Publishing for children and youth was focus of first conference; design was at center of second course.
They were publishers, editors, and staff members of Christian magazines for children and youth. So, the participants at the Conference on Publishing Magazines for Children and Youth were not surprised when they looked around and saw that nearly everyone had raised a hand in response to the question as to who had become a Christian believer before the age of 20.
Children are the key to the future, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the church, where leaders are drawn largely from the ranks of those who came to Christ as children. That’s no secret to the representatives of 14 magazines from seven countries in Eastern Europe, North America, and Asia who attended the conference in Croatia earlier this month.
Nine speakers from the U.S., Russia, Malaysia, Ukraine, Romania, and Austria covered a wealth of topics related to publishing magazines for children and youth in plenary sessions and nearly 20 workshops. The conference especially for publishers of Christian magazines for children and youth was the first of two week-long conferences and a one-day workshop organized by the Magazine Training Institute in Crikvenica, Croatia. The second week-long conference, a Design for Magazines course, drew some 40 staff members of 24 magazines in 12 countries in Eastern Europe and Asia.
The course was taught by veteran trainer Gary Gnidovic, design director at Christianity Today International (CTI), Anne Elhajoui, freelance designer and former art director of Discipleship Journal, and Kevin Thomas, design consultant and director of design for Word-Design Communications in Malaysia.
Between the two larger events was a one-day workshop on Creating Christian Comics, taught by Nate Butler, president of Comix 35/Rox35 Media, Inc. Butler, who worked for more than 20 years as a cartoonist and graphic artist, has taught some 30 comics seminars internationally.
All three conferences were offered with translation from and into English, Croatia, Romanian, and Russian. The design manual was available in five languages.
Children are the key to the future, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the church, where leaders are drawn largely from the ranks of those who came to Christ as children. That’s no secret to the representatives of 14 magazines from seven countries in Eastern Europe, North America, and Asia who attended the conference in Croatia earlier this month.
Nine speakers from the U.S., Russia, Malaysia, Ukraine, Romania, and Austria covered a wealth of topics related to publishing magazines for children and youth in plenary sessions and nearly 20 workshops. The conference especially for publishers of Christian magazines for children and youth was the first of two week-long conferences and a one-day workshop organized by the Magazine Training Institute in Crikvenica, Croatia. The second week-long conference, a Design for Magazines course, drew some 40 staff members of 24 magazines in 12 countries in Eastern Europe and Asia.
The course was taught by veteran trainer Gary Gnidovic, design director at Christianity Today International (CTI), Anne Elhajoui, freelance designer and former art director of Discipleship Journal, and Kevin Thomas, design consultant and director of design for Word-Design Communications in Malaysia.
Between the two larger events was a one-day workshop on Creating Christian Comics, taught by Nate Butler, president of Comix 35/Rox35 Media, Inc. Butler, who worked for more than 20 years as a cartoonist and graphic artist, has taught some 30 comics seminars internationally.
All three conferences were offered with translation from and into English, Croatia, Romanian, and Russian. The design manual was available in five languages.