What do you think?
I’d like to see many people (especially people who’ve never posted) tell us what you think about this. What are the good things and bad things about these? From our friend and yours: Brad Ruggles
Designed For Good.
Rosa Loves is one of those companies that I would love to design for. The premise is so simple, yet communicates so much. Check out their site, buy a shirt and support a cause!
From the Rosa Loves site.
Filed under other | Comment (1)We are everyday people aware of a need in our community. We realize that we are capable of performing tangible acts of service that will meet individual and immediate needs in order to affect wide scale encouragement. Rosa Loves is an example, an inspiration, and will serve as a possible backbone to many more grassroots “love projects” around the world.
We hope to encourage individual people to get involved in the community around them on a somewhat tangible scale. We will accomplish this by providing financial support to those in need by infiltrating the t-shirt industry with a new perspective of how clothing can serve a purpose other than outfitting. Everyone has a story. Everyone has a need. By using art and creativity, we hope to foster hope and encouragement through the aid of apparel. Each story will be told through stimulating graphics and actual text that will appear on the inverse of the shirt directly in line with the heart, where the Rosa Loves movement stems from.
Rosa Loves is less about charity and more about awareness, awareness that we are all apart of something greater and are therefore joined by common threads.
What Lovely Design
Are you ready for some design hotness? I hope so, cause here it comes!
These taken from Dirty Mouse
This next one will need some explaining. Make sure you read this, awesome stuff.
On major streets and spaces throughout the city of Gothenburg a number of small brightly coloured houses appeared, featuring provocative statements about homelessness and the homeless. At each house the public were asked to critically respond to these statements with their own messages by writing on the houses using pens provided. The houses also contained lighting which would illuminate a pictogram of a homeless person at night.
The statements, written in both English and Swedish, were created to be deliberately inflammatory so they would receive the strongest possible responses. Featuring statements such as ‘It’s a person’s own fault that they are homeless’, ‘Homeless people don’t deserve sympathy’, ‘Homeless people shouldn’t be helped with public money’ and ‘Most homeless people are addicted to drugs or alcohol’ caused the public to react strongly on one side of each argument or the other.
The team hoped that the project could in some small way help to improve communication between homeless people and people with homes, closing the mental gap that exists between these two groups. By reading other peoples statements it was hoped people may begin to question their own views about homelessness.
These taken from Ad Blog Arabia
These taken from Advertising/Design Goodness
What I love about all these designs is the simplicity.
What I love about all of these designs is that the simplicity is powerful. These are all simple concepts but will make you stop and look. The items will make you think, and this is what the church needs to do. Make sure you check out all these blogs and be inspired.
Filed under design, simplicity | Comments (2)Interview: Scott McClellan
Who are you, and what do you do for a living?
Allow myself to introduce … myself. My name is Scott McClellan and I’m the Editor of COLLIDE Magazine. COLLIDE is a new magazine about media and technology for church leaders.
What is your dream for Collide magazine?
Good question. I’d love for COLLIDE to become a source of inspiration for our readers. It seems like media and technology have almost unlimited potential in the hands of creative and passionate people. Hopefully COLLIDE will catalyze a lot of innovation and experimentation when it comes to communicating the gospel.
What is the future of design and media in the Church?
Honestly, I wish I knew. I certainly hope that creative excellence becomes synonymous with church media and design someday. But more than that, I hope that authenticity is infused into everything churches create. I see a ton of impressive commercial print and video work, but it doesn’t mean anything to me. Hired guns with a boatload of talent can produce mind-boggling visuals, but I think authenticity is the key to meaningful design and media, especially in a spiritual context.
What are your favorite sources of inspiration?
Music is my first love. The intro to U2’s “Where the Streets Have No Name” or the chorus to Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love” inspire me to create. Scripture inspires me to think about who God is and who we are. Good writing (fiction, non-fiction, film, whatever) inspires me to try to understand the people around me.
How did you start a magazine?
COLLIDE’s parent company has been involved with church media for quite some time through Igniter Media, WorshipHouse Media, and now Echo Church Media Conference. At some point we realized no one was consistently writing about the things we love: media and technology in the Church. We’d never done any publishing, but we figured experience is overrated. We’ve learned a lot since then.
Who are some people you believe are using media well to give glory to God?
The Mars Hills are both good examples. Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, MI has a great website and provides a ton of great media resources. Plus, Rob Bell is involved with the Nooma videos, which I feel are unparalleled in quality and depth. At Mars Hill Church in Seattle, they have a huge media library, the Vox Pop blog network, Film & Theology nights, and they did a sermon series in which people could submit their tough questions for Mark Driscoll via text message.
Also, it seems as though not a week goes by when I don’t marvel at something innovative LifeChurch.tv is trying. Those guys see new technologies as opportunities to impact people with spiritual truth.
Anything else that you think the world needs to know?
Hmmmm … the world probably doesn’t need to know that collidemagazine.com features our blog and subscription information. I guess I can’t think of anything.
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A few notes:
Scott has been awesome in getting an interview back to us ASAP. Please get a subscription to their magazine, I think it will help in our conversation about giving glory to God through art.
Mars Hill in Grand Rapids is doing a lot of good things, though as a note the head pastors theology is being heavily called into question. The Plow does think they have a pretty cool website, and are doing some great things for their neighbors and helping the poor.
Filed under other | Comment (1)Courageous Leadership Award
I just saw this on Catalyst and wanted to share. God has blessed us with money, talent and resources, what can we do with them?
The 2008 Award for Courageous Leadership in AIDS will be given to local churches that are strategically impacting the AIDS pandemic. The winning church will receive $100,000 toward their ongoing AIDS work. The two runners up will receive $40,000 each to continue their efforts against the AIDS pandemic. As we did last year, we also plan to award several Honorable Mentions to churches that may not win the award, but are still doing work worthy of recognition.
What can your church do? Innovation does not require money, just ideas and heart.
Filed under other | Comment (0)Great Motion Reel: Barton Damer
I found mention of Barton Damer on Ben Arment’s blog, and googled him. His motion graphics are off the chain.
Barton, if you have any ideas on collaboration I’d love to hear them.
Could Your Church Advertise On Leaves?
If you put honey on a leaf, caterpillars and other creatures will eat the pattern you create in the leaf. I haven’t tried this yet, but wouldn’t be cool to send a handful of people out to do this on leaves this spring.
- Maybe a series on the fall, referencing the leaves to cover their special bits.
- Maybe a series on stewardship, and the cultural mandate.
- Maybe not connected to a series or your church.
- Maybe just say: “God made this leaf” or “Made by God”
What would you write on a leaf?
Kind of a cool idea so long as you didn’t do it to thousands of leaves. Reminds me of Charlotte’s Web.
Today he was dead.
Today Jesus was dead. Fear, pain, loss and hopelessness gripped all those close to Him. Today Jesus laid wrapped in linen, laying in a tomb. When all seems hopeless, all I have to do is remember tomorrow.
Good Friday
Don’t fail Christ by thinking things you do can keep you from failing him.Judas betrayed Jesus; Peter denied knowing him; the remaining disciples deserted in fear.
All this immediately after eating communion and singing hymns.
From Abraham Piper
Today is Good Friday, a slap in the face to our pride. Today was the day our sin held Christ to the Cross. God’s patience and servant-hood is beyond imagination.
Below is a movie made by Mars Hill Church, pointed to by their genius social web guru Dustin Dekoekkoek.
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