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L'arriviste

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new kit for Project 1T4I (now Argos-Shimano)

http://twitpic.com/936gae

ugly 




The design equivalent of 'too many cooks spoil the broth' is 'too many colours spoil the cloth'.  ;D
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Their official site still says half an hour to the reveal...

Not the best of kits that.
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The design equivalent of 'too many cooks spoil the broth' is 'too many colours spoil the cloth'.  ;D

F*ugly, also find it amusing as to me Argos is crappy catalogue

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Rattlers and Terminix of Antigua


I like both, fairly simple ones.

Neil Lloyd was the winner, Jyme Bridges is on the left in second and I think Ken Jackson in third.

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Rattlers and Terminix of Antigua


I like both, fairly simple ones.

Neil Lloyd was the winner, Jyme Bridges is on the left in second and I think Ken Jackson in third.

Is that Cadburys on the jersey? The bonuses must be awesome! ;D

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Oh yeah, forgot to mention that. That's one of the main reasons I love it.

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Do like the new Garmin-Sharp one. Would be better without the white back mind. Certainly one of the best in the peleton in my view

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yep +1 to that. I think its a lovely jersey, so stylish and yet understated.

Kind of last years Leopard but updated and make even smarter.

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Eddy Merckx-Indeland is quite cool in a completely hideous La Vie Claie-ish kind of way.



Wallonie-Bruxelles have a nice kit, too. I like the bold colours and unlike Cofidis, they manage to do an asymmetric kit without it looking ridiculous. The huge Wallonia flag is quite cool too.

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Eddy Merckx-Indeland is quite cool in a completely hideous La Vie Claie-ish kind of way.



Wallonie-Bruxelles have a nice kit, too. I like the bold colours and unlike Cofidis, they manage to do an asymmetric kit without it looking ridiculous. The huge Wallonia flag is quite cool too.



My first club jersey (Tenterden CC) look a lot like that Merckx one. made it very easy to spot your team mates in race. or in fact easy to spot if one of your team mates was out training within a 20 mile radius. Luckily it was long enough ago to be pre digital cameras so there is no evidence. looking on internet sad to see the club does not even exist anymore.

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Youll like the new sky kit

I didnt say that

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please tell me they are going for something really different and crazy

not just black white and blue with slightly different stripes

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Uno! Eddy merckx.

The Saffer national kit is class as with most sports


That's Reinardt at the top of the 60km 2500m climb in Eritrea

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Youll like the new sky kit

I didnt say that

Now you've done it. I must know the facts NOW!  :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

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Maybe it's the GB olympic strip ;D

Though, if they adapt their channels' blue and red colours, it'd be pretty grouse.

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Eddy Merckx-Indeland is quite cool in a completely hideous La Vie Claie-ish kind of way.



The individual who designed this jersey has failed to understand basic colour theory, which is nothing new with designers these days. You cannot put three primary colours together and expect a good overall result. I would bet that you like it because it evokes LVC rather than because you actually like it. ;D

The mastery of Piet Mondrian - as exemplified by his signature Untitled series of the late 1920s, from which LVC's and Look's identity is borrowed - is to reduce all visual noise down to the purest harmony possible. Every piece of his emits this low, calm buzz which, if you're fortunate enough to get a quiet place in which to look at a large selection at once, is an extraordinary sensory experience.

This is why the LVC jersey "works" and remains one of the sport's finest jerseys: it has a (relatively) pure chromatic and spatial harmony. I reviewed a Mondrian special exhibition here, although this article focuses more on the grid harmony rather than colours:

http://www.mikepadgett.com/reviews/museums-galleries/mondrian-and-de-stijl/

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I'm aware that the colours are all wrong, though I think it's the green that messes things up. I'd say I like it because it's so obviously wrong, plus the LVC imagery.

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I like it too,  :-[ glad i am not the only one.

like i say easy to spot your team, and makes you ride that little bit harder as everyone sees exactly when you got dropped

not as good as LVC though.


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Youll like the new sky kit

I didnt say that

 :o :o :o Tell me!!  :-*  :-*

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I'm aware that the colours are all wrong, though I think it's the green that messes things up. I'd say I like it because it's so obviously wrong, plus the LVC imagery.

I like it too,  :-[ glad i am not the only one.

like i say easy to spot your team, and makes you ride that little bit harder as everyone sees exactly when you got dropped

not as good as LVC though.

Hey, I'm not trying to castigate anyone for liking a jersey. ;D

In the interests of discussion, I'm just trying to go a little beyond "I like it" or "I don't like it" and jersey design is one of my pet subjects.

Designing a good jersey is a difficult thing to do very well: there are the constraints of sponsorship and the uniquely changeable shape of the "canvas" (i.e. a moving canvas with variations of shape according to posture). However, given these constraints, colour theory ought to be the least of the designer's worries.

It's funny that recent years have turned up some uniquely awful examples of kit design when one would hope for progressive improvements with modern materials and an annually increasing corpus of examples for the sketchbook. Yet, for every Caisse d'Epargne, it seems that there are two Androni-Giocattolis.

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I will castigate others for liking that strip. Dinzy, you need new glasses ;D


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I will castigate others for liking that strip. Dinzy, you need new glasses ;D



Wow, Uno! You've captured it exactly there, ram.  :win

I have bad memories of Uno though. I don't think I ever won a single round, while the hangovers associated with excessive Uno gaming evenings were unspeakably wretched.

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although not from the same league as the example you guys showed, here's a kit that makes them look like wearing bikini swimsuits with black panties and blue oversized bras


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Looks like a grandma swimsuit.

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Oh man, the GB Olympic strip is horrible. I quite like some of the sports which have half-flags, but the quarter flag for the cycling just looks terrible.



Track kit, but the road looks the same.

I also like kit design, my PCM custom team have a never-changing jersey.

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USA's Olympic kit. Clearly better than Britian's!!  ;D



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This is fugly, Stella design? Sir Hoy looks like cheap H&M model bitch.

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The not very African, African Wildlife Safaris team



They're Australian if you wondered.

 

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