Living in Springfield most of my life, I have made a mission to frequent a variety of coffeehouses. Most coffee afficianados strive to find the perfect house blend or attain the venerated $100 pound of Kopi Luwak. Me, I enjoy the full-package including the coffeehouse’s attention to design.
For the last several days I’ve been struggling with what to contribute this week. Maybe it’s due to the crazy (but good) snowball of projects I’ve had at work. Perhaps it’s a result of diligently encouraging my wife Sarah as she puts together her portfolio and pursues a new job opportunity. Whatever the case, my own aesthetic has been thrown out of whack.
One of my first identity projects at Ozark-based Robison Creative Studios was for a growing church in Oklahoma called Noble Assembly of God. The primary requirement for the project was to incorporate a dove and a flame—and do it creatively, of course. This proved to be the mantra for future church branding projects (with additional juxtapositions including hearts and crosses) and a request that I would come to dread. But in my design naivete I took on the request with idealism and excitement.