Articles Archive for June 2010
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Are you sick of using Comic Sans or Kristen ITC for all your designs in Kids Ministry?
There are a ton of websites that offer fantastic free fonts for you to download to your computer that can make your design stand out!
Below I’ve grabbed a few of the great fonts from my personal favourite font site- www.dafont.com
These fonts are a great start for a kids ministry font collection- they are exciting, relevant to kids and will look great in whatever you use them for!
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One of the most used resources for any designer is textures… if you can find the right texture, you can make anything look amazing!
lostandtaken.com has put a set of 8 amazing stained paper textures on their website for you to download for free. In all my years of design, these are some of the best paper textures I have seen on the web, especially for free!
Click here to visit their website and download these amazing textures. Enjoy!
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Why is it that some designs seem to stand out among others, and yet when we stop to look and understand why, we cant?
Here are 5 rules that every designer should know to help them create something that will grab attention… and from the right audience!
1. Hierarchy
2. Balance
3. Contrast
4. Relevance
5. Simplicity
Read on for an in-depth look into each of these principles, and how you can learn from them…












