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(If you missed it last week, make sure to check out my post that talks about the next few weeks of Word and some free giveaways.)
Minor prophets, I gotta give you props. You were by far the most difficult section of the Bible to design. Week after week of judgement, condemnation and more judgement. Rarely did you burst into flowery language like Psalms or Song of Solomon. You were the cardboard to their beautiful wrapping paper. You were the low fat Flavorite microwave popcorn to their fresh from the kettle, covered in butter and cheese dust popcorn from Candyland. You were the Maroon 5 to their Radiohead. But guess what? I’m done with all twelve of you suckas! I took your blandness and squeezed out design rainbows and unicorns. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
OK, maybe I really shouldn’t pick fights with people who have books of the Bible named after them, but dang they were difficult.
How many times do I have to see a Jumping Cow design?
A bunch of people have emailed me recently saying “Hey Jim, I know you are closing in on Malachi and I just wanted to implore you not to do the jumping calf design. We’ve all seen it done before and we really are hoping for something a bit more original from you.” Sorry.
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Immediately in chapter 1, Malachi is like “What’s up?” and lists all the ways that the religious folks have been disrespecting God. In the second verse of the book, it even says that some of the people were even questioning whether God even loved them or not. I realize that doesn’t sound like a big thing these days, but to say that in ancient Jewish culture was a major thing. God, the creator of the universe, had been chasing after them, working with them even though they continually screw up and now, after all that, they’re confused as to whether or not his actions qualify as love? What more do they want?
Here’s where if I was God I’d be like “OK. Forget it. You’re on your own. See how it goes without me, losers.” I’m not sure how much you know about the New Testament, but that’s not exactly what God ends up doing.
Word to the OT
Old Testament, you got Worded.
Tags: calf, jumping cow, Malachi, minor prophet, minor prophets
Posted on Friday, November 26.
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*APPLAUSE*
Congrats bro!! What a cool project this has been. I’m sure that OT was the hardest and that you’re going to go through the NT like a breeze. So proud of you and your creativity and warm-fuzzy stuff. :)
Love,
Your sister
Thanks, Marie! And thanks for promoting them from the beginning :)
I am loving the Word designs.
Being a self-proclaimed amateur graphic designer, you are an inspiration!
Thanks, Jared! Really appreciate that!
Dang Jim. These are phenomenal. I’m a wannabe designer hack and these made me drool. Nicely done!
Hey Jim, do you plan on putting these together into a book? Because that would be pretty rad.
Nathan: Thanks! It’s always a good day when my designs produce drool :)
Vy: Yeah, I think I’ll do some type of book when I finish the entire Bible. Not exactly sure what that may look like, but I plan on doing something.
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