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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
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
For the last two weeks I’ve been finishing everything up for my Senior Illustration Show, where all of the graduating illustration students display their senior thesis projects. I’ve posted photos of my display, my thesis statement, and my lamp that I’ve been working on for what seems like forever! I was also on the planning committee for the show, doing my part in helping to create the poster, brochure, getting the word around town about the show, and helping the whole thing happen during set up and opening night! I’m very tired and yet it’s really really weird to be finished with schoolwork. Graduation is this Friday and I’m really excited about celebrating with friends and family!
Okay, so the Hallmark workshop was really fun this year, we did a lot more creating and learned a lot more about what it would be like to actually work for Hallmark.
Here is the editorial I chose, from the ones they provided, to design a card for:
Here is what the front looks like closed:
Front and back of the exterior – see the heart sunset is a cut out:
I ultimately think I made the card assignment a little harder on myself than I needed to, simply because I chose editorial intended for a man and I tend to have much more feminine/children style. I created something that I know my husband would like to receive – but probably more because it would be from me, than he would necessarily have liked it if I had picked it out for him at the store. I did my best to man it up-using a more angular style and going for more of a sunrise color scheme than sunset. But it’s probably still too girly.
So they also had some little side assignments for us like drawing a deer, (or flower or bird), in multiple styles for different types of card recipients. i.e. masculine, feminine, funny, children, etc. So we doodled in our sketchbooks for about half an hour.
On the first night they had us illustrate words and phrases, and I was a little put on the spot because I don’t usually doodle words. After I went home and played around on my own I started to really like the idea…just wished I had been doing it all along before.
