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Sunset Over Lake Pend Oreille

Typography Project: Word Mark

We were commissioned by our professor to create a word mark based off of a business of our own choosing. So I decided to base my design off of the church that I'm helping plant. The church is called Restoration Church and it meets on Saturday nights. The worship service is aptly named Saturday Night Fever and the idea is that we get 'infected' with Jesus' love for us.

I'm leading the children's ministry and based off of the Saturday Night Fever idea, I'm calling the children's ministry "the cure" being that Jesus' love is the cure for our lives. This word mark was definitely not easy for me to develop. I started with the idea of basing the design off of a hospital emblem, such as the blue sign with a white H in the middle that you often see on roads. But that felt a little too impersonal to be the logo for something geared towards children.

After a few different class sessions and some conversations with my teacher, I ended up with a word mark that I'm mostly happy with. Here is the envelope and the stationary applications for my word mark. I created a business card too, but the colors didn't come out correctly when I saved it as a .jpg so you only get to see these. But I love them.

Swinging Over Narnia

Stone Lithography

Stone lithography is a process. A frustratingly long, drawn out process that takes three people in order to complete it properly. The artist (who is the printer), the sponger, and the clean hands person. We use limestone from Bavaria that are hundreds of years old and a press that's been around for decades.

This process is thousands of years old. It's one of the oldest types of printmaking that I've learned to do, but you definitely have to be a person who enjoys the process in order to enjoy stone lithography. There is loads of prep work to do even though the actual printing process goes fairly quickly.

These are my prints that I completed last week. My print work this semester is going to be themed around bird silhouettes. That may or may not have something to do with the recent ink I just got on my shoulder.

love!

Sunset For Missi

This is my first painting of this semester for my advanced painting course. My friend Missi already claimed it, much to the dismay of my other friends and family. It will take up residence on her living room wall in May after the semester is over.

Spray Paint: Origins

I got to try my hand at illustrating an article. I had no idea what article I was going to pick because there were no guidelines. It both overwhelmed me and excited me.

Once I found my article (which took me probably an hour to find and then hmm and haw over whether or not to do it) I had to decide how I was going to design the illustrations. I created a matrix and with the help of my professor we came up with several ideas. Then the rest was up to me.

I am super happy with how it turned out, for sure.