Love football, love design.

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I love football, and I love design. Growing up, all that I wanted to be was a professional footballer. I love everything about the game, from playing football with my mates, going to games, watching games on TV, and reading the back page headlines; I am obsessed with football.

When it became apparent that I wouldn't make it as a footballer, I wiped away my tears and discovered my 2nd passion - Design. I love everything about design - from the craft and process of creating intelligent, relative designs, to the reward of seeing great design drive businesses forward. Good design can make a huge impact on any organization.

I have been a designer for 12 years and a football fan since I can remember. Specializing in football brand design allows me to fuse my two passions together - Football + design. With my experience and passion for good design, I can create innovative, relevant, and scalable brands. My love for football allows me to think like a fan, enabling me to create designs that excite the fans.

I believe in hard work and intelligent design. I build brands that have meaning and relevance to the football club and the community they represent. It is a privilege and immense honor to design a brand for a football club. So I do anything and everything possible to set football clubs up for success with their brand.

A football club's brand is more than just its logo; yes, the logo is a vitally important part of the brand. I ensure that each and every team that I work with will have the best-suited logo design for their club. Still, beyond the logo, I create much more to ensure that the clubs I work with are set up for maximum success, have a consistent brand and a scalable design system.

From brand identity design to expertise in launching the new brand with maximum impact, and all services and earned experiences in between, I have the knowledge, passion, skills, creativity, and dedication to help any football club have an incredible brand.

I am able to work independently or collaborate with the football clubs existing media team.

BRANDS THAT EMBRACE HISTORY.

The history and traditions of a football club shape the soul and the feel of a football club. The club's history helps influence the feelings and emotions that passionate supporters have towards a football club. When developing a club's brand, I always embrace the history, traditions, and culture of a club and let the past inform the future.

A significant part of the design process is collaborating with the football clubs owners and key stakeholders in the community. I research the club's history both on and off the pitch; I look into the club's visual history, finding out where the club came from, what the clubs values are, and what past visuals have played their part in the evolution of the club.

In collaboration with key stakeholders, we discuss what makes the club special and unique and embrace the emotional bond that the supporters and the community have with the club. I use history to inform the future visual identity.

MODERN BRANDs FOR MODERN FANs.

I work hard to ensure that the new football club logos and brands that I create are modern and scalable and fit the modern-day fan's expectations.

These days, fans, young and old, want to interact with their football clubs much more than years gone by. The new generation of fans wants to wear the football club's merchandise, interact and follow the club online, download cub apps, and even video games.

Modern fans want to see their club as a progressive, innovative club that is always looking to progress, both on and off the pitch - I help your football club's brand achieve this.

In addition to fans demanding more, business partners and sponsors want more from the football club. Local and international businesses want to be associated with progressive and innovative football clubs. Modern technology has brought a broader reach to football clubs, bringing more opportunities for bigger and better sponsorship deals. I help rebrand football clubs in a way that sets them up for long-lasting commercial success.

Testimonials

"The impact has been huge, since the logo redesign we have seen an increase in merchandise sales, they are running at over 200%"

WAYNE BRADLEY - CHAIRMAN & OWNER - ALFRETON TOWN F.C.

"We haven't seen sales quite like this - we are constantly having to reorder, it's grown tenfold to be honest with you."

- GIUSEPPE FRANSCHINI - MARKETING DIRECTOR - TAUNTON TOWN F.C.

"He's an awesome designer, he's worth every penny, he turns over the coolest looking designs."

- ARIK HOUSLEY - CO-OWNER - NAPA VALLEY 1839 F.C.

"We reached out to Chris Payne. We had seen some of his prior work and after a series of long conversations we just let him run with it. He absolutely smashed it and we are grateful for his work".

- MAX MANSFIELD - SPORTING DIRECTOR - NEW AMSTERDAM F.C.

"Think we can all agree he nailed it. Top work @chrisypayne".

KENNY AMOR - CHIEF EXECUTIVE - EASTLEIGH FOOTBALL CLUB

Services

Beyond the design and development of the football club's logo, I also offer a wide range of creative and strategic services to help you launch the new brand with maximum success, and ensure that the brand has a long lasting and positive impact on the football club for years to come.

