The cutoff basketball with the skyline inside was used from 1975 – 95. This redesign finishes the circle and injects an alternate color scheme of white, light grey and charcoal.
What city is more fitting than ours – to be grey?
I grew up with the Sonics city logo. Seattle's skyline sits on the top 2/3rds of a basketball. Over the years I have developed a need for the ball to be finished. The franchise changed their logo two times after the city logo was abandoned.
I revisited the look and feel of the old city logo. I was born in San Francisco and have always admired the their pro basketball team's iconic "The City" logo.
The City is a simple circle with a the silhouette of the Golden Gate Bridge sitting in the bottom 1/4th of the circle.
I mashed the idea of the city logo with Jason Terry's term of endearmant towards Seattle calling it The Town.
Read the Seattle Sports Guy blog about it at seattlepi.com.
Two great towns. Two great fan bases. Two logos. I couldn't find a decent version of the old Golden State City logo, but this will do for our purposes.
San Francisco is like a bigger version of Seattle, but with the same vibe. Then there is the well known thought that Latrell Sprewell was the missing piece to the Sonics of the 90's.
Reed Wacker is a web designer located in Seattle, WA © 2012 all rights reserved.
