wallpaper? yes please!
i’ve heard a lot of horror stories of people spending days scraping wallpaper off their bedroom walls.
with these hand printed wallpapers from Deborah Bowness, i don’t think we’ll have that problem. or well…not for me anyway. my birthday’s still half a year away, so you guys have enough time to figure out how to get me a roll of awesomeness (hahahaha jk…..or am i…..)
dressing my wall up
books are a girl's best friend
Merchant Band chinese album
got the opportunity to work on merchant band’s chinese album. that’s right. merchant band singing their songs in chinese. on the CD, instead of hearing wong-da-jong singing “i’m in love,” it’s tim reimherr. feel free to take a moment to be impressed. because i sure was.
anyway. the project took a little longer than hoped….but i’m pretty happy with the result. here are the two intial concepts that i had come up with:
after much discussion we decided we needed to have an album cover that actually showed their faces since this was their first album released in asia. however the image wasn’t strong enough in the first artwork. soooooo we got steve offutt, photographer extroardinare and fabulous coworker to take some photos. At first we were severely bummed b.c we got rained out, but after choosing a different location, the weather worked in our favour giving us an awesome shine/texture to the street. The first cover was something i started to work on, but the second is what we landed with. Hope you guys like it!
water drips water drops
here are some ridiculously amazing photos from the Kusho series done by Shinichi Maruyama
water and ink never looked so good
life as a designer other people's work i love: exacto knife paper art shame
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back to the exacto knife
so…a couple posts ago i put up pictures of me working on concepts via paper and showed a picture of my handwriting cut out.
well. this girl put me to crying shame. shame i tell you!
hip to be square
me with my new glasses
getting a yes from clients
This is a pretty great lecture from Paul Boag about having the right relationship with our clients
didn’t quite make the cut
this was a proposal for onething09 regionals concept. it didn’t take, but i’m still quite fond of it.
loved to life
i’ve been flipping through “organic church” again, and the chapter about good soil still doesn’t sit well with me. the basic idea is invest your time on those who are good soil. all the other ones…..step away, they aren’t worth your time.
that really bothers me. how can we really say that someone is not worth investing into anymore? i was talking to a friend the other day about how some older kids from church weren’t responding exactly the way he would have liked. when i asked him about it, he shurgged it off and said “it’s about the younger generation anyway.”
really? that’s it? if they’re not responsive, move on.
i know that i don’t have this down. i’m the person who will beat a dead horse until i’ve killed myself beating that dead horse. but surely “just move on” can’t be the answer either. i used to be the hopeless cause, the emotional vaccum. and what helped me get out of it wasn’t me all of a sudden having an amazing revelation all on my own and then reaching out for help. it was a very select few that kept reaching out. eventually i broke out of it. some people now joke around with me about how much of a mess i used to be, and how “thank God you’re out of that phase.” but i know it wasn’t because i grew out of a phase. it was because of how the Lord would say “i love you” every morning i woke up, knowing full well i didn’t believe it. it was the Lord sending my friends over to come talk with me. i don’t remember any of the conversations i’ve had with them or any of the advice they gave. but i do remember opening the door and seeing them there. and i do remember seeing their names on my cell phone when they were calling.
since coming to IHOP–KC i have learned so so so much. and i’m so grateful for the opportunity to sit under all this teaching. but i do know that what saved be from death was how the Lord loved me to life. he just kept loving on me, and wouldn’t stop. He would not stop investing time and energy into me. i have a hard time giving in to the idea of “move on” because the Lord never did that with me. i do believe that some people’s hearts are in states where they are bad soil. but maybe it’s possible that persistent loving can break it up, producing good soil?
