The Rock The River Tour West in 2010 was the second year of the summer event hosted by the BGEA. This year the tour went to Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton, and picked up where the 2009 Tour had left off. The 2010 RTRT project invoved the creation of a new, more flexible non-Flash website, as well as maintaning the same level of activity on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, and in mobile media using the Mozes.com platform.
Graphics for the screens at each venue were created, as well as graphics for the BGEA video department to use on a live stream that was shown on Ransom.tv. This year Ransom.tv merch was designed to be given out as prizes both at the tour and online via social media contests and texting contests, prior to and following the tour. This included stickers, t-shirts, water bottles and bags using the Ransom.tv branding. Ransom is a site created by the BGEA for the same demographic, featuring content from similar artists, musicians and personalities as were on the Rock The River Tour.

RockTheRiverTour.com 2010 re-design

In-venue screen graphics for day of tour
The Rock The River Tour started in 2009 and was put on by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. It was geared toward a teen and young adult audience, and featured bands like Red, Skillet, and Flyleaf. This overall project consisted of an original design for the website, starting with a basic promotional Flash site before the venues and artists were finalized, and went through six different iterations as the tour was planned, while it was ongoing, and after it had wrapped up. Along with the website, graphics and content were developed for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and MySpace, as well as graphics for the Screens in the venue the day of the tour dates. These included the capability to interact via mobile media using the Mozes texting platform - spectators could send their text messages and photos to the screen, as well as sign up for the Rock The River Tour mob to receive updates on tour events on their mobile devices.
Several different Rock The River Tour t-shirts were created along with the site and venue graphics, and were sold both online and at the concert dates. Photos from the day of the Tour stops were uploaded in real time to the website as well as Facebook pages, and videos shot and edited on-site by the BGEA video team were uploaded in real time to YouTube as they were completed.

RockTheRiverTour.com pre-tour site design

RockTheRiverTour.com post-tour site design
Photos of various musicians from different shows, tours and video shoots. Some were taken in a professional capacity for work-related application, and some as a personal hobby.

Underoath

Dillinger Escape Plan

Skillet

David Bazan

The Almost (Video Shoot)

Red

Skillet
Ransom.tv is a site featuring video content and articles aimed at a younger demographic, roughly 15-25. This project spanned creation of branding along with a website geared toward showcasing video content from various artists, bands, TV and film personalities, athletes, and more.

Ransom.tv
Ransom branding and identity, merch, various Ransom artwork
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association over the years has used a simple approach in its message on how to know God, consisting of four steps and a prayer; This project was to re-think how to visually present these four ideas in a new and creative way. The concept was to show the four steps through the lens of an artist, presenting each of them in the context of different artistic media.

Adamson.tv is the online showcase of work from video producer and director Kevin Adamson. This was the initial launch of Kevin's site, and involved working with his design concept to crete a venue where he could easily showcase his high quality video work. Vimeo was used to display HD videos on the site. The branding and identity of the Adamson.tv were created for this site, and currently exist on the newer Wordpress blog style site that Kevin is now using.

Website design for Hannibal, a nationally known illusionist and storyteller based in Charlotte, NC.

...Of Sinking Ships is the musical project of Chad Waldrup. The full length album was released on September 12, 2006, by Gilead Media, and included a limited edition preorder package that shipped with a t-shirt and pin. ...Of Sinking Ships also had an official website that was designed in Flash.

CD cover artwork

Flash Website design
Various banner ad campaigns for the BGEA. Each campaign consists of many sizes and formats, including some Flash banners. Banners are typically featured on such sites as Google.com, Yahoo.com, MSN.com, FoxNews.com, Salem Web Network, as well as on the TV Guide Channel.
Click on any banner to see Flash version.
This was a landing page created to house a video created by the BGEA Video Department and designed to point visitors to a few select areas of focus of the organization. The look and feel of the page was taken from the video piece, which was highly graphics oriented.
Originally this video was produced to be shown at a large-scale Christian conference, and related print materials were distributed with it. Some designs for t-shirts for employees working the booths at the conference were concepted based on the same graphics and the messaging of the print pieces.


The BGEA Video department concepted and shot a video in 2008, taking its message on how to know God and reinterpreting it with a younger vision. The classic steps to knowing God were revisited by graffiti artists. The process was captured on video and set to music composed live on the set by a d.j., with the intention of creating a piece to be shared across the web through various social media channels. This is a landing built to house the video on the BGEA's site, designed based on the look and feel of the art captured in the video, as well as photos during on the set the shoot.

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association launched a campaign to solicit visitors to the website to leave a personal message to be sent to Dr. Graham, in celebration of his 90th birthday in November 2008. This artwork was submitted for the overall campaign approach, which spanned print, web, and television.

Passageway was created by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association as a teen-oriented site. The all-Flash site was regularly updated with new graphics and articles on pop culture, sports, athletes and musical artists. Every new article required custom graphics based on its content - shown here are two homepage backgrounds and an article background.



This was the inaugural site design for the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina. Designed while the Library was still under construction, it was launched shortly before the Library dedication ceremony in May of 2007, which included speeches from Presidents Carter, Clinton, and Bush, as well as from Dr. Graham.

Two different projects for the band Hopesfall, of Trustkill Records.
1.) A Flash piece which advertised a 2003 tour of England and Scotland, which was featured on the Trustkill site as a splash page for the duration of the tour.
2.) A merch package including a t-shirt and pins; This particular t-shirt was the top seller of the several designs the band sold on this particular U.S. tour.

Grason was the literature and distribution division of the BGEA. Grason already existed online in a small site; the goal of this project was to incorporate the growing number of products offered into an e-Commerce section on billygraham.org.

Just For Show is an annual dance competition that is hosted at venues in both North Carolina and Florida.
The project consisted of studying past printed materials and compiling current information to create a unified concept and identity for the event/organization.
It encompassed the creation of unified branding, design of an invitaitonal mailer/poster for the 2006 recitals, and the construction of a website which would be updated periodically with competition winners, photos, and information on upcoming shows.

Premier Soccer Academies is the creation of Brad Friedel and Desmond Armstrong, both veterans of The U.S. Men's National and World Cup Soccer Teams. It is an elite soccer academy based in the United States, designed to rival the high intensity training camps available to youth in Europe and elsewhere in the world.
This is the Flash-based website for PSA's inaugaral year.

This project was an interim design for the homepage of billygraham.org. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association wanted video capability to be added to the homepage, as well as consolidating and simplifying the information that was already there. This project was completed within a week to refresh the current site, while the entire corporate site was undergoing a more comprehensive re-design.

Two approaches designed for the June 2008 Billy Graham Television Special advertising campaign which spanned print, web, and television.


Web designer for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Responsibilities include design and layout of entire sites, landing pages, banner ad campaigns, branding and merch for concert tours, concert and live event photography, social networking graphics.
Designer at Elkins Group Advertising and Design, Concord, North Carolina. Elkins Group offers print and web design, identity development and video production.
Freelance Web and Print Design. Websites, coordinated web amd print campaigns, branding and identity, albums artworl (CD and vinyl), t-shirts and other merch.
Signage production at Fastsigns, a signage and graphics company, Charlotte, NC. Responsibilities included: Production room supervisor, production of all types of signage, banners and vehicle graphics, outside installations, design, layout, and pre-production of signs.
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Art with a concentration in graphic design. Completed curriculum in August 2004, Cumulative GPA 3.1.
Studies included: design, electronic media, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, communications, and Spanish.