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.