Stevo985 Posted January 17 VT Supporter Share Posted January 17 8 hours ago, Spoony said: I like this Balaban fella’s redesign but I don’t see how this can be a “leak” tbh. Why wouldn’t we trademark what we are going to have but instead some random mock up? I don’t buy this recycling an old lion stuff either. It really isn’t hard to register a trademark - why wouldn’t they register what the badge is going to be? As someone mentioned as well, the lion is far too detailed. I’m not sure there’s a single badge you could find with that level of intricate detail, and for good reason (scaling, digital use and other reproduction). I suspect this guy has successfully led everyone on. I think the intention was to use what they trademarked. But the club could not have failed to see the backlash against that badge. They’re not idiots. So I think it’s entirely possible that they’ve tweaked it at the last minute to appease the fans. And using a lion design they’ve already trademarked seems a quick way to do that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 9 hours ago, JPAngel said: I've seen this mentioned a lot so I figured I'd mock it up. Thoughts? Looks alright but I'd like to see us a couple of places higher. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPower_14 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 2 hours ago, nick76 said: I guess you're advocating for the thoroughly underwhelming current round badge again? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 One thing in the back of my mind is that a lot of the reasoning for Lerner's original badge and not including detail within the lion was to make it reasonably cost effective to produce on the shirts, it was (allegedly) in part to keep Nike happy. Will be interesting to see how Adidas approach this, either the technology has changed as was posted with some of the gold designs a few days ago (but mostly focused on National teams / limited edition shirts)... Or I wonder whether we'll see another bump in cost of fan shirts in order to execute the badge as hoped. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Spoony Posted January 17 Popular Post Share Posted January 17 8 hours ago, Jas10 said: If real, this badge is lovely. If it’s fake, may its creator live out their days with the fleas of a thousand camels in their armpits. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan95 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Fully expecting the trademarked version to be it. I'll be (pleasantly) surprised if they actually use the detailed lion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Willard Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 I’d be happy with the gold lion badge. Still unsure about the white border but I think it’s clearly an Aston Villa badge now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Stevo985 Posted January 17 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted January 17 I'd be very happy if the detailed lion version is the final version. It's not perfect. I still think the light blue background is weak, and the star is still crap. But that's almost nitpicking now. The improvement over the clip art version is amazing so the relief at not having that would be huge Fingers crossed its a legit leak. I think if the 3D version we saw was real, then this print version is real too 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted January 17 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 17 15 hours ago, fightoffyour said: Still too much blue for me but the gold and claret lion makes it very difficult to swap things around. It's not a total embarrassment anymore at least, if real. Would much prefer something like this, ignoring, if one can, my fudged, bucket-fill detailing on the lion: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deano & Dalian's Umbrella Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 (edited) What the hell is this OnBrand thing and does it annoy anyone else? We are really going to regret it if Russel Brand goes to trial. Edited January 17 by Deano & Dalian's Umbrella 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Zhan_Zhuang Posted January 17 Popular Post Share Posted January 17 1 minute ago, fightoffyour said: Would much prefer something like this, ignoring, if one can, my fudged, bucket-fill detailing on the lion: It's good but a little too Wet Spammy (for me), I know they knicked Villa colours but their badge is predominately Claret. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 11 hours ago, JPAngel said: I've seen this mentioned a lot so I figured I'd mock it up. Thoughts? All that shows to me is we need to stop bloody changing it. I recognise all the badges on there at that size, not because they scale down well, but because they haven't changed every few years. I assume for the same reason mentioned above, but scaled down I can't see what ours is meant to be. Lack of familiarity possibly, but it doesn't scale down well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyVillans Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 9 hours ago, Jas10 said: This badge + Adidas shirt + Champions league. Yes please 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 8 hours ago, Tom13 said: Can't wait till it's embedded and the fuss is over so everyone can stop being a graphic designer. You can shut your goddam jpeg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolta Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 5 minutes ago, MrBlack said: All that shows to me is we need to stop bloody changing it. I recognise all the badges on there at that size, not because they scale down well, but because they haven't changed every few years. I assume for the same reason mentioned above, but scaled down I can't see what ours is meant to be. Lack of familiarity possibly, but it doesn't scale down well. To be fair how many of them actually do? Only Wolves' badge is identifiable as involving a wolf. If you didn't know the others then they'd all be a much of a muchness. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Rolta said: To be fair how many of them actually do? Only Wolves' badge is identifiable as involving a wolf. If you didn't know the others then they'd all be a much of a muchness. That is exactly what my first paragraph said... the others are identifiable because they haven't changed recently. We could have come up with something that is scalable, but I'm not sure it should be the key driving factor. Wolves nailed the "visible from all distances", but I wouldn't have wanted us to follow their lead, or even have beaten them to it and gone with an abstract lion before they did the wolf head. Its just not very Villa. Whatever, I want us to not change it for at least 20 years... Still waiting for Heck to formally unveil it. I do wonder if this account is a planned leak, to test the reaction after seeing what the trademark submission did. I can only assume something is going on behind the scenes as we're beyond the original time frame they set for the unveiling. Edited January 17 by MrBlack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Made In Aston Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 11 hours ago, VillaBrum said: Well, I might be in the minority, but it still identifies as Aston Villa to me. Thanks for the example. Probably something to do with the"aston villa" text to the right of the logo mate. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 I think a way to rectify the " Aston Villa " imbalance problem which is bugging some (Not exactly centered), would be to make the star a little bit smaller, and put it in between Aston and Villa at the bottom. That would also clean up the top, leaving only the lion and focus the text and additional features at bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted January 17 VT Supporter Share Posted January 17 (edited) Who was that Leeds fan who pranked an entire fanbase with the Grealish staying prank a few years ago? CJ-something This will be a bigger prank than that if it's not real. Edited January 17 by villarule123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 2 hours ago, ThunderPower_14 said: I guess you're advocating for the thoroughly underwhelming current round badge again? Nope, I know that is dead and buried, I want a good claret and blue badge and sticking a detailed lion on a shitty design doesn’t improve the trademarked one much. People are just badge process weary and anything remotely better than that shit one people are willing to accept but not me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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