Negro Leagues Baseball Poster Design - Corcoran Studio - Graphic Design, Web Design, Videography Portfolio

Heartland Community College Negro League Presentation Poster (2009)

The Negro Leagues: A Player's Perspective Panel Presentation

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Goal of the Project

In 2009 I was approached by members of the Diversity Team at Heartland Community College seeking a poster design for a panel presentation of former Negro League baseball players being brought into campus for a presentation. They required an 11x17 poster design as well as a postcard size design to advertise this event.

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Audience

Community College Campus
Local Community Members

Solution to the Problem

As a baseball history fan I jumped at the opportunity to perform this graphic design work. I first researched several available images of baseball players from that league and time period. Once I settled on the image of the five players, I used Adobe Photoshop to sharpen the image, selected the players and added a sepia tone to them so they would jump off the page. Then I added the rest of the color, typeface choice and text, and graphics to the lower portion of the poster layout in Adobe Illustrator. The postcard design was a simple reworking of the size of this poster.

My work on this poster earned me a Peer Support Award which I received in 2010 at Heartland Community College.