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So I’m really excited about a lot of the new design work I’ve been getting to do for church lately. We have a new Lead Pastor (as you’ll see below), who has wonderful vision and passion! I’ve been helping out with the promotion materials to get the word out and I wanted to share what I’ve been working on. :D
New Years Series: Life Change that Lasts & a new Series on Marriage: Renovate Your Home from the Inside Out
Combo Poster
Website Slides
Promo Cards – Front & Back
Christmas Series: A Birth Like No Other
Poster
Website Slide
Promo Card – Front
Promo Card – Back
Christmas Lights
Poster
Fall Series/Welcome the New Pastor
Poster
Website Slide
Remember the Palm Island Tote bags, flip flops, beach towels and tees? Well here are some baseball caps with embroidered icons that I created to go along with them.
Mosaical Fish
Anchorific
Sand Dollar
Leaf Medallion
Palm Avenue
They used some of the new stripes I did for beach towels this year for coolers as well. I think they turned out really cute, some don’t even look like like coolers but more like hand bags!
Lunch Totes
Seaside Stripe
Citrus Candy Stripe
12 Can Coolers
Seaside Stripe
Citrus Candy Stripe
Rolling Cooler
Seaside Stripe
One of the other neat parts about my job is that I sometimes get to help in the photo studio when we need to create photo packaging for our products. Now the photographers and stylists are doing the real work in taking the photos, but I got to help art direct the look and feel for the group of items below. The stripe on the bag was not my artwork, but if you went in stores to buy any of the Oasis Stripe coolers, you’d find that I designed the lovely packaging. :) Here are some examples of the photos:
2 Bottle Wine Tote
Folding Basket
Picnic Basket
Coir mats (outdoor coconut mats) are now in stores, and they’re really reasonably priced too.
Island Oasis (Hank)
Umbrella Beach
Beach Walk
Paradise Flamingo
Fiesta Crab
And more Hank (Island Oasis Candle):
The Missy team also used my art from the Palm Island hand bags for t-shirts, so that was a fun surprise to see in store. So they took the original icons/elements that I drew and arranged them into t-shirt designs.
Florida Sailboat Tee
Mosaical Fish (Fancy Fish) Tee
Palm Avenue Tee
Sea Turtle Tee
Copyright © 2010 BDSRCO, Inc.
I designed the artwork on these shirts that you can find at Bealls right now and a portion of the proceeds go to the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation’s efforts to study and restore damaged ecosystems and marine wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico.
These are the Juniors shirts I worked on, you can also shop for them online here: http://www.beallsflorida.com/page?name=page-shop&top=52&major=105&minor=108
And these are the Misses shirts I worked on, that you can find here: http://www.beallsflorida.com/page?name=page-shop&top=52&major=53&minor=56
Copyright © 2010 BDSRCO, Inc.
I put together a design for the GBC short term missions trip to Serbia this summer. The line work on the crane got lost a little too much in the final screen prints…I don’t know if that’s just something I need to plan for in the future or if maybe it had to do with white ink on a dark ground. Well no one from church complained, but it’ll still bug me.
The team wore the shirts on Sunday for the Spaghetti luncheon. (It was fun seeing Ray serve food to others!) We could still really use support for the cost of the trip, if you think you might be interested in helping out you can read more about the details at this blog post here: http://otherthingsbyjessica.blogspot.com/2010/03/missions-2010.html
This post is a bit late in coming too, but what else is new?
This was the flyer card I did for Grace Baptist’s Easter outreach this year. The card was handed out at registration on Saturday to let them know the schedule of events, and then the backside was to advertise the new series Pastor had started for Sunday service (and kids church). This was fun to work on, I really enjoyed making the sparkly repeats for the jelly beans. ^_^ Plus the outreach was a huge success! We had over 600 kids on Saturday, and that’s just kids not even counting all the parents. Our awesome videographer/video editor Macky Bowlin put together this video recapping the events. You even get to see Ray in the dunking booth… :P
So now that it’s May, I’m finally posting my Valentine card designs. They were a spur of the moment inspiration, as was a whole little Valentine’s party I planned for Life Group that week. I got the idea to make matchbook valentines from this blog: Say YES! to hoboken that got the idea from this site. That’s a great thing about the internet for creatives, sharing ideas so we can all then turn them into original creations of our own!
I used the template as a rough sizing guide, but I really re-created it when I did my designs in Illustrator.
