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Overflow Event Poster

Joseph Cotten — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:00:59 +0000

This was done for my church to advertise a city-wide worship and prayer meeting. I came up with the name and look for it – the imagery of a city being flooded represents the worship and prayers of the people “flooding” the city with hope and blessing.

This was a somewhat new direction for me, combining black and white photographs with vector illustrations and layering effects into a single unified whole.

The typefaces used include two of my grunge favorites, Megaxoid and Adler. Can’t beat em!

Guest Blog at Live Awake

Joseph Cotten — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:41:00 +0000

My brother is a full-time pastor, as well as a web designer. He runs a great blog called Live.Awake, over at www.bencotten.net. He’s doing a blog series entitled A Pastors Guide to the Web. It’s a five part series, with the final portion penned by me. He asked me to weigh in with the pastors and other readers from the perspective of a full time designer.

Things are pretty busy ’round here, but I found the time tonight to share my thoughts on the modern Christian church and how graphic design is being mishandled, as well as what should be done about it. Check it out!

Kernersville Community Church Identity

Joseph Cotten — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:57:55 +0000

A new corporate identity for a fast-growing church located in an area of North Carolina that’s an intersection between several large cities. The target audience for this was primarily “unchurched” people, or people who didn’t grow up going to church. It needed to impart a sense of “family, warm, friendly and inviting” I gave the identity an antique look to emphasize the “down-home” feeling.