Rebranding the Toronto Raptors (Updated designs on p. 7)

[pspot]

I like the idea of Toronto Basketball Club, plays up to the Euro angle a bit and is a lot less gimmicky
even with the hilarity of knowing they would be the Toronto BC

Red Blacks is **** (Please Use More Appropriate Word), sorry

[CoachJReturns]

I'm looking at it again and wondering if the leaf wouldn't look better without the white at the bottom of it. Just solid black with the red parts included. Just adding the type beneath the logo? Congrats by the way. I've always hated the name Raptors and your design makes me not mind it so much.

[CoachJReturns]

I like the idea of Toronto Basketball Club, plays up to the Euro angle a bit and is a lot less gimmicky
even with the hilarity of knowing they would be the Toronto BC

Red Blacks is **** (Please Use More Appropriate Word), sorry

Agreed. Toronto Basketball Club sounds classic and timeless. It would never go out of fashion and would be easy to implement with the designs TorontoRapture put together. He'd just remove the Raptor claw.

[whysoserious]

Great work TorontoRapture,

It keeps the claw logo, incorporates the leaf to have a Canadian flavour, has the CN tower for Toronto and I love the est. 1995.

I'm wondering how it would look if you inversed teh red with the black everywhere? Red leaf, black tower and then the rest.

[TorontoRapture]

Great work TorontoRapture,

It keeps the claw logo, incorporates the leaf to have a Canadian flavour, has the CN tower for Toronto and I love the est. 1995.

I'm wondering how it would look if you inversed teh red with the black everywhere? Red leaf, black tower and then the rest.

Like this?

[CoachJReturns]

I prefer the black maple leaf. Just makes it a little less predictable I suppose.

[hankscorpioLA]

LOL...im not going to further this pissing match. At this rate, someones gonna end up getting their flowers stepped on and im just not ready for that level of confrontation

Translation: I know I am wrong but I am not enough of a man to be able to admit it.

[TorontoRapture]

I prefer the black maple leaf. Just makes it a little less predictable I suppose.

Me too.

[whysoserious]

I think both work, thanks for quickly showing it.

I do like the black leaf a little more now that I see both. Maybe the court can be changed up to have more red. I just don't like black and white becoming so predominantly our colours.

How would that logo also work on a jersey? It's a solid looking logo for sure. What colours would you do? A white home? Red away or Black away?

[TorontoRapture]

I think both work, thanks for quickly showing it.

I do like the black leaf a little more now that I see both. Maybe the court can be changed up to have more red. I just don't like black and white becoming so predominantly our colours.

How would that logo also work on a jersey? It's a solid looking logo for sure. What colours would you do? A white home? Red away or Black away?

Like this?



I'm working on the jerseys now.

[TorontoRapture]

As for the jerseys...I gave it a lot of thought and spent a while playing around with re-designs, but ultimately, I like how they are now. The only changes I would make to them are to add Raptor claw marks on the shoulders, a CN Tower silhouette down the side of the shorts, and ditch the chevrons on the sides of the shirt. Besides that, the colour schemes of all the current jerseys and their design are perfectly fine.

This is what the shirt would look like:


These are the shorts (the shorts colour would match the shirt...of course):


What do you think?

[hankscorpioLA]

That logo looks a little too much like this one:

[Jay240]

I like the idea of Toronto Basketball Club, plays up to the Euro angle a bit and is a lot less gimmicky
even with the hilarity of knowing they would be the Toronto BC

Red Blacks is **** (Please Use More Appropriate Word), sorry

My sig is a joke not a serious suggestion. Or did someone else actually suggest it.

[BIG match]

LOL...im not going to further this pissing match. At this rate, someones gonna end up getting their flowers stepped on and im just not ready for that level of confrontation

Translation: I know I am wrong but I am not enough of a man to be able to admit it.

Buddy, you need to get a life. If you really want to further this why dont you come meet me in person.

