Portfolio

Selected work in brand identity, apparel, book, album and series design, plus one piece of writing.

FIVE8 identity card: the looping 5 and 8 mark above the spaced name, the clean and colon custom wordmarks, a five-color palette of ink, warm bone, charcoal, rust and faded blue, and Gotham Book and Bold type samples
FIVE8 identity
Three FIVE8 apparel mockups side by side: a man in a cream rope cap with the rust FIVE EIGHT mark, a man in a faded blue LOVE DEMONSTRATED tee, and a woman in a charcoal tee with FIVE EIGHT set as a cross
FIVE EIGHT CapLOVE DEMONSTRATEDFIVE EIGHT Cross
A man with a gray beard in a cream rope cap with the rust FIVE EIGHT mark, wearing an open cream shirt over a dark tee
FIVE EIGHT Cap
A man in a faded blue tee printed with LOVE in large cream letters above the word DEMONSTRATED, standing in front of a pale building
LOVE DEMONSTRATED
A woman in a charcoal tee printed with FIVE EIGHT set as a white cross, seated on a stone ledge in wide blue jeans
FIVE EIGHT Cross
Two Jesus Is Counterculture mockups: a man in a washed charcoal tee and a young man in a tan hoodie, each printed with a halftone portrait of Jesus with a black bar across the mouth above the title
A man in a washed charcoal tee and olive FIVE8 cap, printed with the Jesus Is Counterculture halftone portrait and titleA young man in a tan hoodie seated beside a skateboard, printed with the Jesus Is Counterculture halftone portrait and title
Jesus Is Counterculture
A woman in a cream hoodie printed with a floral crown turned upside down, flowers above and roots hanging below, with the script line the upside-down kingdom and a small FIVE8 mark
The Upside-Down Kingdom
A woman in a pink mock-neck sweatshirt printed with JESUS IS in small spaced letters above a large tonal LOVE, standing in front of a stone building
Jesus Is Love
Two Counterculture Kingdom tee mockups, a man in beige with a rust print and a woman in mauve with a plum print, each with COUNTERCULTURE above an upside-down KINGDOM and a sprayed mark below
A man in a beige oversized tee printed in rust with COUNTERCULTURE above an upside-down KINGDOM and a sprayed mark belowA woman in a mauve oversized tee printed in plum with COUNTERCULTURE above an upside-down KINGDOM and a sprayed mark below
Counterculture Kingdom
A man in a beige oversized tee printed with JESUS LOVES above the name Jesus in Arabic calligraphy and MUSLIMS below, standing on a brick-lined city sidewalk
Jesus Loves Muslims
A woman in a soft pink tee printed with make agape great again, the word agape set large in a tonal serif, standing in front of a stone wall and a cafe window
Make Agape Great Again
A woman in a washed black tee printed with a torn-paper halftone collage of a hand holding a phone with a red rose, a nose beside it and the red script stop and smell the roses
Stop and Smell the Roses

FIVE8

Brand identity · Apparel concepts

Identity and apparel concepts for a faith-rooted brand built on Romans 5:8. The identity card sets the looping 5 and 8 mark, custom wordmarks, palette and Gotham type. The gallery applies the brand’s ideas to tees, hoodies, a sweatshirt and a cap.

Apparel images are AI-generated concept mockups.

The Wilderness Way book, workbook and audiobook covers side by side on a stone background: tilted cream letters on deep green with a lime accent
The Wilderness Way book cover: tilted cream letters spelling THE WILDERNESS WAY on deep green with a lime accentThe Wilderness Way workbook cover with a lime spine reading WORKBOOK beside the same tilted cream title on deep greenThe Wilderness Way audiobook cover with a black spine reading AUDIOBOOK beside the same tilted cream title on deep green

The Wilderness Way

Book · Workbook · Audiobook

One typographic idea carried across three formats. The letters tilt and stack so the title reads as an image, and a lime accent ties the editions together.

Design collaboration with Dean Yorimitsu.

In Wild Days album artwork: a deep green textured canvas with the title in lime, hung on a gallery wall beside a small label
A deep green vinyl sleeve reading Wilderness Way Worship and Wilderness Worship Collective, with a black record sliding out of the right edge

In Wild Days

Album artwork · Wilderness Worship Collective

The album art is staged as a canvas on a gallery wall. A vinyl sleeve carries the collective’s title on the same deep green, and two tracks play beside the artwork.

Concept and design by Dustin Kleinschmidt. The gallery scene and sleeve are mockups.

By Design sermon series artwork: architectural wireframe cubes above the title drawn like a blueprintRhythms sermon series artwork: colored line waves across a black field with the title and subtitle spiritual habits for health and growth

Sermon series

Series artwork

Two series identities for Sunday messages. By Design builds on architectural line drawing. Rhythms draws a field of light-traced waves.

Article illustration: friends seated on a conveyor belt around coffee shop tables beneath the title Why Pastors Often Make Crappy Friends

Being Needed Isn’t Being Known

Why Pastors Often Make Crappy Friends

Writing · Substack · July 12, 2026

A first-person essay on pastors who know everyone’s story and share little of their own, and what happens to friendship when a helper identity runs the room.

Read the essay