Everyone knows that Liverpool were the first professional team to wear a sponsored shirt in a league match – but were they? I’ve been doing […] Read More
Category: Kits Miscellany
My study of football kit design really took off when I made the subject part of my final Graphic Design degree project. As part of […] Read More
Six years ago I was asked by a kit-designer pal of mine to take part in a Skillshare set of sessions he was running on […] Read More
Like many football fans of my age I grew up enthralled at the football adventures of Roy Race and Melchester Rovers in ‘Tiger’ comic and […] Read More
As someone whose studied football shirt design indepth for the best of 15 years I’ve always done my very best to focus on the positive. […] Read More
The early 80s were a golden age for football apparel design – not only for kits, but for tracksuits too. Tracksuits seem to have always […] Read More
Well, it may not have been a vintage year for kit design but it has been a superb year for football kit books. Odd that […] Read More
Like so many others, I believe there has been a massive diamond shaped gap in the football kit market this year. Whether, as I have […] Read More
I bet you thought, as I did until recently, that football kit sponsorship in the UK started with shirts? Think again. With more and more […] Read More
I love going through old sportswear catalogues and this Umbro example from 1957 is a great example. It includes not only the collared shirts that […] Read More