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Archive for the ‘Graphic Design’ Category
Michael Cina: Creativity, Catch Up & Clip-Art
Rock star designer Michael Cina talks about improving creativity, why the church is always playing catch up and the new clip-art.
Message Trumps Art
A Lego commercial serves as a good example of the message being lost in art. The message has to be communicated and not drowned out by the creative.
5 Tools Church Designers Need: Teamwork
This is part six in a six-part series exploring the tools graphic designers who work for churches need to succeed. You can go back and start with part one. You have ...
5 Tools Church Designers Need: Boundaries
This is part five in a six-part series exploring the tools graphic designers who work for churches need to succeed. You can go back and start with part one. “Hey, I ...
5 Tools Church Designers Need: Communication
This is part four in a six-part series exploring the tools graphic designers who work for churches need to succeed. You can go back and start with part one. It seems ...
5 Tools Church Designers Need: Determination
This is part three in a six-part series exploring the tools graphic designers who work for churches need to succeed. You can go back and start with part one. Your research ...
5 Tools Church Designers Need: Confidence
This is part two in a six-part series exploring the tools graphic designers who work for churches need to succeed. You can go back and start with part one. Without training, ...
5 Tools Church Designers Need: Introduction
This is part one in a six-part series exploring the tools graphic designers who work for churches need to succeed. There you are on a slow Monday morning, a freshly ...
The Branding Process: Start to Finish
Designer Von Glitschka recently shared his experience doing a branding/identity project for Northwest Church in Shoreline, Wash. He shares the many iterations the design went through as well as some ...
Follow-Up to the Rick Warren/Spec Work Debate
On Thursday evening we posted an entry trying to address the issue of spec work through the current example of Rick Warren’s book cover design contest. In less than 24 ...
An Open Letter to Rick Warren about Spec Work
Editor’s Note: We closed the comments on this post as they took a turn for the worse. We explained our reasoning for closing comments and the rationale for this post ...
Inside the Creative Process at North Point
Many of you have heard of North Point Community Church or their lead pastor Andy Stanley. They were one of the pioneers of the attractional church model, and to this ...
3 Tips for Getting Better Freelance Design (A Parable)
I walked into my local coffee shop, excited to be meeting with a prospective client who had contacted me only days before. I introduced myself to Jill (not her real ...
Seth Godin Says: Learn Some Design!
All right church marketing professionals, Seth Godin is calling out you and your secular brethren. He makes this argument: Ten years ago, you had a wide range of excuses for being ...
