Zach Summers

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Lessons From the Upper Room #4

    Lessons From the Upper Room #4

    Well, I’m a little late number four after the holiday weekend, and having family in town. From the sermon on John, I am the way, the truth, and the life. I thought some icon design would be great for this one.

  • Lessons From the Upper Room 3

    Lessons From the Upper Room 3

    Number 3 from our Pastor’s sermon was from John 13: 31-38. Today was all about the glory of Christ, and when God is glorified, Christ is glorified. My key take away was a classic point, of loving one another as Christ loved us.

  • Lessons From The Upper Room #2

    Number two from the Lessons From the Upper was entitled Judas The Betrayer. Something that stuck out to me during the sermon, and maybe it wasn’t something that I had thought of before, was that Judas’s heart was never sincere. Despite following Christ, witnessing miracles, walking with him, his heart was never in the game.

  • Lessons From the Upper Room #1

    Lessons From the Upper Room #1

    Since being quarantined, I started sketching the sermon notes, instead of only writing things down. I decided to make it a little personal project as well. This was first one I did from our pastor’s series Called Lesson’s From the Upper Room, John 13: 1-7. A key point from our Pastor was that God loves…

  • Selected Print Ads for In Touch Ministries: 2015-2019

    Selected Print Ads for In Touch Ministries: 2015-2019

    I’ve had the opportunity to work on some great products here at In Touch Ministries. Here’s a small selection of some of my favorites over the years. Enjoy! To learn more go to: https://www.intouch.org/get-involved. All images © In Touch Ministries

  • Print Ad Campaign for 2019 Theme Campaign: The Whole Church

    Print Ad Campaign for 2019 Theme Campaign: The Whole Church

    In 2019 In Touch Ministries started a yearly theme campaign. Last years was, “The Whole Church.” There were several pieces designed, and prints ads ran in the bimonthly issue of the magazine. To learn more go to: https://www.intouch.org/get-involved. All images © In Touch Ministries

  • Will Of God Print Ad Campaign

    Will Of God Print Ad Campaign

    For the Will of God book launch we came up with a campaign of powerful stories, and documented them in black and white, which resulted in a great print and TV campaign. To learn more go to: https://www.intouch.org/get-involved. All images © In Touch Ministries

  • Lots of Social Media in 2019, and upcoming in 2020

    Lots of Social Media in 2019, and upcoming in 2020

    At In Touch I’ve spent a lot of time doing some great social media designs for, Instagram and Facebook. Take a look, and to learn more go to: https://www.intouch.org/get-involved. All images © In Touch Ministries

  • Logo and Graphics for the Path Project, End of 2019 Campaign.

    Logo and Graphics for the Path Project, End of 2019 Campaign.

    Near the end of 2019, The Path Project, pathproject.org, reached out to me to design their end of year campaign. It started with their campaign theme and logo design, The Power of Showing Up, which focused on the impact of great volunteers. From there we explored web graphics and social media. I’ve worked with the…

  • Throwback Thursday Video Templates for Instagram

    Throwback Thursday Video Templates for Instagram

    So, a few months ago I was assigned a really fun project at work, which was to design video templates for Throwback Thursday. With so much great vintage content of Charles Stanley it was time to do something great with it, so I dove in head first. It also gave me a chance to get…

  • Focus, Passion, and Signet Rings. 2019 Youth Conference Brochure.

    Focus, Passion, and Signet Rings. 2019 Youth Conference Brochure.

    Some new client work here! A few weeks ago a youth pastor in Washington D.C. commissioned me to design their youth conference brochure. The theme of the conference was from Haggai 2:23, which reads: ‘On that day,’ declares the Lord of hosts, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, My servant,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will…

  • Declaring Glory … 2018 & Beyond

    Declaring Glory … 2018 & Beyond

    Instead of formal annual reports each year, In Touch started doing something different. Now, at the conclusion of every year I design a year-end mailing. There are info graphics, and a few financial points that are critical for any mailing of this type. However, we strive to focus on what God has done, and what…

  • No News. No Radio. No Lights.

