Trellis
- (Client) Trellis Church
- (Year) 2025
about the project
Design an aesthetically pleasing, functional, and spiritually enriching bilingual (English & Chinese) Christian calendar that serves both devotional and practical purposes for churches, families, and individuals.
The Challenge
- Maintaining elegant typography in both English and Chinese, ensuring it suits each audience while remaining visually harmonious and unobtrusive
- Designing illustrations that accurately reflect the essence of each Bible verses while maintaining a cohesive visual style throughout the calendar.
The Solution
- Conducted in-depth research on each Bible verse, identifying key themes and emotions to develop illustrations that symbolically and visually represent the message
- Carefully paired and balanced an English serif font with a Chinese sans-serif typeface, incorporating clean spacing and subtle stylistic accents to achieve elegant bilingual harmony.
Services Provided
- Brand Development
- Creative Direction
- Publication Design
Designed to bring structure, peace, and purpose to daily devotion.
CORPORATE TYPEFACE/
COLOR PALETTE
English Typeface
- PP Editorial New
Usage: Headlines, sub-headlines, on English body copy.
Chinese Typeface
- Yu Gothic UI
Headlines, sub-headlines, on English body copy.
Primary Color Palette
Trellis’s color scheme reflects divine light and earthly faith, merging serenity with spiritual vitality:
- Teal blue - a sacred anchor, symbolizing living water and liturgical depth.
- Muted Taupe - a humble base, evoking stability and devotion.
- Sage Green - Growth in faith, paired with nature-inspired verses.
Secondary Color Palette
- Cream Light - divine warmth for backgrounds, soft as manna.
- Pale Olive - subtle renewal, ideal for prayer/journaling spaces
- Deeper Olive - a bolder call to spiritual action.
- Golden Mustard - radiant hope, highlighting resurrection themes and feast days.
Mockup
Bilingual Calendar
The Trellis Bilingual Calendar mockup showcases a harmonious fusion of functionality and faith, featuring clean English and Chinese typography and a minimalist grid softened by warm gold accents.
