Have a project that you need something in foam?
Linda Lanning (Sunshine Community Church in Grand Rapids) ordered 13 letters of the alphabet from Arvron. They were 4′ tall, 2.5″ thick and $21 each. “They had lots of sizes of Styrofoam also, if you need a backdrop or other items that are large but you need light weight and portable etc.”
Arvron
4720 Clay Ave. SW
Grand Rapids, MI, United States
Tel: (616) 530-1888
Fax: (616) 530-9232
www.arvron.com
Josh (Central Weslyan in Holland) has had simple and complicated foam pieces produced by Falcon.
Falcon Foam
8240 Byron Center Road SW
Byron Center, MI 49315
Tel: (800) 917-9138
Fax: (800) 626-9942
www.falconfoam.com
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Holland Litho
10972 Chicago Drive
Zeeland, MI 49464
Tel: (800) 652-6567
Fax: (616) 392-7444
www.hollandlitho.com
I know that Josh (Central Weslyan in Holland) frequently uses Holland Litho’s weekly “Combo Run.” I have yet to choose them (because I can get better prices from www.overnightprints.com on 6×4 postcards, using the coupon “postcardsale”).
However, I thought I’d post the Holland Litho Combo Run Sheet. UPDATED!
My contact there is Mike Baarman.
I have used Holland Litho for several other specialty projects and been very pleased!
Building Beyond Cube
Connection Point (Visitor’s Packet) “brochure”
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Want to know how 65# cover compares to 110# index? Or 24# bond to 70# offset? Different paper weights can be a challenge to compare. Here’s a link to a conversion table that is helpful.
http://www.paper-paper.com/weight.html
With the Internet at our finger tips, there are many great tools that communications leaders can get their hands on. Some are free, some cost, but when we learn how to use them, these tools can help us reach audiences that never heard our message before. They can also help us increase our creativity and get our messages out in new ways. Below I’m sharing a few, I’ve used, but I’d love to hear what resources or companies you’ve had success with and how you’ve used them.
- Photos.com and istockphoto.com are two great resources for adding people or unique images to your design projects. Photos.com has a handy subscription service with a flat annual fee and
unlimited number of downloads. istockphoto.com has a great variety that includes vector images and more. istock offers watermarked sample images that you can mock up your design with before purchasing the un-watermarked version. istock charges per credit but you can get many images for about 10 credits (which ends up at about $10-$15). As with anything on the Web, keep in mind that there can be images that are not friendly to the moral mind so you’ll want to be cautious and on guard when searching for images
- A simple but wonderful photo processing tool that’s free is Irfan View. As much as I like Macs I’d keep a
PC around just to run Irfanview because it’s so sweet for batch processing images if you’re running on a PC. However, I must note that if you have but are not using Adobe’s Bridge then you’re missing out. Bridge is a wonderful way to sort through thousands of images quickly and has some nice batch processing (renaming, keywording, rotating, etc.) available. If you don’t have Bridge, I’d definitely ge a hold of Irfanview. For some areas that want to be able to work with lots of photos but don’t have a budget for Photoshop, we’ve set them up with Irfanview and it’s been a big help for basic viewing, slideshows, re-sizing, and rotating. It’s not Photoshop, but it’s a mighty little viewer and processer for your images
- The Church Marketing Lab on Flickr is a great way to see what other churches are doing and the cool ideas that are out there. You can sign up and share your own ideas.
- Granger Community Church has a heart for sharing ideas of what they’ve done with others. Through conferences, workshops and blogs, leaders at GCC are really doing cool stuff to get the word out and connect people. Check it out at Wiredchurches.com
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We talked briefly about “Guerrilla Marketing” and low/no-cost
marketing at the May 20 meeting. Here are some of the things we
discussed (and several we didn’t). What are some of the methods you’ve
used with success or failure? What is something you wish you could
convince “them” to let you try?
* Sidewalk chalk art on your campus and/or around town.
* Temporary tattoos
* Posters/invite cards on local business (grocery store, laundry mat,
etc.) bulletin boards.
* Buying down the price of gas (and pumping it for customers) at a
local station for a few hours.
* Ads in (your or local business) restroom stalls and above (or in)
urinals.
(This summary of the roundtable is courtesy of Becky at Cottage Design)
So what do you do for gorilla or unique marketing to get your info out? Post a comment.