    No News. No Radio. No Lights.

    When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, In Touch Ministries acted. After discovering that people had gone six months without light, or power, we raised $20,000 in order to send messengers to Puerto Rico. These devices not only helped bring the gospel to Puerto Rico, the brought light to homes helped communities begin rebuilding. This direct…

  • April Showers bring May Concerts

    April Showers bring May Concerts

  • Stories, Chick-fil-A, and a Year-End campaign

    Stories, Chick-fil-A, and a Year-End campaign

    A few times a year I get to team up with the Path Project, and recently it was to design their year-end letter and social media campaign. The Path Project deals with so many stories, kids, and families, and they all have different journeys. A few of them are highlighted in the letter below, and…

  • Dealing with statues, that are dealing with anger

    Dealing with statues, that are dealing with anger

    Statues have issues just like us, so why not use them to illustrate the titles of this reading series on anger, from Dr. Charles Stanley. There’s no gloomy photographs here. These graphics are posted on You Version, which is from bible.com. My coworker worked night and day creating this reading plan, so I knew it…

  • An Instagram worthy Gala

    An Instagram worthy Gala

    This a little late, but its been a distracting summer. Anyway, the Path Project is a great organization in Gwinnett county. They have after school programs all over the state, and each year I’ve had the pleasure of designing a few of their print pieces. For their gala back in May, I designed this social…

  • Un-used concepts for sermon series on the Prodigal Son.

    Un-used concepts for sermon series on the Prodigal Son.

    Here are some unused concepts for the Prodigal Son sermon series. A few of these I’m still pretty partial to, but I love the final published art as well. The mask at the end was stretch, and I think I knew that, but I was trying to illustrate his fall from wealth, and exposing his…

  • Can’t have Godly Character without a dove in there somewhere.

    Can’t have Godly Character without a dove in there somewhere.

    A new series from Dr. Charles Stanley is available at https://store.intouch.org, and it was a lot fun to design. My challenge was depicting the nine fruits of the spirit without favoring one or the other, which is why I went for something a little abstract, and let the dove do the work. It was a fun…

  • Rethinking a classic: Designing a sermon series for the Prodigal Son

    Rethinking a classic: Designing a sermon series for the Prodigal Son

    Some projects are easier than others. They lend themselves to great design. But designing sermon art for Dr. Stanley’s new series on the Prodigal Son was a challenge. I spent a lot of time thinking of new visual directions—a fresher direction, other than a road, and staged photography. Do I bring in the pig pen…

  • Social media design for a sermon series on love

    Social media design for a sermon series on love

    Earlier this year I designed a few social media post for a sermon series leading up to Valentines Day. To learn more go to: https://www.intouch.org/get-involved, or follow on Instagram. All images © In Touch Ministries

  • Classics Sermon Series

    Classics Sermon Series

    This is an unpublished concept for a sermon series. All images © In Touch Ministries.

  • Print Ad for Indonesia broadcast

    Print Ad for Indonesia broadcast

    In 2016 In Touch Ministries began broadcasting in Indonesia. This went through a lot of drafts, for as simple as it is. To learn more visit intouch.org/get-involved. All images © In Touch Ministries.

  • Beauty For Ashes Print Ad

    Beauty For Ashes Print Ad

    After collecting ashes from fire pits, and a coworker’s fireplace, photographer Ben Rollins and I spent the day sculpting each word for this ad. I couldn’t be happier with the final product, and I couldn’t have done it without the talent of Ben Rollins (http://benrollins.co/). All images © In Touch Ministries. Learn more at Intouch.org

  • Print Ad for Messengers Sent to El Salvador Prisons

    Print Ad for Messengers Sent to El Salvador Prisons

    The In Touch Messengers get the gospel out around the world, and being a part of its story is amazing! This is a print ad I did once we heard how many Messengers were handed out at prisons in El Salvador. To learn more go to: https://www.intouch.org/get-involved. All images © In Touch Ministries.

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