Integrating Digital Album Booklets into Spotify

Design, Artwork, Album Artwork, Social MediaStephen James HartApril 24, 2020Stephen James Hart, Spotify, Album Design, Album Booklet, CD, Streaming, Digital Booklet, Petition Comment

The Very Best 100 Christian Album Covers of the 2010's

Reviewing and ranking Christian music album cover artwork for the decade 2010 - 2019. You won’t believe how much it’s changed.

Design, InspirationStephen James HartDecember 31, 2019Design, Christian, Heart to Hart Comment

Behind the Artwork: Faultlines - kalley

Album Artwork, Artwork, Design, Worship, MusicStephen James HartNovember 16, 2019music, Bethel Music, Bethel, Christian, Worship, Visual Worship Leader, Stephen James Hart, Artwork, CCM, kalley, kalley heiligenthal, blessed, oasis, faultlines Comment

Behind the Artwork: This Is A Move - Brandon Lake

The mark of good design at Bethel Music is about keeping all your designs malleable and soft in your hands and keeping a humble heart before both the Lord and those in charge over you, so that every concept has the ability to be molded and stretched to perfectly fit the canvas it was designed for.

Behind the Artwork: En Español - Bethel Music

It’s all pointing to the rich legacy and heritage of revival and praise and worship in Latin America — and that no matter how hard religion might try and keep people inside a box, the Spirit of God is flowing outside the limitations we try and put on Him; beathing NEW life into hearts today!

Behind the Artwork: VICTORY - Bethel Music

Every newspaper article is either a testimony from someone in our community telling of God’s faithful goodness, or a scripture re-enforcing those timeless truths of provision and victory — after all, testimony (the re-telling of God-stories) is one of the most powerful prophetic acts we can do.

Behind the Artwork: Wild - Sean Feucht

In the creative direction for Wild, I knew that I wanted to portray the strength and honor of Sean’s amazing missional legacy, while somehow tying in the fact that this is a live worship album.

Album Artwork, Design, MusicStephen James HartOctober 13, 2018Bethel Music, Artwork, Album Design, Sean Feucht, Wild Comment

Heart to Hart: Tanner Cook

Meet Tanner Alex Cook! He's a masterful designer and artist with an ultra-modernist aesthetic and a knack for realistic texture and grit. I'm watching him closely to see where he goes, watch this space world -- this kid is going places. Mark my words.

Behind the Artwork: Living Hope (Single)

As I set out to design the art for "Living Hope", I wanted to base the concept on this 80s album artwork -- an honorable nod to the rich worship-warfare history of this era -- plus I felt it tied in strongly with the bold-gospel narrative of this single.

Behind the Artwork: Heaven Come 2019

The brief was simple enough, we decided to take conference on the road with the same simple message of "on Earth as in Heaven". For too long my branding efforts were minimalistic and clean, so I really wanted to experiment with an ultra modern feel whilst maintaining a little grunge and some 70s nostalgia.

Behind the Artwork: Moments: Mighty Sound

This album artwork was such a gift from God and it all came together in about 5 minutes. I love that the artwork came the same way these moments (songs) did - divinely curated by a loving Heavenly Father and gifted to His children freely.

Heart to Hart: Chris Perry

Meet Chris Perry from Sydney, Australia. He was the original designer for Hillsong Music from 1994-2001. He shares the stories behind their old album covers and how he designed their famed “Hillsong” handwritten logo!

Behind the Artwork: Bright Ones

I loved the challenge of designing for a generation that's not my own, taking so many different opinions from more generations that weren't my own, and creating a brand and visual language that truly represented the life, joy, freedom, and pop sound of this fantastic album!

Album Artwork, Music, DesignStephen James HartApril 5, 2018Bethel Music, Bright Ones, Artwork, Christian, Design, Collage, Art, Stephen James HartComment

Heart to Hart: Taylor Ostrom

Introducing Taylor Ostrom (Sabo) from Redding, California. She’s one of the designers at Bethel Music and is the brains and artistic talent behind Cory Asbury’s “Reckless Love” and Steffany Gretzinger’s “Blackout” album artwork. Here she shares her story and gives us a glimpse into what it’s like to make album art.

Behind the Artwork: Starlight - Bethel Music

I've found that 9 times out of 10, when you allow yourself to re-create aspects of a project based on your gut...leadership will fall in line with your vision and adjust their previous boundaries...

The Art of Hand Lettering

It takes a lot of time and practice to make it look effortless and messy.

Artwork, Design, Worship, StoryStephen James HartMarch 17, 2018Hand Lettering, Design, Christian, Church, The Worship Project, Bethel Music, Ink, Brush, Stephen James HartComment

The Story of "The Worship Project"

As you can imagine, this was a harsh word to hear and I grappled with it for days. However, I told God that I would give these things up in order to know Him better. My spirit and truth worship was actually not found in singing songs, but rather through creativity in design and hand lettering.