Friday, March 19th, 2010 | No Comments
Easter—when Christ died and came back to life 3 days later—is hard to communicate visually. How do you portray the abstract ideas of hope and possibility, new life and victory, forgiveness and restoration… Add to that, this church’s intention to discuss topics like fear, pain and grief.
The solution was to use color and texture to depict the vitality and life that can explode out of darkness.
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010 | No Comments
The book of James in the Bible is a discussion about what spiritual faith looks like—in action, not abstract. The metaphor of a gear or group of gears seemed appropriate for this “one foot in front of the other” series. The challenge was to not convey a sense of callousness or dehumanization.
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 | No Comments
Most people would agree that each person is different, “unique.” Yet some believe that following Jesus means we all become the same (and that “same” is often boring and other-worldly minded). This series contends that we’re each marked with a purpose and that purpose is here and now.
The visuals for this series acknowledge our individual [...]
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 | No Comments
All of the holiday marketing tells us that Christmas is a time for laughing with family, beautiful people and cashmere sweaters. But the holidays can be more complicated; they can bring up difficult issues. And that’s OK. This church used The Beatles’ music to help ask some big questions and then looked to Scripture for [...]
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Friday, September 18th, 2009 | No Comments
There’s a kind of identity theft that goes far beyond our financial records. It’s the kind that impoverishes our souls and keeps us from experiencing the kind of life God intends for us. That’s the form of identity theft this church wanted to talk about.
The fingerprint metaphor is one that everyone is familiar [...]
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Monday, September 14th, 2009 | No Comments
The series is based on Francis Chan’s book by the same title. Neither this church nor I wanted to mimic the style of the book jacket. However, we did want an image, much like the book’s hand-drawn titling, that would represent the “crazy,” “personal” and “passionate” aspect of God’s love. The “flashlight art” style also [...]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 | No Comments
Getting people to believe that they truly can change the world and then take the first step is a challenge. There are many ways to represent potential and action, we chose arrows. They’re simple, they point forward and they’re universally understood.
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Friday, July 17th, 2009 | No Comments
The Protestant Church can learn from the Catholic Church, but the inverse is also true. This 2-week series respectfully explored the strengths and errs of Catholicism. The stained glass metaphor represents the richness and history of “the church.” It also works as a representation of the mosaic that is “THE church”—Christ followers regardless of creed.
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Monday, June 15th, 2009 | No Comments
There are all legends that we love: Loch ness, Big Foot, Stolen Kidneys…. This teaching series was going to address five, common, Christian myths.
The idea of a myth and of myths being debunked lead me to the idea of a carnival/freak show/snake-oil salesman. We developed a metaphor around the idea of a vintage carnival [...]
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
The topic of discussion in the fall of 2008 was the economy. The decline was being felt by more and more people. The church needed to acknowledge the concern and, in some cases, panic, that people were feeling. Since the series was about money, that was the easiest graphic to use. A dollar bill was [...]
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