Today I released a Pentecost tie (among other things). How often do we really remember what it was like before the holy spirit was given to us all? It’s a great thing and we need to remember. The tie is found here: http://www.zazzle.com/pentecost_the_fire_fell_tie-151643573695174473
Continue reading →It is interesting to try and put this out there in words. First of all, what is a Christian designer? I am not talking about a decoupaged copy of Durer’s praying hands. In fact, I am not talking about so-called “Christian art” at all. What we are concerned with here are Christians whose calling is design or art. In other words, believers in Jesus who are convinced that their place in the world is a designer or artist. So, what does … Continue reading →
This is an ongoing problem. I have a heck of a time getting my students to make a professional presentation they can use for their portfolio. Designers need to be able to make a presentation to their clients. The list goes on. I got iWork with my new aluminum iMac — Keynote is pretty (much better looking than PowerPoint), but still just a very slick, good-looking PowerPoint. The problems, of course, are a lack of vector graphics, a lack … Continue reading →
I’ve been on this bandwagon for years now, but when are we going to get an InDesign-level program for Web design?Dreamweaver certainly is not it. GoLive worked better before they killed it. I hear that Dreamweaver works reasonably well for coders. It’s certainly a pain for page layout specialists like myself. We really need something that enables us to put together pages and a site without having to constantly mess with the code. I certainly do not have to … Continue reading →
I put off WordPress for years, and now I know why. Coding! What a PITA! Anyway, I’ve beat the thing into rough shape — now maybe I can get some work done. Spring here is finally getting started. I hope it is good where you are also. For us it’s been in the 60s day and 40s night, my favorite weather.
Continue reading →WhatTheyThink Economics & Research Center – Printing Industry Economics, Trends and Research. I know this is not news to any of you, but the level of change is really remarkable. I hope the link above takes you to Dr. Webb’s article, as it is excellent — a sober analysis of what is happening to theprinting industry as a whole. It is a time a real change and excellent opportunity.
Continue reading →We decided to move everything from Blogger to our site. It will take a while to get everything set up, but this is where we’ll post from now on.
Continue reading →As these things usually do, the structure and policies have changed quite a bit since I first mentioned them. We had to make a major distinction between the font designer apprenticeship and the digital publisher apprenticeship at Radiqx Press. The font designer apprentice is available at http://bergsland.org Here at Radiqx, everything is ready to go. Thorough instructions are available on the site, but the official policies are in the 2009 Radiqx Academy Apprenticeship Handbook. This handbook is available for download at … Continue reading →
All my life has been spent in the pursuit of accessing the creativity of God. At least it feels like that from inside here. To day I saw an article from the best of all Web design sites: A List Apart. In the article “The Elegance of Imperfection” by David Sherwin I found these concepts expressed beautifully by what we would consider a non-believer (I think) using Zen as a primary source. Of course, that is true in … Continue reading →
This is a must read article from Advertising Age on the immediate impending death of cable, newspaper, network TV, and more. As publishers we really need to keep on top of this. We haven’t really comprehended how much is going to change.
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