Problem is when they do try to go creative, we end up with gingham.
Manchester United Kits 2014/15
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Very nice. As always, shame about the damn Chevy logo.
Which would you prefer:
or
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There's no denying that the second one is far more creative. Personally I prefer simplicity.
Poor old Sir Bobby with the wayward combover
Love the black kit and the Chevy logo is there without that awful gold emblem burning your eyes off.
Id buy that, and I suspect many others would as well.
Very nice. As always, shame about the damn Chevy logo.
Which would you prefer:
or
?
There's no denying that the second one is far more creative. Personally I prefer simplicity.
love it.There's perhaps a happy medium elsewhere. Basically Addidas has 3 templates and they change the colour/badge accordingly.
There's perhaps a happy medium elsewhere. Basically Addidas has 3 templates and they change the colour/badge accordingly.
Yeah it's possible, but it's rare for kits to be both original and nice. A few of the nike ones have come close to managing it, but again even their more unusual designs are pretty simple. For some reason when kit designers try to be creative, it ends up looking like someone's let loose a three year old with a bunch of crayons.
These guys are paid a small fortune to come up with these kits, you would've thought that with all time and resources considered they'd be able to come with something creative and nice once a year.
Yeah it's possible, but it's rare for kits to be both original and nice. A few of the nike ones have come close to managing it, but again even their more unusual designs are pretty simple. For some reason when kit designers try to be creative, it ends up looking like someone's let loose a three year old with a bunch of crayons.
Are they though? I'd have thought that they spent the majority of their budgets developing the fabric and stuff like that - they always seem to go on about them in their marketing. I wouldn't be surprised if the budget allocated to the actual visuals was relatively small in comparison to marketing, technology, etc. That said, anyone can come up with a nice kit given 30 minutes in photoshop, so there really is no excuse.
I am almost sure that copyrighting is involved in the problem, most of the mock kits are not original, they are nice but they come from designs already existing.
I would love us to use the old tri-leaf adidas logo. Something like the above would be great.
That's basically a Liverpool shirt with a United crest on it. Horrific.
The classy ones before it were much nicer..
Personally, I like the three stripes and think anything thats close to Bayern's kits will be great.
We'll probably end up with something new and wank though.
Possibly, though most companies seem to play it so safe that the creative designs are never explored at all. Thinking about it, couldn't it be a cost issue? I imagine it'd be far cheaper to produce simpler kits than more complex ones.
Similarities to Liverpool given red and white. But there's nothing horrific in the design at all. Add a black pinstripe to the collar and around cuff of the sleeve and it'd be perfect.
Said every Addidas designer for the last 20 years.
No kit will ever be as good as this one
Pure class.
Pure class.
Love how you chose the sweatiest picture of itNo kit will ever be as good as this one
Pure class.
Love it though. If only that could be our kit indefinitely
The safe attitude is probably due to the fact that they have to come with new kits every year, if they go down the creative road they will be without options after a handful of years, it is best for everyone to have a classy yet predictable kit.
And like you said ingenious designers are expensive, the outcome might not be popular, the production cost will be higher, they have care about to copyrighting and they absolutely need to sell millions of shirts, every year.
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Yup, reminds me of the planned obsolescence thing. There's more profit in making crap that people have to replace every year than in making something great that lasts a longer time
Any shirt that has white Chevrolet logo beats current one.
It's the shine on the red. Horribly Liverpool.
I agree, some black and a nicer matte red and it would look sweet though.
No kit will ever be as good as this one
Pure class.
Would be an easy one for the counter fitters that
Seriously though that kit with a nice material and a club badge would be great, will never happen though.
No kit will ever be as good as this one
Pure class.
Bad memories of Darius Vassell though.
Yeah, there was so much creativity in the 50s and 60s when everyone wore either a crew neck or a v-neck. I'll bet the crowd went home hoarse from complaining every week...
No kit will ever be as good as this one
Pure class.
didn't we lose that game?
