Crest Review

[Simon Page]

The squiggly knob design doesn't improve, or become less offensive, just because we hide it next to the washing instructions on our sweaty shirt.

Truthfully I don't massively care in the grand scheme of things, but I would expect whoever has decided we need another logo to highlight a milestone to give a shit. This infant school exercise in joined-up writing, and the way it's been sneaked into being, suggests they don't. I do accept they might think it's genius, which is arguably more worrying. Reminds me of when the BBC introduces a slightly amended ident to detract from the loss of a few hundred million and job cuts in the canteen.

[nigel]

I think whatever he came up with it wouldn’t have pleased everyone.
We saw this with the recent crest
Personally, I quite like the simplicity of it.
I can’t see a cock, sex act or any other obscenity, so I don’t know what some of you are on 😂

[paul_e]

I think whatever he came up with it wouldn’t have pleased everyone.
We saw this with the recent crest
Personally, I quite like the simplicity of it.
I can’t see a cock, sex act or any other obscenity, so I don’t know what some of you are on 😂

About where I am with it. For a badge to stick on a few bits of Merch it's fine and does what it needs to.

I suspect we'll see "Aston Villa" and "1874" in the same font before long, some people won't like it but it's clearly intended to be Victorian retro and I can understand that.

I mostly like the washed-out colouring for it which I suspect we'll see a lot of for the next year, I'd be amazed if we don't end up with a super plain home kit that goes in the same direction.

[Bad English]

I can’t see a cock, sex act or any other obscenity, so I don’t know what some of you are on 😂

Derision tablets.

[Risso]

It's not going to be the badge on a kit, but it is the main logo for the 150 year celebrations as a whole, and as such, it is utterly crap and not fit for purpose.

[Ads]

Reminds me of a 1950s milkshake bar. Which in turn reminds me of back to the future, which I like. Its just a logo that will soon be so familiar you forget. A bit like Legia Warsaw fans making a racket at their place. Great noise but by 20 minutes I'd stopped listening to it.

[Demitri_C]

That logo is awful. Hopwfully the new logo will be far superior to this

[Simon Page]

It's less is it good or not. I mean, it isn't, but everyone is entitled to be wrong. It's more the way it crawled out of a hole, not so much apologetically as thoroughly ashamed of itself. Badges, kits, food and drink, powder rooms and ablution arenas, new stands, preeeemium experiences. Everything - except the most important thing - seems very half arsed and has done for some time.

It's odd that it can be so right in the bit we usually get wrong, and utterly fckn amateur everywhere else.

[Brazilian Villain]

I think whatever he came up with it wouldn’t have pleased everyone.

Would have been nice if it pleased someone.

[Brazilian Villain]

Reminds me of a 1950s milkshake bar.

An apt description.

[CT Villan]

Very American and very crap.

[pablo_picasso]

I think whatever he came up with it wouldn’t have pleased everyone.
We saw this with the recent crest
Personally, I quite like the simplicity of it.
I can’t see a cock, sex act or any other obscenity, so I don’t know what some of you are on 😂

About where I am with it. For a badge to stick on a few bits of Merch it's fine and does what it needs to.

I suspect we'll see "Aston Villa" and "1874" in the same font before long, some people won't like it but it's clearly intended to be Victorian retro and I can understand that.

I mostly like the washed-out colouring for it which I suspect we'll see a lot of for the next year, I'd be amazed if we don't end up with a super plain home kit that goes in the same direction.

If that is the intention then it has failed.

It is more 1950s Americana baseball than Victorian...

[paul_e]

I think whatever he came up with it wouldn’t have pleased everyone.
We saw this with the recent crest
Personally, I quite like the simplicity of it.
I can’t see a cock, sex act or any other obscenity, so I don’t know what some of you are on 😂

About where I am with it. For a badge to stick on a few bits of Merch it's fine and does what it needs to.

I suspect we'll see "Aston Villa" and "1874" in the same font before long, some people won't like it but it's clearly intended to be Victorian retro and I can understand that.

I mostly like the washed-out colouring for it which I suspect we'll see a lot of for the next year, I'd be amazed if we don't end up with a super plain home kit that goes in the same direction.

If that is the intention then it has failed.

It is more 1950s Americana baseball than Victorian...

I was thinking of things like the Cadbury logo.

[exigo]

Reminds me, I must dig out the Farahs for Christmas day.

[pablo_picasso]

I think whatever he came up with it wouldn’t have pleased everyone.
We saw this with the recent crest
Personally, I quite like the simplicity of it.
I can’t see a cock, sex act or any other obscenity, so I don’t know what some of you are on 😂

About where I am with it. For a badge to stick on a few bits of Merch it's fine and does what it needs to.

I suspect we'll see "Aston Villa" and "1874" in the same font before long, some people won't like it but it's clearly intended to be Victorian retro and I can understand that.

I mostly like the washed-out colouring for it which I suspect we'll see a lot of for the next year, I'd be amazed if we don't end up with a super plain home kit that goes in the same direction.

If that is the intention then it has failed.

It is more 1950s Americana baseball than Victorian...

I was thinking of things like the Cadbury logo.

Fair enough.

The 1920s to todays modern day version of the William Cadbury signature that became the actual Cadbury's logo has a similar feel, so I can see how you linked the two visually.

Although apologies for being a pedant, & Im not trying to be awkward or argumentative, but the Cadburys logo you are thinking about is not Victorian in the sense that it was created at least 20+ years after the Victorian era ended... 👍