Crest Review

[Des Little]

Why is it that people on here can come up with better designs than the beardy Tarquins that we must be paying tens of thousands to?

Because we know our audience is miserable bastards. Fluffy PR are aiming at mum, dad and the kids, or increasingly the Far East.

I wear my miserable bastardness as a badge of honour, and no creative needs to design that fcuker for me.

[Dogtanian]

It's in use...

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2023/december/21/av-150--countdown-to-anniversary-season-begins-/

[pablo_picasso]

It looks marginally more attractive without the circle, but its still a bit shit & I cannot see any narrative that relates to Aston Villa being 150 years old in it...

[Risso]

It's in use...

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2023/december/21/av-150--countdown-to-anniversary-season-begins-/

God. Three different fonts and colours, some weird pixellated bits that look worryingly like they've made a small image too big, and the main logo looks as shit and unreadable as ever. And this is supposed to be what Heck's good at? Joker.

[Si]

There's a serious lack of sky blue in the latest images.

[Bad English]

If they think I'm buying a commemorative mug, tea-towel or T-shirt with that on, they have another think coming.

[Villan82]

Lerner, or the folks employed at the time, did handle the 140th anniversary with a touch of class befitting this club.

Heck looks to be making yet another dog's dinner of things. They sacked Gerrard for being shite on the pitch I am wondering if alarm bells are ringing about Heck because they are are for me.

We play in claret and blue and have a majestic name. Heck, just f*** off.

[pablo_picasso]

There's a serious lack of sky blue in the latest images.

There is a straight line top & bottom where "The VILLA" text has been cropped.

And it's not a stylised crop for composition.

It's just a piss poor crop because the text does not fit that space.

Just make the fucking text slightly smaller & will have no need to crop.

Jebus Christ, I learned that sort of shit when I was taking my art GCSE...


As a side note, they are using the standalone lion silhouette again.

It's the Lerner sketch lion, which is amazing in the sketch, but feels very odd in silhouette form.

The new circle lion is much stronger in silhouette.

Sadly, I feel that they are going to go with the Lerner sketch lion as a standalone silhouette because it's the cheapest option for switching things around stadium, training ground, etc.

Im starting to feel that Heck is Ellis reincarnated...

[Dogtanian]

I can only imagine what we will be playing in next season, as it seems they are determined that the kit is going to reflect our history.

I really hope it's not like the first kit;

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Aston_Villa/Aston_Villa.htm

[andyh]

fucking hell, its moan central on here
The club will never do anything right, will it ? 

[Villan82]

fucking hell, its moan central on here
The club will never do anything right, will it ?

That's why Heck was foolish to come in and bin off the new circle badge. They got through that relatively unscathed (save the direction of the lion, it would have been almost perfect if facing left).

Heck has reopened that whole pandora's box and so far it is not good and the signs are not good. Its not claret and blue for a start.

[VILLA MOLE]

I thinks a black away kit with a nod to these original kits will be good

[Dogtanian]

I thinks a black away kit with a nod to these original kits will be good

I'm going for a woollen jersey, with claret and blue stripes from the 50s, and a lace-up neck. It will be massively baggy like a 90's top, but combined with 80s painted-on stupidly-short shorts.

[Bad English]

Was Heck responsible for the SNCF high-speed train TGV logo that looked like a snail when viewed upside down?

[German James]

Maybe we should just be grateful.