Logo Draft Assignment

In my logo project draft I was able to create a draft that actively reimagined my fantasy football league. This image was meant to serve the purpose of being our new league logo. Our fantasy league which is ironically named after the relatively popular show “The League”, which aired on FX between 2009 and 2015, pays tribute to the fantasy league in which the friends in the show systematically revolve their lives around. In the draft I kept my design relatively simple and included some of the color in the background to compliment the black outline of the football and our lettering. This relates to my course topic of Sports, specifically the ensuing NFL season and the multitude of ways to enjoy it. I researched dozens of football related logos in order to decide on this one during my final draft. The importance of blending our league name in with the sport that it is devoted to makes the design encompass all of the important aspects of our fantasy league. I began by creating the footballs outer shape using the circle tool and deluding the perfectly shaped circle into the oblong design of a football. I then added the text and used the scissors tool to remove the edge of the football. I then used the line tool to add the seem that would be on an actual football and included some stitches again by using an oblong circle from the circle tool. Finally I used the eraser tool so that the football grips would not interrupt the text in the image and added a rounded square so that the image would be more vibrant. I found plenty of inspiration from the NFL, college football and similar leagues that are found around the United States. I had some trouble when trying to scale the object and get everything to fit together just the way I wanted it to. I eventually had to use two separate text boxes for the two words so that the space between them was not too vast.