Jared and team working to help with better UNT merchandise

[UNTcrazy727]

  On 1/23/2023 at 12:13 AM, KingDL1 said:

I would be happy if they got rid of the horrible Serif font and go with some form of a Sans Serif. The font being used is not only a horrid font it terribly dated. 

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I hate the overall design. It's incredibly lazy and bland. Considering we have one of the most unique and recognizable nicknames, our branding is extremely boring. From my limited research it seems rare for athletics departments not to have their own branding that slightly or greatly differs from the University branding. Boring and bland works for universities, not for athletics. Just look at how UTSA's athletics branding differs from the University...

Unlike UNT where we lazily pasted our Eagle in front of the University letter mark, UTSA used some imagination and spruced up the font, centered the Roadrunner and made an ACTUAL LOGO. It blows our lazy excuse for a logo out of the water...

 

Edited January 24, 2023 by UNTcrazy727

[greenminer]

  On 1/23/2023 at 4:53 PM, UNTLifer said:

You all realize that this:

 

Led to this

 

Which led to this

 

It's like a coaching tree only with a logo.

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This: 

 

...led to this...

 

which led to this...

 

 

...any interest in bringing back the first guy?

[UNTcrazy727]

  On 1/23/2023 at 6:05 PM, ADLER said:

Our colors have never been changed by student vote or Board of Regents approval. Here is THE OFFICIAL LINE that should have been followed by UNT Branding:

Then a Director of Purchasing in charge of the North Texas branding site was able to put her own spin on our colors.

And this was by far not her most egregious offense. She left UNT Branding and went to our medical school when we partnering with TCU. 

In Fort Worth we now have: 

and what was the former Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, which was to become the University of North Texas College of Medicine was instead branded simply as  

Yes, even though it was our medical school and our facilities, TCU ended up with a College of Medicine and we wound up with an hsc, whatever that is, but it sounds like a public clinic. Our medical school has been pushed well under the radar to help raise the profile of theirs.

 

 

 

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I think you're getting upset over nothing. The link you always get mad about even states Green is our primary color and White and Black are secondary.  I disagree with classifying White as secondary, but I understand why they say that when it comes to styling university communications. Green should be the primary color for that.  The site is just saying Black is considered an official/accepted color when it comes to communications, not that its a primary color on the same level as Green. 

[GrandGreen]

  On 1/23/2023 at 4:24 PM, NT80 said:

It should.  If NT is going to allow plagiarism to obtain it's Athletic logos then I'm very disappointed in it as a place of higher learning.

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Realy, you think that NT can sue or have any influence over another country's use of marks or logos. 

[NT80]

  On 1/23/2023 at 8:14 PM, GrandGreen said:

Realy, you think that NT can sue or have any influence over another country's use of marks or logos. 

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I think you are confused.  NT is the one stealing the SOW logo from that country to use as our own. 

[El Paso Eagle]

Looks like the Texas with the Eagle is the new focus; at least for the Staff gear

 

[Glory to the Green]

  On 1/24/2023 at 12:05 AM, El Paso Eagle said:

Looks like the Texas with the Eagle is the new focus; at least for the Staff gear

 

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I like it. I once was accused of wearing a Philadelphia Eagles shirt.  The Texas outline erases any confusion. 

[Monkeypox]

I didn't read through all this, so I'm just gonna say this:

The diving eagle/SOW sucks, and has always sucked. It isn't proportioned or designed well for a football helmet, and it looks incredibly generic. It's not CLIP ART EAGLE bad, but it's not much better. Our university spending money on this instead of awarding it to a junior high contest winner is just another example of UNT's piss-poor money management.

Obviously, this is all subjective. But, I do have a design degree from UNT.

[greenminer]

  On 1/24/2023 at 2:30 AM, Monkeypox said:

I didn't read through all this, so I'm just gonna say this:

The diving eagle/SOW sucks, and has always sucked. It isn't proportioned or designed well for a football helmet, and it looks incredibly generic. It's not CLIP ART EAGLE bad, but it's not much better. Our university spending money on this instead of awarding it to a junior high contest winner is just another example of UNT's piss-poor money management.

Obviously, this is all subjective. But, I do have a design degree from UNT.

