Author: pvos
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Oyster Roast Invitations
Since 2011, Jacob’s Ladder, Inc. has been hosting an oyster tasting to raise funds for the Summer enrichment Camp. Each tasting generally nets around $8000 to $10,000 for the organization, and recent years have had the benefit of corporate sponsorships to underwrite some of the costs. I designed the invitations each year up to 2020.…
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Jacob’s Ladder Website
The non-profit Jacob’s Ladder provides educational support and a summer enrichment camp for at-risk, gifted students. their site design needed to be compelling, give enough information for donors and educators, and provide an online presence for this outstanding program. Site highlights included a custom-made WordPress theme, sliding image area for photos and updates, and a…
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College Logo
When I first started working for Dabney S. Lancaster Community College in November 2011, I started working on a new identity for them almost immediately … learning what would work, what the school was all about, what the “life-beat” of the school really was. Finally, it all came to a happy conclusion in a logotype…
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DSLCC Website redesign
Shortly after joining DSLCC as their Website Designer/Developer and Blackboard Administrator (my days can be, well, unique and somewhat bi-polar), I undertook the task to redesign the DSLCC Website to a single template. This was a mammoth undertaking, as the site had at least three main designs running throughout and bringing everything into a single…
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Get Out & Vote Already
After hearing all the political rhetoric, and the complaints about “who to vote for”, “what’s the point of voting” or “does my vote really make a difference?” I decided to start a grass-roots (very grass-roots) campaign to Get Out and Vote Already! … and here is the logo …
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9/11 Badge
During a lull in our church service on 9/11/11, I doodled a quick sketch of the following design. I was thinking specifically of my friend, Ricky Blood, who lost his life that September day, ten years ago, in the World Trade Center. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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Northern Africa and Middle Eastern Peoples
When the International Mission Board (IMB) shifted their focus from regions to people (affinity sites), all regional sites needed to be updated to the new corporate structure. The North African and Middle Eastern (NAME) people’s affinity required a new colour palette and site design in keeping with the new IMB corporate site. In addition to…
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Site redesign(s) – Western Europe Regional site
The three images below show a site design progression for the Western Europe regional site. The first two images are a before and after look at the site, while the third image shows the result of a move towards “People Group” focus. Site as it appeared in 2006 Site redesign, circa 2007 Present site design…
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Golf Classic Logo
The Jacob’s Ladder Golf Classic was inaugurated in 1993 as a fundraising event for Jacob’s Ladder, and enrichment program for at-risk but gifted children. The golf Classic logo was created to go on all signage, marketing, and gift items associated with the event. Aside from an update for a yearly anniversary (an 18 on the…
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emigrate Logo
The “emigrate” logo was created as part of a marketing piece to promote training offered to company personnel moving overseas for extended periods. The real prospects of moving from one culture to the next, or even from one town or city to another, are always part of an expatriat lifestyle. emigrate was created as a…
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Tell Europe
Logos designed for the Western Europe offices of the International Mission Board – when there were still offices for Western Europe. Now there is a people-group affinity that includes all Europeans around the world. This logo was created to provide an identity using a common European landmark – a bridge – and indicating the importance…
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Yearbook ad
While living overseas, I was asked to create small (1/2 page) ads for a local private school in the Black Forest. This is one example of a typical ad. Names have been obscured for security reasons.