Well… team released official designs to be ordered and I am embarrassed. So embarrassed. Particularly because they took my suggested amateur design, which was meh, and made it look even worse. I do not want to be associated with this!
I’m getting the drop on next year: how do I find a professional for this type of work? Anyone who has done it share how much they paid?
https://www.lcdcc.bike/ I unfortunately don’t know what he charges but he’s a friend and does some cool work
We’ve got to see this now… do you have their last mockup of the design or whatever they showed in the team store?
The final design isn’t on you. If you’re not a designer and the team and kit maker modified it even further, it’s on them; don’t feel bad. Sorry it didn’t turn out well.
Will you wear it? Maybe just the jersey with black bibs?
Price-wise, it’s all over the place. Last kit I designed was for several and it was $3k. That’s with over 20 years of experience, though. Honestly, you could get a clean kit for a few hundred if you go in with a very specific, simple idea with good reference examples.
I don’t want to defame the person on my team (sponsor) who handled it. Let’s just say the team colors are light blue and red, which is challenging in and of itself, and I did a primarily red/black mock up with some very carefully added blue. They converted more than half the red to blue and turned the black… dark green? So. Yeah.
We do two per year and the other option is basically all blue, so I will wear that one.
Don’t think I can swing a $3k donation to the team for this purpose at the moment (I need that for n+1), but I’ll do some shopping around.
Definitely, my kit designs have been for apparel companies or teams with bigger budgets.
For a regional team/club/shop, I’d recommend a simple, private Pinterest board per art direction and a well defined creative brief that all stakeholders sign off on (and hopefully adhere to). Whatever it takes to pin down important attributes and define some non-negotiables like specific colours up front, but leave a little room for interpretation on other, less impactful items.
Because it’s ‘creative’, some may baulk at doing less fun work upfront. But, it’s no different than any other type of business project. You should get better results (meets your objectives) the better (more defined) your brief is, especially if you have those Pinterest boards edited down to cohesive references.
Reviving this thread because I’m trying to design a “team” kit for a couple of my riding buddies and I. I’m surprised there isn’t some AI kit designing app yet. Seems like it could be a cool thing to get the ball rolling at least and run different design ideas quickly. Maybe upload a few kits you like or kit designs you like and have it give you some rough designs. Even if you just take a few to an actual graphic designer, maybe to use as the starter point.