"I said 'The Cowboys, are you kidding me?' I'm like some backwater designer sitting at home making some food magazine and you're actually interested in talking to me about this?".
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Marie Erker is the Head of Design at the North Queensland Cowboys, a professional rugby league team in the NRL.
Growing up in Townsville, Marie never would have imaged she would one day be working for the North Queensland Cowboys. With interests in illustration and none in sport, Marie followed a more traditional path of artistry through her early life studies until creating "The Good Food Guide", an independent food magazine in Townsville.
It was from this startup that an opportunity came knocking at the Cowboys and nearly 10 years later Marie has never looked back.
We explore what it's like to be the designer at an NRL club; such as the highs of Grand Final success, the lows or poor seasonal results and the work behind the scenes of almost making a grand final...
We chat about the recent removal of the red keyline text on the Cowboys logo (a massive applause from the online sports creative community) and the persistence of that yellow star, the balance of colours in the teams branding and how far in advance some projects need to be worked on.
Marie shares with us some of her favourite NQ Cowboys jersey's and what she might like to see on and off the field in the future.
Lastly we get some great recommendations on who we should be following in the sports creative scene, in Australia and abroad.
You can find Marie at @marie.creativ3, or observe her work throughout the @nqcowboys collateral.
Marie's Recommendations:
Lee Olson: @shiftrefresh
Tyson Beck: @tysonbeck
Caroline Blanchett: @ptitecao
Dan Beltran: @designwithdan
Tara Campbell-Barry: @itsbytara
Sports Design Australia (Reece Carter & Cass Wilkins): @sportdesignaus
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