the Sarti Design blog

feature project: LOTE Less Stress

2009-02-04T16:18:00.000-08:00

This project was for a new curriculum series for Living on the Edge... the goal for the imagery was to conflict with the title so that the curriculum title really popped.

feature project: BURP

2009-01-27T14:55:00.001-08:00

Something out of the ordinary I designed was this brochure for Baby U R Precious (BURP)
For this project I had to create a print piece based on the clients' already established website and logo, then educate the reader about the services and products that BURP has to offer.
I actually got to touch and feel the product and it feels really really good (my kids are also featured in the brochure in bath robes!)... a highly recommended product as a gift for any Mom's of young kids out there!

flying to Mojave

2009-01-19T21:05:00.000-08:00

I had a great chance to fly out to Mojave this weekend. The flight path took us from Orange County, right over downtown LA, then out into the desert area. After flying into Lancaster Airport for some breakfast, we took off again and headed towards Mojave Airport, which is a plane "graveyard" for unused or retired commercial planes. It was fun to see it from above, but I wished we were able to go for a wander around the area on foot. It was a very cool place though, and in the middle of nowhere. It was a great day for flying and while flying over Palmdale you could see all the way out to Catalina Island... I took some pics below...

feature project: god rules

2009-01-16T09:42:00.000-08:00

This project was for a children's ministry curriculum series where they walked through the 10 commandments. The client was looking at teaching through a "kids point of view", so I was able to take my own shots of the student they used for the video teaching and then work my own photography into the design. While I liked the picture of the student from their point of view, I was really impressed with how well the rug turned out on the floor as part of the shoot!

logo from long ago

2009-01-14T12:25:00.000-08:00

I was looking through some church websites yesterday and stumbled across AsburyChurch.org
I had remembered creating a logo for this church nearly four years ago and it was great to see that they are still using it!
The icon in the logo still works for me, and doesn't feel dated at all, which can be easy to do if you're not careful!

featured project: MP3's at LOTE

2009-01-08T15:08:00.000-08:00

I worked up this promotional piece for livingontheedge.org to be distributed both by email and as a feature on their homepage.

yes, i know christmas is over

2009-01-05T14:36:00.000-08:00

I took down the Christmas lights, and the Christmas tree is on the side of the road, waiting to be picked up with the garbage tomorrow... I even bought discount Christmas paraphernalia at Home Depot. So, I figure it's time to highlight a couple of Christmasey (sp?) designs.

This first design was for a Children's themed Christmas series. I actually ripped all the paper myself and shot the background before applying the text and trimmings. The white space had to be right to allow the theme to breathe through the design, and a real "blocky" font had to be used so that the title didn't get lost in the background.

This second design was for an adult audience, focusing on the Gifts of Christmas. USing the B&W picture method with the red present box was a simple and classy way to help communicate the theme, without getting caught up with too many other design elements.

sarti design blog - back strong in 2009

2008-12-19T11:55:00.000-08:00

My solid blog promise to you is that the blog will be back in 2009... check this space in nearly January for some Featured Projects I have been working on in Nov/Dec, as well as some hits from the past!

Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Leigh Sarti

Exterior Interior Design

2008-10-13T14:41:00.001-07:00

This wall is going up at our house right now. It's not actual brick,
but it sure looks like it. I'll post another pic after it's finished.

featured project: kids small groups

2008-10-13T09:34:00.000-07:00

I just finished up this project last month and wanted to share a few different facets of the overall design, starting today with the curriculum notebook covers. There are eight books in total with the age o the user ranging from Pre-K to 6th Grade. The style was broken up into two sections with a younger design feel and older design feel. The younger covers were a more illustrative concept based around "local adventure" and were all created in Illustrator. The older covers were more image-driven and based around "global adventure". More to come from the KSG design project!

featured project: bff

2008-09-29T14:14:00.000-07:00

The Children's Ministry at Saddleback are going through a church-wide campaign called 40 Days of Love. They retooled the kid's curriculum to be called BFF (which I love!) I had the privilege of working through the design of this series based on a cell phone screen. The challenge with this design was featuring the BFF so that it was the prominent part of the design, without just looking like a hunking huge Zac Morris cell-phone as the entire design! I think it was balanced out great by the boy and contrasted well with the brick wall and slick blue floor (of the Refinery building).

