I had the pleasant experience of hanging out with Mel McGowan yesterday afternoon for a light chat and a good cup of coffee. For those that don’t know, Mel is one of the founders and key principals at Visioneering Studios, a creative architectural powerhouse. Although they are the largest firm that services ministries and churches, [...]

One of the increasing areas that many ministries and churches are spending their time, resources, and energy into is that of the specific ministry environments that their congregation and visitors experience. Out are the rustic halls of old smelly buildings and in with creative full-experience environments. Check out this one that features Toy Story:

I get a number of emails from the community every week asking me questions that I really am not very equipped to answer. Thankfully, we have a community here and around The 8BIT Network which means that I don’t feel the pressure at all to be the go-to source for everything. *Whew!* I received an [...]

Could this look any more gorgeous? Someone decided to do some HTML5 tests implementing a full 8-bit color cycling engine that renders HTML5 in real-time. It’s freakin’ sick and it’s open source too!

Coca-cola has some seriously great advertisements. During the warmer months, they market themselves as the perfect addition to your summer; during the colder months, they’re synonymous with polar bears and even Santa Claus himself. I recently caught their Happiness Machine commercial and loved it. Have you seen it?

Zaha Hadid‘s work speaks for itself. This Iraqi-born, London-based, Pritzker Prize-winning architect is one of the field’s leading theorists and lecturers, and has seen dozens of projects realized since founding her firm in 1980; keep reading to check out some of her best.

Advertisements are everywhere. We see about 3,000 different types of advertisements a day. Standing out from the crowd is a difficult task for advertisers and their products. So why not just use your surroundings. Check this creativity and ingenuity:

Continuing some of my architecture-type inspiration posts, check out these pieces to be inspired from the Roman Empire. You might feel like you’re back in middle school but let’s get over that, ok?

I love how the church that I am a part of takes the time to design and develop nice bulletins. Now, I’ve heard all the arguments for and against church bulletins but I still think they have value and that people do use them (and take them home). Here’s what North Point Community Church had [...]

In a pretty sharp contrast to last week’s post on the anti-ornamental Bauhaus, here’s a quick overview of Baroque. The Baroque movement, spanning the 16th-18th centuries, built off Renaissance and Mannerist precedents to create extravagant and emotional works of art and architecture. Sharp contrasts between foreground and background, and between light and dark aimed to [...]