Club Badge (merged)

Pell not Pep ;-) said:
I think the shield was an element fans voted for. I didn't but I'm happy the eagle has gone in fairness. The club were never going to please everyone. I think its a shame their are so many negative view points on here. The club made an effort & included fans. They need to be applauded for making the effort. I'm not including you in this but their are loads of posts in this thread that imply the club have made a mistake. The reality is fans views differ and there are lots of positive views too.
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I applaud the supporter involvement. However, the badge design (not the elements themselves) is bad and the haste of its creation poses two questions: 1) did they already have this finished prior to the consultation (and so it was used to justify what they already had rather than direct their work) or 2) they did in fact base the badge on the outcome of voting but didn't bring in the proper design team or give them enough time to create an elegant, future-proof, professional badge with the gravitas necessary for our great club.

My artist wife and I had our designer friends (among others) over for dinner last night and between singing, gifts, and drinking we talked about the badge—I finally was able to boil down the base issue with the badge from that conversation: it is not imposing at all. It lacks any real gravitas. You look at it and you recognise what it is but it doesn't imply any power or authority. That's why people keep saying it looks like a League 2 badge or that a child created it. It looks benign—with a juvenile slant. It portays nativity more than it does forcefulness.

To be clear, I'm not looking for a powerful facist eagle or a dragon breathing fire. I wanted us to go back to our roots with something akin to the old badge (though, I would have been fine incorporating an eagle symbol of some kind as it is just as much part of our glorious history now as the red rose... If not more so). But I also wanted it to have that gravitas mentioned before. I wanted it to reflect the stature of the club. This new badge does not.

I will obviously have to learn to like it but I do think the club have gone a bit astray with this. Which is something they have not really done for some time, so it is disappointing.

Anyway, Merry Christmas all!
 
It is certainly growing on me. At first I thought that the rose was a bad inclusion but when some posters showed reworkings of the new badge without it, I missed it!
Secondly the inclusion of 'Football Club' or even just 'FC' clutters the outer ring and diminishes the statement: "We are Manchester City." You can see those two words a mile off. That will push our name in the faces of all who see it.
Great idea.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
So, doing the maths, thousands of people gave input, there is one design that is probably not like any single person really, really wanted, and thousands of people are slagging it off.

I guess the sun is still rising in the east. Thank goodness for that.

FWIW, it is a vast improvement on the eagle and star nonsense, very similar to the previous one, while also fitting in nicely with the CFG branding.
No brainer.
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+1
 
stonerblue said:
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For the people who regard me as an idiot for liking space then this one sort of proves my point.
 
kramer said:
The Eagle was part of the badge during the most significant period of the club's history, won far more than with the sodding RED rose and was worn on finals' kit which the rose never was. So on the basis of your argument then 16 years shouldn't be discarded as it reflects the history of the club. The rivers have never not been on the badge the only thing that has returned symbol wise is the rose sticking there like a red sore thumb
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My view on this is the rose badge should never have been discarded in the first place. It was just decided. No consultation. No vote. Nothing. Nadda. Zip. By who? So for me, to have it reinstated is justice.
 
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