Primary logo design

The face of your football club, and the visual representation of your football club’s brand. The badge that your players and fans will wear with honor. A football clubs primary logo should be simple, yet say a lot, it should be functional and adaptable and across all medias. It should look professional and powerful. I will create a unique design that is simple though striking, functional and memorable, and one that embodies the history and traditions of your club.

Secondary logo design

These days, modern brands and modern football clubs often have secondary logos that are part of the brand’s visual language. These secondary logo designs are derived from the principle logo and often a more simplified version of the principle logo. The secondary logo, offers the football club more flexibility and choice in branding exercises, as well as widens the brand's visual footprint.

Brand guidelines

Brand guidelines are essential for any modern football club - it is a multiple page document that the explains and educates people about the brand, and how to use the brand, (as well as how not to use the brand) I create detailed and comprehensive brand guidelines football clubs, These guidelines will enable your employees, 3rd party vendors, and sponsors to thrive when using your brand. The brand guidelines will ensure that your football club’s brand is protected, and used in the correct matter.

Brand pattern / motif design

A club motif or pattern is often part of a modern football club’s brand. It is a reusable pattern / design that can be used across a number of marketing and brand places, from online content such as social media graphics, to business content such as presentation design. Often these patterns and motifs are derived from an element of the principle logo, or from the football club’s history, club patterns or club motif's help unify the brand and tie the club's assets together.

Custom typography design

These days modern brands, have their own custom typography that they use across all of their brand assets, from stadium signage, to board meeting presentations, from merchandising and marketing and digital media - Having custom typography for the football club gives the brand a strong style that further makes the club unique. I design and build out custom typography that has an edge, has personality and style, and that is relevant to your football club and the area that the football club represents. This custom typography can be used across multiple assets and help visually unite the look and feel of the football club.

Merchandising design

As soon as your rebrand launches to the public, goes viral, and spreads like wildfire, you should have your complete merchandising offering designed, produced, and available online and in the club's shop - ready for eager fans to purchase. With the launch of a new club logo and exciting new brand direction, mixed in with the wave of publicity that a rebrand brings - club merchandising (that features the new logo) will be high in demand. When building football brands I design stylish and club merchandising that not only helps promote the football club - but also provides an additional revenue stream.

Brand templates

Launching a new brand is an exciting and profitable experience for all involved in the football club. It is hugely important that with the development of your brand, your internal team is equipped and enabled to use the brand in the correct manner and help grow the brand. With each brand development project I provide reusable templates that will enable your team, partners and sponsors to use the brand, and create impactful and stylish content that is on brand and easily to make. I create templates for social media, templates for corporate presentations, templates for business collateral such as letterheads and business cards. These enable the club to be consistent it its branding and style and ensure that all design elements feel part of a unified family.

Social media package

These days more than ever it is vitally important to promote you brand and your football club via social media. Many of your fans, will consume and interact with your football club through the varying social media platforms, and so these days having a strong and compelling social media presence will help your club engage with the community, build trust and help increase the awareness of club activities and offering. Having a well designed, highly visual, eye catching , professional social media package will create sponsorship opportunities, as local and international businesses will want to sponsor moments like goals, games and giveaways and other moments that excite fans and interest the community.

Presentation templates

Football club rebrands spark the imagination and excitement through the on field side of the business, but the off the field collateral is just as important. A strong football club brand makes the club look great both on the pitch, but also in the boardroom. Presentations to employees, potential partners, sponsors, investors and other business entities should be well presented and well designed to get your message across in the most impactful way. I work with the football club to create a reusable and well designed presentation deck that is customizable and easy to use and create complexing content.

Logo launch video

Developing and rebranding a football club happens once every few decades, and so it is important to not only create the right brand, but also to launch the brand with the right message and maximum impact. Video is a great medium for exciting the fans, and wider community. Often these videos go viral on social media and bring lots of positive publicity to the football club. Importantly, they also allow you to control the narrative of the rebrand and get your message across in a concise, exciting and controlled way. I work with football clubs to create compelling launch videos that excite the fans, and the wider community.

Brand design documentary

Often fans, partners, sponsors and the general public want to know more about the process of developing a football clubs brand and visual identity . They want to go deeper than the initial press release and launch video, and want long form content on that lets them see behind the curtain and find out how and why the developer brand was created, who was involved and what the expected impact was of the rebrand. During the design process keep sketches, rough design and ideas and inspirations on file to make into a short documentary about the rebrand. This offers the fans and the wider community an insiders look at the process and helps them identify more with the brand and the football club.

