Kairos Victory Series

Kairos has been working on a series through the book of John and split it up into three sub-series. They started out with The Witness, did a series on The Upper Room, and now they are moving on to Victory a series on the betrayal, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

I split the series into two images. The first is a focus on the betrayal and death. Throughout their time in the book of John, Kairos has used the image of a lamb in their illustrations. I thought the image of a lamb on an altar would be a great way to capture the theme of these messages with the blood forming a cross (and the T of the title) to tie it all together. But the Victory does not end with the death, so I thought it was important to also have the resurrection represented in the 2nd part of the series. I found a white fabric to represent the burial cloth of Jesus, but also to represent the "he washed us white as snow" image that is such a huge part of our connection to this. I really wanted the blood to stand out on the white so I made it as simple as possible.

Project: Victory Series Art
Client: Kairos
Details: 8.5x14" Posters

Minor Prophets Sermon Series

This week Golden Hills Community Church is beginning a new sermon series called The Prophetable Church: Major Lessons from the Minor Prophets. Designing for this series presented some challenges. How do you come up with one image to encompass 12 different prophets, each telling their message in a different way, with mountains of symbolism in each book, and all tying it together to the modern church?

Instead of coming up with one image to represent those things, I just decided to show all those things. I had this picture in my head of 12 icons (one representing each prophet) grouped together to form the image of a church. So we finally were able to nail down 12 images to represent each prophet. Whether it was an important symbol from their book, a theme, or a key image, we settled on 12. I spent some time drawing out the symbols until I felt they all had a similar look and style. I then placed them sporadically throughout the shape of a church and I had my image!

How to Share Your Faith Class Poster

The Community Outreach Center at Golden Hills has presented a class for years called "The Gospel Class", a course that teaches people how to share their faith. It has gone through numerous promotional changes over the years, and this year they decided to change the name to the "How to Share Your Faith Class". Along with that came the need for a re-branding and launch of new promotional materials for the course.

I looked through various concepts and I came across this image I liked of a salt shaker overflowing. I have always liked the analogy from Jesus that his followers are to be like the salt of the earth. In other words, they should affect those around them. A little salt can go a long way. It acts to flavor and preserve everything it touches. This image grabbed my attention because it had the salt overflowing out of it, much like the love of Christ is supposed to overflow from the life of a Christian and affect those around them.

I designed the logo for the class in a hexagon shape and connected the lines with dots to represent the message being shared from person to person. The class stressed getting out and sharing the gospel with people in all situations so I wanted that to be represented visually in some way. And it acted as a nice frame.

Project: How to Share Your Faith Class promotion
Client: Golden Hills Community Outreach Center

Trinity Class

Project: The Trinity: God in 3 Persons Class promo
Client: Golden Hills Community Church

Alive WC2014 Brochure

And, as promised, here's the brochure for GHCC Winter Camp 2014. I carried the tree theme and the "X" arrangement from the logo throughout the design. I also used the diamond shape around the "I" of Alive and expanded it to almost pulse from the center of the brochure all the way to the edges. We went with a vertical arrangement to play on the alive theme as well. The tall shape gives more of a sense of growth and movement.

Project: Winter Camp Brochure
Client: GHCC Student Ministries
Details: 5"x16" tri-fold brochure

Alive Logo

Here is the logo for GHCC's Winter Camps in 2014. The theme is Alive and it ties in with our church-wide small group campaign about The Living Church. The guys in the Youth Department really wanted a tree to be a main focus so I made sure to use one that was very full and obviously alive. I'll be sharing the brochure design soon, so stay tuned!

Project: Winter Camp 2014 Logo Design
Client: Golden Hills Student Ministries

Kairos Winter Retreat 2014

This is the design to promote the Kairos Winter Retreat coming up. We really wanted this to have a similar look and feel to the Kairos Camping Trip materials and I think they go together nicely. I found this great illustration of this cabin on a winter lake, made a few modifications, and it's ready to go!

Project: Kairos Winter Retreat Promotion
Client: Kairos, GHCC Young Adult Ministry