I convinced executives to allow me to attempt to advertise the IDOP campaign on social media in a more aggressive fashion, which included a countdown and other promotional image and video materials. This image uses stock photos of dust that were edited together to build a weeks/days countdown on Facebook.

I worked with ValTech on the Figma design and on the front-end development team at Hobby Lobby that rebuilt the corporate ecommerce site in Next.js and GraphQL.

Hobby Lobby’s site is live at hobbylobby.com.

VOM contracted with a video producer to visit a village in Africa and record the reactions of victims of religious violence.

I prepared an animated logo for a commemorative website for the founder of the company. The logo was used on the original version of the site and across its media.

I was tasked with photographing the headquarters building construction project.

An advertisement in the company newsletter guided readers to a digital landing page for donations to a Christmas program, where users were presented with a landing page that I designed.

I wrapped the face of my son in a blanket. His eyes were stunning in the light.

I shot a variety of photos of folded cloth over which I then superimposed distorted images of flags for use across social media posts and the “Pray Today” mobile application.

The book “Extreme Devotion” featured railroad spikes on the cover (probably in an attempt to present something similar to ancient nails used for crucifixion) so I found stock images of spikes and edited them to advertise the book on Facebook.

This email was sent to potential donors to encourage them to support paying for religious materials to be sent to children.

I was given access to the raw footage from the upcoming IDOP video, so I scrubbed through all the archives until I found clear shots from which I could generate stills for promotional images to share on Facebook.

VOM visited a college to campaign for funds and volunteerism, including placing their advertising materials in the foyer of the college hall.

I took over the design and editing of the company’s internal magazine, which I titled “Inside Voice” as a play on words for its internal-use-only status.

I saw this farm during a drive in Washington and fell in love with the framing.

I edited a teaser trailer for the short film presented by the company for its annual event.

I produced and hosted the Persecution Podcast, VOM’s official audio program. I released the podcast with artwork for each episode on its website and major podcast platforms.

A few samples of the episodes are archived on my SoundCloud page, as the show has since been canceled and replaced with a new host and content strategy.

College students performed a concert at a VOM donation drive.

This image was posted to the social media profile of an author who was using a business account to promote her book. The photo was taken by me years prior.

This campaign page was displayed to users who visited a link in an email sent by the company.

I designed a small publication used as bonus content for the company’s newsletter using stock photos I purchased.

The company’s official podcast underwent a format change and a new design and website was required. I designed the logo and the layout, as well as assisting in the content updates post-launch.

As the company did not wish for its primary site to be seen as a news source, it contracted a writer to maintain a separate blog that was then regularly shared across official social media accounts. This post was shared on Facebook to promote a blog story. The images are stock photos edited together to present a dynamic promotional image.

The Collections tool’s design was updated in Adobe XD to handle the needs of a new exhibit piece that required both left-to-right and right-to-left text rendering.

While the design of the site and the Collections tool have undergone changes, the fundamental system is still live at museumofthebible.org.

I designed the FAQ pages in Figma and coded it in Next.js. A GraphQL query return was then filtered via the URL to display a single topic or question per page when users visit any specific FAQ entry.

The FAQ page is live at hobbylobby.com.

This campaign page was displayed to users who visited a link in an email sent by the company.

I designed a illustration for the cover of the VOM newsletter. Most of the covers designed up to this point were of photos with only minimal digital correction applied to them, so this departure from the standard process was seen as a risky choice.

The book “Extreme Devotion” was regularly mined for content on the internet, and often its material was shared on Facebook. The background image was a composite of photos taken of me from a local bonfire.

My first-born son looked too good in a sweater vest to allow the day to conclude without a photo.

An executive within the company requested a photo for work-related content.

VOM entertained guests in the backyard of a local residence.

A page of content was required each month to act as a digital hub to support the content produced by the company in its printed newsletter. I was tasked to gather the extra digital content and present it in a pleasing fashion to improve the digital footprint of the company.

A still from raw video footage was heavily edited to use as a promotional image for the year’s upcoming IDOP campaign video.

I built a guide for the mapping tables located in the lobby foyer. The UI used 3D images that had been rendered in advance, as no 3D models was available at time of building the interface.

A wall of commemorative plaques bearing the names of people who were claimed to have died for their beliefs.

A technology page was built in Adobe XD to commemorate the museum’s advancements in technology-first exhibits.

An archived version of the page is available on the Wayback Machine.