Ive seen you argue with people on here before and thats all that needs to be said

[Rep905]

i agree Hank, its like all of a sudden its "cool" to be curt and impolite. People feel like they are allowed to be as ignorant and dismissive as they want because they hide behind an avatar and a username.

lol people think we are saying these logo's are ugly only because we can hide behind a username? Dude come bring me your mock-up's on paper ill show you to your face how ugly it is too.

THIS IS A FREAKING NBA TEAM. DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY SORT OF COMMON SENSE? LOOK AT THAT LOGO AND TELL ME IT DESERVES ANY THOUGHT OF BEING ON THE FRONT OF AN NBA JERSEY THAT I WOULD PAY $120+ FOR? LOL. NO DISRESPECT BUT COME ON NOW...

Yes you people are too sensitive, this is a forum, there were threads considering the rebrand and this guy decided to make his OWN dedicated thread SPECIFICALLY for his design. Imo, it better be damn good if you have the nerve to make a new thread about it distancing your design from the others in the original thread.

There was not a single thread on a Raptors rebrand but tons of Huskies rebrands. I think that deserves its own thread no? And I'm not doing this to show off, or force the design on people's throats... but merely to create a healthy discussion on the topic. I've done this time and time again with my personal Raptors mixes I've made, this time is no different. I think you have issues deeply rooted in jealousy, bud.

As someone who's been in art school, it's just general courtesy to constructively criticize someone's work in which they've spent hours on end creating. If you don't like the work, state why you don't like it, otherwise your comment can be taken as rude and insensitive. I can take constructive criticism, by all means lay it out to me - tell me what elements of the logo you didn't like so I can improve upon it but If you just flat out scoff and dismiss it, well you're just being an **** now aren't you?

It's probably one of the worst logo's created on this forum. It has absolutely lost the feel of a raptors leaning towards more on an alien theme. The skyline is NOT a good idea, it look's terrible. There is nothing good about this logo, the eyes, the teeth, the skyline, etc. I'm not insulting you or any of the posters but it's an NBA team, a professional sports organization and you would want to put that logo on the court/jersey?! I know people probably egg you on and tell you it's a great design because they think it's the nice thing to do, but what they are really doing is setting you up for failure. I am not jealous, more frustrated that people are willing to praise and accept mediocre logo's.. Don't you guys have any pride? This is my team and to see people like you butcher the hell out of the original logo is of course frustrating. Constructive criticism? Trash this logo and stop being blinded by the people who are praising you for your skyline in the teeth, etc. Your logo is a disgrace to the Raptor franchise (that's how bad it is). If you spent a lot of money going to 'art school', well stop right now if you think art may be a career for you. If it's on your spare time, then at least admit it's a terrible, ugly logo. I'm not hating or insulting you, I'm helping you out because people like Hank will always tell you how great your logo is when if fact, if we had a poll I would guarantee it would finish near the bottom. If you really want to update your logo, start from scratch.

[kmatrixg]

As for the jerseys...I gave it a lot of thought and spent a while playing around with re-designs, but ultimately, I like how they are now. The only changes I would make to them are to add Raptor claw marks on the shoulders, a CN Tower silhouette down the side of the shorts, and ditch the chevrons on the sides of the shirt. Besides that, the colour schemes of all the current jerseys and their design are perfectly fine.

This is what the shirt would look like:


These are the shorts (the shorts colour would match the shirt...of course):


What do you think?

Ooo hoo hoooo... I love the claw marks over the shoulders. And the entire Maple Leaf design in general. I'm an American, but hell, sport some Canadian pride if you're the nations only basketball team.

[TorontoRapture]

That logo looks a little too much like this one:

I respectfully disagree. They do look similar in that they both have a maple leaf with the name of the team under it, but that is where the similarity ends imo. I do see it, but I don't think It's too similar. If that is the case, than all logos with a large maple Leaf will look too similar to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Taking in consideration what the MLSE acronym stands for, I don't think the organization would have a problem with all their teams closely resembling their corporate brand.

