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Periodic Table of the Bible

I am excited to be able to launch this graphic! Prominent blogger Tim Challies gave me the idea and asked me to create it for his Visual Theology series. I much prefer these kind of weekend projects instead of snow shoveling or home repair!

Just a bit of background on the graphic. The point was to get as much general information about the books as possible while keeping the format simple. Obviously there are a lot directions that the graphic could take but we choose to keep it limited to a few bits of information. A couple ideas that didn’t make it in were to list the books by relative size as well as chronological order. It’s quite possible those will make it into a future graphic.

My theology is conservative so the authorship and dating of the books will reflect that.

Enjoy!

High Resolution PDF

The pdf is all vector so it should be suitable for scaling up to any size you wish. There are two flavors – one is the standard graphic that would be good to send to a print shop and the other has a white background in case you want to print it yourself.

Standard PDF
PDF with white background

written on February 6, 2012 · 2 Comments

Jesus is Greater

The video Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus has received over 15 million views in the last few days and has generated a lot of conversation and controversy.

The main message of the video is that religion causes me to look at my own pedigree or performance to be accepted spiritually and that religion says my motivation to obey God is based on fear and insecurity. On the flip side Jesus came to completely remove all religion. He died so I wouldn’t have to. I look to His performance and not my own. My motivation to obey God is out of love and grateful joy.

That conversation has inspired the graphic below. Jesus is greater.

Desktop and Android Wallpapers

Small – Medium – Large – Extra Large – XXL

iPhone Wallpaper

iPhone

iPad Wallpaper

iPad

Source Files

Photoshop Large (includes background and distressing)
Photoshop iPhone version (includes background and distressing)
Font – Six Caps – available from Google Fonts

written on January 20, 2012 · no comments

Jesus + Nothing Wallpaper

This past weekend our student ministry had our annual Winter Retreat. It was a blast to put this together with some great friends and other ministries in the area. I designed our t-shirt for the weekend that coincided with our theme of Jesus(period).

There was a lot of positive reaction to the shirt so I’m also releasing a series of wallpapers that feature the design. You can use them on your desktop, iPhone, iPad or Android device.

Desktop and Android Wallpapers

Small – Medium – Large – Extra Large – XXL

iPhone Wallpaper

iPhone

iPad Wallpaper

iPad

Source Files

Illustrator
Photoshop Large (includes background and distressing)
Photoshop iPhone version (includes background and distressing)
Font – Six Caps – available from Google Fonts

written on January 17, 2012 ·

Minimal TV Posters

I have several minimal poster projects I’m working on and this is culmination of my TV project.

The big idea was to take a pivotal concept or memorable image in the series and create a piece of minimalist art that represented that moment. There might be more added to the project in the future but you might have noticed that every poster was done for a TV show that completed its series run. I plan to stick to that constraint so no Walking Dead…for now.

See if you can guess each show. There’s a link below the image to a version with the names of the shows.

- View version with show titles -

written on January 2, 2012 · no comments

New Year’s Project

I’ve never been one for New Year’s resolutions. It always seemed kind of silly to base life change off of a date. But even still one can’t deny that a new year brings the feeling of newness or the desire to elicit change.

In recent days I’ve been influenced and inspired by a couple of sources. First I recently saw some killer posters of tv shows designed in a minimal style. I really liked this project and decided to make my own. I’m almost done with this and will post about the completed set in the near future. Until then if you want, you can see the progress in my dribbble profile.

The other source of inspiration came from a link in a blog post that pointed me to Jim LePage’s Word project. In his project he wanted to read through the Bible and create prints based on themes of books and specific passages. Some of his work is incredible and stirred in me a desire to do something similar.

I love creating one sheet prints and posters and really enjoy working with a minimal set of colors and graphics. Our projects would differ a bit in that I want my set to reflect more on the story of Jesus throughout the Bible. I would love to show through minimal art how the Gospel threads its way through the whole of Scripture.

One of the books we’ve gotten our kids is the Jesus Storybook Bible. Its seriously one of my favorite books because it presents Jesus as the hero of the Bible and shows how His story is written throughout scripture. The art in the book is very cool as well.

So there it is. My project for this next year would be to start with Genesis and as I read through the Bible this next year create some cool art that depicts the Gospel and the story of Jesus maybe in a way not yet expressed.

written on December 26, 2011 · no comments

Minimal Posters

I love minimalism.

That was going to be the only sentence in the post because I thought it was funny but then came to my senses.

Much like reading I go on creative binges and when I get an idea it tends to run wild. A while back I started creating minimal posters of my favorite movies and tv shows using just basic icons. You can see the first few on Dribbble (or if you’re reading this soon after it was posted take a look at the bottom of the page as they are currently my last shots).

I’ll be sure to post the rest of them here when they are done.

written on October 2, 2011 · no comments