This was an image that was used in an internal communications platform to advertise an upcoming event.

This image was used to commemorate the September 11 airplane attacks in New York. The Twin Towers are silhouetted in the reflection in my eye.

I designed and developed the page and the video and image assets for a contest that called on aspiring creatives to design a short video containing the content shared on the page.

I photographed two VOM staff members re-enacting an abduction story for the cover from the VOM newsletter. The photo was taken in the executive parking lot behind the office building, requiring extensive editing to remove traces of its location from the final version.

This image was posted to the social media profile of an author who was using a business account to promote her book. The photo was taken by me years prior.

I designed the interface for the Pray Today app and tested the development build for bugs before its deployment on the App Store and Google Play Store.

A page of content was required each month to act as a digital hub to support the content produced by the company in its printed newsletter. I was tasked to gather the extra digital content and present it in a pleasing fashion to improve the digital footprint of the company.

At the conclusion of a July 4 festival in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, a group of jets flew over the main streets of the city, silhouetted against storm clouds and a rainbow, which appeared just before the jets arrived.

VOM visited a college to campaign for funds and volunteerism, which included erecting a temporary monument to their cause in the foyer.

I was given specific elements to use but the freedom to lay them out in whatever way I deemed the most pleasing.

I made a small installation interface to display a document related to the Mayflower ownership.

A stock image of a dove was used to advertise a campaign website maintained by VOM.

A decommissioned airplane was installed behind VOM office headquarters as a showpiece for work the company supports in other countries.

The “I Am N” campaign was in need of a new logo, so I designed this stylized character that would reproduce better at various sizes and media with limited color palettes.

The Centennial Celebration website, eventually renamed to the title of the author’s first book, was a commemorative website to celebrate the founder of the VOM organization. The website was built on WordPress and featured graphic, interactive, and video elements that I generated for the site.

My wife permitted me to set up a glamor shot of her at a park during her latter months of pregnancy.

This photo was eventually submitted to a local photography contest and won first place.

A digitally edited photo of the husband and wife founders of VOM, paired with a quote from one of the husband’s books.

This image was used to advertise one of the books written by the founder of the organization. It uses one of my photographs, heavily edited for effect.

I made a small installation interface to highlight the various hotspots around the tapestries in the Tapestry of Light display.

I combined stock images and stylized the company logo to produce a dramatic desktop background.

A photo of a cross outside of the VOM headquarters building.

A logo and banner image was designed for a corporate internal-only podcast for employee news.

A panoramic photo stitched together from shots taken on the balcony of the VOM headquarters building.

I designed the campaign landing site for the “I Am N” campaign. The site was intended as the final stop in a print and digital campaign managed by other parts of the organization.

This letter seal was used as branding on materials for author Lisa Anne Nichols. The border was of my own design, a vector based on my drawing. It was animated for use on video screens at book signing events.

To support a campaign to free an imprisoned woman, I only had a low-quality photo taken in the prison as an art asset, so I used a halftone pattern to expand the size of the photo in a stylized way.

I shot this engagement photo at sunset while lens-whacking a Nikon pancake lens on a Canon body.

I digitally restored and edited a photo of the founder of the company and paired it with a quote from one of his recorded speeches.

I made a logo for the Richard Wurmbrand Centennial Celebration website.

A local church hired me to design an advertisement for a sermon series planned for the near future. The art was displayed on a billboard near downtown Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

I designed, deployed, and maintained the WordPress-based Kids of Courage website.

I edited an archival photo to match a quote that I was given to share on the company Facebook profile.

A photo of a concert-goer listening to music at a VOM event.

I designed an advertisement to raise awareness for the #WhyWePray contest.

A closeup of a car headlight from one of the classic autos participating in a local classic car show.

I worked on the CSS implementation of a Razorfish design of the corporate website.

I photographed this dead dried rose against a flash photo umbrella on the porch of my apartment.

I edited a personal photo taken in Washington to match a quote that I was given to share on the company Facebook profile.

I designed a webpage for the annual prayer campaign page. The page began development but personnel issues ended up canceling its release.

A temporary exhibit at Museum of the Bible was showcased through an Adobe XD design. The development team produced the page, it was approved, but development never completed in time for release.

I designed a teaser video for an annual movie event that used footage from the years of previous videos shared by the company.

A heavily-edited photograph of the rear entrances of a strip of buildings in a small downtown area.

An advertisement for a free DVD was needed for a Facebook post, so I prepared a digital facsimile of the DVD.