The Barn

04/08/2026

Submit your work!!

ENTRIES DUE APRIL 13

Enter and share with your colleagues. The inaugural Sports Design Awards celebrates work across all levels of sports. Whether environmental graphics for stadiums, app design for the fan experience, or jersey design for the field, graphic designers play a central role and deserve to be seen.

Work will be reviewed by an expert panel of graphic design leaders and peers, including Sagi Haviv (Partner at Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv) and Nick Matarese (Founder at The Barn - A Creative Branding Agency). We are excited for you to bring your best work to the inaugural GDUSA Sports Design Awards.

Gold, Silver, and Bronze overall winners receive trophies and wide recognition. Winners for each category will also receive special recognition. Get your entries in by April 13th!
https://gdusa.secure-platform.com/sports_design/organizations/main/home

01/26/2026

10/29/2025

Last week we celebrated our 15th year (our crystal anniversary). In the last year we have branded multiple professional hockey & baseball teams. Campaign and design work for the NFL, NHL teams, CCM, and PBR. Taught classes at our alma mater and met a lot of great people along the way.

Big shout out to all of our clients, designers, contractors, and anyone else who have come through our doors over the years.

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07/29/2025

We are going to need all of these!

07/14/2025

Fun branding project we put together with our good friends over at PBR. Working with them for cole Hauser official page’s Ultimate Tailgate Party at the PBR World Finals. We got to work in Cole’s signature truck into the mark, using it as a unique badge shape while also playing with the word & aura of what a tailgate party is. It never gets old to see your work big IRL.

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06/19/2025

Our tertiary logo development work for the Wilmington Blue Rocks came with a unique challenge: blending a revamped throwback logo seamlessly into the team’s current identity system.
We weren’t just recreating a mark from the 2000’s — we had to ensure it played nicely alongside the existing mascot logos and visual elements. So we brought it up to date, weaving in details from the modern brand — while also including a subtle “W” easter egg hidden in the pickaxe streak.
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06/18/2025

After our successful Copa De La Diversión branding for the Wilmington Blue Rocks we were asked to "keep going" to bring the ROCKS back into the Blue Rocks brand. As Delaware locals we got to look through the archives of the team and bring back an updated version of the bat/pickaxe from the early 2000's. Updating the motion streak and incorporating the current brand into the mark.. We really think it is a great cleaned up version of a classic local mark while still telling the story of the team name.
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04/13/2025

This wasn’t on our logo bingo card. But also awesome!

03/19/2024

Gotta love working with your local team

12/01/2023

We can officially announce the launch of the Tahoe Knight Monsters brand we developed and designed. When Zawyer Sports & Entertainment came to us to help design and develop the brand for the new ECHL team we could not have been more excited. It is no secret how much we love hockey here, and an "EC" team has been our next logical step in our growth.
There were many hurdles along the way (originally 6 different names everyone had to agree on, to name one)... but the mascot of Tahoe Tessie did make its way to the forefront, something we knew was the local homerun. There are MANY posts coming showing off the work one by one, but we also developed this official announcement video showing off the work in a fun Tahoe way.
Welcome to pro hockey Tahoe Knight Monsters!!!

11/20/2023

big announcement in 10 days!


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