My inspiration for this piece of work was the state of Washington, focusing on the city of Pullman. The main focus of this advertisement was to promote WSU baseball by providing a photograph of the team along with the home schedule posted at the bottom of the poster. Along with the photo of the team that I had outlined by of the state of Washington, I also provided two photos that I took myself. The photo on the top is a photo I took of the sunset by the Chinook and the second photo is when the sun was setting at the WSU water tower near the baseball field and recreation center. My original piece had a photograph of the sky that I found on the internet. I decided to change this part of my work because of feedback that I was given from my classmates. One critique that almost all of them had was to give the poster more of a “Pullman / WSU” feel by adding photos that show what it is like in Pullman and photos that I took myself. A second critique that I was given was to adjust the centering of the photo. In the original piece, there were a few heads that were cropped out and it made it look unprofessional. What I did to correct this was to drag the original photo down and to the left. A third, small comment that was made was to show where Pullman was on the map / state of Washington. I added a 4 pointed star and the city name approximately where our great city is located. The fourth and final critique that I was given was to make the game schedule easier to read, so I adjusted the color of the text from crimson to white in order to better complement the background of the poster.
I did my best to create a sense of unity among the photos and tried to get them to flow together and make each piece belong. I did this by adjusting the vibrancy and color of the background pieces to really get the team photo to pop and be the focal point of the piece. I also used the Eraser and the lasso tool to crop images and cut them down to the sizing and shape that was needed to make everything fit and flow correctly. I also used the quick select tool, the eye dropper tool along with the paint bucket tool in order to change the color of the text within the “PAC 12 CONFERENCE” at the top of the piece. The original idea for me to create this piece was from a NIKE add that I saw. This add had an image and the NIKE swoosh around it, and I thought to myself “How cool would it be if they inserted a design into the swoosh” and seeing this, I was able to come up with this idea of having the state of Washington as an outline. I feel like this advertisement really embodies WSU, Pullman and the Baseball team with each image that was presented.
Cougars: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Washington_State_Cougars_wordmark.svg
Baseball: https://www.cougcenter.com/2018/2/14/17011164/washington-state-wsu-baseball-pac-12-cougars
WSU baseball: https://com210dotcom1.wordpress.com/category/baseball/
WA outline: https://www.stamptopia.com/products/washington-outline-rubber-stamp
PAC-12: https://www.brandsoftheworld.com/logo/pacific-12-conference
Star: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_4_Point_Star.png
WSU water tower: Taken by Me
Chinook w/ sunset: Taken by me
All of the photos that I used in this assignment were either taken by me, labeled for reuse or I was given permission by WSU through email to use their logo.
Connor Barison's portfolio for COM210 at Washington State University 
