Graphic Design
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Songs of Fellowship
The purpose of this case study is to show my involvement for a while in the project, but also to show how the project continued to evolve after my involvement stopped. Many years ago I had the privilege of working on some cover design refreshes for a series called Songs of Fellowship. Book three featured the new design first, and books two and one followed on when they were reprinted.
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Bookprint
Creative Bytes
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Graphic Design
Book Cover Design
Shown below are the three final designs for Songs of Fellowship volumes 1, 2 and 3 that I worked on as the in-house designer for Bookprint. It’s great to have been all-be-it a small part of this resource which grew from humble beginnings – read the story here.
The purpose of this case study is to show my involvement for a while in the project, but also to show how the project continued to evolve after my involvement stopped. Many years ago I had the privilege of working on some cover design refreshes for a series called Songs of Fellowship. Book three featured the new design first, and books two and one followed on when they were reprinted.
Team
Bookprint
Creative Bytes
Categories
Graphic Design
Book Cover Design
Shown below are the three final designs for Songs of Fellowship volumes 1, 2 and 3 that I worked on as the in-house designer for Bookprint. It’s great to have been all-be-it a small part of this resource which grew from humble beginnings – read the story here.
ABOUT THIS PROJECT ARCHIVE
Background
The history of the Songs of Fellowship series can be read on the website. The timeline begins with Songs of Fellowship in 1979, when the first Songs of Fellowship book containing 53 songs was released. I worked on the Songs of Fellowship cover designs from around 1998 to 2003, on volume 1, 2 and 3. We stopped working on the series after Volume 3, though the designs continued up to volume 5. I think a number of the volumes may now be out-of-print.
Successful series
I’m excited and pleased to see that the series is still going strong with the release of Songs of Fellowship volume 6. This release brought a much needed update of the logo and the cover design moving it on from Creative Bytes original, while maintaining the essence of the feel of the whole series. It is great to see how things developed since I was involved. The series has been a huge success over decades, and credit is due to Kingsway, and later, David C Cook, for creation and maintenance of the whole project. We were all privileged to be a small part of the overall project timeline.
A final update (2021)
I must stress that I was not involved in the concept and production of the marketing campaign for the new Songs of Fellowship Volume 6, I like it. The campaign which accompanies the face-lifted songbook – takes the concept of a faithful ‘friend’ that has been around for a long time – which is exactly, in my opinion, what the brand of Songs of Fellowship has now become. Many churches and organisations will have old editions and volumes they’ve used over the years and are still using today. Integrity Music, who now produce Songs of Fellowship, have also produced a nice quirky video – scroll down to watch it. Oh, and at the time of writing this post in 2021, some of the old covers we created still feature on the video and website.
Background
The history of the Songs of Fellowship series can be read on the website. The timeline begins with Songs of Fellowship in 1979, when the first Songs of Fellowship book containing 53 songs was released. I worked on the Songs of Fellowship cover designs from around 1998 to 2003, on volume 1, 2 and 3. We stopped working on the series after Volume 3, though the designs continued up to volume 5. I think a number of the volumes may now be out-of-print.
Successful series
I’m excited and pleased to see that the series is still going strong with the release of Songs of Fellowship volume 6. This release brought a much needed update of the logo and the cover design moving it on from Creative Bytes original, while maintaining the essence of the feel of the whole series. It is great to see how things developed since I was involved. The series has been a huge success over decades, and credit is due to Kingsway, and later, David C Cook, for creation and maintenance of the whole project. We were all privileged to be a small part of the overall project timeline.
A final update (2021)
I must stress that I was not involved in the concept and production of the marketing campaign for the new Songs of Fellowship Volume 6, I like it. The campaign which accompanies the design refresh of the songbook cover – takes the concept of a faithful ‘friend’ that has been around for a long time – which is exactly, in my opinion, what the brand of Songs of Fellowship has now become. Many churches and organisations will have old editions and volumes they’ve used over the years and are still using today. Integrity Music, who now produce Songs of Fellowship, have also produced a nice quirky video – scroll down to watch it. Oh, and at the time of writing this post in 2021, some of the old covers we created still feature on the video and website.
You can find out more about Songs of Fellowship here.
Please note that I was not involved in the concept and production of the marketing campaign for Songs of Fellowship, including the video above, for the new Songs of Fellowship Volume 6. But I like it, and the series continues to live on through it, so I wanted to share it with you – the producers of the video did a great job!
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