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Genesis

Sermon Series Artwork • Park Church • January 2018

Illustration by Christian Robinson.

We’re quite excited to share about this triptych we coordinated for Park Church. Christian is quite an excellent illustrator and working with him was real, real rad.

The two main pieces symbolize two of the main narrative arcs of Genesis: Part I depicts God’s creation of the world (the foliage) and its subsequent de-creation through mankind (the hand) as a result of satanic temptation (the snake) and human rebellion. Part II depicts God’s creation of a people (the 12 stars for 12 tribes of Israel) as God (the hand) comes to Abraham and makes a covenant (the scroll) with him and his descendants.

The third part depicts the Tree of Life, as described both in Genesis (in the garden) and in Revelation (in the holy city).

To display the artwork, we printed on two 4×8 foot sheets of birch to hand in the Park Church sanctuary (see photos below). A third peice is in process for the main lobby area, depicting the tree of life.

Parts I–III Digitally

Part I After Installation

A Preliminary Mockup of The Stage

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Resonate Church Austin

Branding • Resonate Church Austin • January 2017

Resonate is a church plant in Southwest Austin, seeking meet unique, progressive, post-Christian population of the area with “An uncommon church for uncommon people sharing uncommon love.”

In developing a brand with Nick, the planting pastor, we tried a number of things in order to communicate the physical properties of resonance in a logotype. There were radio waves, concentric waves as in water, and eventually, there was Nick’s rad sin-wave idea that led to the final concept below. It was really fun to see the brand take shape, we love how rhetorically packed it is while staying visually clean.

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Advent Newspaper

Publication • Willow South Lake • December 2017

Over five weeks during the season of Advent, we worked with Willow Creek’s South Lake campus on a series of weekly newspapers to commemorate and celebrate the season. Leaders and staff members wrote articles and curated the photos. It was a real cool medium to explore, and all our text-formatting nerdiness got to run free.

To make things way cooler, we coordinated a series of kids’ coloring pages with lettering artist Rachael Medialdea and had just finished the church’s Christmas Eve artwork with designer Bruce Butler, which helped shape a lot of color and texture in the papers.

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Photography from Willow South Lake on Instagram

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Kids’ coloring pages by Rachael Medialdea

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Insomnia

Sermon Series Artwork • Eastern Hills Community Church • December 2017

The image elicits the terrible feeling of staring at the clock and thinking intensely about something while you should be asleep. The irony hidden only one layer down is that, in the image, it’s clearly daytime. The things that “keep us up” are often either already resolved for us in Christ or are completely overshadowed by the greater comfort of Christ.

Insomnia

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Colossians

Sermon Series Artwork • The Heights Church • September 2017

We’ve been vibing with this grungy text thing this summer. The team at The Heights was clear that they just wanted the words Colossians: Full & Free over a simple background. As many times as we’ve made artwork that fits in this vein, we specifically love how this one came out! There’s a lightness here that keeps up with the dirt in the lettering—a hopefully-fitting illustration for their arguments from the book of Colossians.

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Worship

Sermon Series Artwork • Eastern Hills • September 2017

A vintage take on lettering and texture, seeking to communicate the “old” in a new way by showing “bright” grit, the “manual”/physical nature of worship both with the obvious rasied-hands and the hand-drawn letters.

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Summer in the Psalms

Sermon Series Artwork • The Heights Church • June 2017

The Psalms are emotionally deep and wide. They feel like “despair” as often as they feel like “victory.” They teach us to bring the full range of human emotions before God in our worship, regardless if we feel more Psalm 22 than Psalm 118.

To illustrate that for the first year of Summer in the Psalms, an annual series at The Heights that will work psalm-by-psalm, week-by-week through the whole book over many years, we liked the idea of a messy expression, something inky, unique and nonlinear. The incredible Joel Filipe of Madrid has shared some really excellent work of his via Unsplash (thank you!), and his abstract series is mind-blowing. Although we added/edited much to fit the application, these images paved the way.

In another attempt to illustrate the diversity of the Psalms and what they teach us about our relationship to God, we made a different version of the artwork for each of the three weeks. You can see all of them below.

Click here to listen to sermons from Summer in the Psalms.

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Who Are We?Psalms 7–9

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parkchurchdenver.org

Website • Park Church Church • June 2017

We set out to accomplish only a handful of things with Park Church’s new website: (1) ease of use, (2) minimalism, and (3) a really functional integration with Church Community Builder (CCB), the database Park Church uses for many things within the life of the church.

First, ease of use. For users, nothing should be interfering with the experience, and 90% of the info they’re looking for should be less than two clicks away. This required the front-end work of dialing in the site page flowchart, maximizing visual space, and knowing when to say yes and no to content. Additionally, we added more for the user by leveraging an HTTPS enviroment and getting sub-second page load times.

Second, minimalism. We found that the style we wanted was different than the huge-header-image, moving background, pop-up window experience that’s quite common. We wanted clean, less, and “really useable.” We found a direct correlation between tactfully “doing less” and creating an easy environment to use. Church websites have tons of content, so we were solving a puzzle of “how do we do less when there is tons of stuff that has to be on the site?” Pages therefore flow from minimal to content-heavy, but only as a user would expect and want.

The home page

Third, the robust CCB integration. The goal was that this new website would show the events, groups, forms, etc. that the Park Church staff was already managing on CCB. Why replicate things on the website? Though CCB does not provide any website integrations of their own, they do provide an API. Staring with a plugin called CCBPress, we re-styled and re-coded thing after thing to make the imported CCB “records” look and behave the way we wanted. The result is a website that does not need to be updated at all on a regular basis, save for sermons. This creates an incredible ease-of-use for the team, in that they just need to keep their respective parts of CCB up-to-date, something they were already doing. Although anyone could have a login, only one staff member uses one, in order to posts sermons. This the website can be entirely out-of-mind for all but one staff member.

The events page

The small groups page

The sermons page

A blog post

We’re grateful to have had the opportunity to take this project, and we’re pleased with the outcome. Click on any of the images above to vists the page represented and begin browsing the actual site.

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Dwell Church Prospectus

Publication • Dwell Church • May 2017

Dwell is a Denver church plant in its early stages, seeking to make a home in the West Colfax neighborhood. This prospectus is a tool they’ll use to help meet their networking and funding goals, while introducing themselves to the Denver community.

Josh, the planting pastor, came to Sara and I with this during the early stages of their brand development with Badson Studio, who did some really lovely work for them. We think it’s nuts. Upon completion, they handed us the new design guidelines to us with a content outline for the prospectus and a handful of Josh’s own photos of Denver. We put this 16-page booklet together, and we’re showing it to you because we work hard to be great stewards of people’s brands and we think this project reflects that.

We’re thrilled about Dwell Church and their work on West Colfax. Click the image below to see the whole booklet.

Dwell Church Prospectus

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Summer Kids Club

Event Artwork • Fellowship Denver • March 2017

Summer Kids Club is a partnership between Fellowship Denver and Hope In Our City (a nonprofit that serves the refugee community in Denver). It’s a six-week activities program in the Sun Valley neighborhood for kids from Hope In Our City, Fellowship Denver, other churches, and the kids in the neighborhood themselves.

The artwork is fun, bright typography with a pattern of icons in the background, each representing one of the six weeks of Summer Kids Club. We aimed to catch the eyes of both the kids and their parents as the event is publicized leading up to its first week, starting in June.

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