As a Brand Director for the team I was responsible for creating everything from logo and jersey to vehicles and merchandise.

The logo is a combination of metaphors that represents Bahrain, and the spirit of cycling. Circular motion of the wheel is a symbol of invention and progress.

The concentric circles in red represent the dynamic motion towards victory. Furthermore, the national flag with forward-moving arrows blend seamlessly in a form of water ripples, which is symbolic of Bahrain making waves on the world stage.

And at the epicenter of it all, is the culture of Bahrain, showcased by it’s architecture. The heart of the ripple is the golden Arabic pattern that is recognized across the world for it’s rich heritage. The symbol works as a reminder of the culture and values that the nation and the team stand for.

All this complemented by a bold typeface rendered in a combination of ‘Bahraini Flag Red’ and ‘Sea Blue’ – two colours that truly represent the island between two seas.

We were asked (part of Memac Ogilvy Bahrain) to brand the VIVA Cricket tournament and create in-situation mock-ups for the stadium, press conference venue, and everything that goes around it.

The idea was to create visuals that look like cricket branding but little bit more colourful and playful, with heavy VIVA branding. The excessive colour will help with visibility.

The branding identity has been inspired by the jerseys that were previously approved.
Off white has been added to represent cricket and black (neutral colour) to bring a touch of exclusivity to it. Those colours alone with pattern of the jerseys were taken to make a visual effect that will be carried throughout all the materials.

LR51 strikes again with distinguished uniforms for European Legion, European team of selected under 24 year old Aussie Rules players, that 4th year in a row faced Australian best talent (AFL – AIS Academy). Custom number font was made for this uniform that goes well with subliminal pattern and European Legion logo.                      

It’s hard to explain what is happening now in city of Split, but all athletes (and public) rallied around Hajduk Split in support of the fight against all irregularities in Croatian football and in Croatian Sport in general. More about that topic: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2280834-how-hajduk-split-supporters-started-an-uprising-in-croatian-football
But speaking about the design. This job had 24 hour deadline and T-shirts were used the following weekend by all Split’s teams playing their league matches (handball, volleyball, football, indoor football, waterpolo…) The idea was to create a T-shirt that would look like someone took a marker and wrote on it. All revolutions start like that, with bucket of paint and a canvas. This revolution was visible in the Split Center on Saturday where 40,000 people came out with home made banners protesting against Croatian sports irregularities. So the fitting was that T-shirts were in the same style.

Bahrain RoadRunners is amateur running club on the island of Bahrain. They are the biggest club in the country (member number). LR51 redesigned their look. The new logo is typographical, having the name spelled in Arabic and English. First letters of english name has Bahraini flag feature.

Primary logo:

Primary logo (color options):

Secondary logo:

Secondary logo (color options):

Background pattern:

Also we created event logos for the club. Each season clubs puts up annual events, for members and non members to participate. There is between 200 and 400 participants at each event. Event logo is used for event give aways for participants as well as for merchandise.

Euro Cup is AFL Europe’s showcase event, 9 a side, 16 teams tournament competing at 4 different fields during one day. This is 3rd Euro Cup (hosted so far by Milano, Belfast and Edinburgh) after changing it’s name from EU Cup (London, Hamburgh, Prague and Zagreb). 

LR51 has been involved in doing branding for all tournaments except 1st one in London. We can say that we grew better as tournament grew bigger and better.

Apart for logo design, we did posters, flyers, medals, program, team Europe jumpers and T-shirt design. 

More photos will be added as soon as we get them from AFL Europe.

Medal production by www.pes.hr

LR51 prposed this logo to South Sydney. In the first photo you see current logo and our proposal done conservativly. Other 3 slides are what we would like to do, more modern and bold. The main change is in the rabbit:

This is a first instance of JLT AFL Europe All Star Game. It was played at legendary Kia Oval in London as a curtain raiser of AFL Port Adelaide vs Western Bulldogs match. 

Insted of East vs West or Nothr vs South, this game was about Islands vs Continent, Island represented by Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland and Iceland, and Continent represented by other footy nations in Europe.

We decided not to go with typical red, white and blue color for all star matches, and to invent colors that would be more fitting for “Australian” all stars. Islands team has a white jumper with light blue to navy blue stripes representing waves, while continent team has green jumpers with yellow to light green stripes making mountins.

Apart from jumpers, LR51 created logos for the teams and program spread. We hope AFL comes back next year to London to play another match, and that this All Star concept continues.

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Uniformed manufactured by S-trend.

Photography (most of those): Copywright Andrew Tobin/SLIK images slikimages.com