Back in the early days of professional sports, teams would have two uniforms: one for home games and one for away games.

As sports jerseys became de riguer as a part of everyday fashion, franchises began flooding the market with all sorts of variations on a theme. Throwback jerseys, special game day jerseys, commemorative jerseys and charitable jerseys flooded the market and became a lucrative revenue stream for teams.

A Green Bay Packers throwback jersey, a Chicago Bears breast cancer awareness jersey, and a San Antonio Spurs “Camo Pride” jersey. (NFL/NBA)

Alexandre De Sève, however, decided to turn that idea on its ear and take it from a creative approach instead of a capitalist one. The 25-year-old graphic designer and Redditor from Montreal posed this question and ran with it: What if NBA uniforms were reimagined as football kits (…and that’s soccer uniforms, non-fans)?

“I really like the simplicity of NBA uniforms compared to other professional sports, and I wanted to translate that into soccer kits, which I think look beautiful when they are simple, like the classic ones,” De Sève shares. “I’ve never done any uniform or clothing design before, except for some branding exercises at design school, but nothing as complex as this,” he adds. “I started playing [the video game] Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 and with the kit editor in the game, after that I wanted to try the real thing.”

He posted the first result from this exercise—home and away soccer kits for the Boston Celtics—in the NBA community. And this is just the beginning. De Sève—his Reddit username is FreddyFarcelin—plans to do kits for all 30 NBA teams.

Alexandre De Sève

Before he creates his kits, De Sève does research and thinks out how best to represent the team he’s working on. Then he sits down with Photoshop and Illustrator to execute his vision. It takes about an hour to complete one or two kits.

“I try to look at the global image that the team projects,”De Sève says. “I’ll stay with the primary colours and experiment with them. You’ll have teams like the Celtics or the Bulls, who give more of a classic vibe, and some more recent like the Pelicans, that are more modern in their approach. That gives me a chance to experiment more with the design.”

“I really like the simplicity of NBA uniforms compared to other professional sports, and I wanted to translate that into soccer kits …”

“[S]ome designs come to me quickly, others I’ll have to try more to see what I like,” he added. “It’s a little time consuming, but I really enjoy doing it.”

Along with the Celtics, De Sève has done kits for the Bulls, the Atlanta Hawk, and the New Jersey Nets, and he’s been posting them on Reddit and in his own online gallery. The kits for the Celtics, however, still hold the distinction of being De Sève’s favorites.

The Atlanta Hawks uniforms as soccer kits. (Alexandre De Sève)

“I love the colors and the classic style that comes through from it,” he says.

When it comes to the actual sports, De Sève is actually a bigger fan of soccer than he is of basketball (he did follow the San Antonio Spurs through their last couple playoff runs, though).

“In soccer, I’m a fan of Chelsea FC in the English Premier League, and the Montreal Impact (obviously) in the MLS,” he explains. “The fact that my favourite player is Didier Drogba, and that he started playing with Montreal after leaving Chelsea has been a dream.”

Once he’s finished converting NBA uniforms into soccer kits, would De Sève ever consider doing the reverse and seeing what soccer teams would look like with NBA jerseys and shorts?

“That could be fun,” he says. “It would definitely be more of a challenge since the NBA uniforms have a big logotype in front, and that’s not really a thing in soccer, so I’d have to make those from scratch, but that’s something I could try after this.”