The Untold Story
Eikon is a community I’ve been involved with for the past year. With a name that, translated from the original Greek means “image reflectors,” its a new kind of church that approaches the weekly rhythm of Christian worship with a fresh perspective; meeting once a month for a large community worship service, and spending the other three to four weekends of the month, meeting as smaller Missional Communities (MCs) with a specific missional purpose. My MC, for instance, has a focus on meeting the needs of the less fortunate within Richmond, VA.
For each of the group’s monthly gatherings, I’ve taken on a key role in developing the visual presentation of the service. With services being less-frequent its easier to treat each one with a particular degree of specialness – a specialness that should (and does) filter down into even the tiniest of details. (read more…)
Character concepts for EVP
Wow. Busy week. And I already feel like I’m getting behind on blogging. The original idea was to try to update this thing every couple days. No dice so far. Here’s hoping.
Speaking of busy weeks however, it’s been one of meetings, administrative work, meetings, and – on occasion – photography and design.
The examples this week are few and far between, but that’s really because none of the projects got finalized. I took large strides in getting closer to what Ironbridge Baptist’s logo will be. Worked on a logo for the historical bar Alewerks (located in Williamsburg). A couple other logo designs and some photography with my Aunt Monica too. (read more…)
A Good Natured Riot's new website
I met Jeslyn Vaughan, the lead vocalist of A Good Natured Riot, not long into this whole idea of starting a business back in 2006, and it was in talking with her and getting to know the rest of the band that I soon realized how much fun it was to work with musicians. There’s a lot more creativity and, while there may be pre-conceived notions of what music imaging is supposed to look like based on genre, you’re always free to be open and encouraged to re-define and push boundaries. Fellow artists get this and fellow artists like this. That’s how we roll.
I had the pleasure to work on the second iteration of the band’s website in the past week. Long withstanding from my initial 1996 version was the ability for the band to update show listings themselves. That’s there now, complimented with a new, sleeker aesthetic. I don’t think I really pushed any artistic boundaries with this, but it’s always fun working with aGNR, and look forward to more collaborations to come!
In other news, I shot more photos with little Avery Paul on Saturday. It was a more official setting this time, incorporating lighting and with our minds set on artistic baby photography. What I learned (or think I learned) was that good baby photos don’t happen as a result of planning: they just happen. (read more…)
First logo draft for Ironbridge Baptist
Panera Bread is a pretty special place. First off, I had an amazing meeting there with an awesome gal by the name of Cathy Boyle. We chatted about my potentially helping out with the Northfield Foundation‘s new website upgrade, and just had a generally awesome time where – and I rarely dip to the cliché and say this – God was present in the conversation. Seriously. There was a pretty awesome air about it. Maybe it was the Panera and it’s bread though. Who knows. haha
After the meeting I sat down and was able to knock out first drafts of two logos that I’d been spending the better part of a month being pretty perplexed with how to approach; both for churches. One was for my good friend Scott Marshall and his new pastoral venture, Trinity Church in St. Louis. The other was for a local Baptist Church called Ironbridge. With both, I’m not enormously optimistic that i’ve hit the nail on the head just yet, but at least the design is moving and we have a visual place to start some conversation from, right? (read more…)
So, wow guys, after weeks upon weeks of conceptualization, coding, copy-writing, learning WordPress template design, and MORE… the new site is finally here and launched. If you’re reading the time on this post, it’s obviously late/early, and I’ve been up late again polishing this thing off for its debut.
So check it out! I mean… you obviously are already, but it’s all pretty much brand new across the board. The various portfolios under ‘services’ are a little thin as of now, but the hope is they’ll fill up soon and quickly if I remember to add new content from time to time. Also, this is the official launch/unveiling of the client login system that’s been running for a few months but was never fully integrated into the website itself. BIG Thanks go to Joe Donahue and his technical wizardry for partnering with me in developing that pretty much from scratch. It still has a few kinks here and there as well as a few more updates we’re still planning on implementing, but its pretty rockin’ right now too! (read more…)
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