Loving it! “RISE UP!” & “PRAISE HIM” type looks awesome. This reminds me of the CBS Cafeteria wall Herb Lubalin did back in the day.
Good Stuff.
Scott, I’d never seen the Lubalin piece (apparently called the Gastrotypographicalassemblage) before. I just spent some time reading up on it and it’s absolutely stellar design work. Not that I’d expect anything less from Herb.
Thanks for the tip.
this, my friend, is amazing.
Incredible. Now I know what you were referring to about how busy you were :)
A beautiful way of bringing glory to God! Your hard work will pay off. Love it Love it
Fantastic! When working on something like this, obviously you had various phrases, scripture references, etc to use but how did you go about creating the layout? Did you sketch all of that out before starting or just freehand it?
Phil, I initially sketched a few 11×17 pages worth of freehand phrases and words, and then scanned them and started the rather laborious process of converting everything into vector art in Illustrator. I knew the constraints of my canvas, so I placed some of the main ones I liked into the artboard, and then started drawing new ones to fill in the gaps.
This was very much an example of “I just moved stuff around until it looked right.” No real roadmap.
well done joshua.
one question, will students / people be allowed to add their own inscriptions to the wall?
i know it could be a huge headache. but it could be very cool and interactive if done right.
Dude, that is seriously spectacular.
Beautiful. Any thoughts of turning this into a poster? It would look sweet hanging behind my sofa.
Joshua, this is beautiful! So good!
very nice work. i’ll have to make a trip over to see it once it’s installed.
hey – did you ever get this installed? about how much did your vendor charge?
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I'm a graphic designer and sometimes writer living in Anderson, South Carolina. I serve as the Design Director for NewSpring Church. I love Jesus, my wife, Levi's Jeans, good Tex-Mex, and 8oz glass bottle Coca-Cola Classic. On good days I love them roughly in that order. Email me.
Scripture Typography Environmental Graphics
Sun 07/26/09
There’s a 30×10′ curved wall in the NewSpring student building that’s been blank and lonely for far too long. I can’t wait to see this thing come to life at full scale next month.
My hand hurts, the old scanner is tired, and I killed my fair share of Bic GripRollers in the last two weeks. I’ve never worked on a project where I said, “Oh, it’s almost done… just one more hour” so many times. Then again, I’ve also never gotten the chance to run amuck with 300 square feet of environmental graphics that will visually anchor a public space either, so who’s complaining? Not this guy.