… Some days, it rains.
Rumors, I mean, rumours from our civilized cousins to the north suggest that the Toronto Blue Jays might return to using blue as a primary color in the near future. Odd that the ballclub presently uses black as its primary color — after all, the team nickname includes the word blue. But such is the [...]
San Diego in the 80s … glass office buildings in the desert … United Republicans of Benetton … Padres second baseman Tim Flannery all dressed up to dish out a combo burrito, no sour cream. The 1980s began with many feeling a bit of sheepish remorse for the excesses of the previous decade. The San [...]
The San Diego Padres uniforms of the 1970s, both infamous and beloved, reflect the extremes of that decade, itself simultaneously a joyous and miserable time. Like the nation, the team wandered into strange territory in the early ’70s, mellowed out in the middle of the decade, then got its freak on hard in the late [...]
Strange stirrings deep in the desert could herald the return of a expansion-era baseball icon. The San Diego Padres retired their beloved Swinging Friar logo in 1985. Since then, a modified version of the Friar has appeared as a secondary graphic, but the original cleric has remained missing — until a recent sighting in Arizona. [...]
Sports graphics are art. As such, they can reach into the gut. For some, the “Dodgers” script logo or the Boston “B” are as Botticelli’s Venus or Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party. Symbols of something — a dream, an ideal, a memory, a way of life. The intersection of sports and design is an [...]