive for the school. That said, if anyone is going to profit from producing a KSU logo'd product, it should be KSU.

[WillieWatanabe]

I must be missing something. 

[slimz]

When are we going to see some sweet "KSU Tan" unis?

[slobber]

How about our KSU Wildcats?  That new hand symbol that raises awareness for Cerebral Palsy is very socially conscious.  I like that.

EDIT: I have a friend who has Cerebral Palsy, so it is okay if I laugh at that.

[signature move]

Apparently, Illinois is going to unveil a new branding at the spring game.  In the wake of the Chief debacle, Illinois has struggled to really find an identity.  It's such a weird dynamic.  Maybe bread can chime in here, but people are absolutely bonkers about the Chief logo and it'd been around forever.  I'm not saying they should have kept it, but now all that's left is some sterile, nondescript I. 



Sometimes there is "Illinois" written in front of the I.



Sometimes there's no I at all.



What a mess.

18 months from nike, and we get. . .



meh. weird font. would prefer the cursive of msu's and ku's b'ball jerseys. or something.

kinda like the white 'I' on orange helmet, tho.

[MadCat]

18 months from nike, and we get. . .



meh. weird font. would prefer the cursive of msu's and ku's b'ball jerseys. or something.

kinda like the white 'I' on orange helmet, tho.

It looks like the CBS Sports font.  I kinda like the logo on the girl's shirt tho.

[Trogdor]

18 months from nike, and we get. . .



meh. weird font. would prefer the cursive of msu's and ku's b'ball jerseys. or something.

kinda like the white 'I' on orange helmet, tho.

What the eff is 1LL1NO1S?

[ydarg2012]

They're trying to be trendy like Ke$hsa