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A while back, I was on Pilgrim’s newsletter committee. I was on it to specifically do some design and layout stuff. I spent a little time and came up with the following design. It was meant to be printed and photocopied in black and white, and mailed out to some of our members. Pilgrim has always been a place that was proud of it’s history and tradition, but also was friendly and open, so I tried to capture both in the design, and keep it relatively light.

It was never used partially because of some wierdness that I’ve never completely figured out, and partially because I was the only person with InDesign, so nobody else could edit it. (Plus I never got any actual articles to be laid out). Anyway, enjoy the pics. Let me know if you have any critiques. Click to make the images bigger.

The front page. My plan was to have the masthead image be an image of the featured ministry that month/quarter

This was a pain to figure out. I still do't like the use of space here, but there are some things I really do like (like that baseline)

The back page: I actually really liked the back page.

edit: And now that I’m seeing this on my blog, I’m definitely noticing some design similarities here.

And like Ariah, I shall use a list.

• How brainwashed are you? It’s not the name of the quiz, but it’s a good pseudo-name. I sadly got 89%. You should take it and tell me your score in the comments. Be honest in the taking and the reporting
• I may have figured out my personal political descriptor when it comes to American politics. At the moment I am an Optimistic Centrist. Centrist because there are things on both sides (of American politics)that I support and that I think are God-honoring. Optimistic because I much prefer to find and/or vote for the better good ideas than to pick apart and/or vote against the bad ones. I still am unable to vote in the states, so this is all theoretical anyway.
• I will be in Trinidad for at least a week in the summer. I’m considering blowing off a particular annual summer commitment to be there for two weeks, but we shall see.
• The sad part is that my being in Trinidad may affect my being in Atlanta for Atlanta:08 which would be horribly sad.
• I need to stop being a 26 year old in a choir of teenagers. I’d much rather work to empower the tenors to stand on their own than be their crutch keeping them upright. We’ll see what happens next 5th Sunday (which, by my count is in June)
• The question of what country/job/life situation I will be in come October is still very much up in the air (but descending slowly) definitely pray for wisdom guidance about it.
• WordPress 2.5 is really pretty nifty so far.
• Web stuff in process – check out www.thereforegointl.com

Ok here ends the update. I’m going to bed now