[N1QUE24]

It's probably one of the worst logo's created on this forum. It has absolutely lost the feel of a raptors leaning towards more on an alien theme. The skyline is NOT a good idea, it look's terrible. There is nothing good about this logo, the eyes, the teeth, the skyline, etc. I'm not insulting you or any of the posters but it's an NBA team, a professional sports organization and you would want to put that logo on the court/jersey?! I know people probably egg you on and tell you it's a great design because they think it's the nice thing to do, but what they are really doing is setting you up for failure. I am not jealous, more frustrated that people are willing to praise and accept mediocre logo's.. Don't you guys have any pride? This is my team and to see people like you butcher the hell out of the original logo is of course frustrating. Constructive criticism? Trash this logo and stop being blinded by the people who are praising you for your skyline in the teeth, etc. Your logo is a disgrace to the Raptor franchise (that's how bad it is). If you spent a lot of money going to 'art school', well stop right now if you think art may be a career for you. If it's on your spare time, then at least admit it's a terrible, ugly logo. I'm not hating or insulting you, I'm helping you out because people like Hank will always tell you how great your logo is when if fact, if we had a poll I would guarantee it would finish near the bottom. If you really want to update your logo, start from scratch.

You fail to acknowledge one important detail and that's the fact I don't care wether or not my rebrand actually has a chance of being picked up by MLSE (I know its not), its the fact that I did this for fun and to open people's eyes to a Raptors redesign. People like you can hurl insults at my design and I won't care. Trust me, you're not the only one who had issues with the design so I don't know why you think you are in the minority. Almost a majority of the posters disliked the face but raved about the skyline. At the end of the day if you still prefer the old over the new then that's a stance I respect.

And it's funny to read your critique. You gave absolutely no suggestions on what to improve design wise. Not a single one. You just rip and rip and rip. Hell, I can understand if you hate it 100% but holy **** are you getting your panties in a bunch. I'm not telling you to marry it? You don't even suggest or propose a single idea. Well done troll.

[Rep905]

It's probably one of the worst logo's created on this forum. It has absolutely lost the feel of a raptors leaning towards more on an alien theme. The skyline is NOT a good idea, it look's terrible. There is nothing good about this logo, the eyes, the teeth, the skyline, etc. I'm not insulting you or any of the posters but it's an NBA team, a professional sports organization and you would want to put that logo on the court/jersey?! I know people probably egg you on and tell you it's a great design because they think it's the nice thing to do, but what they are really doing is setting you up for failure. I am not jealous, more frustrated that people are willing to praise and accept mediocre logo's.. Don't you guys have any pride? This is my team and to see people like you butcher the hell out of the original logo is of course frustrating. Constructive criticism? Trash this logo and stop being blinded by the people who are praising you for your skyline in the teeth, etc. Your logo is a disgrace to the Raptor franchise (that's how bad it is). If you spent a lot of money going to 'art school', well stop right now if you think art may be a career for you. If it's on your spare time, then at least admit it's a terrible, ugly logo. I'm not hating or insulting you, I'm helping you out because people like Hank will always tell you how great your logo is when if fact, if we had a poll I would guarantee it would finish near the bottom. If you really want to update your logo, start from scratch.

warned.

You fail to acknowledge one important detail and that's the fact I don't care wether or not my rebrand actually has a chance of being picked up by MLSE (I know its not), its the fact that I did this for fun and to open people's eyes to a Raptors redesign. People like you can hurl insults at my design and I won't care. Trust me, you're not the only one who had issues with the design so I don't know why you think you are in the minority. Almost a majority of the posters disliked the face but raved about the skyline. At the end of the day if you still prefer the old over the new then that's a stance I respect.

And it's funny to read your critique. You gave absolutely no suggestions on what to improve design wise. Not a single one. You just rip and rip and rip. Hell, I can understand if you hate it 100% but holy **** are you getting your panties in a bunch. I'm not telling you to marry it? You don't even suggest or propose a single idea. Well done troll.

