The Merritts family photo shoot

This crew is so stylish. I had a good time shooting their fall family pictures.

 

Light work.

I had a great session with my friend a professional Heidi the other day updating her head shots. Enjoy.

If you are in the Cincinnati area and need professional headshots done for yourself or your employees, let me know.

Family photo session with The Dickinsons

This family loves Ohio State Football, so much they wanted to make sure it was part of their family portraits. Check out the Dickinson’s in their football gear.

When I found out why he took off running I couldn’t believe it…

It was late, almost midnight – years ago. My friend Michael called me after a long bike ride where he was praying for what was next in his life. He had recently lost his father. He had some major life changes happening and I knew he was ready for change himself. But, when he told me he was walking into work to quit the next morning – I knew he was serious and he knew he was on the right path. I’m so thankful for a friend who listens when God is telling him to do something crazy, because Mike has been changing the world ever since.

Mike’s story is amazing and inspiring. Check out this video on the release of his new book, The Ability To Endure.

Michael Chitwood heads up Team World Vision for the World Vision organization. Here is what Richard Stearns, president of World Vision US and author of Unfinished and The Hole in Our Gospel , had to say about Mike’s new book:

“Heartbreaking. Encouraging. Passionate. Look out. This book may bring you to tears. It may inspire you to run a marathon or change the world. Michael Chitwood has that effect on people, and this book will show you why.”

Get Mike’s book here.

Smart Bins and Big Data

Here’s a video my team developed on smart bin systems. These bins are everywhere in the world, but until now they have never been internet devices. The modern Kan-ban system came to high use in 1960’s and still today is one of most proficient ways used to manage line side feeds and bin supplies. Here’s a much better way to connect bins to a cloud-based system for big data analysis and automated reordering.

Hat tip to my lead designer on this, Isaiah Hruby and junior designer Alex Lilly.

Video bumpers for live events

A simple video bumper for your live event can give the event a nice feel. For a few years I got to work with Worship Leader Magazine and run some of their marketing initiatives and social media. This killer intro piece was done by my friend and fellow creative Jessie Morrow of Morrow Design Co a few years back for the National Worship Leader Conference by Worship Leader Magazine.

Need a video bumper? Let me know.

You won’t believe her reaction when she finds out her bill has already been paid

Proud of my boy Rob Westerman and all the work he and his church, SNC Norwood, are doing in Cincinnati. He recorded this with his friend and talented Cincinnati native, Mike Lewis of Jesus Painter Ministries. This is much more than a ‘pay it forward’ initiative. As Rob explained to me of all the final quotes Paul shared from Jesus with the Ephesian leaders before he went back to Jerusalem, it was this quote from Jesus that he left them with in Acts chapter 20, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” The full verse is here:

Acts 20:35 In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

Here is the local news coverage. Just one day after it was shared it had over 5.1 Million views, and now 10 million views as of this post! For a few hours work and $400 dollars it’s a good lesson to any business or organization to create moments that are sharable, and doing it is NOT expensive. As SNC Norwood states on their facebook page, just $400 showed love to over 5 million people.

So go, and give. It’s better than receiving.

Marketing Project Throwback

In early 2007 I worked on this project with the Boer Haüs creative agency while at Integrity Music. I’m still proud of the logo we came out with, the designs that followed, and all the hard work that went into it. Hat tip to my boy Eddie Boer for his hard and good work on this project.

“Heart Won’t Stop” Lyric Video on YOU ARE THE AVALANCHE – by John Mark McMillan and Sarah McMillan

The new release from John Mark McMillan and his wife Sarah McMillan, Avalanche, is now available–and it’s destructive in the greatest way imaginable. You can get the new album here at iTunes. JMM continues in turning the mundane to magnificent with the images used in the lyric video from the song “Heart Won’t Stop”.

Don’t forget what an Avalanche looks like.

Heart Won’t Stop Lyrics and link to the Chord Chart:

Verse 1: There is not a man or a beast, nothing on the land or underneath, Oh nothing that could ever come between,  the love you have for me

I could lay my head in Sheol, I could make my bed at the bottom of the darkness deep, Oh but there is not a place I could escape you

Chorus: Your heart won’t stop coming after me,Your heart won’t stop coming after me, Your heart won’t stop coming after me

Verse 2: There is not an angel of the stars, there is not a devil in the dark, Oh nothing that could change the way you are, the love you have for me

I could lay my head in Sheol, I could make my bed at the bottom of the darkness deep, Oh but there is not a place I could escape you

Chorus: Your heart won’t stop coming after me,Your heart won’t stop coming after me, Your heart won’t stop coming after me

I could lay my head in Sheol, I could make my bed at the bottom of the darkness deep, Oh but there is not a place I could escape you

Chorus: Your heart won’t stop coming after me,Your heart won’t stop coming after me, Your heart won’t stop coming after me

(Heart Won’t Stop Chord Chart Here)

PSFK Feature

I’m pumped to have our company’s product and my design team’s work featured on one of my favorite blogs, PSFK. Our designer, Isaiah Hruby put this together. The PSFK daily email is curated well for creative directors and design professionals to get a good look at the business side of the things we work on. Here’s a view of the site feature, which also went out on their email.

You can read the full article here on the PSFK website.