So, one red shirt with white trim and three stripes (which is almost identical to our 1986 kit) is 'horrific', while another red shirt with white trim and three stripes is 'classy' and this one is great?
Even though it's the exact same shirt as the 'horrific', 'Liverpool' shirt? Bizarre.
Horrific my arse. As you said it's like our 86 kit (which I had...).
So, one red shirt with white trim and three stripes (which is almost identical to our 1986 kit) is 'horrific', while another red shirt with white trim and three stripes is 'classy' and this one is great?
Even though it's the exact same shirt as the 'horrific', 'Liverpool' shirt? Bizarre.
Yes
Looks like a Liverpool shirt, tho.....Would be an easy one for the counter fitters that
Seriously though that kit with a nice material and a club badge would be great, will never happen though.
Text in white.
The fook? Sir Bob's lush mane was a comb-over?
And then wore on a chest/arms day. RIP kit.
Looks like a Liverpool shirt, tho.....
Text in white.
Must be photoshopped
As us and Liverpool both play in red and white(us with a bit of black), neither of us play in stripes, there will always be a chance that one of ours shirts might look similar.
Especially if some want the old retro style with round necks etc.
Especially if some want the old retro style with round necks etc.
Yes. Still doesn't feel right us losing that game with the emotion attached to it. The atmosphere after the game at OT was awful.
ridicolous! Do we really want to look like any other team did, just with different colours?
This is not United, we are not like anybody else and we don't want to look like that. United derserves an individual kit.
Our shirt is a way to express ourselves and not just to showcase one of maybe 5 or 6 diffrent kits adidas is selling to anybody with their catalogue.
I mean the shirt doesn't look bad but our beloved team looks interchagable at will in it
This is not United, we are not like anybody else and we don't want to look like that. United derserves an individual kit.
Our shirt is a way to express ourselves and not just to showcase one of maybe 5 or 6 diffrent kits adidas is selling to anybody with their catalogue.
I mean the shirt doesn't look bad but our beloved team looks interchagable at will in it
There is no way Chevrolet would ever allow us to have just Chevrolet or there logo in white so whatever top design we have it's always going to be hindered with that, try and find your favourite united top and stick the Chevrolet logo on it and then see how it looks.
Ah yes the 50s and 60s, the great footballing eras of wealth and global commercialism!
I see you didn't bother including the 80s and 90s, decades that kind of shit on your point...
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Indeed we did.
Brilliant shirt though, the club should have retailed it and given the proceeds to the survivors.
feck you all. Liverpool have a shittier shade of red than ours and you all know it. The mere sight of it shimmering away is sickening.
Although I would wear one for charity, obviously.
Although I would wear one for charity, obviously.
Yes 2-1 to Man City (of all the teams to beat us on the 50th anniversary it had to be them)
This is the best one by far
the third kit will be black with hot pink adidas stripes on the shoulders. And rather bizarre shorts. Apparently Adidas have gone with outrageous shorts this year.
I've not seen next years kits myself. Only had them explained to me.
Also, all pics floating around are fakes. "Some fakes may, or may not have been released by Adidas themselves..." I've been told.
I've not seen next years kits myself. Only had them explained to me.
Also, all pics floating around are fakes. "Some fakes may, or may not have been released by Adidas themselves..." I've been told.
There is a way, they could've just let us use their monotone logo. Company logos always have multiple versions, at the very least there will be both colour and monotone. I'm a graphic designer so I make the damn things, it's standard practice. The reason for this is simple: it's cheap to produce a monotone logo for apparel like embroidered employee shirts. A full colour logo in that situation would be wasteful.
It would not have been impossible for them to put a monotone logo on United's shirts, in fact most brands do that. It's not unreasonable or stupid for fans to wish they had just followed standard practice. Instead they clearly wanted the full colour - probably to make it stand out - and they've paid enough to get that.
Chevrolet even have a monotone logo in use elsewhere, so it wouldn't have even been outside their standard brand practice:
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