Good Friday Service

Come join us on Good Friday to meditate on His great love for you and me.

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This scene from "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" made me want to cry... God just loves us too much!

Happy Words

Created this with an iPad app - "Happy Words"

I could spend forever playing with this app! lol

Carpet Design

About two months ago, I was assigned to come up with a carpet design for our office's waiting area and this is what I did.

Before:


After:


It was an interesting side project for me because I got to try a few new things : interior design, communicating with a [carpet] manufacturing factory and bargaining. Out of those three, I think bargaining is the hardest because I am so easily persuaded...! LOL But in the end, I still gave it a go anyway and of course failed completely in my first trial talking to their Marketing/Sales guy. (Lesson learned: NEVER bargain with a Marketing/Sales staff because they are all scarily persuasive!) But then by the grace of GOD, I was arranged to meet with their Exporting staff and he was much more negotiable than the other guy. After a bit of back-and-forth, he ended up giving me a $1,200 discount and that's not the end of it: he also offered to install the carpet for us for free (which normally would cost a few hundreds if they had their legit worker to do it)! Sure, this Exporting guy is not a pro and his installation was slightly less than perfect (because it was his first time installing a carpet), still, it was a HUGE favour that he did for us!

Lesson for the day:
If things always turned out just fine in the first trial, then there wouldn't be "pleasant surprises."

The Sweetest Hand Warmer

I miss walking around in cold Vancouver with a cup of hot dark chocolate in my hands. :)

*Photo reference from The Sartorialist

Shatin Church Logo and Website Redesign

I have been helping Shatin Anglican Church to redesign their logo and website layout for the past four months and now that everything is done, I will share a little bit about the design process behind it.

Phase 1: Brainstorming/ Sketching


Phase 2: I picked one of the sketches and polished it in Illustrator. I presented them at our first meeting but they were banned because we don't want our logo to look like a church building when we don't actually have one...


Phase 3(a): More brainstorming/ sketching


Phase 3(b) : More brainstorming/ sketching in Illustrator




Phase 3.1: Meanwhile, I picked three of the logo designs that I liked best and created a matching website layout for each one of them.



Phase 4: The church community decided on the very last logo design--the one with a leaf; I then did some tweaking based on their comments/wishes. They also decided to go for the second web layout design.


Phase 5/ Final Phase: As I was tweaking the logo, I suddenly had an idea of making the symbol to resemble more closely the second Chinese character for "Shatin" (沙田).


In summary...
Before:

After:


Special thanks:
I want to thank David Chou, Karl Udy and Heewoo Han for inviting me to be part of this project. Instead of pressuring me to take up this "nearly-impossible" task (well, that's what it seemed in the eyes of a 6-month old graphic designer!), they were continuously encouraging and praying for me to try my best. I also want to thank GOD for walking side-by-side with me throughout this project. No doubt that the whole thing was a leap of faith for me. I knew clearly that there was nothing inside me that I could trust to get this project done. So from the moment I took on the project, I almost never stopped reminding GOD that "This is Your logo and Your website for Your church, You better take care of this!" And our GOD is faithful, like always, plus I know He cares deeply about Shatin Church. So in trust I took a leap and only found myself landing right in the middle of His infinite love and grace.

May all the glory and praise that came from this project be given directly to our LORD. Amen.

Jeffrey And Cat

I was so caught up with work for the past couple of weeks that I hardly had time to draw for fun. This simple drawing actually took me over a week to finish (when it could have been done within 2 days), and there are a couple more that I've started more than two weeks ago yet still unfinished... I really hope I can strike a better balance between making art for work and fun because the latter is the only way to keep me sane at the moment...

And oh, I want a cat so badly!