5th LRS Military Patch

At the beginning of June a friend of mine, who is in the US Air Force, contacted me and asked if I could design a patch for the 5^th Logistics Readiness Squadron. His only request was for the design to include a knight on a horse and have it be a frontal or profile view. Immediately an idea for this patch came to mind.

I chose to base some of the design elements and colors off of a tapestry by artist Alexander Kishchenko, specifically his piece entitled ‘Chernobyl’ a tapestry currently hanging at the United Nations in New York. It should also be noted that I decided to go with a smoother style of shading (not as geometrically ridged as you can see in Mr. Kishchenko’s tapestry).

           When it came to picking colors I didn’t want to stray too far from the original 5^th LRS logo (blue and black) and I also wanted to include the reds, yellows and grays from the Chernobyl tapestry. In the end I am very satisfied with how this project turned out.