Some of the kids (Alvaro, Neiser, Luis, and Harwin) submitted their escudos to be voted upon. To get us started, I also asked around for some ideas from friends--a huge thank you to Freda Yawson, Jeffry Alonso, Thy Doan--who have contributed and/or have agreed to help out. The winner went to Neiser...however, to compromise, we're going with Luis' name (Fútbol Club Fundadores). So, here we have a very Samario (what you call someone from Santa Marta)/Colombiano emblem:
The faro and morro (lighthouse and rock outcropping) are iconic features of the Santa Marta bay. Santa Marta is the second oldest city (or oldest, depending on who you talk to/believe) in South America; the faro and morro were utilized heavily to protect the city. Santa Marta's colors are light blue and white, which Neiser kept in mind when illustrating the Santa Marta bay.
Colombia's colors are yellow, dark blue, and red, often referred to as tricolor. When seen on the Colombian flag, the yellow band is on top and thicker than the dark blue and red bands.
Last summer we started this football school, hence the 2012.
A few of the other submissions:
I liked the idea of changing the cross on the yellow, circular emblem (middle shield) into a large, red "F" for Fundadores. We discussed making the stripes blue to incorporate Colombia's colors and also putting 2012 inside the star. I also thought that converting this to a computerized image would be easier due to its simplicity. In the end, despite all of the changes, it still felt a little too similar to AC Milan's logo.
I am constantly amazed by how giving many people that I have met in my life are.
We've been asking a lot of favors from Marcos' contacts as well, or that people "collaborate" with us. The Liga de Fútbol de Magdalena has been very patient with us, and has been doing more than their part to see this work out. We're all paid up to be registered and the Director of Tournaments from La Liga de Fútbol de Magdalena is very graciously helping us prepare the Statues needed to become affiliated with the league as well as complete the necessary paperwork to take to the Alcaldía and la DIAN so we can open a bank account in the name of the club/school.
No matter how busy she is, the woman who helped put together a series of emblems (seen to the right) and a second round of iterations, is one of the most giving people I know. Freda is involved in almost everything, organizes huge fundraising events, has her own Project for Peace that she has just left to go implement, and still offered her time to design some possible emblems for the school. I asked for simple... since we will be having the final logo imprinted on the schools' uniforms (that will stay in the ownership of the school and be loaned out, in order to ensure maximum participation as well as care).
I met Jeffry while looking to stay active while in Santa Marta. (Sounds like it should be easy if you're working with a soccer school, right?) Jeffry was looking to start running to complement his water polo training for a large beach event at the end of July (which I will unfortunately be barely missing). Pretty soon we were running in the mornings and I have attended a couple of water polo practices. I'm a little rough around the ages, considering it has been ~10 years, and am definitely out of swimming shape. In addition, I asked Jeffry to come to me to work on the shields yesterday. By the time I got back to internet today, Jeffry had fleshed out some ideas (to the right) using Photoshop, donating his own time.
Which last brings me to Thy Doan... We played water polo together back in high school and as far as I've know her she has been blessed artistically. I wrote to her asking for her help... I have yet to reach out again with a final iteration, but I know if I do, it'll come out fantastic. So big thanks ahead of time even if only for agreeing to help these kids.
THANK YOU!
Last summer we started this football school, hence the 2012.
A few of the other submissions:
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I am constantly amazed by how giving many people that I have met in my life are.
We've been asking a lot of favors from Marcos' contacts as well, or that people "collaborate" with us. The Liga de Fútbol de Magdalena has been very patient with us, and has been doing more than their part to see this work out. We're all paid up to be registered and the Director of Tournaments from La Liga de Fútbol de Magdalena is very graciously helping us prepare the Statues needed to become affiliated with the league as well as complete the necessary paperwork to take to the Alcaldía and la DIAN so we can open a bank account in the name of the club/school.
No matter how busy she is, the woman who helped put together a series of emblems (seen to the right) and a second round of iterations, is one of the most giving people I know. Freda is involved in almost everything, organizes huge fundraising events, has her own Project for Peace that she has just left to go implement, and still offered her time to design some possible emblems for the school. I asked for simple... since we will be having the final logo imprinted on the schools' uniforms (that will stay in the ownership of the school and be loaned out, in order to ensure maximum participation as well as care).
I met Jeffry while looking to stay active while in Santa Marta. (Sounds like it should be easy if you're working with a soccer school, right?) Jeffry was looking to start running to complement his water polo training for a large beach event at the end of July (which I will unfortunately be barely missing). Pretty soon we were running in the mornings and I have attended a couple of water polo practices. I'm a little rough around the ages, considering it has been ~10 years, and am definitely out of swimming shape. In addition, I asked Jeffry to come to me to work on the shields yesterday. By the time I got back to internet today, Jeffry had fleshed out some ideas (to the right) using Photoshop, donating his own time.
Which last brings me to Thy Doan... We played water polo together back in high school and as far as I've know her she has been blessed artistically. I wrote to her asking for her help... I have yet to reach out again with a final iteration, but I know if I do, it'll come out fantastic. So big thanks ahead of time even if only for agreeing to help these kids.
THANK YOU!
By the way, hopefully now you all understand the color scheme. And I realize something must be done about the headline photo...
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