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Miami Dolphins New logo/uniforms Thread

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by Rocky Raccoon, Nov 12, 2012.

  1. Rocky Raccoon

    Rocky Raccoon Greasepaint Ghost Staff Member

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    Deuces!
     
  2. Ozzy

    Ozzy Premium Member Luxury Box

    Fixed that for you...
     
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  3. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    He's the Howard Stern of sports writers... love him or hate him, you want to see what he has to say next :shifty:
     
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  4. SICK

    SICK Lounge Moderator

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    Update on new logo

    I'd rather see a Helen Keller story written by her in yellow crayon. Than anything that egotistical douche types.
     
  5. SkapePhin

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    How about this thing I just cooked up based on the old stadium logo

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    notice that the fins now look like an M
     
  6. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    it's not bad skapephin... My idea would be a dolphin, with no helmet, similar colors as to what we have now but more streamlined with the sun popping up behind the dorsal fin making the M. No ring of fire / sun encircling the dolphin.
     
  7. Bpk

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    Update on new logo

    Actually, I love the part of posters creating our own versions. That's worth 40 pages. The leaked official one is what I find less interesting tbh.
     
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  8. rafael

    rafael Well-Known Member

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    Agreed. As somebody with non-existant artistic skills I enjoy seeing the many versions created.
     
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  9. apatos19

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    I hope that's not the logo, I really hope...It looks like a Seaworld Knockoff.
     
  10. CrunchTime

    CrunchTime Administrator Retired Administrator

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    This is the one that Like best .It reduces the logo to its basic elements,its clean .pleasing ,modern and symbolic and it remains the same no matter what distance you are looking at it from.The existing logo looks ok from a certain distance but becomes something else at other distances.

    Perhaps I would add some shadowing to give it some depth....to the sun for instance.The dolphin could use a little 3d effect too.
     
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  11. HardKoreXXX

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    Much better than the leaked one.
     
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  12. Section126

    Section126 We are better than you. Luxury Box

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    I just did my part to defeat this logo.
     
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  13. CANEPHINS

    CANEPHINS No Tats & Dreads Allowed

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    Personally I think our logo has always been crap.

    From the days with the silly ray beams on the sun to the white lines in a dolphin that you couldn't even tell was a dolphin...to the bloated cartoonish freak we have now.

    The logo, until its update in 97, looked like a kid in elementary school drew it. The only thing the old one had right was the color, which we should go back to. We should be more of that true aqua blue and not this greenish dark shade we have taken on Aqua Marine.

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    Fact is there is no way to have a dolphin as a logo and have it be tough looking. I have long been fine with the logo just being a fin. Even the mock of the fin with a half sun worked for me.

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    I think something like that is a hat tip to the past (by keeping the sun) and modernizing it for the future. But they are intent on keeping a dolphin in the logo and to do that you have to come up with a modern look for it.

    Would you like it if the tail was bent down rather than in swimming motion?
     
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  14. CANEPHINS

    CANEPHINS No Tats & Dreads Allowed

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    What if half the sun was taken off and the logo was angled like this...

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    Does that work for you all?
     
  15. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    you can't say this without explaining what it was that you did.
     
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  16. SkapePhin

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    I think the logo looks better angled up on a helmet regardless of the sun. It actually doesn't look all to bad on a helmet, and I think most people will agree once they see it on a helmet. The problem is, as a standalone logo, many people feel that the curvature of the dolphin makes it look feminine... I don't really buy that argument, but I can understand their complaint to a degree.

    The problem is, as you stated before, the dolphins logo has ALWAYS been somewhat wimpy. What the heck is TOUGH about an aqua crayon-sketched dolphin wearing a helmet white jumping through the sun? Nothing! Fans only accept it now because it was the original and it has been associated with many TOUGH individuals over the years...

    Fact is, tough-*** Larry Csonka was running around with a pansy dolphin on his head all those years!

    I guarantee if the leaked logo were the original 66 logo, and today they leaked a dolphin that looks exactly like the current logo most people would call that pansy, goofy, silly, etc. There are not many ways to toughen up a dolphin. Sometimes I wish the Dolphins came into existence in the 40s when everyone used Letters as their logo. We would have been better off with a classic M as our logo all these years rather than a goofy-*** helmet-wearing dolphin...
     
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  17. Rocky Raccoon

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    Anybody who likes this logo better than the leaked one just proved to me that the only thing they don't like about the leaked one is the pose.
     
  18. CANEPHINS

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    Angling makes all the difference in the world.