Some Design Inspiration

2008-09-21T22:25:00.001-07:00

I love opening up a cold "hecho in Mexico" glass bottle of Coke before
tackling a new creative idea!

back from blogcation

2008-09-21T01:02:00.000-07:00

I just returned from a little vacation to Australia for a family wedding... lovely trip... my kids were the cutest ever as pageboy and flowergirl... I even managed a few work days with a client in Australia touring their factory (see picture above, a prize for what the machine is making!).
I'll be posting some new projects and photos in the coming week as I get back in the swing of things!

featured project: simply amazing

2008-08-28T09:21:00.001-07:00

I have been working on another multi-church event in Visalia, CA much like this event.
For this project I needed to create a poster with a totally different feel, but still utilizing the same main image of the featured entertainer Danny Ray... the differentiation came through the font choices and the vibrant red background.

featured project: FUEL Bulletin

2008-08-24T23:43:00.000-07:00

I have been working on some "bulletin shells" for South Charleston First Church of the Nazarene (how's that for a long church name?!)
Working from the colors and energy of the FUEL logo (that i had designed previously) the goal of this design was something that continued the branding effort for FUEL, utilizing aspects of the current logo and expanding that with pictures, new texture and reformatted ministry information.

Need something similar for your ministry?! Let me know!

featured project: saddleback intern ministry ad

2008-08-19T21:48:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago I had blogged about a photoshoot I did for the new Saddleback Church Intern Ministry ad. Well, the photo shoot egg has now hatched and out came the advertisement below!

featured project: LOTE Ads

2008-08-19T21:45:00.000-07:00

just finished working on these web ads for LOTE.org - Living on the Edge.
If you are looking for some great resources for small groups or personal discipleships, you should check out lote.org!

three open doors

2008-08-19T21:41:00.000-07:00

I made a couple of web banners for Open Doors USA. They are a great organisation whose purpose is to help persecuted Christians around the world. You cn check them out at http://opendoorsusa.org/

featured project - the great illusion

2008-08-19T07:31:00.001-07:00

I just finished this project with a group of churches up in Visalia, CA for a combined Jr High Overnighter Event. They were looking for an old French circus feel - this look is achieved through the colors, typeface and matte feel.

featured project: cmi

2008-08-01T15:28:00.000-07:00

I am just finishing up a branding project for Cornerstone Media International (CMI) and wanted to share this project with you.
The goal with this design was to focus on an iconic base for CMI that was built into the logo, but wasn't simply the acronym... the play button and radio waves deliver a simple picture of exactly what the purpose of CMI is, which is to deliver your message to the world.

photoshoot for new ad

2008-07-30T15:39:00.000-07:00

This week I am working on some new advertising for the Intern Ministry at Saddleback... here are some shots from the shoot... can't tell you what the end product will be yet, but I'll be sure to blog about it when it is done.
My part-time model is Josh Pease (in case you are wondering)

from the picture archive: paris street lights

2008-07-29T23:09:00.001-07:00

Here are a couple of photos I just stumbled across from a trip back in 2006 - I loved this set of street lights, and the sun was just breaking through the clouds, which made for a brilliant backdrop. It was taken in Place Vendome, not too far north of the Louvre.

bbq design

2008-07-24T21:11:00.000-07:00

I couldn't help but take some shots of these two different times I have bbq'd in the past few weeks... the asparagus is a beautiful design. Thanks God!

In case you are curios - one set of shots is Pork Chops, and the other is Lamb Chops. I like lamb chops.

{look} out

2008-07-18T10:40:00.000-07:00

{look} up

2008-07-17T19:30:00.001-07:00