TheGdfc Magazine: Be apart of it!
By Adrian Rodriguez • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story, TheGdfc News and Updates
Want to be a part of our very first magazine? A Christian Design Magazine? Check out the hot topic on the forums and see if you want to be a part of an awesome opportunity.
As designers we stumble across many websites containing news and articles about the latest design trends, software, websites and more, but manyof them aren’t Christian, and most contain more than we ask for. TheGdfc is journeying onto their newest project: Gdfc: A magazine for Christian web and graphic designers. A magaine that includes faith built messages and approaching the Graphic and Web industry at a Godly perspective.
The magazine articles will be featured througout the site, bust about 75% of the magazine will be in pdf format and available for download for free! That’s right FREE! No if’s, and’s, or but’s. A Christian pdf magazine about design, how about that!
Check out some of the topics suggestions and members views on this new project. If you aren’t a member, why not sign up? If you are, why not take part of this project? And if your just sitting in your seat saying, “Man this is going to be sweet!” Then spread the word brotha and sista!
We are dedicated to making the internet a better place for Christians and Christian designers alike. This is a new step and I encourage you to be apart of it.
Adrian Rodriguez is a Designer and Developer from Arkansas. His website is www.adrian-rodriguez.net
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Saw your posting at http://www.magazinelaunch.com and thought I’d respond on a personal level. I am a Christian and a designer (magazine designer, to be more exact), and as such, I would value an interesting, educational design magazine. However, I do wonder what there will be different between another design magazine (like say Dynamic Graphics magazine) and a Christian-centered publication. Design, by default, is (or I would think should be) religiously neutral unless called for by those in need of a service. Even then, though, the need would be visual-specific and not overall.
In other words, if someone said “Design me a Christian-oriented magazine” that wouldn’t mean anything. It’s the actual content that would direct the message, and the design needs to reinforce that. But how you reinforce that would be ruled by who your audience/reader is going to be.
So let’s say two clients come to me and both say they want a magazine targeted at twenty-year old music lovers, based on other popular publications out there. Are you saying that there will be that much of a difference in how the magazine is designed?
So my interest is piqued. I would like to see how you tackle those issues.
Thanks for the comment. You see, I have searched and searched for a Christian Graphic and Web Designer magazine, but it was hard to come by. In fact, I have yet to find any. I thought this would be a great help for those who are just starting out, in which it could show the potential build up of each person involved in this project.
It is not so much to beat out competition on any sort, but instead to show what God can do through us.