Montpellier Hérault Sport Club

AS Monaco FC

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More Macron, AZ and Lorient

Macron

I've decided I'll post a collection of kits in whatever new template I make just like I used to do in the early days of the blog. To start here is the Macron template I used to make the Aston Villa home shirt on a few other teams.

France (Revised)

France

Paris Saint-Germain (PSG)

Toulouse F.C.

Olympique Marseille - Adidas

Olympique Marseille - Nike

Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon)

AS Monaco

Just remembered about this blog and thought I'd upload everything I've made that I've got stored on this computer, so this is what is dated as earliest in my 'Kits' folder so this is where we begin again.

And Yet More Kappa...

I think I must have made kits for every Kappa team going at the time, the amount of people that would complain if this was really the case. So nothing to explain here just more different colours of the previous template. There are still a few more but I will post some more original stuff before I post the rest, give you a bit of a respite.

A.S. Saint-Étienne Loire (Request)

A new design today, one I am pretty pleased with for being different but also true to what I like to see a football kit looking like. This kit came as a request from user OKT who also has a blog http://evolution-okt.blogspot.com/ some of the best kits around using a FM texture, very much worth a look if you're into your kit designs.

St. Étienne are the sleeping giant of French football, well OK, there are a few, following Lyon's tremendous run of Ligue 1 titles that it has kind of overshadowed previous acomplishments from other teams in the league. St. Étienne's teams over the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's managed to win a total of 10 Ligue 1 championships and 6 French cups, the most successful domestic French team and is the only one to be able to boast the 10 titles and wear a star above it's crest (although Marseille often does for their Champion's League victory in 1992). Although in recent years the only thing 'Les Vert' has to celebrate is a Ligue 2 victory, which shows just how hard they have fallen from the glory years.

My kit originally set out to honour the victories of previous seasons, where the team wore quite plain looking green shirts with the French tricolor playing a big part by featuring in wrap around collars and also on the shirt cuffs but as I tried this is just didn't anymore and look very dated and also quite weird to see blue, white and red mixed with a dark green so I changed that idea and made something which would feature the flag but not in an over bearing way, so I have just moved it to feature inside the collar and also around the top of the socks.

Now my shirt took on a more modern look, one which I always prefer to make and look at. Featuring the spiky shapes and parts which wrap around the body of the shirt. The collar has been inspired from both adidas and Nike designs, it's not to hard to see which when you think about it. I think it is different enough though to count as being original. Another kit design I have taken a bit of inspiration from albeit unintentionally is Reebok from their design for Liverpool many seasons ago, can't be sure on the exact season though. I say unintentionally because the inspiration actually came from the St. Étienne logo and the stripes there. The intention was to make the darker shade of green into white to mirror the stripes of the logo but in the end I opted out of that idea for a safer option.

For the socks I tried, yes I actually tried something for the socks this time! (sorry about the fragmented English, I thought it worked as a joke) For once I actually think they enhance the look of the rest of the kit wrapping around the back with A.S.S.E. printed there too, imitating the curves of the front of the shirt in the bottom spikes and also the back if you can make that out.


For the away I got a comment about the usage of green shorts taking the overall look of the kit down. Well my again my original intention was to create shorts which would fit in with the home kit to make it all green, but my idiocy made make the details black which would just look hideous mixed with the home shirt and socks. I do however think usage of black here may have been a good idea since their is a high level of green on the shirt to stop it looking boring overall.

Wigan Athletic and Girondins de Bordeaux

Today we have the same designs as last time, boring I know but just thought you should see these too, nothing overly special.

Wigan as a town is really close to me, geographically that it, actually I'm pretty lucky to live in a place where 8 teams of the best league in the world are all located within about an hours drive from me. If Preston and Blackpool can win promotion next season I'll be properly set for my footballing needs, Blackpool especially only being down the road, but that is a huge ask for them.

Wigan's is a pretty well known story, rapid rise up through the football league, they played in the same league as my town, which isn't that impressive any more as they (Fleetwood) have had a very rapid promotions of their own. At one point though it was the 9th level in English football. They are also from a very staunch rugby town which means they have had to fight for their share of fans as well as from the high population of other top flight football teams. Now they're quickly becoming an established team themselves with a garnish of foreign talent as well as northern grit with players such as Antonio Valencia and Jimmy Bullard making their names there.

For their kit, well I won't lie to you it is pretty much just Porto, only without the stripes on the sleeves. One crucial thing I have changed though is I have got rid of their nasty gold which they seem to have adopted and taken them back to the days when they had a green trim which was far more unique I thought and also fits in well with the tree in their new logo.


