As creatives we need to constantly be filling our brains with creative input. Being creative is a habit as much as it is an action. You can’t expect to be able to just turn the creativity switch on when a project falls in your lap. Instead fill your creative tank with different ideas, inspiration, and [...]
With a name like Holy Cow Creative it’s probably no surprise that I like to make people smile…and in this clip Don Norman talks about the power that happiness brings to design. Surround yourself with happy when you’re brainstorming…surround people with happy when they experience your design.
As part of what I do, I am honored and blessed to speak at some great conferences and spend some time with some great people. This year is no different. I’ve already been to Ohio for the Ohio Council of Churches, Arizona for the Church Solutions Conference and Nashville for a couple of workshops at [...]
This made me laugh… …until I wondered if that’s how I sound to some of the church leaders that don’t understand what I do and the importance of great design and creativity in the church. Thanks for the link Tony.
If you really want to ruffle my feathers, aim for ‘good enough’…find every shortcut you can take in communicating the gospel, find the cheapest route, wait until the last minute, and as for design ‘just get it done’. God deserves better than that. More than that, God desires better than that. John Acuff has a [...]
Something to think about the next time you: play art director when you should be finishing your sermon ask for the logo to be bigger make every project hot…and then sit on them for a week give valuable feedback like “we want it to pop more” tell the designer you’ll “know it when you see [...]
Looks like Seth is jumping into the church arena a bit…good to see him here. Tony did a Q&A with him as part of the promo for Catalyst and to talk about Seth’s “new” Triibes.com. I put “new” in quotation marks because quite honestly, I’m a bit surprised at the lack of ingenuity from Seth [...]
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 [...]