Luke Flowers Creative has finally launched! Yes, it has been building since Y2K, and now I am ready to set sail and see where this new creative adventure takes me and the family. Thanks to all of you who have supported me through encouragement, prayers and creative opportunities. I have been so deeply inspired along this journey, and Luke Flowers Creative would not be possible today if not for friends, family and clients like you!

In honor of this monumental occasion, let’s take a stroll down memory lane …

Hard to believe it has been a decade since I first began to pursue the dream of owning my own design/illustration studio. After graduating from Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in 2000, I began my creative career with Young Life, spent 10 incredibly inspiring years as the Senior Designer there. During that time I was juggling my freelance creative work by night … a sort of caped creative crusader of the midnight hours. I still recall some of the early freelance work, one in particular was a comic a client wanted me to create about the stock market (being a starving artist, I can’t say I had a whole lot of experience in with that world!), but it was the first big paying gig and I could not have been more excited. From there I mainly worked with musicians and ministries. Both areas I have a deep passion to help bring the music and missions to life with high quality creative resources. For the first 3 years it was pretty slow going, and it wasn’t until our son, Owen, was born and we made the decision to have Tessa quit her job (quite sadly) at Compassion (a ministry we continue to love and support). That meant I had to kick it in to high gear with the freelance work. I was nervous yet excited because that meant expanding the possibilities and pursuing more clients. We were amazed how quickly the word spread with little to no marketing, and soon I was spending more time than imagined creatively cranking away. All the while I was still feeling a firm calling to continue to serve the mission of  Young Life (a ministry that has been part of my life since I arrived on this earth! but that’s a whole other story). So I continued juggled my full time gig, and my night time gig. This worked well for the next few years, but soon the freelance work began to expand beyond our expectations (and time limitations). Jump to 2009, and the creative career was at full speed in all directions, though it was highly inspiring it was starting to feel like a high speed train heading a bit to fast down life’s tracks. So we went right back to where it all began, in prayer, asking God for guidance in how He wanted to use the work and where it would lead us. After a very difficult few months, we made the decision to leave Young Life and launch Luke Flowers Creative. So on June 11, I said goodbye to my creative cubicle, and was released into the wild where I began to build the business in my new creative cave. It took a month to get it all in order, but on July 17 we are officially launching! An absolutely amazing adventure, and I am so incredibly excited to see how the next chapter of my creative career unfolds …

I hope that you continue to journey along with me as I share the stories and updates through lukeflowerscreative.com and here at the blog. I greatly appreciate your ongoing support, encouragement and inspiration. I strive to be the same for you through my work and writings.