Crest Review

[Olneythelonely]

Looks ok to me.
It just a thumbnail at the top of a webpage.
Nothing at all to be ‘embarrassed’ about.

If it was a design project at school, it would be marked down heavily for lack of consideration of how it would look when shrunk to a smaller size.

I’m not saying it brings shame to the club or anything like that, but if this was created by a designer, it’s not something you’d be proud of. Have a look at it compared to other logos on your phone screen. Find one that looks shitter.

Obviously not telling you to care. But it’s a fair assumption that this is the topic for those that do.

[Risso]

BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Paulie already mentioned them Risso.

Yeah, I saw, I just meant in terms of posting the video.

[Bad English]

I just opened the Pravda app and it said an update was pending. I installed it and it is still the same old shit badge and not the new shit one.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Am I alone in 'quite' liking it?

[Bad English]

Scrub that, there was a second update with the new shit badge.

[john e]

It’s better than the Learner one simply because it has Aston Villa written on it

What’s the point in having the greatest name in world football and not using it
Just ask Tom Hanks

[KRS]

Think we’ll see the kits very soon

The Adidas deal starts today so was expecting the announcement today considering how they’ve been pushing out all the promotion…so may be it’ll be Monday instead.

[PeterWithesShin]

As a decent sized image it looks ok imo, as a thumbnail or smaller profile pic it doesn't. The yellow of the lion seems to distort it and you can't see the 1874.

[tomd2103]

As a decent sized image it looks ok imo, as a thumbnail or smaller profile pic it doesn't. The yellow of the lion seems to distort it and you can't see the 1874.

Still don't like it, but it's done now and there are more important things to focus on over the coming months.

[paul_e]

As a decent sized image it looks ok imo, as a thumbnail or smaller profile pic it doesn't. The yellow of the lion seems to distort it and you can't see the 1874.

Same, it's the only thing I really dislike about it and I find it surprising it's been done when everyone knows how common thumbnail size images are.

[FatSam]

I didn’t have a strong opinion about whether the new crest should have been round or a shield, or even the silhouette of a lion, but I wanted it to say ‘Aston Villa’ rather than ‘AVFC’, have the Lion facing the right way, and ideally not have the star. However, I appreciate the difficulty in reaching a consensus from consultation with a broad group of people, such as a football club fanbase. For this reason, none of these preferences were deal breakers for me provided that the new crest was a bold, ambitious, and competent piece of graphic design. The fact that some basic principles of graphic design haven’t been adhered to suggests that the brief was too prescriptive; the Lerner crest seems to have been given too much respect, when we all know that it was a bodge job. The fact that the text is too small, and crammed down at the bottom, is part of the reason why it doesn’t scale well as a thumbnail. It obviously is what it is, and some football clubs have crap crests - I just didn’t want Aston Villa to be one of them.

[Astnor]

It s grown on me. I like that its a shield form, blue background and claret for aston villa and around the shield. I have had to use time about the yellow Lion but cant see now how it could be different given the shield background. The shadow thing they could have left out but I think it s about the real badges that you put on clothes the lion will stand out (thicker clothes- stuff than rest of it) thats way shadow on flat pictures. Also it has a more up to date feel than the round one from the seventies / eighties that I like much. Everything probably said here before and I m certainly not a pro on these matters but did like to put my view out here - its a positive for me along all the other positives with the club now.

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't know if it is because i was focused on how shit the new badge looks on the site (ironic, given that the whole argument against the old new one was that it looked bad on digital) but it appears it's an actual new site.

[pauliewalnuts]

.... until you go to the tickets section, and there it is with the old old badge, the one prior to the round one.

[exigo]

Our new font is called Medula One if anyone else fancies hours of fun.