Graphic Design: The Well

The Well: Drama workshop poster and photocard

The city's Creative Art's team has just created a new division for inspiring young actors in their congregation to develop their talent and grow together.  They call this community as The Well.  Last week, I was contacted by Betty with brief to design a set of promo materials that has a whimsical feel using the visual concept of a well with a tree growing on one side.  I proposed the silhouette effect which allows me to work using vectors, and the team loved the submitted draft.  Both of us are thrilled with the end results.

Sunday School: Samson's long hair

Niel in Samson's long (purple) hair

This week's Sunday School story was about the strong man, Samson, and his long hair.  I made a long hair strips from purple construction paper (because purple is the only colour I have left in my pack) and tape them in around a band that would fit the kids' head.  I was planning to cut/tear the long hair when I get to the story part where Delilah tricked and cut Samson's hair, but unfortunately the children wouldn't allow me to do it.

Sunday School

Planting Tiny Seeds...

The church we have been attending is doing a church plant in our neighborhood. I’ve never been involved in a church plant program before, have never realized the type of challenges that the group faces in selecting venues, time, programs, coordinating volunteers, advertising, and maintaining members.

For the past few months I have been appointed as the Sunday School superintendent. My role is currently more of a coordinator/Sunday School teacher, as juggling this ministry while raising 3 boys under 4 years old, is almost already more than I can handle at the moment. I suppose, being a start up church, almost half of the class are my kids, it is also in my best interest to assist in keeping things going. 

Growing up attending Sunday School myself, and had been a helper-teacher preciously for over 6 years, I feel so privileged given the opportunity to plant tiny seeds of faith to children at a very early age.
I really enjoyed bringing Bible stories to live to this wonderful group of kids, whom their parents are also my friends. I am truly praying for wisdom to connect with these very young children at their level, so they would pick up simple concepts of God, Christian living, and loving others. The children still have very limited vocabulary and life experiences, it is quite a challenge presenting Bible stories using words and ideas that they are familiar with. Children grow up much more quickly these days. When they start attending children’s activity groups offered in the community, they will start their journey in discovering their wider world. They would start exposure to fairy tales, myths, superheroes, other characters and live concepts that are much more enticing yet may not completely be in-line with our family’s personal values.

I am hoping that somehow, by starting at an early age, my children can hold on to their values and beliefs, when they reach their crossroads in their teens. They will be at the stage where are reluctant to discuss their issues with their parents, yet I hope, they stay strong and make wise decisions. So I am really hoping, even in such a little way, I can make a bit of a difference in the young lives of the children that attends our Sunday School and of their parent’s.

Graphic Design: Easter 2010

The city's Creative Team came to me needing a Visual Concept and promotion package for the Easter Service 2010.

The theme of the year's Easter is "BELIEVE?"  The brief was to create a Visual concept that is simple and clean, but with a bold and strong message to challenge if one "Believe?".

I must give credit to my husband who came up with the idea of  Jesus challenging Thomas' belief by showing Thomas His nail pierced hand.  So I took a photo of my husband's hand to model for this artwork.
The project had a really tight deadline, but I enjoyed the challenge working with Vivian and the team.  We were all really pleased at how things turn out, and had plenty of encouraging feedback. Praise God!

Project Details:

• Visual concept
• Invitation Photocard design
• Posters in A4 and A3 design
• Street Sign Board design
• BW ad for bulletin

"Beyond Here..." graphic design

Beyond Here… is a promo material requested by the local church’s Music and Creative Ministry to advertise their Vision Night event. The creative requirement includes a visual that portrays something deeper, somewhere beyond our world, with the feeling of strong and forceful.

I approached this with a visual concept of beneath the ocean’s surface: to show places so deep, mysterious, calls for exploration, something beautiful. yet strong and forceful.

Created in Adobe Photoshop and Freehand.

Graphic Design

Missing my Creative juice...

A year ago, when Malakai was just 2 years old and joined a local playgroup, I was dumbstruck when I found that I felt quite exasperated, when I could not get my son to be interested in a paint brush. How could he be content just by dabbing a little dot on the big sheet of paper and think he’s done?! At his age, I was surely doing a lot more than that.

Do I dare to call myself a graphic designer, a web designer, or an artist anymore. They were once a title given to me, a job description, and even something I do in my spare time, something I loved… a long time ago. When was the last time I held a sketch pad? I can’t even remember anymore. Funny, ever since I was a little girl right up to Uni, all I wanted to do was draw, doddle, decorate, and make craftworks. I make my own colouring pages when I was little, made dolls for my little brother when he was little, and I knew how sew my own clothes and dresses at high school. Whatever happened to that person?

I has been a very long time since I feel the thrill of designing. I am a bit rusty, no doubt about that, but I am proud of myself to pull these out of Photoshop. What's next?