Crest Review

[paul_e]

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...

Sorry but the bold bit is nonsense. You've decided you don't like Heck and are making up things to be upset about at this point.

[Risso]

Can't see what pablo has said that's wrong there, personally.

[VillaBoy_23]

Some of the responses on this thread are embarrassing. The club can’t do wrong for doing right on here.

[Mister E]

Is that swirly thing for real?!! - just seen it and I genuinely had no idea what it was till I read back onto the previous couple of pages ...

[pauliewalnuts]

This being in the crest thread means several days of people assuming that 150 thing is the crest

[LeeB]

Wait until he announces our 'official snack partner', the server will explode.

[paul_e]

Can't see what pablo has said that's wrong there, personally.

So you think how that looks is incompetence rather than a choice?

[Ads]

You know you're about to go top of the league when all you can moan about is font types and cropping.

Fucking love you Emery and what you've left us to discuss in angry tones!

[Toronto Villa]

Some people are just going to get angry or lose their minds whatever the club does on this. It won’t be enough or is too much of something. I’m sure if Heck had an idea to have a game with a star design on the pitch he’d be criticized for it. I get he probably hasn’t done the best job in his communication. There is certainly room for improvement there. But he’s not here to destroy the club with the way he plans to present us for this event or in the future. I’m just waiting for the official plans to be announced and someone suggests or calls him a Nose agent. This is important. Not downplaying it, but whatever the commemoration and celebrations are it doesn’t change who and what we are as a club. We will still be Aston Villa.

[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...

Sorry but the bold bit is nonsense. You've decided you don't like Heck and are making up things to be upset about at this point.

No it isn't.

Its basic design principles.

Principles I have had to follow my whole career as a graphic designer.

There are times you can break those rules, but here is not one of them...

Can't see what pablo has said that's wrong there, personally.

So you think how that looks is incompetence rather than a choice?

Please explain to me where the choice is?

[manic-road]

That’s a special type of misery when even the fonts and colours are criticized, I imagine that is the type of miserable **** that manages to suck the oxygen out of every room they walk in.

[paul_e]

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...

Sorry but the bold bit is nonsense. You've decided you don't like Heck and are making up things to be upset about at this point.

No it isn't.

Its basic design principles.

Principles I have had to follow my whole career as a graphic designer.

There are times you can break those rules, but here is not one of them...

Can't see what pablo has said that's wrong there, personally.

So you think how that looks is incompetence rather than a choice?

Please explain to me where the choice is?

What's the point? You clearly know more than everyone at the club and are determined to see this as incompetence instead of just accepting they've made choices you don't like.

[LeeB]

I'll be honest here, I find the arguing about specific fonts and such like about as thrilling as VillaDawg's Spurs wage bill analysis.

[villadelph]

Some people are just going to get angry or lose their minds whatever the club does on this. It won’t be enough or is too much of something. I’m sure if Heck had an idea to have a game with a star design on the pitch he’d be criticized for it. I get he probably hasn’t done the best job in his communication. There is certainly room for improvement there. But he’s not here to destroy the club with the way he plans to present us for this event or in the future. I’m just waiting for the official plans to be announced and someone suggests or calls him a Nose agent. This is important. Not downplaying it, but whatever the commemoration and celebrations are it doesn’t change who and what we are as a club. We will still be Aston Villa.

Totally agree with this. The hyperbolic complaining is nonsensical. We're going to moan about promotional imagery that's going to be on the side of a paper cup inside the stadium? If only we had shit football to focus on..

[pablo_picasso]

That’s a special type of misery when even the fonts and colours are criticized, I imagine that is the type of miserable **** that manages to suck the oxygen out of every room they walk in.

Heaven forbid someone has a critical opinion of the fonts & colours in a thread that is a about a design that is created using fonts & colours...

If you don't agree, then why not make the counter point to why you disagree?

And I would like to point out that just because someone has a critical view on one thread, does not mean that they are "miserable & suck the oxygen out of every room they walk in."

It merely means that they have a critical view on one element within a thread discussing that element.

Not everything has to be all candy floss grass & lollipop trees.

Neither does it have to be all doom & gloom.

For the most part, I am extremely happy with a lot of others things going on at the club & have said so in numerous other threads.