Pads and Pens...

Here's another freebie that we put together last year for the Scottish campaigns.

The Pads and pens were also included in this weekend's goodie bag.

They have proved very useful. Assuming people use them, you never know who they are going to pass on a sheet of the pad to - and each sheet has the web address, etc...

Some of our members have also used them for writing purposes where whatever they have written needs to be left with someone eg Mr Y. is a rep and he has to write down his mileage of his car and he hands it over to the garage attendant on one of our pad sheets.

Water of Life...

This past weekend our Ecclesia has had a stall at the local Food and Flower show.

We had some custom labeled bottles of water produced for handing out with litterature and other items we've had produced over the last few years... more on those in another post.

These were reasonably priced - and very popular - water else where on the site was probably £1 a bottle... our little 330ml bottle would have helped! So, it was another opportunity to expand on the Search For Hope identity - we also had a few of the banners out at the show (which you can find in just two posts ago).

Included in the 'goodie bag' was a copy of the Glad Tidings (download PDF) that has the Search For Hope booklet as the centre section.

More Evil Empires...

You can find out more about the Evil Empires series by following the link on the right... it's Horrible Histories but with Bible stories. The Evil Empire series is based on the book of Daniel and the prophesies of the world empires that would follow the fall of Babylon...
They are being printed in a Sunday School magazine published by The Christadelphians.

Search For Hope...

So, my first post 'proper'!

This is the culmination of over a years work on various elements of a related project.

The Scottish branch have, for the last few years done a single subject on a specific sunday across scotland,'Scottish Same sunday Same Subject' or 'Sx5' as it's known up here...

So, last year we developed a leaflet from an idea i'd had using road signs... this has developed over the year to become an expanded booklet and now a mini-exhibition using Dimensions D4.6 systems and fabric banner that we get printed by Hi-fli in Kirriemuir.

We used it for the first time a few weeks ago in Dundee at our personal invitation event. Pix attached.

The booklet will be printed up in due course but currently forms the centre 8 pages of the latest Glad Tidings magazine (June 2009)

I'll post booklet and leaflet images soon.

If your ecclesia would like to borrow the SFH exhibition please contact a Scottish ALS branch member. The D4s fold down into 'duffel' type bags that are approx the size of the stands base.
We can easily get this entire exhibition into the boot of a regular sized car. No Volvo or Mini-van required :)

What's the purpose of this NEW blog...

As the title says, the purpose of this blog is for the following:
1. Me to keep track of what i've done
2. Make other ecclesias aware of what is being produced
3. Invite comments, shared ideas, and 'maybe' avoid duplication

As a community we are 'not always' the most organised when it comes to sharing ideas... and very often someone can be spending a lot of unpaid time and effort producing something that already exists.
So, as a designer who spends a lot of time working on the projects that will be posted here I thought it would be good to put a shout out to other Christadelphian publishers, writers and designers and see if we can streamline things a little.

So, for the last 12 years or so i've been helping out on the content, design and print leaflets, websites, exhibition stands, cartoon strips, tshirts and badges - mostly through the Scottish branch ALS and although i'm no longer on the committee it was always the intention to continue the work. The latest project is the Search For Hope exhibition which started life as a leaflet and got expanded to a booklet (currently the centre 8 pages of the Glad Tidings magazine) and finally to a series of 8 Dimension D4.6 banner stands.
Over a series of posts i'll add images and comments, i'll also include some archived work that has been done over the past few years.
Please contribute with ideas, comments and examples of you own work and practices... this really is intended to be a collaborative effort.
You might be interested to see a couple of other blogs (in the links section to your right) that were set up for old and current projects...
Time Reporters can be found on Blogger and is a record of me sketching ideas for the children's book of that name, published by the Christadelphian Sunday School Union.
Evil Empires is on Posterous and is an ongoing project with another Christadelphian, David Barnes, and it's our 'Horrible Histories' style take on events from the Bible.
The interesting thing about both of these projects is that I have never met of even spoken to the other contributers, everything has been done through email or blog. I suppose with the technology being what it is this happens all the time but it's not something that I've gotten used to.

Sorry, long post.. other will be shorter and more visual :)

Thanks

J