logo design

This is part of my freelance work. This logo i designed for my hip hop artist client. The whole idea was to have his letters and image spell out his name in silhouette format.
It was quite easy to create as his name fits in easily with the whole image. It was just a matter of getting one of his photos and working on it. I used illustrator to create the whole logo.
This logo was to be applied on different print media including posters and t-shirts so I figured using black and white was the best choice as it would work with any color.

wallpaper option1

This is a continuation from the logo designed for my artist. I decided to create a series of wallpapers for him which he's also used for promotional posters etc.
This particular wallpaper has a military feel to it because hip hop is basically about the competition who is better than who and whose rhymes are more powerful. working on these wallpapers was quite fun as he didn't really limit me in anyway.

wallpaper option2

This is another one of the wallpapers design for this artist. This particular wallpaper was focusing on the whole music theme especially hip-hop.

kiddies page

The magazine that I work on has a page strictly for kids the aim is to teach the kids a certain lesson or scripture through a series of games. On this fun page I decided to play around with shapes as I realized that the previous fun pages were very dull and formal for kids.

We created a little character (top left) who basically introduces the scripture for the games and basically sums up what the page is all about. I also chose to make it as colorful as possible because the target audience is 5-10 so at that age most kids view things according to color, the more color the more they are interested in reading and participating.

Designing this page was fun as i had never really designed anything specifically aimed at this target market before. Although my boss had a bit of a problem with the colors I convinced her that it was the best way to attract the children's attention and keep it there.

website layout

This is a layout for the different partnership arms in the church, it's basically to teach people about the different partnerships. it gives options like giving online and also provides links for other sites related to the church.

The layout was design to be simple and very user friendly, the main links are all rollovers and keep rotating so one is able to get to a certain link by rolling over it and clicking hen you click it becomes the main page bigger, visible and legible. Alternatively for the convenience of people who might find it harder or not user friendly I have provided the option of clicking on buttons running across the top of the page.

I choose to work shades of blue to give it a very calm and relaxed feel. I was ultimately going to use blue only but they insisted that I add another color. I decided to use purple as its one of the colors on the Church logo so it doesn't seem to be out of place.
This was very quick and easy to do the only thing that I had to figure out was overlaying the shape layers.

dvd ad and review

This design was was for a DVD ad and review to go into the magazine. the whole purpose of the page is to inform people about a promo DVD. The whole layout I decided to use the film to go with it being a DVD. the colors I chose were to match with the DVD cover to avoid using too many colors which might clash. The quote on the side is just a snippet summrising what the DVD is basically about. Its in italics obviously to put more emphasis and differentiate it from the body copy. the body copy is in blue because I chose to work with different shades of blue instead of having black or white for the text and of course it's still legible.
I believe it's a successful design because the DVD image is quote big and clear and the type flows and gels with the whole design.

pages for article

This layout I designed for an article to go onto the magazine. It was a report back on what the service was all about so I decided to use photographs from the service. I decided to make very minimalistic to ensure that there's still enough space for the article, however as I was not allowed to leave the page white I decided to add a bit of green on the edges to match with Pastors suits also in the green I added type to emphasize on the concept of a word mission.
all in all this I believe was a successful design concerning the fact that it's for a church magazine whioch adheres to a certain type of look.

envelope

This design was for the church's partnership envelopes which are used for donations, this particular one was for 'the American Initiative' a project aimed at starting a church in America.
Working on it was quite easy as the church already has a format they use for their envelopes so I had to give it th American feel. I chose to work with the American colors red, blue and white to represent America.

envelope

This design was for the church's partnership envelopes which are used for donations, this particular one was for 'the American Initiative' a project aimed at starting a church in America.
Working on it was quite easy as the church already has a format they use for their envelopes so I had to give it th American feel. I chose to work with the American colors red, blue and white to represent America.