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Illini Helmet Concepts Nike Should Have Used

A few years back after seeing my headdress helmet pictured below. I was contacted by the Illini to come up with some concepts.

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As you all know the school can’t use the Chief anymore so the headdress helmet is probably never going to happen at an Illini game.

We decided to work on some other headdressish concepts to get around the rule. I did a ton of ideas for the team you can see them all here https://www.flickr.com/photos/fourteen85/sets/72157629196443001/ that is my flickr site but here are the highlights

The render isn’t great on these compared to what I do now but these are several years old, Illini people have already seen the and Nike still went with the boring I helmet. One helmet like that maybe, two if you are worried about money but 3 means that they could afford to do one of these helmets. I was told back in 2012 that price was the biggest hurdle to the Illinois script headdress concepts below.

These helmet still have the feel of a headdress but get around the NCAA rules about using the Chief. The final two helmets are a more abstract version of a headdress. All of you Illini fans that don’t like your new uniforms look on the bright side you could have easily been given the much worse Cuse uniform.

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Thinking Of Doing A NFL Rebrand What Do You Think

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If you are like me you can’t wait until the draft happens and need something to keep you entertained between baseball games and mock draft updates. I have been every busy doing paid work but people keep asking me to do a version of their favorite team. So, I am thinking about doing a full NFL rebrand between the college concepts that have already been comisioned. I know other people have done this but eh whatever.

I think that there needs to be some rules before this task is started. The NFL does have some rules and I will follow these for the first round of designs. The biggest rule is the new one helmet rule.

I will make a home, away, alt, and throwback or faux back for each team. I will make 3 helmets for each team following this new rule by keeping the same base color. I will do this for all teams even if I do not think they need to change their helmets.

So, before you start yelling let me agree with you that the Chiefs, Steelers, Browns, and a few others teams need to stay with their current helmets. I still will make two other versions of a helmet for these teams just for fun.

Some teams I will redo/tweak their logo myself, some I will use the current logo, and others I will use cool logos I stumble across online.

I will probably start by posting helmets for each division and then move onto the full uniforms.

I am also thinking about doing some future/fantasy teams like what a new Redskins team name might look like, a Toronto Bills, London Jags, etc…

Lastly I will post some ideas of some stuff that doesn’t meet the new uniform rules but would be cool to do.

Let me know what you want to see your team look like if they rebranded. If I like the idea I might run with it. If you think I should do this let me know

 

 

What About The Tomahawk Sticker?

Ok if FSU goes with any version of these helmets that ditch the gold lid and go dark what do you do with the tomahawk sticker?

Charles Sollars Concepts @charlessollars fsu helmet

 

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Here are a few different ideas for the award sticker. Total of 5 on the above helmet.