January, 2011

Links for January 31st

Have you Hugged an Apostle Today? | Wendy McCaig

Beautiful words on how apostle type folks fit in the church and the world, and how this needs to happen.

tags:

church

activism

ministry

Links for January 26th

A List Apart: Articles: Sketching: the Visual Thinking Power Tool

"Sketching helps you generate concepts quickly, exploring alternatives rapidly and at no cost of resources. The looseness of a sketch removes inhibitions, granting clients and colleagues permission to consider and challenge the ideas it represents."

tags:

a-list-apart

creativity

design

sketching

Links for January 18th

tinySrc

This is an easy way to scale images to fit the display where they'll be used. This kind of thing is incredibly important as the conversations around web design that is responsive to device sizes and capabilities continues.

tags:

performance

tools

mobile

design

“Where do we go from here?” on King’s birthday

January 15th, 2011

Since I started blogging I have planned to write something for the Martin Luther King holiday, but I'm finally getting to it this year, and want to publish today, on his birthday.

Links for January 13th

Reclaiming the Mission » Death of a Church Plant – Some Reflections and Hope for the Future of Missional Church Planting

Observations on planting (real) missional communities – the struggles, needs, expectations, and approaches. I can't tell you how much these words (a bit dark though they are) have encouraged me that maybe it's not a lost cause for me to be deeply involved in such a thing.

tags:

ministry

church

missiology

mission

Links for January 11th

A List Apart: Articles: A Simpler Page

"How do you create elegantly typeset, gloriously balanced reading experiences when tablets render type differently and support different fonts, text can extend in every direction, and type can change size? Craig Mod (Flipboard, Art Space Tokyo) addresses these questions and presents the initial release of Bibliotype, an HTML baseline typography library for tablet reading."

tags:

books

css

typography

design

Links for January 6th

Nike Better World

Nike's new Better World site has some great HTML5, and also tries to show the role sports (and Nike) play in making the world a better place. Nike still confuses me, as I'm still not sure about the ethics of their manufacturing, but I do hear that they have improved?

tags:

design

html5