Calgary Stampeders

The Calgary Stampeders have a rich uniform history with some surprises. First off, the team actually wore yellow and purplish-blue uniforms for their first two seasons. While winning their first Grey Cup in 1948, the Stamps rocked red uniforms with red and white candy-striped shoulder yokes. While the candy stripes wouldn’t survive, the red and white color scheme did. Over the next couple decades, the Stamps experimented with various stripes in red and white on their jerseys, while gold pants were introduced in 1962. The team’s horse silhouette logo would make its debut later that decade. The 1970s saw silver introduced into the team’s color palette, with the metallic tone added to striping on the sleeves, socks and helmets. Silver pants also found their way onto the field. The next major change occurred in 1989, when the Stamps ran away from silver and toward black, even introducing a black third jerseys in 1994. Since the 1990s, black has only become more prevalent in the team’s scheme, with Calgary using black uniforms and helmets on various occasions.

My Stampeders redesign removes the chromatic confusion between Calgary and the Ottawa RedBlacks by removing black. In its place, I have added silver and charcoal to the scheme. As for the team’s iconic horse silhouette logo, I created a primary icon that is a bit more unique to them, as the silhouette is very similar to both SMU and the Ford Mustang. The new primary icon updates the horse with a red mane and tail and multi-tonal silver and charcoal shading, providing a chrome-like look. The primary icon is combined with a western-style italic block font that conveys speed and power. The rest of the logo set includes a partial icon of the new horse in silhouette fashion, a secondary mark of a C and two flags, a patch with a horseshoe and mountains, and a mascot design of a white horse stampeding to the goal line. Three helmets are used in the concept: a red primary helmet with a silver facemask, a silver alternate helmet with a red mask, and a classic red helmet with the team’s longstanding silhouette horse, a single white stripe, and a grey facemark. The home jerseys are red with custom bandana-inspired trim on the collar and sleeve cuffs. The away jerseys keep the same red and charcoal collars and sleeve trim but on a white jersey, while the alternates place the red-and-charcoal bandana trim on a charcoal grey jersey with silver numbers. The home, away, and alternate jerseys can be combine with white, red, or silver pants with bandana print running down each leg. The classic jerseys replicate the 1948 championship team with candy-striped shoulder yokes.