Swift Creek Student Ministry

Working for a couple logos for a friend at Swift Creek Baptist in Virginia.

After some initial sketches, I started to work on a logo for "Elevate" - the Student Ministry's Wednesday night discipleship ministry. Being that it is a program designed to take students deeper in their faith, I wanted to create something that came across as somewhat mature. And, of course, I always like for things to be fresh, crisp, and simple.

Here are four concepts I have come up with:

1) I really like the background on this one. "ATE" is elevated (...metaphoric...).

2) Captures the essence of the word pretty well in my opinion (notice the elevation of "ATE" and the shadow that makes the word appear to be elevating).

3) Probably my favorite. This one came out so crisp! Started with white background, but that navy really makes it pop!

4) This one doesn't really fit what I was going for (...so much for maturity). But I kept playing and ended with this. I like it, just not for this project (file under: "Ideas for vintage children's books"). So quirky.

Bellevue's Winter Camp

So I do most of the graphic work for the Bellevue Student Ministry (where I work). With signups for our Winter Camps coming up, we were looking to brand the phrase "Winter Camp." I really wanted to create a theming package that evoked fun memories of wintertime, snowball fights, and Christmastime. The font "Folk" worked perfectly with what I was trying to design.

Here is an initial concept I have come up with so far:

More to come...

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JF Photography

My mom has been making a name for herself as a photographer in Denison, TX. Lately she has been doing quite a bit of portrait shots (everything from graduation pictures to family pictures), as well as landscape and nostalgic shots. In the wake of her starting her photography blog and getting her business up and running, she came to me about a logo. We discussed creating something that conveyed the warmth and personality that she strives to display in her photos. What a fun (and challenging) project!

After some experimentation, I arrived at this...

Although I loved the design (as did my mother), we both agreed that it did not fit with what we were trying to create...

...Back to the drawing board...but this time focusing on personality and flair. The result:

Exit 15: "The Gospel" Backdrop

Here are a couple of pictures of the backdrop I created for the Student Ministry’s series on the Gospel in Exit 15 (our Wednesday night High School service).

 

What you see is 2 projectors working together to project one widescreen image onto a huge canvas backdrop. Since projectors don’t project the color black, I made the background of these graphics completely black, so that the words appear to be floating on the backdrop.

What I love about projects like this is that you are able to see a vision come to life on such a grand scale!

ThrowDown Logo Update

Here is an update of the ThrowDown logo with a little more depth (see previous post):

Parkside Student Ministry - ThrowDown

A few weeks ago, I was asked by Parkside Baptist Church Student Ministry (where my dad is on staff in Denison, Texas) to design a logo for their Wednesday night event "ThrowDown." I was excited to create something that could be fun and crisp. I kept both of those words in mind throughout the design process.

Here is one of my favorite concepts I designed:

Here is our tentative final (but stay tuned for some new changes to this design):

I also gave them a black and white version that will be great on anything that they send to print:

Thanks Jason for the opportunity. It's been great working with you.

Memphis BCM: "Focus: Up"

The Baptist Collegiate Ministry at the University of Memphis recently contacted me about designing a logo for their Thursday night Bible study “Focus Up.” My goal was to create something that would be clean and simple as well as something college students could connect with. I wanted a logo that would be taken seriously, but not too professional. I decided to loosely go with the U of M's color scheme (blue and grey).

I came up with 4-5 concepts. Two of my favorites are below...

Eventually, however, we landed on this...

Thanks BCM for the opportunity.