Recently, Lydia and I had the opportunity to do some interior design work for our new Vice President at LifeWay.
This office, not part of the executive suite, is meant to make him more accessible, providing a comfortable atmosphere for all day meetings. (I know, I just put “comfortable” and “all day meetings” in the same sentence.)
When Lydia and I were doing visual research, I stumbled upon this image.
I knew I wanted to do something similar in this space. I started trying to come up with phrases, I wanted to use biblical phrases (this is after all a Christian company), but not cliche. I also knew that some of our compapny’s most important decisions would (potentially) be made in this room. Therefore, I wanted “Be Strong and Courageous” to be the most prominent element.
Originally, I took the art to Kinkos to be printed on their 3′ wide draft paper. However, my piece had too much black and the printer started streaking. Unexceptable. I tried inverting the artwork, which definitely had an Esquire feel.
It works but, it wasn’t best.
In the end, we printed the banners in house on a thicker paper. The end result was much more along the lines of what we were looking for.
The total piece is 20′ x 7.5′
Lately, I’ve been pulling websites out of my sleeves. That’s right.
I feel like my blog is proportionate to how busy I am. If I’ve got work to do, I don’t blog (and vice versa). I’m trying to find more balance. I promise. I think blogging is a lot harder, though, than people make it out to be. Besides, you have a few people out there that do it really well (*COUGH* Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuck, Darren Rowse, and Chris Brogan) and make it look effortless to the rest of us.—All that’s neither here nor there. I did want to poke my head up, though, and share some (well one) of the things that I’ve been working on.
I designed this landing page for Kairos on Campus. It’s the college branch of Kairos. They had talked to me a few weeks ago about creating a site. I didn’t have enough time to launch a full site by the time school started back, but I could create a landing page that would at least tell students about upcoming events.
I was really pleased with the way the site turned out. I think we’ve set ourselves up well for the art direction of the full fledge site.
This is a tote that I designed this week for the Dot Mom event we’re doing at LifeWay. Unfortunately, there was a miscommunication and this will never see the light of day (other than, here).
My favorite part: Mom Jeans. And for that:
