When daydreaming that we’re designing the playing wear of a football team, there aren’t too many bigger fantasy clients than Club Deportivo Guadalajara. Chivas.
The giants of Mexican football have both distinctive colours and, refreshingly, an open-minded attitude to stylisation of their red-and-white stripes, which definitely suits the imaginations of Kit of the Week (KOTW) regulars.
As we’ve said before, our two main challenges - the Kit of the Week (KOTW) challenge and the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) - bounce between world-renowned, top-table fantasy clients and the more obscure.
Sheikh Russel Krira Chakra Limited definitely fall into the latter category. Named after the late son of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, killed, along with his father, during the 15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, it was decided that the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) side needed a refresh to their crest and so the CRCW was called into action.
One of the most attractive qualities of our two main challenges - the Kit of the Week (KOTW) challenge and the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) - is the way it theoretically tours the world.
The 242nd edition of the concept shirt variant took us to Pohang, in the Republic of Korea (South Korea), for the city’s Steelers, and this site’s members delivered the goods as always.
Back in February, in the shadow of the horrendous developments in Ukraine - which sadly remain in progress at time of publishing - the decision was taken by the members involved in the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) to make a gesture of support.
Dynamo Kyiv are one of, if not the, most widely known Ukrainian football teams, with their history littered with huge names like Igor Belanov, Oleg Blokhin, Serhiy Rebrov and Andriy Shevchenko - as well as legendary coach Valeriy Lobanovskyi - so represented a great choice for our flagship club/national team badge contest, even without the link to current affairs.
Hot on the heels of the club’s official contest to design Borussia Dortmund’s Home shirt for the 2023-24 season, the German side got the Kit of the Week (KOTW) treatment a little while ago now.
The time passed is evidenced in the entries from KitKong and NSGraphics - the latter the winning entry - which feature the printing of recent Manchester City signee Erling Haaland, but the stage contained an enormous array of styles and approaches across the 28 submissions.
The 292nd stage of the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) didn’t provoke the amount of designs that many do, but often these things are about quality rather than quantity.
And there was plenty of quality, including a superb FK Liepāja streamlining by recurrent winner Rabbi.
