Reading emblem

[East Stand Ste]

so I remember that there was a competition and some kind of vote for the current badge, back in the day.....curious about the rejected designs as I don't ever recall seeing them.....anybody?? Looked on tinterweb and found nowt

[Z175]

http://www.royals.org/millwallbadge.html

No logos but a good read, hope fellow internetters enjoy!

[Maquisard]

Ah, how young we all were in those days [*nostalgic sigh*]

But...

direct action by Nob Nob Anyone?

[Ian Royal]

I think I submitted a design actually....

I'd bloody love to see a Shades effort.

[General B]

There's no denying it's a fascinating read.

However, the current badge was designed by a local design agency, so presumably the fans submitted designs were all utter crud.

[Z175]

Would be great if someone found the designs!

To be fair I like the one they chose though. And its certainly had a lot of "new" history now

[Silver Fox]

There's no denying it's a fascinating read.

However, the current badge was designed by a local design agency, so presumably the fans submitted designs were all utter crud.

Or had too many cocks and balls on

[East Stand Ste]

Would be great if someone found the designs!

To be fair I like the one they chose though. And its certainly had a lot of "new" history now

Im very curious to see the old designs....

[Fox Talbot]

Would be great if someone found the designs!

To be fair I like the one they chose though. And its certainly had a lot of "new" history now

I saw some shocking work in progress in the mid/late 1990s. I'll see if I can 'em out.

[Fox Talbot]

Here we are.

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There seemed to be some madness about changing the club name to Reading Royals involved, together with a fixation about lions that have nothing to with royals. Is anyone outside Reading even aware of the Forbury Lion?

I have no idea how advanced this work ever got.

[Rawlie19]

Here we are.

unbadge1.jpg

unbadge 2.jpg

There seemed to be some madness about changing the club name to Reading Royals involved, together with a fixation about lions that have nothing to with royals. Is anyone outside Reading even aware of the Forbury Lion?

I have no idea how advanced this work ever got.

tbf, the lion is known as 'king' of the jungle... And we have a lion on our logo now!

[Terminal Boardom]

There's no denying it's a fascinating read.

However, the current badge was designed by a local design agency, so presumably the fans submitted designs were all utter crud.

Cream Design were the culprits. I thought at the time that one of the hooped quarters could easily have contained one of the elm trees from the old badge instead but it was not to be. SJM wanted a complete break from the past. Hence the half cooked design. It could have been so much more impressive.

I did hear though that the club were looking at going back to the old coat of arms for the Borough but gave up after they could not find 5 virgins.

[Jackson Corner]

There's no denying it's a fascinating read.

However, the current badge was designed by a local design agency, so presumably the fans submitted designs were all utter crud.

Cream Design were the culprits. I thought at the time that one of the hooped quarters could easily have contained one of the elm trees from the old badge instead but it was not to be. SJM wanted a complete break from the past. Hence the half cooked design. It could have been so much more impressive.

I did hear though that the club were looking at going back to the old coat of arms for the Borough but gave up after they could not find 5 virgins.

Espeicially as the club moved to Whitley nigh on imposible.

[Svlad Cjelli]

Isn't part of the reason for changing a change in the trademark law?

If the old badge existed before the law changed, there was no full trademark protection, so no way to prosecute spivs and forgers etc producing and selling their own merchandise.

But a new badge, trademarked from day one, got round this legal problem. ISTR lots of clubs did the same at about the same time - Arsenal had lots of grief for having the cannon pointing in the "wrong" direction, or something like that.

[Z175]

Isn't part of the reason for changing a change in the trademark law?

If the old badge existed before the law changed, there was no full trademark protection, so no way to prosecute spivs and forgers etc producing and selling their own merchandise.

But a new badge, trademarked from day one, got round this legal problem. ISTR lots of clubs did the same at about the same time - Arsenal had lots of grief for having the cannon pointing in the "wrong" direction, or something like that.

I dind't know that but looking at Wigan, Fulham etc seems to make sense cos otherwise a bizarre number of clubs changed their badge.

I agree an Elm would have been nice on the new one but blue white red black and yellow doesn't need green too does it...

[Terminal Boardom]

Isn't part of the reason for changing a change in the trademark law?

If the old badge existed before the law changed, there was no full trademark protection, so no way to prosecute spivs and forgers etc producing and selling their own merchandise.

But a new badge, trademarked from day one, got round this legal problem. ISTR lots of clubs did the same at about the same time - Arsenal had lots of grief for having the cannon pointing in the "wrong" direction, or something like that.

I dind't know that but looking at Wigan, Fulham etc seems to make sense cos otherwise a bizarre number of clubs changed their badge.

I agree an Elm would have been nice on the new one but blue white red black and yellow doesn't need green too does it...

The red and yellow appeared because of the away strip at the time. Why, oh why, can't the club come up with a second strip colour scheme and stick with it for once?

[Who Moved The Goalposts?]

I dind't know that but looking at Wigan, Fulham etc seems to make sense cos otherwise a bizarre number of clubs changed their badge.

I agree an Elm would have been nice on the new one but blue white red black and yellow doesn't need green too does it...

I've always thought that the Fulham badge looks odd. Something a bit, well, Swastika-like about it.

[Terminal Boardom]

I dind't know that but looking at Wigan, Fulham etc seems to make sense cos otherwise a bizarre number of clubs changed their badge.

I agree an Elm would have been nice on the new one but blue white red black and yellow doesn't need green too does it...

I've always thought that the Fulham badge looks odd. Something a bit, well, Swastika-like about it.

I much preferred Fulham's old badge



Something stylish about it. Their current offering makes the Branfootesque stripes of the 1980s/90s look artistic in comparison