Spring George Fox Journal

The Spring issue of the George Fox Journal is sports-focused: new football coach for the return of football to Fox, women's basketball near-perfect season, etc. Check out the whole issue here (click on upper right link to flip through it). Cover portrait by Joel Bock.

Laura + color

I played around today with portrait photography with my lovely model Laura and some different colored walls. She wore a sweater that conveniently had every color represented, so she looked good with every background! Click to enlarge.

Carrot person

I did this silly drawing with a carrot laying on top of it for the upcoming Geez magazine.

Dirt and the Good Life

A book cover I recently designed for Barclay Press; it's written by Lisa and Mark McMinn, professors at George Fox University who are also run Fern Creek Farm. I figured out a way to make the word Dirt out of dirt, and am happy with how it turned out.

Geez 25, the utopia issue

The newest issue of Geez has some cool cover art by Eduardo Recife; this is one of my favorite covers, I think. I did some photos and illustrations for this issue, including a few where it looks like the photo has been torn away to reveal the drawing. Click on the spreads for a larger view.

Northwest Yearly Meeting 2012

This is a logotype/illustration I did for the upcoming Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends. The theme this year comes from Hebrews 4 verse 16: "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need." I used some ink roller images and hand-drawn lettering for this.

Global Issues poster

A poster I designed for the Global Issue forum held last fall at George Fox University. What a crazy-long title this thing has. I kind of think I did another design years ago that had an image torn in half and taped back together like this, but I'm not sure. I felt like it fit this event, which talks about reconciliation efforts in strife-torn Africa. Click to enlarge.

Luddite Pinterest board

A photo tour of my home office pinboard can be viewed on Facebook here.

God of Antimatter lecture poster

I modified the 1888 Flammarion engraving as the illustration for this poster for George Fox University. Details about the upcoming lecture here. Click for a closer view.

Handmade modular type

These are my new house numbers, made out of 2 inch square scraps of different kinds of wood. I came up with the modular design based on squares and quarter circles.



I used the same modules for these thank you cards, using exacto-carved carrot stamps (kind of like potato prints).

Joel Bock cards win FPO Award

I don't normally enter design contests, but these business cards I designed for for Joel Bock Photography fit well with the FPO Awards, which are judged on both design and print production. The cards are offset printed, then laser diecut.

George Fox Journal Fall 2011

The latest Journal I designed; you can check out the whole issue here (click on upper right to page through). The cover image is by Dominique Berho, taken during a serve trip to Nicaragua.

Happy 2012

I did a new snowflake for 2012 to accompany the ones from 2011 and 2010. These are not proper six-sided snowflakes; maybe I should be reported to the Campaign for Real Snowflakes?

Geez 24, the privilege issue

The latest issue of Geez is out; it deals with the problems of privilege people like me (white, male, ablebodied, hetero, North American) deal with. Lots of good stuff. My wife Laura took the photo of me (bottom) that appears in this issue.

Logos in limbo

This is an unused logo design for Bruin Gold, an organization that supports athletic excellence at George Fox University (home of the Bruins). I especially like how the cut gold type turned out.



And this is a logo for a software company that I don't believe they ever used. It was an attempt to do a very abstracted pine tree that didn't just look like a triangle or a Christmas tree; I felt like it was a pretty original solution.

Emigre magazine remembered

I recently shared my collection of old Emigre magazines with some design students. Emigre was quite influential to me in the late 1980s and 90s. It was an early proponent of using the Macintosh as a design tool and pioneered digital typeface design, as well as showcasing experimental design. Later it published ideas about the ethical issues in design, including this article that affected my career. The entire collection of their magazines are in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art.

Miriam's Garden Coaching card

I hand-lettered this business card design for Miriam Bock's garden coaching and design business. It's printed on a nice iridescent paper.

A couple of food posters for George Fox

Here's a poster I designed for George Fox University's third annual Food Meet. Kind of an obvious treatment of the title, but oh, well. The toy truck has been the primary image on previous posters, so we retained it for this one as well. The Food Meet was fun and inspirational, by the way.



This is a poster for an upcoming faculty lecture at George Fox about the social implications of the local food movement. Should be good.

Geez 23, the Sacred Space issue

The latest Geez magazine is about sacred space. The second spread shown highlights a bunch of cool things different churches are doing with their space (click to enlarge). The bottom image is a fun pseudo magazine cover featured in this issue which was written by associate editor Bre and designed by me.

Fundraising campaigns

Some promotional materials I've been working on for a couple of capital campaigns at George Fox University. The first is for our new physical therapy program that'll begin next year.

The second is for the football program, which is slated to begin in 2013. George Fox has had a football team for the majority of its 115 year history, but we haven't had a football program for over 40 years (which is why the bookstore sells "GFU Football - Undefeated since 1969" t-shirts).

In the Making welcome weekend at George Fox

A hand-drawn logo and invitation for the welcome weekend for incoming freshmen at George Fox. Click images to enlarge.

How Long? book cover

Cover design for Barclay Press's book How Long?, a sequel of sorts to It's a Dance, which I designed a few years ago. This book again is primarily made up of conversations, this time dealing with a Christian community going through its own theological wilderness.