Crisler Center banners feature my design (Posted here on MGoBlog!)

I think it may have something to do with if they notified me, they think I might expect to be paid for my designs. They were merely just a suggestion. I just want to be a part of Michigan athletics in any way I can.

Nay, my friends. We are missing an opportunity here. It is quite obvious to this reader that OP's email was filtered out by Dave Brandon's SPAM filter. He actually discovered (and poached) these ideas via MGoBlog itself. My fellows, it is clear: Dave Brandon is among us.

at Michigan, fergodsakes.

Gardner** f u spellcheck

The regents approved a $6 million Michigan Stadium painting project set to begin 2/1/2013 and I think I have a pretty good idea that that's what they are going to do.

I've been thinking about wanting to get championship years on the boxes ever since they were put up. My thought is that it could be National Championship years on the West box and B1G Championship years on the East box. Now how they should arrange them is a little hard to calculate.

Don't choose a hobby as your career path then.



Wow that was mean.

If someone is willing to do your job as a fun hobby and email it to DB for free, then you're SOL.  Free will.

From the tiny picture, the new banners look nice but they look pretty damn close to the old ones with a few minor changes consistent with the updates to the Crisler Arena/Center artwork.

oh wow u mad

Heaven forbid that the peons engage in creative endeavors! Only professionals should be allowed to create!

As a professional graphic designer I will have to say your the only person in my field that gets upset about it, that I've ever heard of.  I even asked before posting to make sure I wasn't out of the loop and everyone I talked to said they don't care.  NOW, what they do get upset about is people taking what they created and adding Arial font at the bottom and calling it thier own, that really gets us bent out of shape.  It's not like the athletic department sent him a request for the work ,was inquiring about the work or had a contest to see who could design the best banner.  He freely sent the work in, no promises, nothing that even comes close to spec work.  So am I upset about someone sending in an idea they had on how the banners could be designed and the athletic department creating something similare, no and neither were any of the other people I asked.

As for the designs them selves, I really don't see that much of a diffrence between the old ones and the new ones, enough to say they absolutley took your idea and you should be claiming credit, but if they did that's awesome.

Nothing against the OPs designs however the banners were almost certainly going to look like this regardless of whether or not he submitted his design. All they really did was update the fonts to the current version they've been using and the Big Ten logo. It looks as if they even used the logo with the 1G filled in and the B as just an outline as opposed to the OP's suggestion

Funny - I also emailed him a little while ago and said "Don't change the winged helmet."  It didn't change, so clearly it's thanks to me.  You're all welcome.

Are pretty funny. They say how hokes no visit policy is not fair. Then they describe how Mack Brown and Urban do it right. The thing is what they are describing as "good" is exactly Hokes policy. They want hokes visit policy to be bad, wrong, unfair so bad, they just make up their own view of it (eg hoke pressures kids to commit early) to show that Ohio is sooooo much better. Lol. Their ignorance is amusing.

Only 40 years after putting men on the moon, behold bathroom hand dryers that work. 

Used those at cedar point this summer; after a long day with everyone's hand juice getting blasted to the bottom, they're f-ing disgusting.

How does he have the truth?  The athletic department has given him zero indication that it ever read his email, much less accepted his proposal.