Bands FC | Emblem Design Love
For 4 years, designers Mark Liptrott of Concrete Studio and Nick Fraser, who sells merchandise for the Charlatans, introduced collectively soccer and music by pairing iconic identities from each worlds. The thought was easy — mix soccer staff badges with band logos. Or, in their very own phrases, “Bands as soccer groups and soccer groups as bands.”
“We now have over 400 badges, working with buddies and visitor designers, organising an exhibition on the National Football Museum in Manchester, changing into the proud sponsors of Brinscall FC Juniors boys’ and ladies’ groups and serving to Frightened Rabbit to lift some huge cash for the charity they’re organising.”
In a conversation with Howler, Nick Fraser mentioned on the staff / band mixture, “They go properly collectively as a result of they combine passions. We’ve hung out on the Nationwide Soccer Museum throughout our exhibition, and the children are actually into the soccer facet of it whereas lots of the mother and father have been to see the bands and have constructed recollections round them. Placing them collectively makes one thing new however that has recollections and feelings caught up in it. Like that mosquito in Jurassic Park that’s in the midst of the amber — our badges are like little time capsules of recent variations of photographs that folks have invested a variety of themselves in.”
Had a double-take with the Sampdoria crest. It options the profile of a sailor recognized by the previous Genoese identify of Baciccia (Giovanni Battista in Italian). Sampdoria’s primarily based within the port metropolis of Genoa, therefore the sailor. The exact design got here from a Disney-licensed and Panini-published comedian, Topolino (by way of Wikipedia).
Late to the sport right here, as a result of the updates are coming to an end. However what a enjoyable, worthy endeavour. Individuals who purchased from the Bands FC shop helped to lift £60k for Tiny Changes, £50k for Sheffield Children’s, £25k for War Child, and greater than £100k for different causes. Good.
The Twitter account is @_bands_fc, and the web site with store and varied exhibition images is www.bandsfc.com.
