MEADOW HEIGHTS MESSAGE SERIES INVITE CARDS Do you have what it takes? PHOTO RETOUCHING & COLORING This photo is one that my aunt gave me about a year ago. It’s my dad and other aunt in the 60’s. The photo was almost beyond repair, with the graininess and lack of contrast. I made good use […]
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This Week in Design
MEADOW HEIGHTS CHURCH ‘REMEMBER’ MESSAGE SERIES Another message series! I’ll have another one to post in two weeks. This one was a borrowed set of graphics from LifeChurch.tv. What is borrowed is the glass image and ‘remember’ logo. The rest is a unique design that fits the Meadow Heights ‘style’. It’s funny that Meadow Heights […]
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A Summer of Work all in a Magazine
from left – Home Storage Solutions magazine cover, ‘Stack Your Storage’ magazine spread, Table of Contents A few days ago I received a package in the mail. The package was from Dave Stone at Workbench Magazine. It contained the magazine that I spent all summer conceptualizing, branding, designing and redesigning. I had so much anticipation during the past […]
A Summary of My Design for The Church
I started thinking, “You know, I’ve done a massive amount of design/layout for Meadow Heights Church and a few other places like BSU at Truman State University… so why not get all of my best work together and see what I come up with. So here ya go!
Great Newspaper Ads pt. 2
*side note* I’ve been keeping track of my blog’s visitor statistics and my first post about newspaper ads is the most popular of any I’ve written, with an average of 15-20 views a day. It also is ranked high in search engines when searching for ‘how to make great advertisements.’ ** With that knowledge, I decided that I […]
Poster Design
Posters should have a definite style or brand yet carry that style out with minimal content. Here are few posters I’ve designed in the past. This was created in conjunction with a pamphlet that targeted the idea that finding WMD was a slam dunk case. And yes, the CIA director actually said that. I put statistics of the […]
Music and Design
I began reading “The Elements of Typographic Style” today. I read something profound, and interesting to a me as both a musician and designer. “Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.”
An Amazing Summer So Far
Two weeks ago I began an internship at August Home Publishing. I think I’ve learned more about layout and design in the past two weeks than I have in the past two years. Doug Appleby is the Assistant Art Director for Workbench magazine. He is the greatest designer I’ve ever worked with and for. He always knows […]
Poynter’s Eye-Tracking Problems
I found this article by Andy Rutledge to be very interesting. He believes Poynter is doing the public a disservice by putting out studies on the eye movement of people who read things on the web or in print (the study is here). Now, I’ve always found information about the typical eye movement of people […]
GumboJazz at the Salamander
My old roommate, Paul, plays every Wednesday at the Salamander Grill. He plays guitar and is in a jazz combo with trumpet, sax, bass, and drums. If the great food at the Salamander doesn’t entice you to go.. then great music should. Paul asked me to create a poster to advertise their gig every week. This was a quick and easy 20 minute […]