teenager Photoshop magic

My daughter is only 13 years old and making slides for her youth group. I must say I am quite impressed at what this girl can do! She’s doing stuff in Photoshop I didn’t even know could be possible, because she takes time to poke around. It sure is fun having a mother-daughter interest in [...]

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holographic world

Being an artist and designer, I think this video is way cool. I really like the first half… The second half fills out the story but the first half is all about creating… very creative!

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The Visual Church Leader

I recently started a new blog that I am having a blast with. It’s called The Visual Church Leader and it melds my interest in visual design, spiritual truth, leadership, and communication all in one. It’s kind of a hodge-podge of stuff, but actually all makes sense.
In truth, it’s really a look into the inner [...]

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Pulling off a large scale event with small scale resources

I have posted very little in the past weeks/months, primarily because I have been tied up with some pretty major projects. One of these projects was our summer Vacation Bible School at University Covenant Church. This year the name of the event was somewhat of an amusing journey:

It’s been called VBS for years. But VBS [...]

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Using Apple Pages for visual learners

This past week I took a 5-day history class.
Yes, it was educational. Yes, I learned a lot. Yes it was required for my ministry licensing.
There were just a few minor problems:
1. I don’t like to study.
2. I don’t really care for history too much.
3. I have a terrible memory for faces, names, dates and events.
4. [...]

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Little Red Riding Hood as infographics

I couldn’t help but be delighted with this video. Humor and precision and creativity… very well done. FlowingData sure finds great stuff!

This video was created by a very creative graphic designer!
Today I spent quite a bit of time working on different design projects. Our church has never had a professional designer, and part of the [...]

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Crisis of Credit

I’m not much of a numbers or finance person. This current financial state of our economy has always baffled me, and getting bits and pieces from various sources has not been particularly helpful.
Today I ran across a great video that explains how things like this happen. (And another reason I like the video is because [...]

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More sermon series

It’s been a while since I have posted some design projects. Here are some of the sermon slides I’ve done in the past couple of months:

And now today started a new series leading up to Easter:

It’s been fun trying creative techniques and approaches!

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A variety of design projects

Life has been pretty busy lately. I’ve been swamped under by projects these past few weeks. Here’s just a sampling of a couple of them:
Thanksgiving sermon graphic. Someone suggested a cornucopia as a joke, as there’s another person on the team who doesn’t like cornucopias. I didn’t know so I made a cornucopia slide, but [...]

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Visual Word Cloud

I saw this site via a friend’s blog and tried it out, and it’s pretty cool. You type in an URL and it figures out what words are most frequently used. I thought it was quite interesting that this is the result from this blog:

I am a bit surprised that “orchestra” came up as the [...]

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