Friday, 25 May 2012

Olivet Evangelical Church, Falkirk

Kindly donated by a Facebook friend (ta very much Alan), here is a nice representative example from north of the border.

The poster does seem a little lost in the vast expanse of noticeboard, which should surely be packed with exciting events to keep the 'youth' that the poster is surely designed to lure in, happy and occupied in a wholesome and healthy manner.  Nice production values though and a funky choice of colour scheme.

As for the txt spk, well - any version of a quote from Jeremiah that is not in the original Hebrew is just one form of translation or another, whether it be in the Greek Septuagint, the New English Bible or St. Jerome's Vulgate version.  However, I do feel there is a little less of the mystery and majesty of religion captured here than in the King James, but maybe that's just me.


Sunday, 6 May 2012

Tettenhall Wood URC

Here's another old school one - no Fancy-Dan graphics or printing here, thank you very much.

Its plain and simple sans-serif has an almost coiled dynamism that echoes the pun within, whilst the wavy underlining both emphasises the key element of the message and forms a surface from which the letters spring, like new life from the soil, and on which one can walk.  The whole springtime/new life wordplay is further reinforced by the choice of green (the dayglo somewhat restrained here...) for the background poster.

Punning successfully on so many levels at once - nice one.