Welcome to week 9 of Makeover Mondays 2.0!. For those of your who saw this earlier today. Yes that right I'm doing a DO-OVER. In the end this felt rushed for me and I wasn't happy with my work. (I'm my own worst critic). I wanted to get something out, but was tied up with RL stuff all weekend, so I did it over. My feature, my rules. For this makeover, we tackle the Valencia Stars. One of the most tech-savvy bleeding edge franchises in the Brewster-verse as I understand it.
Founded in 1973 as an original franchise of the BBA, as the Valencia Suns but changed names (when I don't know) but they are listed at the Valencia Suns / Valencia Stars on the leagues historical page. They have 15 division titles, made the playoffs 22 times, and have had 1 Landis appearance, winning none. They have had 5 GMs in their history, (pretty much Lee, and anyone else when Lee is not around). The owner and GM (Honigsfeld) seem to have this "Billy Martin / George Steinbrenner" type of relationship. Lee has been fired / hired 3x with this go around the longest, at currently 44 seasons. They made the playoff in 2041, but have not made it back the Landis since 2014. Not very good. You know what else isn't good, you guessed it!!!
Let’s take a look at the old one.
Another logo that doesn't really have that "baseball" fell to it. It primary colors are red & black, with the teams location in small font above the Stars nickname, with the A being replaced by a star.
For those of you playing along at home, I'll Explain the rules again...
The Makeover had to meet these 3 criteria.
- First, incorporate something into the new logo that has a baseball theme.
- Second, use the teams existing color / uniform palette w/in the new look when at all possible.
- Third, try to maintain a connection to the team’s history.
and could talk about this for hours.Any-who, with-out further ado… your 2043 Valencia Stars
With the Makeover Monday version of the Stars, I wanted to stay with their primary color scheme of red, black and grey, but add some "baseball" feel to it.
The new logo incorporates all of those colors, and gives it more of a "baseball" theme. The new logo is centered around a V with a shooting star in the teams new font. I kept it simple this time.
BONUS CONTENT - Since this logo / design would not play well on a sleeve patch, I created a separate patch just for that. My feature, my rules...
Now on to their Hats & UniformsHats: -- They had one hat listed in the game. Black hat, red brim, green under-brim with a V on the bill.
Old Hats:
New:
Their updated hat uses the same color scheme, I just updated it with the new V logo.
Uniforms: - Valencia had the one uniform in game, used for both home and away.
Old Home / Away :
There is a lot going on with this jersey - waaaay to busy. Very hard to make out the logo on the chest. 3/4 sleeve black sleeves, with a red collar, and some black gussets on the side.
New Home:
Cleaned up the jersey. Its now a solid white home jersey, short sleeves, with a red undershirt, collar and red gussets. The teams name in new font across the chest Thin red piping on the sleeves, and the new updated team patch on the sleeve.
New Away Uni:
I gave them a new away jersey. Solid grey jersey with red piping on jersey and sleeves, with a red undershirt and collar. The city name spelled out across the chest in the teams new font. The alternate Valencia Patch logo on the sleeve.
Hats will be available soon in the BBA Shop
Enjoy!
Up Next Phoenix (Might be after Media Guide work).
