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Online London Villan

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #645 on: October 05, 2022, 03:05:37 PM »
Stupid star...

Offline Billy Walker

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #646 on: October 05, 2022, 03:16:34 PM »
If the lamp/shield idea is executed well and sets us apart, I could be persuaded.  I'm disappointed the star will remain a feature, though, as they are ten a penny now and, besides, we have done more than enough over the past decade to remind everyone of our European success. 

Whatever badge we end up going for, may it bring us success...

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #647 on: October 05, 2022, 03:41:57 PM »
Maybe the star will be the flame in the lamp....

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #648 on: October 05, 2022, 03:50:14 PM »
A standalone lion was also our first crest and, given we're closing in fast on 150 years it would be a good tribute to that. That also chimes with the fact that they've turned the lion around which is was at the time.

A modernised version of that with Aston Villa underneath was my choice all along and i'm glad they've at least added it to the final 3. The advantage is that doing it that way means you have a naturally monochrome crest which will work on any background with a palatte shift and looks clean and unclutted as an internet favicon and logo as well. The problem with something like the gaslamp, the round option or the current shield is that they can look weird so you end up having to adapt them for each media.

I also think that round badges have become ten-a-penny since we had it and annoy me just as much as the idea of being in an identikit bowl stadium.

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #649 on: October 05, 2022, 04:02:24 PM »
The lamp is a terrible idea. If had always been part of the club's visual identity then I supposed we'd embrace it, but it's just a nice addition to the story and to add it now would be bizarre. It remainds me of a pub getting a revamp and filling its walls with old pictures of spuriously connected local views or people posing in front of horses in a desperate attempt to add heritage. Our heritage is a given: it doesn't need that sort of nonsense.

I wouldn't mind a stand-alone icon, but a rampant lion is too generic a feature not to be incorporated into some design, which spells out what it's for. It's not even as if its design has been consistant, over the years.
« Last Edit: October 05, 2022, 04:54:16 PM by German James »

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #650 on: October 05, 2022, 04:09:16 PM »
The lamp is a terrible idea. If had always been part of the club's visual identity then I supposed we'd embrace it, but it's just a nice addition to the story and to add it now would be bizarre. It remainds me of a pub getting a revamp and filling its walls with old pictures of spuriously connected local views or people posing in front of horses in a desperate attempt to add heritage. Our heritage is a given: it doesn't that sort of nonsense.

I wouldn't mind a stand-alone icon, but a rampant lion is too generic a feature not to be incorporated into some design, which spells out what it's for. It's not even as if its design has been consistant, over the years.

I can't think of a team in English football with a standalone lion as it's crest. I can think of a fuckton with a round badge, a icon in the middle, name above and below (often 'football club' below) and formation year chucked in there somewhere. Right now that sort of round badge is easily the most generic option we could choose.

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #651 on: October 05, 2022, 04:11:51 PM »
Right now that sort of round badge is easily the most generic option we could choose.
There's definitely some truth in that. But a lion out of context is just a lion. It's not like Arsenal's cannon or Everton's half-arsed tower thing.
« Last Edit: October 05, 2022, 04:14:17 PM by German James »

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #652 on: October 05, 2022, 04:16:34 PM »
And the Lion is synonymous with our identity.  Everyone knows we're Lions.  Come on you Lions has rung out from the Holte End for years. 

Liverpool and Spurs have great emblems, but you don't hear 'come on you Liver Birds' or 'come on you Cockrels'

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #653 on: October 05, 2022, 04:19:08 PM »
Right now that sort of round badge is easily the most generic option we could choose.
There's definitely some truth in that. But a lion out of context is just a lion. It's not like Arsenal's cannon or Everton's half-arsed tower thing.


Maybe, but I'd like to see what they come up with for it first, I think it's got the most potential of the 3 options though.

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #654 on: October 05, 2022, 04:44:36 PM »
The lamp would be cringe-makingly awful. Disneyfication.


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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #655 on: October 05, 2022, 05:01:16 PM »
When we are going through a bad patch, which would look better ripped in half on the front page of the Mail, a Lion or a lamp?

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #656 on: October 05, 2022, 05:02:04 PM »
The lamp would be cringe-makingly awful. Disneyfication.



Yes, it has got a whiff of the Dick Van Dyke about it.

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #657 on: October 05, 2022, 05:08:39 PM »
Liverpool and Spurs have great emblems

They don't. Tottenham's looks like a sponsor's logo and Liverpool's is far too busy.

Round badge is the way to go. The standalone icons are shite.

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #658 on: October 05, 2022, 05:16:36 PM »
Liverpool and Spurs have great emblems

They don't. Tottenham's looks like a sponsor's logo and Liverpool's is far too busy.

Round badge is the way to go. The standalone icons are shite.

Claret shirts blue sleeves, no variation ever allowed.  Round badge, nothing else will do.

This is your meal deal choice isn't it?





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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #659 on: October 05, 2022, 05:19:02 PM »
Swap the ham for bacon, the water for Irn Bru (not the shitey new recipe, obvs) and the crisps for more bacon and you're on.

 


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