Today we unveil our 14th overall Notre Dame football uniform concept and our 3rd effort dressing the Irish in black. When we started to put together concepts for this series an evenly divided shamrock was the very first logo I began toying with. After a few demos I put that to the side for a bit.

When we were going through ideas for black uniforms I decided to pick it back up again. Using a non-traditional background allowed me to mix the gold and green in the shamrock.

Originally, I wanted to pair the shamrock with the horizontal lines only on the sleeves, but after thinking about the opportunity to do something different with the helmet, I thought a wrap-around stripe on the lid was needed too.

I wasn’t prepared to rest on my laurels with just this and put the multi-colored “Marquette stripes” down the side panels of the jerseys and extending down on to the side of the pants. I know in this 2D representation it does seem too busy but on the field I think this would be a nice touch that isn’t too overwhelming. The stripe and shamrock are also added on the bottom of the left pant leg.

With a lot going on above I decided to keep the socks plain black and ideally they’d be paired with all-black cleats.

The numbers are white and outlined in both green and gold. To change things up for a truly original concept a nameplate was added in white font, deal with it.

I called this one “Metro Black” because the stripes coming off the shamrock reminded me of a subway line or metro bus logo.

UNIFORM CONCEPT ARCHIVE CLICK HERE