Esports team logo design
Whilst they are a relatively new phenomenon, esports teams still need great branding! This Esports team logo design is a recent micro-project.
The esports market is already worth $194 million, and individual players can bring in earnings upwards of $1 million a year.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is one game in particular that attracts some serious players. So when asked to create an Esports team logo design, it seemed like a good idea.
Being a relatively young sector, esports teams tend to have some rather interesting names. The brief was to create a logo for the team ‘ASDA Smart Price’.
Our first piece of advice was to drop the ASDA brand name from the team – if you’re planning on playing in some top-level tournaments, you don’t really want to build a brand name based on someone else’s.
So the name was changed to Smart Price and the design work began!
Initial sketches
Nearly all gaming logos need to fit in a square format when being used online as avatars and clan logos. A common challenge for our professional icon designers whether creating a logo or buttons for online apps. We decided to create a logo that focused on the first two letters of the team name to make it easier to design for this format.
The game the esports team plays is a pretty graphic affair; teams play either ‘good’ or ‘bad’ guys and it has a strong military bias, so we explored developing something that mirrored this.
Design development
Playing around with the idea of Sergeants stripes and/or a shield was a good direction as it gave us a dynamic shape that fitted in with both the style of the game.
As the two letters we were working with were quite different in shape, it posed a bit of a challenge to get them working together nicely, but the initial sketches found some interesting ways for this to work.
As you can imagine, there wasn’t exactly a large budget for this project, so the initial designs were further developed in illustrator to create the final vectors.
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