This is our podcast podcast episode. This is a discussion about how to start a podcast and how to make it good. We cover everything from making sure you have good content to making sure your audio quality and other elements add to and don’t detract from that podcast.

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In this episode, we interview Marcus Pittman from Apologia Radio. Marcus is a filmmaker with a passion for Christians in business and in the arts. Topics include producing high quality content on a tight schedule, how design and filmmaking relate, businesses figuring out “new media” (like Youtube), and more.

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In this episode, we play our first voicemail! It’s a really good one, so we couldn’t resist the urge to have a little fun going James White on it (thanks, @joeyday!). Our main topic is the topic of vocation and design, as requested by @clint_little.

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In this episode, we talk to special guest Sarah about doing design work for churches and how church secretaries can avoid using Papyrus on everything. Sarah is an administrative assistant, where she does a fair amount of design work in addition to her other tasks; she’s also David’s wife. There are a lot of great resource recommendations and tips for non-designers who occasionally need to design things in this episode.

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In this episode, we tackle the issue of advertising in design and especially web design. When Apple released iOS9, their inclusion of support for ad blockers seemed to make the statement that they—like many people—think the current state of advertising in web design is getting out of hand. We tackle the issue of monetization, ads, trackers, and ad blockers from a Christian perspective and try to present a biblical worldview on the subject.

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Is skeuomorphism dead? In this episode we discuss the transition to flat designed the removal of Apple Calendar’s fancy Corinthian leather. We also have a discussion about just what UI design is and provide some guidelines for developers who might be trying to make their apps more useable.

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This episode is a discussion of form vs. function. What happens when you emphasize one unhealthily over the other? We talk about some examples of ugly products that work well and beautiful products that work poorly, and then wrap up by discussing how to avoid those pitfalls and how the Christian worldview informs this issue.

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We were both pretty busy and had some trouble picking with an idea for a topic for this week, so we talked about what to do when you have trouble coming up with ideas. How does one capture that elusive creativity.

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In this episode, we discuss shipping on time, shipping perfect, and just not shipping your final product.

If you would like to contact us, you can leave a voicemail at (707) 99–8547. You can also contact us on Twitter @HelveticPodcast.

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This episode discusses Bible design, from typography to binding and paper quality. We also talk a bit about how the Bible was written, read originally, and how that relates to modern reader Bibles and audio Bibles.

If you want to leave us a voicemail to play and discuss on the show, call (707) 99–TULIP.

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