The fact that you are swearing shows that you are emotionally tied to your design and your actually getting your panties in a bunch. Am I going out of my way to insult you and your 'art school' education? No I'm telling you a fact. I'm a hardcore Raptors fan and it's absolutely disgusting what you did with the Raptor logo. But wait do I rip on Los manos huskies design? No because that was actually a good design, where as your raptor logo is something I expect from 13 year olds. This is a professional sport franchise for Christ sakes not a gaming clan. Also you are so big on constructive criticism. When your foundation and eye for aesthetics is this poor, what is there to fix? Seriously I really hope you didn't spend too much money in 'art school' because it clearly shows that you are in no way an average let alone good designer. Again props to Los Manos for actually making something worthy of consideration.

[N1QUE24]

It's probably one of the worst logo's created on this forum. It has absolutely lost the feel of a raptors leaning towards more on an alien theme. The skyline is NOT a good idea, it look's terrible. There is nothing good about this logo, the eyes, the teeth, the skyline, etc. I'm not insulting you or any of the posters but it's an NBA team, a professional sports organization and you would want to put that logo on the court/jersey?! I know people probably egg you on and tell you it's a great design because they think it's the nice thing to do, but what they are really doing is setting you up for failure. I am not jealous, more frustrated that people are willing to praise and accept mediocre logo's.. Don't you guys have any pride? This is my team and to see people like you butcher the hell out of the original logo is of course frustrating. Constructive criticism? Trash this logo and stop being blinded by the people who are praising you for your skyline in the teeth, etc. Your logo is a disgrace to the Raptor franchise (that's how bad it is). If you spent a lot of money going to 'art school', well stop right now if you think art may be a career for you. If it's on your spare time, then at least admit it's a terrible, ugly logo. I'm not hating or insulting you, I'm helping you out because people like Hank will always tell you how great your logo is when if fact, if we had a poll I would guarantee it would finish near the bottom. If you really want to update your logo, start from scratch.

You fail to acknowledge one important detail and that's the fact I don't care wether or not my rebrand actually has a chance of being picked up by MLSE (I know its not), its the fact that I did this for fun and to open people's eyes to a Raptors redesign. People like you can hurl insults at my design and I won't care. Trust me, you're not the only one who had issues with the design so I don't know why you think you are in the minority. Almost a majority of the posters disliked the face but raved about the skyline. At the end of the day if you still prefer the old over the new then that's a stance I respect.

And it's funny to read your critique. You gave absolutely no suggestions on what to improve design wise. Not a single one. You just rip and rip and rip. Hell, I can understand if you hate it 100% but holy **** are you getting your panties in a bunch. I'm not telling you to marry it? You don't even suggest or propose a single idea. Well done troll.

The fact that you are swearing shows that you are emotionally tied to your design and your actually getting your panties in a bunch. Am I going out of my way to insult you and your 'art school' education? No I'm telling you a fact. I'm a hardcore Raptors fan and it's absolutely disgusting what you did with the Raptor logo. But wait do I rip on Los manos huskies design? No because that was actually a good design, where as your raptor logo is something I expect from 13 year olds. This is a professional sport franchise for Christ sakes not a gaming clan. Also you are so big on constructive criticism. When your foundation and eye for aesthetics is this poor, what is there to fix? Seriously I really hope you didn't spend too much money in 'art school' because it clearly shows that you are in no way an average let alone good designer. Again props to Los Manos for actually making something worthy of consideration.

If you spent a lot of money going to 'art school', well stop right now if you think art may be a career for you. If it's on your spare time, then at least admit it's a terrible, ugly logo.

You have no common decency so no surprise you didn't find your comment insulting. Who are you to say that art isn't a career for me? That's just your opinion and you couldn't be any wrong. I'm a graphic designer and while I might not be the best, I'm improving. Don't reply to this message because you've been put on ignore.