JFlah's Blunders

 Since everything else is getting a face lift, we're considering doing something to the main Mpact Kid's worship area. We'd probably project the text and logo onto the wall and use tape for our lines.  Books of the Bible design is a knock off of WildEyesSigns design. Here's a general mockup of what we're thinking:

 More stuff for the renovation for our Preschool area. Got to paint - love these kinds of projects.

 So much fun - designed three ovals for installation in the new preschool rooms.  Here are proofs and photos of them installed:

 Lots happening around here lately. I knew we were going to be doing wall wrap murals and graphics in the Family Life Center, but wasn't given directions. Then on a Monday, one of the bosses drops by the office and says basically, "oh, by the way, those murals and things need to be done by the first part of October - you can have the artwork done in two days, right?" LOL - yeah, that's how it works the whole world over. High bar for expectations and almost always last minute details. I spend two days with the decision maker trying to create a mockup that would make everyone happy for the new registration area. The FLC is a dual use building, so they wanted the graphics to be visible mostly if you're entering the main doors and not so much visible from the gym floor. Original: One of the many mockups: Final mockup: Mockup view 2: Directional wall which is also in that foyer: Here's a shot of the final directional wall after installation: And now I just need to ...

A friend brought me an old photo to digitally restore. Was pretty moldy, faded and such, but the final turned out pretty good. Here's the original scan:     This is the photo after the color correction filter. Had to fix levels, white balance, etc.   Then remove mold and scratches and dust one click at a time...   Fix the sky color and add sharpening and viola - almost new.

They're moving the little ones into the FLC too and they allowed me to design the wall mural in their main worship area as well as a few decals for the rooms. They put up the mural today. Here's one of the first proofs - scene too stylized for the audience.   Here's a screenshot of the almost-final version. Created it in illustrator and it took almost a week to complete. Most of the graphics are pieces from Vecteezy - mostly from artwork by Graphics RF . And here are a few terrible shots of it installed. Unfortunately the guys who installed were in a hurry so the seams aren't great, but the kids won't notice.

Final Logo Design Screenshot of the logo in use [vinyl applied to laminate] Children's minister wanted to update the ministry logo and stick it on the wall behind where he does his weekly videos. We used the kingpin lowerized font and colors that echoed some of the church and some of the community for the final. Process Image: Second round of proofs with layout and color options

 It's been years since I got to dust off my motion graphics skills so I enjoyed this project immensely.  Student minister asked for series graphic stills for his weekly messages - gave me five topics and said he wanted them to be similar in feel - perhaps even like stops on a path - change the colors.  Here are the title slides followed by the first bumper video.

"Bright and Colorful" - that's what they said they wanted for this year's Easter designs. We used IgniterMedia's Color Burst as a resource for background and here's what I ended up showing them: Fonts: East Liberty Signature , Chunk Five , and Arvo [because Chunk Five only has one weight] 20x30 poster 20x30 poster 2x8 banner 36x48 poster

Pastor's decided he wants an accent wall that includes all of the "new" ministry direction information. Between working on Easter and other designs, it took about two days to simply wrap my head around how to best organize the pieces he wanted to include. I dropped all the necessary pieces onto a page in Illustrator and did around 15 versions of the layout before even beginning to figure out the background. At that point we hadn't decided what media we were going to use - cut vinyl or printed vinyl so I started with the idea that we may be doing cut vinyl and then expanded the strongest iterations of that for a printed vinyl application since that was likely to cost less and be easier to have installed. Here are three of the more cohesive layouts and then a small sampling of the background exploration versions in a mockup I did in Photoshop. When I started working with this one I realized that the only thing I liked about it was the "Truth" square at ...