We are curently working both with our team logo and the design of our team clothes for our new Norwegian triathlon club, Oslofjord triatlon
To get ideas I have been looking around at american web-sites, and found many very traditional logos and suits. But who do you think have the best logo and the best looking team clothes? I kind of liked San F and Chicago.
As a graphic designer and triathlete, might I offer some advice to help you get the results you are looking for. After you look around and see what you like, make up a list in order of importance of what you want your logo to portray i.e. your city, the fact that you are a tri group, speed, fun, whimsicle…all these things can be described through a good logo.
Then once you have a logo finalized, start to design the uniform. Use the same process.Know what you like. THen, Make up a list of the most important things on the jersey, Dominant colors? Do you want to see the name of the group from far away, do you want the design to be simple? How many colors do you have to work with? Usually, if you are working with 2 colors you can use shades of that color. For example: Blue can also be used as a solid blue, then light blue and even a pastel blue.
Also, make sure you get all your sponsor logos in what is called “vector” format. Usually a file with the extension of .eps.
I was closely involved in creating my club’s uniforms…it is quite an in depth process.
Good Luck!
My personal opinion is that the Los Angeles Tri Club http://www.latriclub.com/ (LA Tri) has it all. The look, the memberships, the workouts, sponsors and the performance of it’s members. Theirs is the standard to which all other are measured by.
Being a very patriotic American and native Californian, I love their Red, White and Blue color scheme. The logo is simple, yet gets the point across.
It’s an AWESOME sight when LA Tri is at a particular race. If you’ve ever been to a race where LA Tri shows up, then you know what I’m talking about.
For my money, the best of seen is from Tribe, in San Jose. Sorry I don’t have any pictures, but if you see any and aren’t impressed, those are last year’s unis.
The new ones for this year are one-piece (last year was tanks and black shorts) with the logo a little bigger. Really sharp.
When you do get all your stuff together I would be interested in buying a shirt or jersey or something from your club.
el
St. Pete Mad Dogs have some logo stuff/merchandise you might check out at their website: www.stpetemaddogs.com
Being a member and on the board, I am partial to the TRIAD TRIATHLON TEAM, located in the Greensboro/High Point Area of North Carolina. We spent a few months tossing ideas around on the logo and what we wanted on the team uniforms. You can check out the link below to see what they look like.
Later,
Mark
I like the way you think, Chicago really does have cool looking uniforms.
That I happen to race in one only makes me like it even more 
AHUB
check out the Iowa State University triathlon uniforms @
http://www.scc.iastate.edu/~triath/roster/teamflex.JPG
The jersey design was selected by Louis Garneau to be the example of their tri tops in their custom team clothing catalog. I am kinda biased because I designed them but they are cool. It was used on their webpage as well for the custom team tri top.
As a director of San Francisco Triathlon Club - THANKS!!
Good luck with your club.
Alan
www.teamearthquake.org none better
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wow, so many fantastic web-sites, suits and logos, hope you are proud of your teams, you should be. And if there are more proud club members here please post information and pictures, I have a fantastic time looking at your favorites, I get lots of ideas and I am very impressed (my boss would probably not be very impressed if he knew what I am doing though).
I rather like ours.
Golden Gate Triathlon Club
http://www.brightroom.com/view_user_photo.asp?EVENTID=2980&PWD=&ID=4232364&FROM=photos&BIB=163
Gotta put in a plug for the new SVTC unie’s:
http://www.photochambers.us/v2/showroll.html?picID=3392&d=1
You can also see them here:
OK - this team loyalty is nice and all…but let’s face the simple truth and acknowledge the fact that the entire country of Norway has recognized the greatness of the San Francisco Triathlon Club and the uniforms proudly worn by its members. Let’s not let our biased opinions of our personal affiliations result in misguided and certain-to-fail attempts to change TriBent’s mind here 
Alan
Also - take a look at page page 75 of September issue of Triathlete mag to see the uniform in all its glory
Don’t let it get to your head, he mentioned the Chicago tri club in the same sentance… I think we have a Tie here…
A wonderful image of the chicago uni can be see here… http://www.chicagotriclub.com/forsale/forsale.html
or you can see them in action here…
http://www.chicagotriclub.com/members/albums/index.html
AHub
Yeah…I guess…but…he did mention us first, so using chip timing, we win!!!
Like everyone else, I’m partial, but Hincapie Sports (Rich, brother of George) recently designed our club’s tri gear
(Upstate Triathlon Club - SC) www.triclub.org
with some of the best fabrics I’ve ever seen. Check out our gear at www.hincapiesports.com/sportswear/source.html (then follow the triathlon link) Got more of a cycling team look to it.