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LOVE FOOTBALL. LOVEDESIGN.

I love football, and I love design. Growing up, all that I wanted to be was a professional footballer. I love everything about the game, from playing football with my mates, going to games, watching games on TV, and reading the back page headlines; I am obsessed with football.

When it became apparent that I wouldn't make it as a footballer, I wiped away my tears and discovered my 2nd passion - Design. I love everything about design - from the craft and process of creating intelligent, relative designs, to the reward of seeing great design drive businesses forward. Good design can make a huge impact on any organization.

I have been a designer for 12 years and a football fan since I can remember. Specializing in football brand design allows me to fuse my two passions together - Football + design. With my experience and passion for good design, I can create innovative, relevant, and scalable brands. My love for football allows me to think like a fan, enabling me to create designs that excite the fans.

I believe in hard work and intelligent design. I build brands that have meaning and relevance to the football club and the community they represent. It is a privilege and immense honor to design a brand for a football club. So I do anything and everything possible to set football clubs up for success with their brand.

A football club's brand is more than just its logo; yes, the logo is a vitally important part of the brand. I ensure that each and every team that I work with will have the best-suited logo design for their club. Still, beyond the logo, I create much more to ensure that the clubs I work with are set up for maximum success, have a consistent brand and a scalable design system.

From brand identity design to expertise in launching the new brand with maximum impact, and all services and earned experiences in between, I have the knowledge, passion, skills, creativity, and dedication to help any football club have an incredible brand.

I am able to work independently or collaborate with the football clubs existing media team.

Brands That Embrace History.

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The history and traditions of a football club shape the soul and the feel of a football club. The club's history helps influence the feelings and emotions that passionate supporters have towards a football club. When developing a club's brand, I always embrace the history, traditions, and culture of a club and let the past inform the future.

A significant part of the design process is collaborating with the football clubs owners and key stakeholders in the community. I research the club's history both on and off the pitch; I look into the club's visual history, finding out where the club came from, what the clubs values are, and what past visuals have played their part in the evolution of the club.

In collaboration with key stakeholders, we discuss what makes the club special and unique and embrace the emotional bond that the supporters and the community have with the club. I use history to inform the future visual identity.

Modern Brands For Modern Fans.

I work hard to ensure that the new football club logos and brands that I create are modern and scalable and fit the modern-day fan's expectations.

These days, fans, young and old, want to interact with their football clubs much more than years gone by. The new generation of fans wants to wear the football club's merchandise, interact and follow the club online, download cub apps, and even video games.

Modern fans want to see their club as a progressive, innovative club that is always looking to progress, both on and off the pitch - I help your football club's brand achieve this.

In addition to fans demanding more, business partners and sponsors want more from the football club. Local and international businesses want to be associated with progressive and innovative football clubs. Modern technology has brought a broader reach to football clubs, bringing more opportunities for bigger and better sponsorship deals. I help rebrand football clubs in a way that sets them up for long-lasting commercial success.

Testimonials

"The impact has been huge, since the logo redesign we have seen an increase in merchandise sales, they are running at over 200%"

WAYNE BRADLEY - CHAIRMAN & OWNER - ALFRETON TOWN F.C.

"We haven't seen sales quite like this - we are constantly having to reorder, it's grown tenfold to be honest with you."

- GIUSEPPE FRANSCHINI - MARKETING DIRECTOR - TAUNTON TOWN F.C.

"He's an awesome designer, he's worth every penny, he turns over the coolest looking designs."

- ARIK HOUSLEY - CO-OWNER - NAPA VALLEY 1839 F.C.

"We reached out to Chris Payne. We had seen some of his prior work and after a series of long conversations we just let him run with it. He absolutely smashed it and we are grateful for his work".

- MAX MANSFIELD - SPORTING DIRECTOR - NEW AMSTERDAM F.C.

"Think we can all agree he nailed it. Top work @chrisypayne".

KENNY AMOR - CHIEF EXECUTIVE - EASTLEIGH FOOTBALL CLUB

 

Services

Beyond the design and development of the football club's logo, I also offer a wide range of creative and strategic services to help you launch the new brand with maximum success, and ensure that the brand has a long lasting and positive impact on the football club for years to come.