I thought it would be fun to take the theme of love for Valentine’s day and focus it on the greatest love of all, the love from our creator! So I created a girl’s theme as seen above, featuring the verse “Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.” -Psalm 36:5. This was the jacket cover of the matchbook. And the boy’s theme as seen below, features the verse “How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings.” -Psalm 36:7
So then the interior folded card (what replaced the matches) had a prayer for the recipient to have their hearts set on fire for the Lord. I included a space to write the person’s name and then Ray and I signed the cards with love at the bottom of the note.
One of my favorite parts of doing a project like this is the fine details in craftsmanship. I don’t know how well you can see it from the photos, but I used a glossy paper stock for the covers. A matte paper for the cover lining, in an appropriate matching color for the theme, and thick matte card stock for the folded notes. It’s just fun to make something even better than what I could buy at the store for our friends.
I put this banner together for our church’s annual Mission’s conference a few weeks ago. This year’s theme/verse was:
“Declare his glory among the nations,
his marvelous deeds among all peoples.”
1 Chronicles 16:24
There were two of them hung in the sanctuary. I think in the future though I need to take into consideration the lighting in the room for something at this scale. Because the colors look good on the screen but not as readable in lower lighting.
Our missions conference was not only a lot of fun, but very educational and inspiring to the heart. Ray and I have made new friends and new goals for the part we play in bringing God’s word to the world. The verse from the Passion conference’s comes to mind when we think of our future, and the stronger desire to say “Yes” to what God call’s us to do for Him:
“YES LORD, WALKING IN THE WAY OF YOUR TRUTH, WE WAIT EAGERLY FOR YOU, FOR YOUR NAME AND RENOWN ARE THE DESIRE OF OUR SOULS.”
Isaiah 26:8
If you’re interested in reading more about the missionaries that Grace Baptist partners with around the world, you can check out the blog that includes many of their updates: http://gbcsarasota.wordpress.com/
My husband Raymond will also be going on his first short-term mission trip, Lord willing, this summer to help renovate a building that will become the only Bible Institute in Serbia. If you’d like to learn more about that, or are interested in supporting this trip you can check out my post about it on our personal blog:
http://otherthingsbyjessica.blogspot.com/2010/03/missions-2010.html
Ok, so I’ve been meaning to get organized about this for a while. I’ve finally gathered some of the design work I do on a weekly basis for Lotus / Knickers here in Sarasota. Keep in mind that I have had to teach myself and learn a lot as I go, on the graphic design side of things, as I am an illustrator by training and schooling, at least. But I always enjoy learning new things so I find the work to still be exciting! Thanks for looking, and I will probably post a little more from my Lotus work when I get that organized too.
These are some of the ads I’ve done over the 2009 year for Lotus. Published in the Sarasota Herald Tribune’s monthly edition of Style Magazine.
Wendy (Lotus Owner and President of the Downtown Sarasota Alliance) found some really beautiful ornamental frames, in a painted enamel style. We have a black, white and hot pink one in the store filled with our Knickers signage and tidbits of information on special ordering and bridal registry.
The left hand image is a logo (inspired by a Vogue event for London fashion) for promoting Thursday nights and fashion in downtown in Sarasota. This logo’s photography was done by Barbara Banks of Sarasota. The right hand image was a commission for the Downtown Sarasota Alliance to promote the many holiday events hosted in Downtown Sarasota. Multiple versions ran in Style Magazine and The Sarasota Observer.
This year I also designed a brochure to feature the Knickers bridal products that are available in store at Lotus and online with Knickers. This was created for a special bridal event and is also used in store to promote the bridal registry.
As I said before I will probably get some more things up from my Lotus portfolio soon. Thanks guys!
Finally, finally, finally done with the Senior Show Poster!!! This was a very long and arduous process. Getting the portraits from each and every last person, a lot of hours put into the overall design, and then the process with the printing company. Everyone did a wonderful job, it was just a lot of back and forth, and troubleshooting with file/color management. The files were also just so large that it became a huge ordeal just to open and save the files each time.
Matthew Crotts mainly worked on the collage side and I mainly worked on the portrait side. We had help from a senior graphic designer, Samantha Everhart, with the type.
We did our very best to please everyone, and incorporate everyone’s ideas into the main theme that got voted for, the “urban” theme. The most important part though is everyone’s individual portraits and artwork.
