Books

i've been a contributor and illustrator for these books:

• An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the
  Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers [HOW]
• Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals [Zondervan]
• Sketchnotes 2011: Eva-Lotta Lamm plus Special Guests [CreateSpace]
• re:form Anti-Workbook / DVD / leader guide [sparkhouse]
• re:form Ancestors Anti-Workbook / DVD / leader guide [sparkhouse]
• re:form Traditions Anti-Workbook / DVD / leader guide [sparkhouse]
• new project, forthcoming, 2012, [sparkhouse]

 

An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers (Paperback), October, 2008, Amazon best-seller

Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, December 2008: Danny Gregory's An Illustrated Life is a visual delight of color and texture--a funky and frenetic "book about books people have made," perfect for chronic doodlers, journalers, and art lovers. Sharing vibrant excerpts from the notebooks of 50 illustrators, artists, and designers, each accompanied by an introduction by the artist, it's a gorgeous, intimate exploration of the creative process. Gregory's passion for the "illustrated journal" is infectious--for him, artist's sketchbooks represent a nonthreatening place to record "risks, mistakes, regrets, thoughts, lessons, and dreams." Whether you are charmed by the illustrations of Amanda Kavanagh, or intimidated by the musings of Stefan Sagmeister, poring over this eclectic group of fledgling and famous "artists" will inspire you to tackle an illustrated journal of your own. --Daphne

Product Description
An Illustrated Life offers a sneak peak into the wildly creative imaginations of top illustrators, designers and artists from around the world through the pages of their personal visual journals. Popular visual journalist and author Danny Gregory reveals how and why keeping a consistent, visual journal leads to a more fulfilling creative life. Designers and artists working in all mediums will find creative inspiration from these insightful interviews and stunning examples.

Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals (Paperback)
March, 2008

FOUR STARS from Publishers' Weekly (Jan 28, 2008)

Jesus for President
Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw. Zondervan, $16.99 paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-310-27842-9
Here is the must-read election-year book for Christian Americans. What should Christians do when allegiances to the state clash with personal faith? Haw and Claiborne (The Irresistible Revolution) slice through politics as usual and well past the superficial layers of the culture wars with their lucid exploration of how Christians can and should relate to presidents and kings, empire and government. Their entertaining yet provocative tour of the Bible's social and economic order makes even the most abstruse Levitical laws come alive for our era. They also provide a valuable political context for Christ's life, reminding readers that Jesus did not preach the need to put God back into government—he urged his followers to live by a different set of rules altogether, to hold themselves apart as peculiar people. The compelling writing is enhanced by a lavish, eye-popping layout. The pages are a riot of textured callouts, colors, photos and fonts—the perfect packaging for a message that must compete in a world of sound bites. With this second book, Claiborne emerges as an affable, intelligent, humorous prophet of his generation, calling people out of business-as-usual in a corrupt world and back to the radically different social order of the biblical God. (Mar.)

 

(I've also designed dozens of book covers for Youth Specialties/Zondervan (A Harper Collins company) as well as the independently-published Gameplan by Syler Thomas)

 

 

 

re:form: Confirmation Curriculum from sparkhouse
Paperback, July, 2010

I hand-illustrated forty animated short videos (animated by sparkhouse)  framing the theological questions that kids are really asking, like “Who wrote the Bible?” and “Why does God let bad things happen?” The Two-DVD set is rooted in historic Christianity yet speaks to kids in their own voice. The companion re:form Anti-Workbook is the hands-on, 192-page, hand-illustrated centerpiece of each kid’s confirmation experience. It’s a sturdy, full-color, wire-O bound journal chock-full of activities and ideas for groups and individuals, with space to journal and doodle, and extras like pullout cards and cool stickers. re:form Leader Guide quickly preps teachers for each lesson and activity.

 

 

Sketchnotes 2011
Authored by Eva-Lotta Lamm

Contributions by Mike Rohde, Craighton Berman, Carolyn Sewell, Amanda Wright, Matthew Magain, Len Kendall, Gerren Lamson, Bauke Schildt, Paul Soupiset, Timothy J. Reynolds

This book gathers Eva-Lotta's sketchnotes from over 100 talks taken at design events and conferences in 2011.

Sketchnotes are visual summaries created in real time during a lecture. They invite the viewer to revisit, remember and re-discover the main thoughts and ideas of the speaker after the talk.