For the away kit I made it a bright orange as i have been told they're due to be getting an orange kit for the 2009/10 season, but don't tell anyone I said so. I think this colour scheme shows off the straight-ish lines and sharp edges I was going for pretty well too.


Now on to Bordeaux, champions of France and what seemed to be the perennial runners-up in French football for many seasons. They are of course famous for producing Zinedine Zidane, wine, neolithic fossils and of course their shirts emblazioned with a V for reasons I don't actually now. I actually am a fan of Puma's new kit with the white shoulders, I know Bordeaux traditionalists will probably be unhappy with it, but somethings it's good to try new things and build new traditions.

But that's not what I have done here. The design was actually made around Bordeaux so it would fit them well, with a V fold collar and also a lesser noticable V with the white side panels descending into a lesser V.


For the away I took a little inspiration from Puma's kit and left the shoulders Bordeaux blue, and made the main body of the kit burgundy red like past away kits and representing the famous wine the region produces.

Errea

Good day to all, hope everyone is doing well since the last dosage of kits I gave you.

Well today is the turn of another Italian manufacturer, Errea, famous for, well not much really, maybe being one of the longest running sponsorships in the English premier league for sponsoring Middlesbrough but other than that I can't think of an awful lot that they are famous for.

For the following kits I was sort of inspired by the crescent shape, I would say the moon but that sounds too sad to say "I was inspired by the moon". Anyway crescent shape, I think it is something which looks really dynamic in the way it has two sharp edges and a smooth curves inbetween them. So as you can see this kit is just loaded with them, from the main shirt, to two on the shoulders, and three inter twined-ones on the shorts. I do realise that the front of the shorts looks a lot like an adidas design from a few years ago but this is purely coincidental.

I have given the kits a very plain ordinary looking v-neck collar as I think Errea do sometimes tend to overcomplicate things with theirs. I have used pinstipes on the socks just because I am a fan of the groovyness of them.

For the font I have used a pretty Americana font, again for not really anyother reason that I thought it looked good and went well with the design.

And that's pretty much all the bollocks I can come up with for now.

For the Parma shirt I am a big fan of their older blue and yellow hooped shirts, it was their identity when they were at their height so I have used that as the home design, if their are any protestations I will make a white and black cross one but I really think this looks classier.

Legea

Hello, today is the turn of Italian manufacturer Legea, a brand which I am not really a fan of, but they do manufacture a number of interesting teams so I thought I would have to make something.

I've tried to keep it looking typically Legea, but I was desperate to make the big brand markings on the sleeve disappear, so that doesn't feature anywhere but the back of the socks now. I took inspiration for the collar from an LA Lakers basketball jersey, I am not a basketball fan just a good thing to get you to sleep :D

I have also gone for a really simplistic look and not added any sponsor logos to these jerseys, to try and show off the design more than being distracted by garish looking sponsor logos, all that is on any of them is league logos where applicable. Something which I neglected from my previous Hummel kits as I thought it would make the sleeve area look far to busy.

I have tried to add personal touches of the club to the design where possible, bottom of the socks, top of the socks, bottom of the back, I think looking back I could have done more to make them individual, maybe some city crests etc.

I have also added a different colour waistband sort of emulating the look of a belt, this is something which I can't think of too many other designs having included other than on of my favourite Nike designs, think World Cup 2002. I think it gives a rather classy touch and breaks up the colour of the shirt from the shorts.

Opinions are welcome very much and requests taking for people who post here as always.

I have made a few more kits in this design already but I'll post them later to get you to return ;)

Nike

Here for another instalment? Well since no one visits here you can't be, but if you're reading this then you are, which begs the question if a tree falls in the wood and no one is around to witness it, does the tree make a noise?

Well I am babbling a lot, but it is what I do best, and if you've read the previous articles I am sure you are aware of this.

This time I have made a template for a range of Nike football teams. I had tried to keep in within what define as typically Nike, radical up to date sports designs with a modern edge, pushing boundaries and all that malarkey. Some of my all time favourite kits are Nike, especially the Total90 range and the range used at the Japan/Korea World Cup such as the Korean and Croatian designs. Which is why for my own design I have made sure to use influences of these, namely the name patch on the back. Also in keeping with the Nike way, I have used a lot of sharp corners and well rounded edges.

The biggest flaw with the design is that the space for sponsor logos on the front is minimal but I am sure this could be modified and still look good and give maximum space for logos.

All the kits of the range have their own personal symbol on the back of the shirt just below where the number is located and also employ a small rounded turn-up collar much like that of the England home kit from a few years before.

I have kept details rather sparse on this range opting not to use a shadow illusion of any sort on them to highlight other features on the kit.

Here are a few of the ones I am particularly pleased with: