Melbourne Sports Museum Critiques

The symbol of the Olympic Games was originally designed in 1912 by Barron Pierre de Coubertin, the dounder of the modern Olympic Games, even though it is known to be design in 1912, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games. It is composed if five interlocking rings (blue, yellow, black, green, red) on a white field.

This is such a successful and meaning ful design as the five rings represent the five parts of the world which now are won over to Olympism and willing to accept healthy competition. The rings somehow meant continuity and the human being, and they are interlaced which represent the relationships, unity between parts of the world. The colours of the ring and white are taken from the flags of all countries in the world since you can easily spot at least one of these colours in every flag.

The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed ‘The Tigers’, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond’s club mascot is called “Tiger Stripes Dyer” named after AFL legend Jack ‘Captain Blood’ Dyer.

At first the team wore a blue uniform. One of the most important features of a nineteenth century footballer's uniform was his headgear, and Richmond opted for yellow and black striped caps, the same as the cricket club. After a couple of years, yellow and black stripes replaced blue as the colours of the team's guernseys. The team was variously called the "Richmondites", the "Wasps" or, most commonly, the "Tigers".

The club guernseys

The club was found in 1885. Richmond's colours were originally a blue guernsey with a yellow and black striped cap. A yellow and black striped guernsey was worn from 1888. The black guernsey with the diagonal yellow stripe was introduced in 1915, becoming the norm from 1924. Known popularly as the Richmond Tigers since the 1890s, the war cry 'Eat 'em alive, Tigers' has been used since the 1920s. During 1992 the Richmond Football Club logo was redesigned to its current 2009 form by Rob Perry, while he was working as an art director at the advertising agency George Patterson Bates in Melbourne. The illustration of the tiger was done by Lex Bell, the in-house illustrator of the agency.

The home jumper is black with a yellow sash which goes from top left to bottom right. The Clash jumper is the same as the home jumper with the addition of yellow side panels and inverse number on the back. The guernseys are made by sportwear company KooGa.

The logo and uniform are successful in my opinion. The logo with the tiger head roaring is a very strong illustration which create a strong and powerful appearance. The colours black and yellow is very eye-catching, one emphasizes the other. The uniforms/guerseys are very simple (black with yellow sash) which is easy to remember itself. Also. The two colour somehow give me a feeling of secure, stability, strength and power.

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http://www.google.com.au/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=richmond+football+guernseys&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=893&bih=675

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club