This era of Nike uniform templates needs to launched into the sun. A bunch of generic, mismatched stripes and panels
It reminds me of the 2006 World Cup where it seemed like every single Adidas team had pretty much the same kit but with different national colors, and it was so lame. From an artistic standpoint, it was practically dystopian.
IMO, the other really awful Nike “creative” addition for Illinois (besides the shield) is the horrific font. I’ve hated this font from the moment it was introducted. As a former journalism teacher who taught typography for yearbook and newspaper publications, I would have strongly advised my students to choose something else. While Nike was trying to be clever and modern with the sans serif 1’s (which it is not), this font is not only ugly and weak to me, but very difficult to read. I would like to see a serif font in a strong block that is easy to read.
Yeah, the font is just so unimaginative, IMO, and the two-color version just came across like they
knew it was unimaginative and tried the laziest thing possible to make it better. Again, following the theme of how similar our jerseys were to other "trend chasing" schools like Missouri in the picture I posted previously...
Just trendy, 2010s italics, lol.
I mean the specific uniforms. I think we stay with the o/b/o but with more 80s/90s style uniforms. The template you see from the Nike uniforms released this year like Ok State probably pretty instructive. I also predict a 70s style orange throwback but we will see.
Completely agree. I will bet almost anything that we get a hybrid between our current uniforms, the Beckman Era ones and the 1989-2004 uniforms - likely similar to that great rendering a few pages back! And I'll be ecstatic with this.
Also, I forgot to quote the person who said the away jerseys in the Beckman Era were great, but I 100% agree. I totally get wanting a consistent orange helmet across all jerseys, and they definitely got the striping wrong in the Beckman ones, but as a base white jersey...
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