Summer has started and have to admit I really had some fun with the design of this series. From art, stage, to atmosphere around the building. I believe this has to be one of the best series we've launched coming from the production team. I'm blessed to work along side some talented individuals that help make this all happen. Below is a break down of some of the key elements.
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I've been wanting to post this art for a while and was able to get to it today. AXIS, is our high school ministry here at the church. They came to me at the beginning of the year wanting to give their meeting room a face lift. We agreed on doing some wall art that had the key principles that they would be touching on through out the year.
Here's a little time-lapse of the making of it along with a short clip oh how it looks installed in the room.
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This was a sermon graphic for a stand alone message that got nixed because of the change of the sermon direction. Instead of letting it sit in a cold blue folder I though I'd bring it out and format it for my screen.
This question is a sobering reminder for me. Sometimes I find myself down and tired of life circumstance but soon realize that how much worst things would it be without Jesus. I can't imagine where I would be without Him.
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"Este es el día" is "this is the day" in spanish. I was going through some photos from a missions trip to the Amazon Lu and I went to in 2007. Evey morning I was awaken by beautiful sunrises like this, which reminds me that every day is the day the Lord has made.
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This piece was originally created to promote our Good Friday service here at PVC. Whenever I work on any graphics that subject is "Jesus" I put on Phil Wickham as the soundtrack. One song in particular, "True Love", makes me remember that the greatest love ever displayed was that of God giving up his on son for my sins.
Desktop wallpaper available here.
iPhone Version available here.
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This is a series design I did a while back for our High School dept. I had the opportunity to take my own photos for this piece, you can find out more about how this project came about here. The high-res PSD file is now available for download.
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One of the many things that I love about my job is the opportunity to work with the different departments at the church. Student ministries is something that is close to my heart and I try to help out as much as I can in helping them visually communicate to their specific audiences.
The project above is a mail-out piece I did for our high school ministry. The computer time it took to finish this project was longer then most, but totaled out to about a days work, not including tweaks and changes during the proofing process.
I really enjoy seeing projects go from concept to finish piece. My favorite part is always the actual design work but in order for that to go smoothly there are several things that most happen outside of the computer.
I remember meeting with the high school staff and listening to them tell me why they wanted this piece. There first idea was to do a calendar of some sorts to hand out. While this was a good idea, we began to think of the events that would be this calendar. Some of the events didn't hadn't even been finalized and would have to push production back. With further dialogue we agreed that we didn't want this to be content heavy.
By the end of the meeting we both narrowed down the goal of this project which was: to create a save the date mail-out that would be cool enough to hang on a student's refrigerator at home.
The other key ingredient to this was time. Normally we have a two week turnaround. Which by most standards isn't very long. This was a project that could have been done quickly but I'm thankful they gave me plenty of time to finish it.
The whole project from start to finish took almost two months. It's not like we work on it everyday but this help to give me the freedom to experiment with the layout and time to let it sit. For me, I feel I can push a project more if I'm able to walk away from it and come back to it later.
The end result was great, they were happy and so was I. The projects that get me are the ones that I have regrets about, the ones that I wish I could go back and tweak some lighting or another element. With this one as soon as It rolled off the printer I was content.
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It's another "normal" week at PVC. Found out Monday morning that our office was going to be remodeled into a new nursery. The new office they are setting up for us is going to be darker and further down the hall. So I consider it it a win win.
In the middle of all this I was reminded that we are starting a new series this weekend and hadn't heard anything on what it was about. Mitch soon filled me in on the details and gave me a graphic that one of the teaching pastors used before. I wanted to changed it up, but still keep at as close to the original concept, since that is what the pastor liked.
The series is going to be "Perspectives of Jesus" and keying in on some of the symbols used in describing Him such as the lion, lamb, ox and eagle.
I've been wanting to created something with this particular style for a while. I'm really happy how it turned out, I have to give some props to the design peeps (you know who you are) that gave me some needed critique and push.
Below are is a screen shot of the original images I used to create the final piece.
This has been a crazy week so far. I had about three days to layout a 64 page devotional booklet and get it to press. It was three days of copy-paste-format over and over again. The bright spot in this project was designing the cover. I have been wanting to try out, what I call, a word art style (not to be confused with word art in Microsoft word) for a while.
This devotional booklet is going along with the Lent series starting Ash Wednesday. The teaching pastor hook me up with forty key words he was using during this series. I had the idea in my head and really like how it played out. The time lapse below took three hours in real time.
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This is a graphic I did several months back for our Jr. High Dept.. My brother, Oz, sketched the type which I then used as the foundation in photoshop . The .PSD version of the file available for download here.
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