Julie R. Neidlinger: Lone Prairie Art and Writing

A little pro bono design work.

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I've been designing the brochure and T-shirt for an area Bible camp for about five years now. I'm awfully grumpy to work with. I don't know how they have the patience to keep coming back. Last year I threw together, the day before leaving on a missions trip to Nicaragua, a design with the theme being "Extreme Makeover: Heart Edition."

Anyway, I thought I'd give you a peek at what I'm working on for this year. The theme was the idea of a "superhero." The scripture is Isaiah 40:31 with a little of Hebrews 11 thrown in.

What you see here is the header. The bottom two-thirds will be laid out like a comic book page with photos from last year's camp in the squares. There's a "barcode" that is reminiscent of the Marvel barcode. The name of the camp looks like a comic book headline. There's a bunch of other stuff thrown in to make the whole idea look like a superhero comic book. Of course, it's an older looking comic book because I based it off of an old Avenger's comic book I had here. The covers of comic books today look a lot different from back then.

Anyway, I had to make a superhero. I didn't want him to look like Arcangel of off X-Men, but I had to incorporate wings. And I had to have a helmet, shield, and sword (armor of God) in there, too.

So here's the base image. The words and other graphics go on top of it. I'm not a huge comic book fanatic so I don't know if I hit the mark or not. We'll see.