Semi OT: Some sweet CFB helmet concepts (but the Michigan one is bad)

Submitted by YoungGeezy on

A creative design firm redesigned the helmets of a few iconic college football programs and IMO did a fantastic job with a lot of them. I'm not generally impressed with these remixes, but this round was pretty good with the exception of ours, which looks a lot like Missouri's. Obviously the best can't be topped (there's clearly no improving on the winged helmet) but for some of the others I think they are actually a decent uppgrade.

What do you guys think?

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/250790…

Edit: I agree with all of you that the Michigan one is bad, I just put it there for reference.

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ClassOf14

February 23rd, 2015 at 7:04 PM ^

Not a fan of this at all. The M is great and all, but how many other teams have such a unique helmet that is instantly recognizable without a team logo on it? Michigan should never get rid of the winged helmet, ever.

I saw his post on pro helmets and liked some of those. But others are right in saying the main draw of these are just bigger logos. Not exactly groundbreaking in my opinion.



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bluewoody

February 23rd, 2015 at 7:34 PM ^

Just blow it all to hell, bring out Willie the Wolverine while we are at it. The Mona Lisa does not need a mustache. Can these cheese ball parties please stop messing with uniforms and helmets and go back to designing such wonders as the Aztec automobile. I hate the future if this is what it entails. Hail velcro shoes with lasers.

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double blue

February 23rd, 2015 at 7:49 PM ^

These are awful. The michigan one is incredibly bad.

Never ever consider touching our helmet. It is by far the best piece of any team uniform in any sport anywhere on this planet ( probably the universe , but I will leave a little room).

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kehnonymous

February 24th, 2015 at 12:45 PM ^

Far be it from me to impugn the graphic designers on this thread because my meh stint in architecture school makes me doubt I could hack it as a graphic designer myself but....

...for these alternate helmets, pretty much the only design involved was putting a school's logo on the side of the helmet and scaling it up by a factor of 2 or 3.

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nMkaczor

February 24th, 2015 at 2:02 PM ^

I have found that the best looking alternate helmets are the ones where they REMOVE design elements and simplify the design as opposed to adding more things and making it bigger. For example: a decent alternate helmet for Florida would be just a blue helmet with an orange stripe down the middle. Maybe make it matte if you want it to be more unique. By doing that you have distilled the design to a minimalist representation of the normal Florida helmet. Making it unique but still recognizable.



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Blue24

February 25th, 2015 at 8:29 AM ^

I lol'd at some of these. Sorry, but I saw only a few that could actually be taken seriously. There were a couple I couldn't even recognize.

DON'T touch our helmets. Just don't

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