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?
Scott’s required the use of a specific kind of tree that we couldn’t get the name of and didn’t have any detailed visual reference to go from, and Ironbridge Baptist wanted… well… a bridge. I’d imagine an IRON bridge, but all attempts to make a metal bridge into religious iconography came off really cold and industrial. To put it mildly, it didn’t work. So I made a stone one because that felt more ‘natural’. Its worth a shot right? (see image)
If nothing else, it’s been a really productive, good day. Right now I’m hoping to sit down and continue the trend by working up a new website design for A Good Natured Riot. They’re pretty awesome. We’ll see how it goes.
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