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Adidas Alternates

There won't be any alternates in the NHL this season, but there reportedly will be a jaw-dropping amount the following season. I've seen a bunch of Adidas templates out there, but none have caught on with my style of concept-making. So, I decided to tweak a few templates I already use by adding a collar and shoulder texture.

For the Senators, I tried merging the modern Roman look with the everpopular barberpole look, and I like how it turned out.

Here's another one, this time for the Ducks, basically a mix of eras along with a couple design preferences.

The Hurricanes have tried to have traditional jerseys, but they're a team that should stay relatively modern. However, alternates are perfect opportunities to reach back and take looks from franchise history. I created a new logo based off the Whalers logo, and put it on a throwback uniform.

With the Adidas redesign, the Jackets had to choose between their primary set and their alternate. They chose their primary, a no-brainer to me. However, I still like the basic idea of the alternate they ditched, but wanted to redesign it in my own way. I changed the colour scheme to that of their primary, but replaced white with the cream colour from the alternate. I also completely overhauled the striping, adding a sash down the middle, which I feel compliments their design.

For the Stars, I mixed both of their logo eras to come up with a modern twist on their original, then tweaked the jersey it was worn with.

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Identity Swap: Welcome to Fabulous Toronto!

The Vegas Golden Knights are set to reveal their first uniform set next week. Their striping pattern is already known, along with the base colour and logo. I hadn't used them in one of my Swaps yet, so, looking through the other 30 logos, I found some parallels between them and the Leafs.

I replaced the helmet with the new Leaf, and took out their text in favour of a T, in Vegas' V style. Instead of the shading, I kept the Leaf's veins

I coloured the Leaf with Toronto's old silver, and enlarged the shield to fit. I used blue as a primary colour, and used a lot of white on the simple striping.

The numbers are pulled from the countdown to the logo unveiling.


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Stars Over Tampa

The next All Star Weekend is officially heading to Tampa, keeping the divisional format from the last two years. I decided to make uniforms for the event.

I used a blue-black-grey-white colour scheme, using each of them as primary jersey colours. On the shoulders is a divisional crest inspired by the Lightning logo, and the player's team logo.

For the actual design, I used a coloured shoulder yoke, slightly elongated to a lightning stripe on the arms. A bold hem stripe complements the design.

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White Hot

As of late, the Flames have chosen to emphasize black over white in their identity, which works, but it doesn't mean you can't be nostalgic once in a while!

I kept red as a primary colour, but recoloured the current crest to the 1995 version. From that mess, I salvaged the white and red shoulder length yokes, but instead of striping cutting them off, I gave them outlines matching the hems and logo.

At the end of the yokes, I added a little flame design that gives the set a unique feel, but doesn't overpower it.

I kept the equipment black, and the slightly outdated font, but I also added the former secondary logo to top it off.

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Colours of Colorado

I've got two concepts to show off today, both on Colorado-based teams. It's been a while since I made these, but they're up there with my favourite concepts I've ever created.

First, a Colorado team still active, the Eagles of the ECHL.

They have one of the nicest minor-league logos ever, and colourful ones too. But they currently stick with these ugly uniforms, that don't use most of those colours and have black as a primary colour.

Most concepts just stick the blue-yellow-red pattern on a blue jersey, then make a white version, but the colours fight for dominance. To fix this, I did something I rarely do- kept the black primary. And dare I say it works?

On the black jersey, I slapped down the classic pattern, but also layered Blue Jackets-esque piping underneath it on the arms, replacing red with yellow.

I applied that pattern to a faux lace collar, then applied one-colour numbers. Needless to say, I used the wordmark-free version of their logo.

For the white jersey, I kept most of the black jersey: the hems, the pattern, the collar and the Blue Jackets-esque black full-length yoke, keeping the black dominant. For a final touch, I added a yellow outline to the back number.

Next up: the Colorado Rockies, a defunct NHL team that moved to New Jersey and became the classic looking Devils. They didn't have bad uniforms per se, but their colour balance wasn't too good either.

Naturally, I completely contradict everything I said about the Eagles' uniforms. I kept blue as a primary, and actually added another colour on the home jerseys: white.

This wasn't done without a reason; I feel the trick to this type of colour balance is to keep almost the exact same pattern on both jerseys, just with a few elements tweaked for consistency's sake.

On the blue jersey, I made the dominant, eye-catching pattern equal stripes of yellow and red. I spaced out a white outline on either side, and added a white hem.

I kept the collar simple yellow and red, but used white faux-laces and a white Adidas logo. White once colour numbers finish it off, once again.

On the away jersey, I kept the blue upper arm fill, and most of the striping pattern, but added a blue hem to balance it all out, plus blue one colour numbers.

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Silver Wings

Let's get this out of the way: the Detroit Red Wings' uniforms are untouchable. (Spoiler alert: I touched them.) But in starting up a new series, in which I add a colour to each team's colour scheme, I saw a perfect opportunity to modernize the Wings brand, by adding a touch of silver.

I started off with the classic red sleeves for the white jersey, but removed the red cuffs. I added a silver stripe at a distance inspired by the logo's wheel, and reversed the pattern on the hem.

I outlined the logo, collar and numbers in silver, and reversed red and white for the home jersey. 

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