GHCC Easter Flyers 2015

Golden Hills has a royalty theme this year. Their all-church campaign was about God's Kingdom, and so Easter ties into the kingdom of God with focus on the King who died and rose again. I thought the traditional line and chant of "Long Live the King" would be especially appropriate when we are celebrating that King Jesus is alive! I ran with the traditional purple to stand for royalty. It also works well as an Easter color that we have not used as a main theme color on Easter in quite some time. I chose to show a crown as the main image above the title and I tried to make it reminiscent of the crown of thorns that Jesus wore as well as make it a royal crown to represent Jesus' reign.

Project: Easter Promotional Flyers
Client: Golden Hills Community Church
Details: 3.67" x 8.5" Double-Sided Flyer

Reagent Games Logo

This is a contest-winning design I created for a video game company in Europe. I'm excited to maybe see this logo on a game in the future!

Client: Reagent Games

GHCC Winter Camp 2015

GHCC's Winter Camp begins this weekend, so I thought this was a good time to post the logo and promo materials for it. The theme this year is The Kingdom, with an emphasis on making God's Kingdom our top priority. To illustrate this, the idea of pirates searching for treasure will be the theme for the weekend. It was fun researching nautical symbols, sketching out different ships, and trying to get a rustic pirate feel for all the materials. This was a great project to work on.

The brochure was designed to resemble a treasure chest that opens up from the center to reveal all the info about the camp.

The ship illustration I made was used throughout, but really is displayed on the shirts and sweatshirt.

Project: GHCC Winter Camp Promo
Client: Golden Hills Community Church Student Ministries
Details: 6x16" Gate-fold brochure, T-Shirts, and Hooded Sweatshirt

Loving God With All Your Mind Promo

There is a new class at GHCC, called Loving God with All Your Mind. I really wanted to show an image of a brain because that is not something you often see hanging up on a church bulletin board. But I also wanted to do it in a unique way. I was inspired by the images that use a heart as the O or the V in the word LOVE on so many things. I used that idea to create a similar effect, but able to incorporate the brain to express the same concept.

Project: Loving God With All Your Mind Promo
Client: Golden Hills Community Church
Details: 8.5x11" Poster

GHCC December Calendar Postcards

I designed these postcards for GHCC to advertise the events for this Christmas season. The topics for each Sunday as well as all the info for the annual Christmas musical are all on one nice card for display on the fridge or bulletin board. These also make great invites for friends and relatives.

I wanted the cards to have a very classic Christmas feel but without traditional reds and greens. I went with blues and tans and let the imagery communicate Christmas.

Project: December Postcards
Client: Golden Hills Community Church
Details: 5.5"x8.5" Postcards

Psalms Series

The current series at GHCC is on the book of Psalms, titled People of Praise: Blessings from the Psalter. The book of Psalms is so huge and has so many themes and subjects. That, along with the fact that the title of the series is a bit longer, made me want to keep the image simple. I really like and appreciate the musical aspect of Psalms. I decided to use an image of guitar strings and overlay it on a sky image. It creates a kind of jet stream effect that I thought made a nice texture for the title to rest on. The blue and orange colors I thought represented both the calm and the violent themes in the collection of Psalms. It has the music represented, the nature and wonder represented, and the range of calm and active themes represented.

The type I chose and designed to look musical. The "People of Praise" type is flowing and beautiful. The calligraphy type is to represent the words being handwritten by the authors of the Psalms. The horizontal lines throughout the title bring to mind a music sheet.

This is a series that will go on for a while, and the simple, yet deep meanings behind the imagery and type will allow it to be used for a long time.

Project: Book of Psalms Series
Client: Golden Hills Community Church

Restored

Restored is the Fall theme for Kairos this year. We really wanted to show construction or a work in progress in the artwork so I went very literal with the design since we have not done anything like that for Kairos before. The type is called Roughwork, a font I have always really liked. I thought it was a great fit for this project as it was. However, I ended up drawing the letters by hand over the top of it to bring them out more with a different color. I think the effect really helps the title to stand out.

Project: Restored Theme
Client: Kairos, GHCC Young Adult Ministry
Details: 11x17" Poster