{"id":17,"date":"2023-12-05T23:54:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T23:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-d.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/?p=17"},"modified":"2024-01-16T19:40:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T19:40:44","slug":"baltimore-orioles-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/2023\/12\/05\/baltimore-orioles-logo\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Orioles Logo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Designer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Stan Walsh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Year<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1966<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Client<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Orioles Team<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Baltimore Orioles were originally known as the St. Louis Browns. Their logo, established in 1902, consisted of \u201cST.L\u201d text. This logo was modified over the next several years before it was dropped after the Browns moved to Baltimore and changed their name to the Orioles.<br>Upon changing their names to the Orioles, the logo was likewise changed. The new logo was an oriole colored black, orange, and white, perched on top of a baseball with two crossed baseball bats behind it. This logo was used for nine years. In 1966, the logo was redesigned thanks to the help of Stan Walsh. The new logo kept the black, orange, and white oriole from the previous logo, but it was now swinging a baseball bat. This logo was kept all the way until 1992, where the logo became a large, orange \u201cOrioles\u201d script with a black, orange, and white oriole perched on top of it, with the word \u201cBaltimore written inside the tail of the \u201cOrioles\u201d text. This logo was expanded upon in 1995, which saw the logo being plastered in front of a baseball diamond, with the oriole now facing the opposite direction. This new logo was slightly modified over the next few years before the baseball diamond was removed in 2009. Finally, in 2019, the logo was changed to what it is today: a cartoonish black, orange, and white oriole head with an Orioles cap on its head.<br>This logo deserves to be part of the Baltimore graphic design history canon for multiple reasons. All of the logos have used black, orange, and white as their colors, demonstrating an incredible consistency given how long the team has been around. The constantly changing logos represent the constant change in the team\u2019s philosophy and attitude\u2014while past logos depicted a realistic-looking oriole, the current logo features a cartoonish, anthropomorphic oriole, making the logo more appealing to younger audiences. The Orioles have been cemented in Baltimore\u2019s history as an icon of the city, as well as an icon of baseball. The logos have been featured on several pieces of merchandise, like t-shirts, baseball caps, and more. The Orioles logo is one of the most recognizable icons of Baltimore, more than deserving of being considered part of the city\u2019s graphic design history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Parker, G. (2019, February 23). The History of The Baltimore Orioles Logo. Money Inc. https:\/\/moneyinc.com\/baltimore-orioles-logo\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200cBaltimore Orioles Logo, symbol, meaning, history, PNG, brand. (n.d.). Retrieved November 7, 2023, from https:\/\/logos-world.net\/baltimore-orioles-logo\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200cBaltimore Orioles Primary Logo &#8211; American League (AL) &#8211; Chris Creamer\u2019s Sports Logos Page &#8211; SportsLogos.net. (n.d.). Www.sportslogos.net. Retrieved November 7, 2023, from https:\/\/www.sportslogos.net\/logos\/view\/5258002019\/Baltimore_Orioles\/2019\/Primary_Logo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1491\/2024\/01\/5logo-baltimore_orioles_logo_primary_20195398-Heath-Klotz.png\" alt=\"Current Orioles logo, featureing a cartoon bird face in black and orang, wearing a black baseball cap with an orange script &quot;O&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-113\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1491\/2024\/01\/5logo-baltimore_orioles_logo_primary_20097723-Heath-Klotz.png\" alt=\"Alternative current Orioles logo featuring a realistic oriole bird illustration perched atop the lowercase &quot;i&quot; of a script Orioles typeface logo in orange. \" class=\"wp-image-112\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"111\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1491\/2024\/01\/5logo-baltimore_orioles_logo_primary_19999188-Heath-Klotz.png\" alt=\"Alternative current Orioles logo featuring a realistic oriole bird illustration perched atop the lowercase &quot;i&quot; of a script Orioles typeface logo in orange, and also featuring a simplified baseball diamond graphic as a background. \" class=\"wp-image-111\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1491\/2024\/01\/5logo-baltimore_orioles_logo_primary_19895183-Heath-Klotz.png\" alt=\"retro Baltimore Orioles logo with a cartoon oriole bird illustration swinging a bat in the center of a white circle, srurrounded in an orange ring with Baltimore Orioles written in sans-serif font. \" class=\"wp-image-110\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"109\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1491\/2024\/01\/5logo-baltimore_orioles_logo_primary_19542869-Heath-Klotz.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designer Stan Walsh Year 1966 Client Orioles Team The Baltimore Orioles were originally known as the St. Louis Browns. Their logo, established in 1902, consisted of \u201cST.L\u201d text. This logo was modified over the next several years before it was dropped after the Browns moved to Baltimore and changed their name to the Orioles.Upon changing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/2023\/12\/05\/baltimore-orioles-logo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baltimore Orioles Logo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5259,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/creativeblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}