The ISU booth in the Varied Industries Building had, as always, football schedule posters for fans. This is the largest version I can find online. A few things about it jumped out. It wasn’t the issue of this year’s upcoming outfits, because in fact the uniform on the poster is NOT the style unleashed this summer. The poster’s uniform has “Iowa State” across the front while the actual outfits inexplicably don’t.
The schedule at the bottom has the opponent logos and game dates in gray. In the real product, it’s even lighter than the graphic. WHO KEEPS THINKING IT’S A GOOD IDEA TO PUT TEXT IN GRAY???
But the other thing was that the football player, in what I presume was an effort to convey intensity, looked more like someone in the early stages of the climax of a certain blockbuster…
Now, the date-stamp of the web address indicates the poster was released before the movie (and would also explain the old uniform). It’s probably just a coincidence, but a really weird one.
(On a related note, the dark tone and bleed of reds and blacks did NOT translate well to a JPEG version of last season’s women’s basketball poster.)
