OWM Internship (Summer 2020)
In 2020 I joined One Way Ministries for their Summer Internship program. OWM is a multifaceted ministry specializing in both missions and media. My role was with the latter on the Comm team. Over the course of the Summer my responsibilities ranged from copywriting, to design, to full-bore illustration, and even to strategic project planning. 2020 presented a lot of challenges to OWM’s internship program, (namely the fact that for the first year ever the internship was entirely digital!) but with a bit of help from Zoom, Google Drive, and excellent planning/management we made it work well!
Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign
One Way Out
In the first week of the internship I was informed that I would be leading a small creative team in the production of a evangelistic piece of media. The plan was to introduce the gospel story within the framework of the 2002 Quecreek mining accident, wherein 9 miners were trapped underground for a blistering 77 hours. Our goal was to make the gospel story concrete with a real life story that had impactful allusion.
We began the internship, I was assigned the project and handed a script, and the rest was up to me to fulfill. As fast as I could I drafted a creative brief and associated documentation to bounce off of. Then we were off!
Unfortunately the project scope shifted as we progressed through the internship. Though the project could not be completed during the duration of the internship, I laid the foundations for later completion as best I could: planning the project goals, researching the rescue, gathering visual reference, storyboarding, developing concept art, and even beginning work on the illustrations. By the time the Summer internship ended, I left OWM with a wealth of resources to build off of, and an open door to complete the work later.
Storyboards
Design
I also did a bit of design work for OWM as I was there. They’ve always got something in the works, and when I was on the internship team they were cooking up two new ministries: Scripture Songs and Stories of Joy. The ministries were intended to provide a database of theologically-sound music and broadcast extraordinary salvation stories respectively.
3 initial logo designs
A 4th logo which sprung up during the formatting of the other 3 for example slides
Example slide 1
Example slide 2
Example slide 3
Example slide 4
Typographic testsheet 4
Typographic testsheet 1
Typographic testsheet 2
Typographic testsheet 3
Mustard sprouts
3 logo variations for the "Mustard Seed" logo
Stories of Joy. "Faith the size of a mustard seed"
Stickers & Sidejobs
The team of Summer interns is usually very tight knit at OWM. I saw it as a sort of responsibility to contribute to that interconnectedness between us all, especially since we had to jump through so many of hoops to make the internship work. For being quarantined we managed a remarkable number of bonding experiences, from community game nights to impromptu musical performance from our internship leaders (which was excellent!). I stepped up to contribute by putting together stickers and illustrating in-jokes and other highlight moments from the seminars and meetings we had. I don’t know what I expected, but just illustrating our shared moments was very effective!
Someone used the word "Bumtato" to describe how they were feeling prior to the internship starting. Couldn't resist illustrating.
Taken from a seminar we all watched together over Zoom
One of the leaders asked me to put together some sort of handlettered something for t-shirts.
One of our internship leaders had a birthday during our internship, and I was asked to illustrate something to commemorate. The Carrier Pidgeons shall rise again!
Another of our intern leaders plays the violin, and named her instrument "Prince Albert."
Our internship was split into 3 groups for discipleship. This was 1 of the 3!
Our internship was split into 3 groups for discipleship. This was 1 of the 3!
Our internship was split into 3 groups for discipleship. This was 1 of the 3!