Friday, November 7, 2008

Designed in a Heartbeat

Ok. I was just trying to be clever with the title. This job was in no way designed in a heartbeat, cos I'm a slow poke when it comes to actually designing anything. Anyway, the job is pro-bono, for my church to promote our Christmas Musical at DUMC this year.

The event is Heartbeat, a musical put together by Punctuation Ministries (of which, I am a part). The group basically puts together 3 shows a year for the public - one for Christmas, one for Easter and one more, just for the fun of it, in August. Essentially, the productions that we do, are really so that folks have another excuse to come to church (in case you can't find one! Haha!)

heartbeat-proposal

After a round of disastrous designs, I finally managed this. Since the musical would be an ethnic interpretation of familiar Christmas carols, I decided on a simple image of a globe on a Christmas bauble. To drive the message home, I added the tag "A World Music Experience". I like the clean look, and yet on the other hand, the retro-disco feel of the version on the left is also quite funky, though looking at it now, the little "pulse" thing that runs across the design is a bit overkill.

heartbeat-postcard
view it big here

This is the final postcard for the event. The team picked white. If the event is somewhat familiar, it's a sort of sequel to another Christmas musical we did a few years back. I suggested a Christmas concert with an asian feel. Imagine listening to your favourite carols accompanied by the angklong, the rebana, the kompang, and such! We even gave that one a more Asian title - Puji Nusantara. :) This time around, the music is more "global".

heartbeat-tix

These are tickets for the 3 nights we're playing. I color-coded these so the guys selling the tickets won't have a hard time distinguishing them. Oh btw, I know the title design with a heart is a little cliched, but it was all I could think of at the time. Heh. And yeah, if this interests you at all, do call 03 7958 7388. Priority will be given to folks who don't go to church much. :)