I am the graphic designer and assistant technical director of Blue Ridge Community Church in Forest, Virginia. This is a blog of what I encounter, capture, do, make, think, and feel. Read more »
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Helvetica // Born in Switzlerland
There’s a much debated story of how Helvetica truly came to be. Regardless of it’s back story, it’s hard to deny how much of an impact it has had on our designed world. Helvetica was created by Max Meidinger in Münchenstein, Switzerland in 1957. You can find the lengthy (mostly true) story here. For those [...]
BRCC Arts Party ‘09
This a horizontal 11″x17″ poster I made to promote the gathering for all those with in The Ridge that contribute to the arts. Whether it be through the band, creativity, drama, stage design, speaking, graphic design, video, lighting, audio, media, etc, this event is for those people. This poster will only be used for people [...]
Luke 14:25-33
This is a motion graphics piece I did for Blue Ridge Community Church. It was a little more of an adventure than some previous ones I’ve made simple for the fact that there are so many animated elements in this one besides the typography. It brought a little more visual interest, and coupled with sound [...]
Louis Nizer
So I found this quote by Louis Nizer the other day and it really peaked my interest. I suppose it’s always revolutionary in a subtle way when philosophy in its raw sense can be slimmed down to a single sentence. I think of a lot of things when I read this, but I just appreciate [...]
How To Work Better
Well these may not be the only ways to work better. This idea was birthed out of a page in my Moleskine from a few months back that I had written while sitting in a Starbucks in San Francisco. These may not be the only ways in the world to work better, in fact I [...]
Fears
I created this, once again, for Blue Ridge Community Church. This is a short kinetic typography animation of questions people have asked as fears they might have of becoming a Christ follower. When people are looking for a reason to not do something, it’s easy to come up with reasons and excuses to shy away [...]
Galatians Six
So there comes a time in every (static) graphic designers life when he/she realizes that it’s time to move to something unknown and new. For me there were a plethora of things on the table. Street luge, giraffe hunting, baseball card collecting, hot dog eating contests, etc. However when I realized all of those would [...]
Could Be Right
The fantastically written lyrics are by my wonderful friend Matt Mackey. They are the chorus to my favorite song of his entitled “Could Be Right“.
For the visually impaired or the people to lazy to click on the image and see a large size version, the lyrics read:
Apathy is what’s left, when the common sense is gone. [...]
Invisible Children
I created this poster for a competition put on by Invisible Children. They had a call for promotional posters that would be widely used, but the only qualifier is that it had to promote their cause. It didn’t have communicate anything verbally, but only had to communicate the heart of what they are doing, and [...]
The Spectrum
This really just started as an experiment with a fun color palette, but i think I was looking at a lot of ISO50 stuff at the time, so he was a subliminal source of inspiration. There’s really no point to it, but i’ve got a 2′ x 4′ print of it in my office and it [...]
© 2008 Colin Harman.
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