Category: Communication

  • Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize Wish

    I just watched this amazing talk by Jamie Oliver about the need to teach children about food, and it gave me chills the whole way through. Watch it below, or on TED. Jamie came in with a chip on his shoulder, I think it’s his strong passion that made this talk so compelling. He calls…

  • Logo Design: Kansas City Carpet Care

    I enjoy the process of designing a logo – understanding what the client wants their logo to represent and putting the pieces together in a simple and memorable icon. I spent my mid- to late-teenage years cutting vinyls and installing them on vehicles and signs, so I can appreciate the use of simple images and…

  • Making Your Newsletters Remarkable: Be Yourself

    Standing in tension with my last “newsletters” post, where I discussed speaking your audience’s language while creating newsletters, is the need to be yourself. My favorite newsletters to read as a kid weren’t the pretty, glossy ones, but a black and white with cut-and-pasted photos newsletter from a relative living in Mongolia. It’s wasn’t professional or…

  • Making Your Newsletters Remarkable: Speak Their Language

    If you’re involved in fundraising or connecting friends and supporters with your mission, ministry or cause, writing newsletters is probably an important part of what you do. Among my friends here at YWAM Denver, it’s always “newsletter time” for someone. I’ve been writing newsletters for nearly 9 years, and would like to share a couple…

  • Photography that says “I love you”

    Jonathan Harris has explored different methods of collecting and sharing stories, using technology and photography.  Watch this video and be inspired to look at the world through different eyes. I’ve been really inspired by his project in Bhutan.  I’ve usually considered photography as an medium that communicates to an audience.  But what does photography communicate…