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Archive for the ‘Graphic Design’ Category
5 Ways to Do Church Communication on the Cheap
Church communication doesn't have to be expensive. A Creative Missions alumni explores some ways to do church communication without a huge budget.
How to Choose a Printing Company
If your church is doing any sizable amount of printing (bulletins, business cards, letter head!) you should have a relationship with a printing company. But how do you pick one?
Church Design Basics
A quick primer on church design covering branding & identity, sermon branding, and promotions & advertising. It's a preview of the kind of help Creative Missions churches will get.
5 Minute Church Logos
If your church is thinking about a logo redesign maybe you could use the kind of creative refresher offered by 5ive Minute Logos. They create five minute logos for $5 ...
How to Start Designing: Ideas Before Computers
Have you ever sat in front of the computer waiting to be inspired? That's not how design works.
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 ...
