the prodigal son returns...

Hey peeps, hope all is well. Work has robbed me of my freedom to once again express myself on this blog, but all else is fine with me, just busy. As usual God is still great, awesome, evident and relevant. Been working on quite a number of branding projects and it's funny cuz' suddenly now everybody wants a logo. And I love branding because it's a challenging yet rewarding task to be able to sum up a product/service and tell a story in one symbol. So here are a few on what i've been working on during my so called free time or should i say 'time out' sessions, my mind never sleeps even when i'm sleeping (maybe that's why i've been so tired)... enjoy!

A friend of mine recently started his new business bout' a month or two ago and needed some help with a logo for his spa so i offered my services to design him something temporary as time is short with a lot of other things that are needed to be completed. So I got onto good-ol'-wikipedia and searched on the word 'banyan' and it's basically a bonsai tree that got fed too much steroids and more research led me to this.

Next up was the same friend(banyan) from church who decided that this is the season for him to take up the responsibility of building up a team to handle our Young Adults Church website. Being from Glad Tidings for 12-13 years plus now and to have seen the church grew from just a handful to 600-700 plus strong enabled me to have the culture embedded in me was a plus when designing it. So how do you define something that's been around for years and will only continue to grow stronger, better and bigger? As I see the long term value of it I chose to create something that's timeless. Give it a few decades and it's still updated and current, something that has it's own life to be able to rebirth itself every turn of the century. Here's to classics, retro, cool, elegant... cheers! This is my customized rendition and tribute to Coca-Cola and Bata. After that i tried it on different textures for flexibility test and it works.

G infotech is a company that's running a blog called 'Shopping n Sales' which showcases all the latest sales that are happening in KL and Selangor region. This has been one of the longest projects I ever get to work on and i'm contented with the results after many drafts and samples there was always a feeling that it could be better. Long story short the info box representing information was cut in half to create the letters 'G' and 'i'. Goes to show that nice works come when given the right amount of time to work on. Still I feel there's a little bit more i can work on but that's just me i guess.

In honoring a fellow designer/photographer friend Miss Li-Yin, I decided work on a logo she sketched for the ministry at the initial stages of its birth. Publicity & Promotion (P&P) department which i'm in is a passionate collaborative pool of designers within our church coming together to share ideas and churn out great design works for the various ministries and events that are within it. This here is a draft which still needs some work but you get the idea, if you don't it's 2 letter 'P' back to back with the filament as a '&' in between the 'P's to form a lightbulb.

A little 36 paged Missions booklet that I was working on months back, literally sweat and blood was all over this project and it paid off. Praise the Lord!

Was asked by our very own 'choobs' designer to help look for the perfect fonts for her new range of oriental trinkets and i thought these fonts were simply orientally awesome.

Lastly fresh from the oven this week. Had to come up with a flyer for Cell Fellowship Games 2009. Had a sudden rush of idea of a game plan and this was it.