I recently finished up a project for rezlife student ministries entitled Double Dare, about boldly living out one’s faith. Process As with most of my projects, I like to come at the subject in an unexpected way if I possibly can. This particular series was not only about boldly living out faith, but also…
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One of my friends linked to a an interesting presentation/symposium built around a graduate thesis of Esteban Perez-Hemminger entitled certifyD: the certification dialogue. While I an not disposed to view certification as a solution to any perceived problem in the graphic design industry (in the United States, at least), I felt it was worth the effort…
read moreThis is a quick postcard I put together for rezlife’s 2012 Volunteer Appreciation Dinner. Enjoy.
read moreThis is another freelance-ish project that I worked on over this past summer. It’s pretty straight-forward, but I’ve never really seen anything done like this, so I want ahead and did it. ‘Cause that’s how I roll.
read moreI recently completed another freelance-ish Easter series entitled Easter Came Down. This is essentially a heavily stylized interpretation of the Anastasis icon, or Christ’s Descent into Hell. In this icon Christ is depicted, enveloped in glory, bursting into the realm of darkness and death and rescuing the entombed Adam and Eve to bring them to…
read moreOver the past two weeks Megan and I have been developing a Lenten series graphics package called Resist Easter. It’s an Easter meets the Screwtape Letters sort of thing, and brings a twist to the traditional approach to Easter by imagining the forces of darkness and evil forming an underground resistance to the Incarnation, using…
read moreSome of my friends went in together to get me a hammered dulcimer for Christmas. That’s right, a hammered dulcimer. Pretty sweet, huh? So I decided that the least I could was to make up a thank-you card. And what better way to say thank-you than with an epic beard? I can’t think of any…
read moreToday Megan and celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary, and I have to say that it has been the best two years of my life. Even though it’s been full of lots of challenges and struggles that we could never have seen coming, I wouldn’t change it for anything and would have made the same…
read moreHere is another freelance project I worked on over the summer, Out Of This World. Mostly vector graphics with a bit of dirty overlay to give it a kind of retro space theme which I think is kind of fun. I decided on the negative effect for the back just for the heck of it,…
read moreThis was a pretty fun postcard to work on. I got the idea of making this into a wanted poster by thinking about how no matter how many times I try to bowl with any semblance of skill, I always fail miserably, and there are these rogue pins taunting me with another shot at them….
read moreGraphics and video for rezlife’s Grow Summer 2012. This is one of the first projects that I was actually able to work on post-transplant, so it was a little slow going, but I managed to get it pulled together. This year rezlife student ministries will be doing all kinds of missions work- in the Kansas…
read moreThis is another side project that I worked on over the summer and never got around to posting. The idea behind this was to show the brokenness of relationships that characterizes the human condition after the Fall. I liked the idea of taking an image of a couple and splitting it in two, yet still…
read moreBack in the summer of 2011 I started creating some freelance artwork for bulletin covers, postcards, etc. For whatever reason I never got around to actually posting them here, and was only recently reminded about doing so. This particular installment is a concept I developed called Almost Alive. I had the idea of a branch…
read moreI wrote a guest article for CreationSwap entitled Toward the Beautiful on the metaphysical underpinnings of beauty and how that relates to the role of an artist in the work of creating art. Check it out here.
read moreEvery once in awhile you read something that really sticks with you, and even as the days and years move on in their inexorable course you find your mind’s thoughts always gravitating back for some intangible reason. Wisdom 7:24-26 is one of those instances that has struck such a chord that I find myself always…
read moreI few weeks ago I was cycling through some colors in Photoshop using the Color Picker, and I was thinking about the different ways in which colors can be expressed and what they might say about themselves. One of my favorite things about the color black is how, well, black it is. As Nigel from…
read moreThese are the connection cards for rezlife student ministries 2011-2012. Ok, they are actually ‘business cards,’ at least in size and shape. But I think ‘connection card’ more adequately describes their intent. Plus it gives me a dramatic two word statement to make into a sentence fragment, the addition of a period giving the sense…
read moreI had three quick turnaround postcards that I finished up last week. Nothing terribly special, but I still like them. Enjoy.
read moreEvery fall for the past five years I have designed a promotional/informational flyer for rezlife Student Ministries. Generally we do a 8.5×14 folded flyer, but every year more and more content has had need to be included. The flyer originally consisted of some pictures of the meeting space, (the Student Center) a few quotes from…
read moreAs promised, I finished up a new art piece earlier today. I am taking part in a collaborative group effort to create posters based on quotes, and so I decided to take the famous quote/cliche “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” and put my own spin on it. Unfortunately, a polar bear had to…
read moreThis is the cover and chapter divider page(s) I created for the forthcoming MAC Track training book. Each of the different chapters utilizes a different color to distinguish them from each other. The picture I used was kind of random, and is actually of a park bench, but for some reason the composition and contrast…
read moreLast weekend Megan and I had another fun craft night, and so I continued in creating handmade picture frames for our wedding pictures. The weekend before we had been in Wichita, KS visiting my family, and we brought back a box full of old books, photos and buttons. One of the books was this old…
read moreThis is the front cover and divider page of rezlife’s missions book. There are eight divider pages that are each a different color. The goal was to create something that had a similar feel to the present generic church-wide missions book, but with an aesthetic that was more youth-oriented. The present book has the colored…
read moreAbout two weeks ago at work we were filming the flight of a hot air balloon for an upcoming promotional video. After landing, Ian Beyer, who is on staff in IT, came to help put the balloon away. Ian, in addition to being an IT superstar and a cyber entymologist, is also a hot air…
read moreI created this piece after thinking about the seeming impossibility of flight. Yes, I realize there is a lot of physics involved which allows this to be a possibility. Nevertheless, it’s still a little disconcerting to think that I might be riding in a 500 ton aluminum cage that is hurtling through the air at…
read moreLast night Megan and I had another fun art night, and I continued with my recent habit of making handmade frames of our wedding pictures.
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