Teahouse 2012

This past Sunday, I was asked to design the graphics for this year's Teahouse, an outreach event featuring a night of praise and worship by talented young members of our church. I spent the rest of the night thinking up ideas and styles since there wasn't a set theme. Oddly for me, sometimes I prefer having a theme rather than coming up with something on my own since it involves too much decision-making on my part. This time however, I embraced it and started composing ideas in my mind.

This was what hatched after scrambling to translate the ideas in my mind onto the screen, getting lost a few times on the way. I was also able to, for the first time ever, involve my wife in the design process, asking for her opinion on how the saucer looked with respect to the teacup.
I knew I wanted to make something that was clean and fresh, not to say I didn't like what I did last year, but it felt a little too busy and the text wasn't as clean as I would like. I do wonder if this year's design is too plain, but the group seems to like it so far. Guess we'll see!