(From 2005) This was a little bunch of interviews that I decided to begin a while ago. I interviewed a few people and never really finished. The premise behind this series was that a lot of people in the design industry seem to think that porn is okay to put into work because it isContinue reading “Jake Stutzman – Design, Art, & Porn from a Christian Perspective”
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Mike Cina – Design, Art, & Porn from a Christian Perspective
(From 2005) This was a little bunch of interviews that I decided to begin a while ago. I interviewed a few people and never really finished. The premise behind this series was that a lot of people in the design industry seem to think that porn is okay to put into work because it isContinue reading “Mike Cina – Design, Art, & Porn from a Christian Perspective”
Christian Acker – Design, Art, & Porn from a Christian Perspective
An interview from 2008 – designer Christian Acker responds to questions pornography, art and design.
Tilman – an interview from Niphal.com
Should your faith in Christ affect the way or what you design? Yes. No. Well, “should” is not the right word. Faith SHOULD not affect you design. It just does. I mean, running around and saying “man, there should be more faith in my design, let’s squeeze some holiness in it!” is not a good idea.
Dean Peters – an interview from Niphal.com
Dean, your site HealYourChurchWebsite.com is quite critical of church websites as far as I can see. You don’t mind telling people that they are pretty much being useless online (if that is the case). Is this true? Are churches/Christians being useless online?
Mike McKenna – an interview from Niphal.com
Did you find much Christian influence when it came to learning the discipline of design? Not so much in terms of being influenced by other Christians in the way I design. What I learned when I was growing as a designer was to pray–a lot. I started my own web design company at the worst possible time from a national economy standpoint. Plus, I had a newborn baby. And my the stuff I was designing was junk.
Karen and Ben Beilharz – An interview from Niphal.com
We are Ben and Karen Beilharz, people who are married to each other and (just quietly) enjoy student administration most of the time. This is fortunate because we like each other and are employed in student administration.
Design: Niphal, a Website for Bad Christian Design
I used to run a website called Niphal. In my mind, there was a lot of bad Christian design and bad design by Christian organisations in general. I wanted to raise the profile of good Christian design. I think it worked, at least within the Christian community that I moved in and the circles thatContinue reading “Design: Niphal, a Website for Bad Christian Design”