Had a great time hanging out with fellow designers and design studios Thursday night at the 2008 ADDY Awards. These are the best of the best, the top designers showing their best work. It was a great opportunity to not just socialize with people on the same page, but also a time to fill up [...]
Chris points us towards the newest line of action figures…have you ever pictured Jesus as a cowboy? Bull riding, football, skateboarding…you name it We are Fisherman has created it. I’ll be honest I don’t know what to do with this one…it’s almost so tacky that it’s funny and certainly a conversation starter, but on the [...]
Move over Sports Illustrated, there’s a new kid on the block. Introducing the Catholic Calendar, a calendar created in the hopes of showing the human side of priests and solict interest among teenagers and college students to the priesthood. Maybe they could start and let a guy get married…that’s got to be a pretty big [...]
Apparently by mentioning the word sex in a blog title. We’ve been rollin’ along, getting new subscribers pretty consistently and then I decided it would be a good idea to blog about the campaign being run by Relevant Church and Presto! Our subscriptions were cut in half according to Feedburner. I’m hoping it was a [...]
Now here’s a challenge I can get my hands around! Relevant Church in Tampa, Florida has issued a 30 Days of Sex (or not if you’re not married) challenge. There are so many cool things about this. First it is getting a ton of coverage and it’s all positive. Unlike many of the shock campaigns [...]
Gap has launched a fun project, Sound of Color, in which they asked various artists to create music based on a specific color. Below is Marie Digby’s translation of the color yellow. found at Three Minds.
If God puts something across your path that may not be the picture of how you see your calling, take a step back and remember: it’s not about you. I had the honor of doing just that this weekend as a speaker at the 24.fourteen youth conference of the Assemblies of God-Michigan District. The weekend [...]
Life Clever points us to greeting cards that actually don’t suck. Maybe it’s just because I see everything through a designer’s eye, but it really is hard to find a greeting card that I can actually put my name on…they’re usually so ugly! This collection of independent’s just might give me a chance at a [...]
That’s a quote from Eli Manning in an interview after winning Super Bowl XLII. At first glance it seems that he must have gotten hit too hard, after all a field goal wouldn’t be too hard to tie the game – but as he explained it he shows the brilliance of the thinking. For Eli [...]
Many think of graphic design to be something belonging to recent history, birthed by big brands. Graphic design, or visual communication, has in fact existed for thousands of years. The History of Visual Communication gives a brilliant visual history of the birth and rise of graphic design used to communicate ideas, tell stories and as [...]