Colors communicate meaning.
This should not be underestimated when you’re designing a website, logo or anything else.
Blue, generally receives a cool, calm, trustworthy, knowledgeable response. The color red, in contrast, is exciting, eye catching, fast acting and powerful.
Take a look at this color spectrum of logos:
This incredible photo of a ‘globular cluster’ (love that term!) called ‘Messier 55′ which is in the constellation of Sagittarius. It was taken by the ESO’s (European Southern Observatory) VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) infrared survey telescope.
The cluster is made up of tens of thousands of stars exceedingly close together, like a swarm of bees. About 160 globular clusters have been found in our galaxy, the Milky Way, mostly toward the centre.
That looks like a lot of stars huh? But what really blew my mind was the video below (also from ESO) showing just how SMALL it is in the milky way!
I love Churchm.ag.
It’s part of my daily “beat check” of technology blogs. The varied content here is a lot like Lifehacker, but the stories have a decidedly Christian spin. That’s why I was happy when Eric allowed me to write for it.
A couple of weeks ago, with Eric’s permission, I posted a link to my newsletter in the weekly Saturday/Sunday share post. I was honored when he subscribed.
This week I mentioned to my subscribers that I’d be giving away my first book Podcasting Church for free on Kindle today, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 between 3:00 am eastern (midnight pacific), and Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 2:59 am eastern (11:59pm on 5/16/12).
But wait, there’s more!
Copywriters come in all shapes and sizes. They pen advertisements, promos and general text, in print, radio, television, the web and more.
If something is read or needs to be read, copywriting happens.
My question is for the Christian copywriter, but this question encompasses more than a fulltime copywriter. It could also include pastors, church secretaries, web designers, and more.
What kind of copywriter are you?
With iPhones, webcams, and cheaper video cameras as well as larger and larger online video communities, it should not come as a surprise that teens are doing and using a lot more video stuff online.
Teenagers are always on the front lines of using the latest technology and finding creative ways to personalize these tools. The fact that there are now several free and online video editing tools out there to help them create better products is only adding fuel to the fire.
Imagine a wordless web.
An internet experience that had no words, except those embedded in images.
That’s what the Wordless Web project wondered, so they created a browser bookmark applet that strips web pages of all their text.
The results are interesting:
Erika Iris is a brillent artist.
She’s taken printed sheet music and transformed them into beautiful pieces of art.
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One of the biggest issues that photo and social media experts have been clamoring for from Pinterest, the latest social media network that has at its core a visual element, is a proper attribution with photos and graphics.
The fear is that people will pin an image on Pinterest, the attribute to the photographer will not be well represented, and after a couple of repins and likes, the origins of the image is completely lost.
The amount of money that is in photography and design work makes this need an essential for Pinterest to continue to survive.
Flickr has come along side Pinterest to improve the attributes of photos shared on Pinterest from its site. Here is a short quib from Flickr’s blog:
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