My Visual Design Journey in Church

During my days in my church's youth ministry, I assisted the leader who manages the Social Media account by creating graphics to summarize or promote the activities we did during our Saturday Youth Session. Without former training in graphic design and digital illustration, creating these graphics helped me to improve my visual communication skills. I learnt that sometimes words are better typed than hand drawn if they look scribbled, artworks, fonts and pictures can enhance each other when overlaid, and repetition of colour schemes and visual elements help to unify graphics that are associated with each other. I learnt how to be selective with the words I incorporate in graphics and to choose the right subjects to illustrate to bring out a certain idea. I did this for about a year. Below is most of the work I did!

Illustrative

Pictorial

Shirt Design

In 2018, I was invited to design camp logo and shirt for our annual youth camp.

Camp Charis is about the Grace of God, so I illustrated a broken jar, that represents us, and that only Christ can fill the cracks! I took up this task without formal training, and ironically, it was the School Semester after the camp that we took a graphic design module that involved T-shirt Design!

This was one of the first projects in which I figured how to use Adobe Photoshop, and I made it through by googling, as well as getting design feedback from the leader I worked with for Social Media Graphics!

Encouragement Post Cards

These were made for print, to be given to the Boys' Brigade Company affiliated with our Church. We learnt that it is more cost effective to print on coloured paper and with transparent backgrounds. The third image was the first draft of the year-end card, and was never printed!

Camp Publicity

In 2019, I had a chance to be both the Publicity and Admin IC for the Youth Camp of a smaller youth ministry. I spearheaded the Instagram publicity, and my prior experience helped!

As this was an event, I keep the design solemn and reflective, following the vision of the camp!

Shirt Design

This was one of my favourite projects as I could use my design skills to bring my friends together! As a cell group full of childhood friends, we were in talks of creating a common tshirt or jacket, and the push factor was having one of us moving to the US! We managed to collect the shirts just days before the flight! It was a short timeline, and we decided the best parting gift was to have a piece of each one of us, so I gathered everyone's signatures. Our cell group name, "Galilee" was stylized to look like a cafe uniform, with the calligraphy giving a warm vibe!