A couple of food posters for George Fox

Here's a poster I designed for George Fox University's third annual Food Meet. Kind of an obvious treatment of the title, but oh, well. The toy truck has been the primary image on previous posters, so we retained it for this one as well. The Food Meet was fun and inspirational, by the way.



This is a poster for an upcoming faculty lecture at George Fox about the social implications of the local food movement. Should be good.

George Fox posters

Posters for a couple of upcoming events at George Fox University. I designed the food one, and Karina Salgado designed the Theology of the Wild one based on a sketch I did, and I like how it turned out.

Food Meet 2010

I designed this poster and mini card for Food Meet 2010, a cool upcoming event at George Fox University that features local farmers and retailers that support the local food economy.

For the event name, I scanned type from an old metal type foundry sample book. The typeface is Steelplate Gothic Shaded, which is available digitally, but it doesn't have the same feel as the old letterpressed sample.

Urban grit Newberg style part I

Inspired by my friend Eric's post of found typography, I rode my bike around Newberg looking for urban grit type. Pretty slim pickings compared to when I drove around Indianapolis with Eric, looking for cool old signs.

I found glory.


Sometimes stuff gets more interesting the less legible it becomes.


What little graffiti there is in Newberg is mostly sloppy tags; this is one of the few stencils I've seen.


Yes, we're open; be back soon!

Most signage in Newberg is boring and plastic. Plastic and vinyl doesn't age as beautifully as wood and paint and metal. This peeling vinyl letter is interesting, though.

Petroleum-powered cow

This is the back cover image I did for Geez 8, the food issue. The concept came from this article by Michael Pollan. He says, "We have succeeded in industrializing the beef calf, transforming what was once a solar-powered ruminant into the very last thing we need: another fossil-fuel machine." Feeding a cow corn grown with petroleum-based fertilizers uses 284 gallons of oil in its 18-month life.

Food for oil

A photo-illustration for Geez magazine about the issue of biofuels (thanks to Bryan, Emma and Mykel for the kid pics).

From last week's New Statesman: What biofuels do is undeniable: they take food out of the mouths of starving people and divert them to be burned as fuel in the car engines of the world's rich consumers. This is, in the words of the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, nothing less than a "crime against humanity".

ICEN logo

A logo I did for Peter Illyn at Restoring Eden. ICEN organizer Yat Paol of Papua New Guinea talks about how we westerners have forgotten our environmental "belly buttons," our intimate connection to mother earth.

De-motorize your soul

This is a poster I did for the De-motorize Your Soul campaign.

From the website: It's time for the spiritual transition to a post-oil era.

The internal combustion engine is suffocating our souls as it suffocates the planet. So give your soul a break from the gas-powered frenzy. Relax a bit, and join the spirited slow-down.

The De-Motorize Your Soul campaign is a guilt-free experiment in untangling the human body, mind and soul from the oil apparatus. It is a gathering point for your wishes, apprehensions and actions.

After eight years of car commuting, I got a job a few minutes' bike ride from my house; I am now de-motorized for all of my everyday life, and I love it.

Restoring Eden

This logo I designed for Restoring Eden, a non-profit Christian environmental group, was inspired by their tagline: "Restoring Eden makes hearts bigger, hands dirtier and voices stronger by learning to love, serve and protect God’s creation."