The Columbus Blue Jackets are a professional ice hockey team that play in the National Hockey League.

They derive their name from the city's rich civil war history. Primarily, the factories that produced the uniforms for the Union Army. The union coats were of course, blue, hence blue jackets.

 

For the first few years of the franchise, there was more of an emphasis on the play on words, resulting in Stinger, a giant green bee that became the mascot and even adorned the jersey.

Eventually, the organization began to distance their look from the ridiculous giant insect, and towards the original meaning behind the name. The Uniforms below are the ones currently in use. The patches and color schemes pay homage to the state flag, union army, civil war, and the alternate features the cannon that fires inside Nationwide Arena during home games.

I wanted to take the Civil War concept even farther with my concept designs. To do this, I looked at actual Union Army Civil War coats and uniforms and developed a modified look and color scheme based on this.