Football Poster Ideas

A football poster is a versatile piece of art. You can use it to show your support for a family member playing a local game, help get the word out to colleges about a potential recruit, advertise a player's candidacy for the Heisman trophy or simply advertise a football game itself.

  1. Brainstorming

    • When brainstorming, use everything from hand-drawn sketches to Photoshop to illustrate your initial ideas for the poster. Get started by drawing small versions (thumbnails) of what you'd like the poster to look like and explaining your idea to a friend. These thumbnails can help you efficiently choose an art direction because they are not full-scale and can be scrapped easily.

    Examples

    • Once you have chosen an idea, it's time to run with it. Now you'll want to put a lot of detail and effort into the poster, making it stand out amongst any others. The best way to do this is to give it some "pop." Bright colors contrasted against a dark background, a player in uniform in close focus against a background that's somewhat faded out or a collage of artfully arranged team and player accomplishments are all good ways to make your poster a cut above the rest. How you do all of this is up to you, but here a few examples:

      • Sketch your idea on a piece of sketch paper, put it through a scanner and color
      your sketch using a Photoshop or Microsoft Paint paintbrush.
      • Use royalty-free stock images that you find on a site such as Getty Images and alter them to form a collage.
      • Choose one stock image to alter in a way that will illustrate your idea.
      • Take photos with your camera and use the prints to make a mosaic, using
      certain colors from each to create an original image.
      • Word art of player's names and statistics.
      • Or a collection of signatures and encouragement from your player or team's fans.

    Finalization

    • Choose an appropriate size for the poster, keeping in mind where it will be displayed. The two most common sizes for a large poster are 26 by 39 inches or 24 by 36 inches. These are usually done at "full bleed," a process that prints the ink to a larger area on one sheet of material than the final size of the poster, to ensure that no border is visible. However, you can include a border in your design if you like.