Gracepoint After Five

As exciting and wonderful as the Christmas season can be, we also know how long and boring it can get. Rather than sitting at home and doing nothing, here’s a book list from yours truly that will keep you busy. I’ve trimmed it down to one essential book for each category. If you’re just dying [...]

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Much has been said about inspirations lately, but one thing I do want to mention: inspirations alone do not produce great work. Thomas Edison1 was onto something when he said that “none of [his] inventions came by accident.” It takes work and effort. A lot of it.
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Previously, I talked about my efforts in making a particularly difficult component (water on people) look good. In this post, I’m going to speed through the other areas of the poster.
The base elements

As usual, much time was spent in looking for good stock photography. Perusing Flickr, it wasn’t long before I spotted the USC football [...]

Update: Part 2 of the design process is now up.
This upcoming Saturday, Kairos Christian Fellowship will be having a getaway in the sierras. Unfortunately, that coincides with the big Cal vs. USC home game. As a way to draw students to choose the sierra trip over the game, we designed a poster for this event.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal, as the saying goes. It’s not news to anyone that we, as artists — nay, as human beings — are constantly being inspired by something. I’ve already written two posts on videos that were inspired from elsewhere (check out 1 and 2), and why they worked. Unfortunately, it is [...]

Every year, after the New Student Welcome Night, each of the three sponsoring groups (a2f, Koinonia, and Kairos) put on their own Welcome Nights. Usually, the postcard graphic will be displayed on the respective websites, providing information about the event. This year, Kairos decided to try another route: we went the way of the poster.

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This video featuring a number of directors talking about the difference between viewing films in widescreen vs. pan & scan (TV) struck me as very insightful. The framing of an experience–in this case, a movie–is a very thought out set of decisions made by the director and cinematographer. In the same way, framing what to [...]

Continuing the topic of art and inspirations, we’ll be discussing about some recent work that we did and what inspired us.

Acts2fellowship, Koinonia, and Kairos (three Christian fellowships) will be hosting a huge event — New Student Welcome Night — on the UC Berkeley campus this Wednesday and Thursday. In the past, we’ve always faced the same [...]

When Coldplay released their music video for Strawberry Swing, it immediately became a hit. It’s the perfect mixture between the artistic creativity and the audacity to even attempt such a project (it’s all chalk) — not to mention the quality of the music (my personal favorite next to Viva la Vida) — that allowed this [...]

Count me in as a believer of online sensation Twitter as a viral marketing tool to draw traffic. PunyPNG recently saw a spike in traffic because we were tweeted by @comunicadores, who happens to have 14,000 something followers.
The spike in traffic affirmed the conventional marketing wisdom (and Gladwell’s Tipping Point idea: Connectors) that quality leads [...]