St. Luke's Centennial Logo

      Our church, St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Woodland, California is going to celebrate 100 Years on the Same Corner on September, 29 2012. The celebration is for the church building itself as St. Luke's was established in Woodland in 1887.  Services were held at the Opera House (which pre-dated the present Opera House).  In 1912 the present church was built, and the old church was sold to the Second Baptist church.
     In commemoration of this event I designed a logo to be used as a magnet, a banner, and for literature.
The design was inspired by a 14th century medallion housed at the MET. St. Luke's attribute, the winged ox is seated in a bucolic setting against a cobalt blue sky on a grassy slope.  In my interpretation, St. Luke's building is being cradled in the ox's legs.  I remembered the many early renaissance portraits of church patrons holding model sized replicas of their churches or cathedrals and thought this would be a perfect use of that form.