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Perhaps the kid from jr. high just nailed it.  #Unmatched

[UNTcrazy727]

  On 1/24/2023 at 2:30 AM, Monkeypox said:

I didn't read through all this, so I'm just gonna say this:

The diving eagle/SOW sucks, and has always sucked. It isn't proportioned or designed well for a football helmet, and it looks incredibly generic. It's not CLIP ART EAGLE bad, but it's not much better. Our university spending money on this instead of awarding it to a junior high contest winner is just another example of UNT's piss-poor money management.

Obviously, this is all subjective. But, I do have a design degree from UNT.

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I don’t hate the SOW as much as you seem to. I hope we keep it around.
But I will say it’s a flat logo devoid of any character. And you’re right about it being a bad helmet logo. That’s why I’ve always been a fan of bringing back the interlocking NT logo using our current font. At least it’d give us a secondary logo that would look good on a helmet. 

[UNTcrazy727]

Another conference mate who is smart enough to realize you shouldn't use University marks for Athletic branding. 

University mark:

Athletic mark:

 

[UNTLifer]

  On 1/24/2023 at 12:05 AM, El Paso Eagle said:

Looks like the Texas with the Eagle is the new focus; at least for the Staff gear

 

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Black and gray?

@ADLER in 3, 2, 1..

[untphd]

  On 1/24/2023 at 12:05 AM, El Paso Eagle said:

Looks like the Texas with the Eagle is the new focus; at least for the Staff gear

 

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That is the wrong color for a UNT jacket.

[DentonLurker]

They should put out merchandise people will buy/wear. If it's green, white, black, purple... I don't particularly care. To me, getting the logo out there is more important to brand recognition than the color of the shirt the logo is on. That's just my two cents, but I think the logo does a whole lot more for the brand than the color.

[greenminer]

  On 1/24/2023 at 4:30 PM, DentonLurker said:

They should put out merchandise people will buy/wear. If it's green, white, black, purple... I don't particularly care. To me, getting the logo out there is more important to brand recognition than the color of the shirt the logo is on. That's just my two cents, but I think the logo does a whole lot more for the brand than the color.

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The colors really tie it all together, dude.

[El Paso Eagle]

@Coach Andy MacThanks for restoring

[UNTcrazy727]

  On 1/26/2023 at 7:52 PM, El Paso Eagle said:

@Coach Andy MacThanks for restoring

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In honor of the thread being restored here's another school that gets it!

UCF university letter mark:

UCF athletics mark:

[GrandGreen]

  On 1/24/2023 at 12:03 AM, NT80 said:

I think you are confused.  NT is the one stealing the SOW logo from that country to use as our own. 

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Same response, you think the Austrian Air Force can sue an USA university?

I highly doubt NT stole a logo from Australia.  

 

[meanrob]

I don’t like ANY of logos listed in this thread, UNT or otherwise. That UCF university letter mark looks like a shoe gaze band logo. That black jacket is awful. 

I’m alone over here on keep it simple island.  
 

 

 

Edited January 26, 2023 by meanrob

[El Paso Eagle]

  On 1/26/2023 at 10:12 PM, meanrob said:

I don’t like ANY of logos listed in this thread, UNT or otherwise. That UCF university letter mark looks like a shoe gaze band logo. That black jacket is awful. 

I’m alone over here on keep it simple island.  
 

 

 

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[El Paso Eagle]

[UNTcrazy727]

  On 1/26/2023 at 11:51 PM, El Paso Eagle said:

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UNT admin: “Whoops!” 

[NT80]

At least we were smart enough in Athletics to return to using Mean Green and move on from Craig "UT" Helwig as AD and these logo disasters in Navy Blue and Burnt Orange:

[meangreenfaninno]

  On 1/27/2023 at 5:01 AM, NT80 said:

At least we were smart enough in Athletics to return to using Mean Green and move on from Craig "UT" Helwig as AD and these logo disasters in Navy Blue and Burnt Orange:

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Yukk!!

[UNTcrazy727]

  On 1/26/2023 at 10:12 PM, meanrob said:

I don’t like ANY of logos listed in this thread, UNT or otherwise. That UCF university letter mark looks like a shoe gaze band logo. That black jacket is awful. 

I’m alone over here on keep it simple island.  
 

 

 

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That's my whole point. The vast majority of university letter marks are painfully generic. That's why most universities, like UCF, allow their athletics department to have their own dynamic branding.