Russian Constructivism Inspired Flyer

"Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:

Who, being in very nature God,

did not consider equality with God something to be grasped -

but made himself nothing,

taking the very nature of a servant,

being made in human likeness.

And being found in appearance as a man,

he humbled himself

and became obedient to death -

even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place

and gave him the name that is about every name,

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,

in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,

to the glory of God the Father. "

Philippians 2:5-11

Just recently I designed a flyer/shirt for this retreat. The theme for the retreat was " Down is the new Up" illustrating how Christ humbled himself, made himself a servant, and God exalted him. An illustration using arrows would be used to convey this concept to the students. In my designs I used arrows and then I realized that I needed some more inspiration. Arrows reminded me of Russian Constructivism which reminded me of one of the albums of the music group Franz Ferdinand...so I did some research and was inspired and this is what happened. In order to give it that feel I needed simple colors. Black, and white were a must. Red was used in Russia, but I didn't want to favor the U of A colors. I went with a light bright blue. Neither feminine, or too masculine. Since it is the Spring retreat, I thought a bright blue would fit.

The theme of the Russian Constructivism continued in the san serif, bold fonts.

The arrows show movement and illustrate the point being made. This is really a simple, fun design, and I am very proud of it. It was made for the shirts as well, but everthing that was black is white and everything white was the color of the shirt. So the arrows are black on the shirt. "Sand" was the color chosen for the shirts, it went well with the design and the blue.

Yay for Russian Constructivism!