It was the first question I asked and, let's just say, there is absolutely no way I'd have been involved if a badge had already been created. City assured me and this has been a genuine consultation. Still time to make your feelings known via the questionnaire etc
It's actually not 100% certain who that picture of the team in the black kit with a cross on is our club. There are people who think it is Gorton FC but there has never been any evidence to say it is. Also Gorton FC who became Ardwick AFC, well, let's just say that club did not then become Manchester City as a natural evolution. Manchester City and Ardwick both existed at the same time as two separate clubs at one point. So i don't think there should be anything on our badge, or anything other than a few history books (certainly not our birth date which should always remain 1894) that has anything representing anything before Manchester City FC were formed in 1984.
Apologies for the rudimental design skills, but just wanted to show how the core design that is so popular on here is perfectly adaptable for the modern age.
Most badges nowadays are converted to monochrome for away kits and other marketing material. If we had a red rose on the badge, in monochrome it would appear as a white rose. I'm not sure what the die hard Lancastrians would feel about that.
Using the ship and 3 shield design though, the design still looks clean, simple and iconic.
I started off thinking I'd prefer the main badge to have the maroon / red shield and gold stripes, like number 1.
But the more I think about it, the more I think the sky blue shield with white stripes will be better like number 2. This colour scheme looks more instantly recognisable as Manchester City when it appears on posters, newspapers, TV, social media etc, without needing to be on a sky blue shirt.
The sky blue shield is also an element of our current badge, so it's keeping that continuity and making it easily recognisable for our many fans around the world who are unfamiliar with the Manchester Coat of Arms. It instantly says Manchester City, whereas the red / maroon shield with gold is not instantly recognisable as City to the under 40s.
I'm sure Gav's getting wary of the requests, but if there is anyone else with decent design skills who could illustrate the core design with different colour schemes I'd be most grateful. :-)
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Absolutely. No 2 is the way to go...
But with the lettering straight and the ship not sinking! ;-)
You could even go with gold "rivers"?
But yeah, that's the core design that we'll get IMO.
As for whether there is a pre-determination to this whole process, well they must've bandied about ideas for them to be even considering what to do so they may well have come up with something like this as a possibility, but want to get fans views anyway to either confirm what they were thinking or to get a general feeling of what would be popular, or not. That wouldn't mean that it's pre-determined, just that their thoughts might echo that of most fans. We'll see. But I trust the club to not fuck it up.
Plus it gets us involved in the process and if nothing else it's been an education for most if not all of us, including the current hierarchy.
After what you said about the badge being used on websites away from the kit and on official documents or used in the media that may not have sky blue around it, i think having #2 as the badge would be ideal as it shows the core colours more than #1. But any of those would look good on the kits.Apologies for the rudimental design skills, but just wanted to show how the core design that is so popular on here is perfectly adaptable for the modern age.
Most badges nowadays are converted to monochrome for away kits and other marketing material. If we had a red rose on the badge, in monochrome it would appear as a white rose. I'm not sure what the die hard Lancastrians would feel about that.
Using the ship and 3 shield design though, the design still looks clean, simple and iconic.
I started off thinking I'd prefer the main badge to have the maroon / red shield and gold stripes, like number 1.
But the more I think about it, the more I think the sky blue shield with white stripes will be better like number 2. This colour scheme looks more instantly recognisable as Manchester City when it appears on posters, newspapers, TV, social media etc, without needing to be on a sky blue shirt.
The sky blue shield is also an element of our current badge, so it's keeping that continuity and making it easily recognisable for our many fans around the world who are unfamiliar with the Manchester Coat of Arms. It instantly says Manchester City, whereas the red / maroon shield with gold is not instantly recognisable as City to the under 40s.
I'm sure Gav's getting wary of the requests, but if there is anyone else with decent design skills who could illustrate the core design with different colour schemes I'd be most grateful. :-)
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Sorry, i meant 1894, haha!
How would No1 look if we shrunk the shield to fit in the eagle(as in the present badge), but still kept the round outer. Best of both worlds I think, but could be a bit to much going on. If anyone could do that ,would appreciate it .Apologies for the rudimental design skills, but just wanted to show how the core design that is so popular on here is perfectly adaptable for the modern age.
Most badges nowadays are converted to monochrome for away kits and other marketing material. If we had a red rose on the badge, in monochrome it would appear as a white rose. I'm not sure what the die hard Lancastrians would feel about that.
Using the ship and 3 shield design though, the design still looks clean, simple and iconic.
I started off thinking I'd prefer the main badge to have the maroon / red shield and gold stripes, like number 1.
But the more I think about it, the more I think the sky blue shield with white stripes will be better like number 2. This colour scheme looks more instantly recognisable as Manchester City when it appears on posters, newspapers, TV, social media etc, without needing to be on a sky blue shirt.
The sky blue shield is also an element of our current badge, so it's keeping that continuity and making it easily recognisable for our many fans around the world who are unfamiliar with the Manchester Coat of Arms. It instantly says Manchester City, whereas the red / maroon shield with gold is not instantly recognisable as City to the under 40s.
I'm sure Gav's getting wary of the requests, but if there is anyone else with decent design skills who could illustrate the core design with different colour schemes I'd be most grateful. :-)
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I believe that your first sentence is developing into the consensus. The #2 blue version is certainly growing on me. Not sure we need nor can accommodate the '1894' but it would be of historical value if the bees were found a place.