The face of your football club, and the visual representation of your football club’s brand. The badge that your players and fans will wear with honor. A football clubs primary logo should be simple, yet say a lot, it should be functional and adaptable and across all medias. It should look professional and powerful. I will create a unique design that is simple though striking, functional and memorable, and one that embodies the history and traditions of your club.

These days, modern brands and modern football clubs often have secondary logos that are part of the brand’s visual language. These secondary logo designs are derived from the principle logo and often a more simplified version of the principle logo. The secondary logo, offers the football club more flexibility and choice in branding exercises, as well as widens the brand's visual footprint.

Brand guidelines are essential for any modern football club - it is a multiple page document that the explains and educates people about the brand, and how to use the brand, (as well as how not to use the brand) I create detailed and comprehensive brand guidelines football clubs, These guidelines will enable your employees, 3rd party vendors, and sponsors to thrive when using your brand. The brand guidelines will ensure that your football club’s brand is protected, and used in the correct matter.

A club motif or pattern is often part of a modern football club’s brand. It is a reusable pattern / design that can be used across a number of marketing and brand places, from online content such as social media graphics, to business content such as presentation design. Often these patterns and motifs are derived from an element of the principle logo, or from the football club’s history, club patterns or club motif's help unify the brand and tie the club's assets together.

These days modern brands, have their own custom typography that they use across all of their brand assets, from stadium signage, to board meeting presentations, from merchandising and marketing and digital media - Having custom typography for the football club gives the brand a strong style that further makes the club unique. I design and build out custom typography that has an edge, has personality and style, and that is relevant to your football club and the area that the football club represents. This custom typography can be used across multiple assets and help visually unite the look and feel of the football club.

As soon as your rebrand launches to the public, goes viral, and spreads like wildfire, you should have your complete merchandising offering designed, produced, and available online and in the club's shop - ready for eager fans to purchase. With the launch of a new club logo and exciting new brand direction, mixed in with the wave of publicity that a rebrand brings - club merchandising (that features the new logo) will be high in demand. When building football brands I design stylish and club merchandising that not only helps promote the football club - but also provides an additional revenue stream.

Launching a new brand is an exciting and profitable experience for all involved in the football club. It is hugely important that with the development of your brand, your internal team is equipped and enabled to use the brand in the correct manner and help grow the brand. With each brand development project I provide reusable templates that will enable your team, partners and sponsors to use the brand, and create impactful and stylish content that is on brand and easily to make. I create templates for social media, templates for corporate presentations, templates for business collateral such as letterheads and business cards. These enable the club to be consistent it its branding and style and ensure that all design elements feel part of a unified family.

These days more than ever it is vitally important to promote you brand and your football club via social media. Many of your fans, will consume and interact with your football club through the varying social media platforms, and so these days having a strong and compelling social media presence will help your club engage with the community, build trust and help increase the awareness of club activities and offering. Having a well designed, highly visual, eye catching , professional social media package will create sponsorship opportunities, as local and international businesses will want to sponsor moments like goals, games and giveaways and other moments that excite fans and interest the community.

Football club rebrands spark the imagination and excitement through the on field side of the business, but the off the field collateral is just as important. A strong football club brand makes the club look great both on the pitch, but also in the boardroom. Presentations to employees, potential partners, sponsors, investors and other business entities should be well presented and well designed to get your message across in the most impactful way. I work with the football club to create a reusable and well designed presentation deck that is customizable and easy to use and create complexing content.

Developing and rebranding a football club happens once every few decades, and so it is important to not only create the right brand, but also to launch the brand with the right message and maximum impact. Video is a great medium for exciting the fans, and wider community. Often these videos go viral on social media and bring lots of positive publicity to the football club. Importantly, they also allow you to control the narrative of the rebrand and get your message across in a concise, exciting and controlled way. I work with football clubs to create compelling launch videos that excite the fans, and the wider community.

Often fans, partners, sponsors and the general public want to know more about the process of developing a football clubs brand and visual identity . They want to go deeper than the initial press release and launch video, and want long form content on that lets them see behind the curtain and find out how and why the developer brand was created, who was involved and what the expected impact was of the rebrand. During the design process keep sketches, rough design and ideas and inspirations on file to make into a short documentary about the rebrand. This offers the fans and the wider community an insiders look at the process and helps them identify more with the brand and the football club.