    Even our script logo all these years was wimpy. Swoopes and cursive. Ohhhhhh....intimidating. LMAO!

    [​IMG]
     
  19. MrClean

    MrClean Inglourious Basterd Club Member

    I have an autographed cover from the 1966 SI that has Frank Emanuel on it. The helmet he's holding has nose inside the sun logo. I also have a Mercury Morris 8x10 from the early 70s and the helmet he's wearing also has the nose inside the sun logo. I think it looks great. I never really even noticed the positioning of the dolphin changing from nose inside to outside back then, until someone mentioned it. So, I guess I like both the early logos equally well. I found it interesting about the uniformity being so lax that Bulaich alone was allowed to wear a helmet with the nose inside logo for 2 more years while the rest of the team had changed to nose outside logos on their helmets. Uniformity was brought up not long ago when the pic of Kiick, Csonka, and Morris sitting on the bench was shown and it was mentioned how they all didn't have the same sleeve stripes. Csonka's jersey was different, as I recall. Heck, Ozzy, if the team went back to 1970s throwbacks as the new uniforms, including even the facemasks, I'd be happy. :up:
    Ain't gonna happen, but I can dream anyway I guess. :)
     
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  20. rafael

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    I agree that our past logo would be considered crap by the vast majority of professionals in the design industry. I don't think that has any relation to somebody's individual tastes. I think it's pretty obvious that it was a very amateur, low quality job from the start. I think they tried to make it more professional looking when they updated it in '97 but kept that cartoon feel to it. At that point it could be argued that liking it or not is more a matter of taste.
     
  21. Ozzy

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    It does not have to be tough looking and there is nothing wimpy about it. The colors are what most every teams fans call wimpy.
     
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  22. Ozzy

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    They turned it into a cartoon in 97.
     
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  23. SkapePhin

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    I do think that the majority of the outrage over the logo is mostly due to the tail... If they used the same style, but changed the tail and pose to match the old logos, I think there would be much less hullabaloo over it...
     
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  24. Ozzy

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    The first thing he said was there is no way, I could explain the reasoning to like the logo other than it's something we've loved for years.

    I do, and he thinks he has the right to say, no, sorry you can't do that. lmao
     
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  25. CANEPHINS

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    No, what most mock is the helmet on the dolphin. That is #1 front and center.

    The second thing people mock is the cartoonish face on the dolphin.

    Colors would come in somewhere after that.
     
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  26. MrClean

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    Does that mean Omar has his own Wack Pack too? :wink2:
     
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  27. Pandarilla

    Pandarilla Purist Emeritus

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    I actually prefer the old 70's logo as a proper logo. This one seems like it could be used by a pharmaceutical company to sell antidepressants...
     
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  28. Ozzy

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    Notice how I did not even address his first paragraph? My original post of how artistic merit is "perceived" is exactly correct! I don't even care what his answer was to it....
     
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  29. rafael

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    The animal wearing a helmet was always a cartoon.
     
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  30. Jt0323

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    I agree. The thing I dont like about that logo or the dolphin stadium logo is the no tail. Reminds me of the buffalo slug
    [​IMG]
     
  31. Dol-Fan Dupree

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    The current one would be pretty good for selling antidepressants as well
     
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  32. Ozzy

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    No it wasn't.
     
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  33. rafael

    rafael Well-Known Member

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    Right b/c animals wearing human clothing or being given other anthropomorphic attributes has never been a hallmark of cartoons. :no:
     
  34. Dol-Fan Dupree

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    Yogi Bear was a documentary
     
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  35. Ozzy

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    No, because the person who drew it made a handmade picture from the Dolphins mascot, who sometimes wore a helmet, and played catch with a football.

    The 97 logo was an absolute cartoon
     
  36. MrClean

    MrClean Inglourious Basterd Club Member

    Exactly. Look at the works of any of history's great artists. People like Monet, Gauguin, Cezanne, et al. Not everyone is going to agree on the artistic merit or ability of everyone of them. No one is wrong. It is a matter of taste.
     
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  37. Pandarilla

    Pandarilla Purist Emeritus

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    Are you talking about the team or logo?:chuckle:
     
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  38. rafael

    rafael Well-Known Member

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    Wow! That's just what a cartoon dolphin would do!
     
  39. Section126

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    It's complicated. Let's just say that I made it the first topic on a TV show.
     
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  40. Fin D

    Fin D Sigh

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    Graphic design.

    I asked you a pretty simple question, do you think you could answer it?
     

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