This logo was designed for a 4 on 4 indoor soccer tournament being held in March at Grace Gathering. The logo will be printed on jerseys that will be awarded to the winning team. Each team has 5 players (4 on the field and 1 substitute), which are represented by the 5 stars in the logo. Goooooooooal!
Induction Reduction is a cause dedicated to educating on the benefits of avoiding induction during the birthing process. The design criterion for the logo was to come up with a clean and fun visual identity solution that would appeal primarily to young mothers. The focal point of the T-shirt design is the humorous, yet serious call to action slogan “keep the bun until it’s done”.
I created this propaganda-style design for a friend of mine who is putting together a series of T-shirts around the theme Love is the Resistance. It’s a radical teaching communicated in passages like Romans 12:14-21.
A small mission group will be leaving for Honduras in July and wanted a graphic to put on some T-shirts. I chose to use Blue and White for the design because those are the colors of the Honduras flag. The end result was a clean and simple design solution.
I recently put together this graphic to put on T-shirts for our mission team that will be heading to the Valley of San Quintín, Baja California, Mexico on June 11, 2011. The idea behind the design came from our host missionary in Mexico who uses a penny (one cent) as an illustration of a missionary who is also “one sent”. Isaiah 6:8 says “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” I will be traveling with a group of about thirty people this year. It has been a blessing to serve the same church family in Mexico over the years and continue building lasting relationships.
I recently designed a logo and T-shirt for a 5k Charity Run/Walk called Race 2 Grace. All proceeds from the event will benefit Forgotten Children International. When I start a project, I begin with rough brainstorming sketches (seen below). The goal is not to make pretty sketches, but to conceptualize as many ideas as I can. I typically fill up several pages in my 11″ x 14″ sketch pad before I transition to the computer to develop what I consider to be the strongest concept(s).
Once I’ve developed the strongest idea, I always finalize it in Black and White first. I don’t begin thinking about color until the logo is able to stand alone in Black and White.
For color, I chose yellow because it helped define the roads in the design. The blue complimented the yellow and also provided enough contrast for the black text to pop off of it. 
Finally, for every design that I create, I also put together a Style Guide indicating color specifications for print and web. I include PANTONE color specifications for Coated Process, Coated Solid, Uncoated Process, and Uncoated Solid. I also include RGB and Hexadecimal colors for web.
Visual identity design for full-service auto detailing business. Logo, business card, and t-shirt designs were developed.
I recently put together several design concepts for a friend of mine who is a Family Pastor in Arizona. He wanted me to develop a visual identity for a 5th & 6th grade group at the church called “Wild Side”. Both of the concepts shown above were well received, but “Concept B” was ultimately chosen.
A friend of mine is part of a house church called The Potter’s Shed. They are planning some outreach events in the community and wanted to have a T-shirt designed that they could wear during those events. Isaiah 64:8 is a fitting passage for their ministry and provided the insight for the design: “Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.”
I started the process by breaking out the old pen & ink set to freehand the lettering. I drew up the shed with some pottery arranged in front of it to help make it into a potter’s shed. After I was finished with the ink drawings, I scanned them into Photoshop, imported them into Illustrator, vectorized the high-resolution images, did some tweaking, and added the colors.
Here’s a color mock up of the final design shown on the back of a mocha colored shirt.
Grace Gathering’s softball team in New Haven, IN will be sporting this new shirt design for the 2009 season. If you’re not looking for it, you might miss the subliminal “bat” in the middle of the “A”. (Kinda like the arrow between the E and the x in the FedEx logo). You gotta love negative space.
Vessel “Tree of Life” T-shirt design based on Revelation 22:1-2.
Vessel “Butterfly” girls T-shirt design.
Hello, my name is Brad Thomas and I'm a graphic designer specializing in logo and identity design. Comments and project inquiries are welcome.
