TIU Men’s Soccer 2019
Midnight Classic T-Shirt
Summary
During my four years at Trinity International University (TIU) I played on TIU Trojans men’s soccer team, and, following my senior season, I was asked by the head coach to design the t-shirt for the 43rd Annual Midnight Classic—an indoor futsal tournament hosted by the men’s and women’s soccer programs—and the university’s biggest recruiting event of the year.
After brainstorming for a few weeks, I eventually chose to base the design off of the original 2005 PS2 video game cover of FIFA Street featuring Ronaldinho (see below). Every detail of the design was inspired by this image.
As the focal point of the design, I drew TIU’s mascot, Troy the Trojan, performing a bicycle kick. I then scanned the drawing, and converted it into a black and white image in Adobe Photoshop Elements 13. Once the mascot illustration was finished, I then continued to add a variety of fun little Easter eggs into the details of the design:
The E for Everyone® rating in the bottom left corner features the name of TIU men’s head coach Josiah Larson.
The 43rd anniversary sticker commemorates the event being the 43rd Annual Midnight Classic (1976-2019).
The PS2 logo is replaced with the TIU logo, and the regional coding tag underneath features the date of the event: February 15-16.
The PlayStation®2 title is replaced with “TIU” and the year of the event (2019).
The $10.00 discount price sticker represents how much it cost for participating recruits to be a part of the futsal tournament.
