by Jason on January 2nd, 2012 | 6,112 views |
Despite my best efforts as a teacher, it’s sometimes hard to get through to students. This fall I co-taught a graduate level course for Northwest Nazarene University entitled “Communicating Visually”.
One of the most challenging weeks centered around the use of references in design.
A few years ago, Midnight Oil Co-founder Len Wilson and I wrote a book called Design Matters: Creating Powerful Imagery for Worship. In it we spend a lot of time talking about what references are, their benefit to visual communicators, and how to effectively use them. The concept of references was taught to me in commercial art school, and while it’s as clear as can be in my mind, my students this year had a hard time grasping the concept. I wrote a followup post to give them a more complete description, which I’m told made everything much more clear.
I thought that post might be helpful for other budding designers out there, so I decided to repost it here on the blog. Here it is: Read the rest of this entry »
by The MO Guys on October 21st, 2010 | 815 views |
Get all of our educational and training resources for one low, discounted bundle price!
With our library of educational resources expanding, we’ve decided to bundle them all together into one discounted resource. The new Midnight Oil Education Library includes all of our best theoretical and practical material for making you the best creative worship image maker you can be. Here is a list of what is available:
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by Len on October 4th, 2010 | 747 views |
The Kids Eat Free program at my church, Trietsch, serves around 120 kids every weekday of the summer months. Most days these kids would otherwise go hungry until after their parents get home late. What is more amazing about this video? The story of serving underprivileged kids lunches during the summer months? Or the fact that the young man leading the ministry is sixteen years old?
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by Stephen Proctor on March 3rd, 2010 | 998 views |
This is the first in a series of special posts written by friends of Midnight Oil. These guest bloggers bring unique insights into the interface of image and ministry. We hope you learn from their experiences and find useful applications to your own context.
As I’ve been on the road having conversations with pastors, worship leaders & techies who are all trying to figure out how creativity works in worship, I have had a growing burden to gain a clearer understanding of what true, biblical worship is. I have much to learn and more scripture to dig into than i can comprehend. Here are some of the main things that have stuck with me, and here are some questions I’m asking myself in hopes of finding the answer to “What is Visual Worship?”.
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by Jason on February 23rd, 2010 | 1,788 views |
There’s no doubt that we live in a visual culture, and that culture has become less and less interested in the institutional church. While we have the most powerful story to tell, the way in which we tell it is often the least powerful way for the time in which we live.
Quite often, the reading of scripture in worship is the least engaging moment of all. Rather than approaching scripture as story, scripture is often shared in a dry, emotionless way or done as a broken, monotone, congregational reading. With screens so prevalent in worship now, the most common approach to scripture in worship is to just put the text on the screen and hope that people read along. Are any of those methods really very effective for our visual culture? Probably not.
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