Rock League

Curling Unleashed

Services

Brand Positioning, Brand Identity, Team Brands, In-Venue & OOH, Broadcast & Motion, Merchandise

Rock League launched in April 2026 as the world’s first professional curling league. Launching a new professional sports league from scratch means building everything at once and making it all feel like it instantly belongs. It arrived as an ambitious concept, a curling league designed to compete culturally at the level of any major sport. The work spanned naming, identity, team brands, in-venue experience, broadcast graphics, and merchandise. The elements below are a sampling of what brought the league to life.

Results

32.4Msocial impressions in the debut season
10.1Mvideo views across Rock League social
1.13MCanadians watched on CBC (690K for Sunday’s finals)
39Olympians on the roster, from 12 countries

Streamed on ESPN+ in the U.S. and CBC in Canada. Team merchandise is setting early sales records, and the league has since raised a $25M Series A.

My Role

Brand Identity, Art Direction, Creative Direction

Rock League branding and campaign by Zane Michael Cooper, a San Francisco design studio

In addition to creating the Rock League brand I designed identities for each of the six founding teams. Every icon is rooted in something culturally specific to its region: an animal, a symbol, an idea that belongs there.

Rock League Launch Broadcast :30

Rock League Graphics 3

The brand had to work at every scale, from a flag on a light pole to a full arena wrap. I designed the complete in-venue and out-of-home collateral system so that walking toward a Rock League event is exciting before you're even inside.

Brand identity, look and feel, in-venue graphics, motion graphics for broadcast, commercials, merchandise. Rock League is being built to last, and the visual system is designed to grow with it.