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UW: How long have you been using that pseudonym for your drawings or illustrations?ĬornDoggy: I used to be a pretty big video gamer, and I began using CornDoggy as my username five or six years ago. UW: Does the pseudonym “CornDoggy” have any particular significance?ĬornDoggy: No, I just thought it was kind of a funny name. I’m a data scientist - I deal with like analytics and numbers and stuff, and then I like doing this kind of creative, artsy thing on the side. It’s actually kind of funny, because my job is the exact opposite of my CornDoggy personality. How old you are, where you live, and what you do for a living?ĬornDoggy: I’m 28 and I live in Chicago. Uni Watch: Let’s start with just a little information about you. Here’s a transcript of a conversation we recently had, edited for length and clarity:

I wanted to learn more, so I got in touch with CornDoggy (he prefers not to divulge his real name). Here, for example, are the drawings he did for Week Four of this season, and here are two of the matchup drawings he did for that week’s games:

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I went back to CornDoggy’s website and figured out that the “new set every week” line referred to a series of drawings he did for each week of the NFL season. “He draws a new set every week - dude is a machine,” said another. “This guy is a legend,” said one of them. For me, those logos all communicate the idea that sports are supposed to be fun and happy, not grim and menacing.Įager to share this new discovery, I tweeted some of CornDoggy’s illustrations and learned that I was late to the party - he already had a lot of enthusiastic fans. Many of my all-time favorite logos are friendly, smiling cartoon characters, like the original Milwaukee Bucks logo, or the old Dallas Chaparrals logo, or even Mr. I realize some of you probably think these look wimpy and/or amateurish, but I love them. I also found this, which seems so perfect on so many levels: It was all very … pleasant.Īs I looked a bit deeper on the CornDoggy site, I saw that the artist also created his own “alternate” logos for many of the teams, and that the signature smile even appeared on inanimate objects and typography: Not big, toothy grins - just happy little smiles. The mascots depicted in these logos all had one thing in common: They were smiling. He provided a link to a site called CornDoggy Drawings, which featured tons of MLB, NFL, NBA, and NCAA logo renderings, all executed in an endearingly simple, kiddie-style motif. “Basically the exact opposite of the ‘angry mascot’ trope we’ve grown accustomed to.”

#Cool team logos pro

“Here’s an artist who draws pro and college team logos in a cool, cutesy style,” he said. Last month I got an email from former Uni Watch Ticker-er Mike Chamernik.