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Archive for the ‘Graphic Design’ Category
Amarillo Church Wins Addy Award
An Amarillo, Texas church snagged a best in show (registration requried) at the Addy Awards for the second year in a row. Trinity Fellowship Church won the local division of ...
Lessons from Seth Godin
Marketing guru Seth Godin recently offered up two gems for designers, I Love Typefaces and How to Live Happily with a Great Designer. The typefaces entry features seven tips for using ...
MinistryCom Awards: Deadline August 15
We mentioned the MinistryCom Awards a while back, and it’s worth another mention. The deadline has been extended to August 15, so if you were thinking about entering and never ...
5 Lists for Graphic Designers
Everybody loves lists! So we present our own list of lists to help graphic designers. 1. 50 Ways to Become a Better Designer – Loads of ideas, best practices and general ...
Stock Photography Sucks
In the Church Marketing Lab I’m always applauding people for using original photography. This is why. Jason Kottke points us to some of the drawbacks of stock photography. Like the same ...
Non-Profit Pricing from Adobe
When it comes to graphic design software, Adobe’s Creative Suite is pretty much the industry standard. But it doesn’t come cheap ($900 list price). So ChurchMedia.net has started a petition asking ...
MinistryCom Awards
This year’s MinistryCom conference will also include the first ever Excellence in Communications Awards. It’s a chance for churches to be recognized for creating marketing that doesn’t suck. Categories include outreach ...
More Church Cartoons
Church Cartoons is another site that offers comics for church newsletters and publications. Some may question the place of church humor in a church publication, but if it makes me laugh ...
Worship House Media
Check out a new resource for creative churches: Worship House Media. It’s basically an iTunes for worship media products. You can purchase all kinds of resources, including software, video, motion graphics, ...
Realigning vs. Redesigning
Speaking of improving web sites, we were sent a link today about the difference between redesigning a site and realigning it. The main point is that massive redesigns where you ...
Getting Feedback on Church Marketing
We’ve been offering our peer review since July as a way to help churches help each other. In that time we’ve done 14 reviews and have hopefully offered good feedback ...
Less is More: Before and After at Granger Community Church
Earlier this month Kem Meyer, a guest blogger here at Church Marketing Sucks and the Communications Director at Granger Community Church in Granger, Ind., shared some design lessons on her ...
Faith-Based Design Submissions
GIA Publications is considering the possible publication of a book on faith-based graphic design. The submission guidelines say that “communications media from any organized worship tradition or denomination are eligible.” ...
Nuns with Guns
I just about died when I saw this flier. It comes from The Refuse, a Colorado Springs church that submitted their web site for this week’s peer review, and it ...
Christians Aren’t the Only Immitators
We’re not the only ones. Today I opened my Time magazine and saw this “Islam Inside” T-shirt. It reminded me of an entry I wrote a while back lamenting the ...
