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Ingredients:
Process:
How many of you want to be punished? What should you do to be punished? How many of you want to be forgotten and left alone? If I would do a poll asking if you want to be punished, I would get zero result for yes. Nobody normal wants to feel the wrath of God.
Here is the recipe to be punished by God. Follow the steps and you will get it
When you see all those things happen around you do not ask yourself why you country sinks. When the people follow those steps do not question why life seems worthless. But you… you have a holly fear only of God. Please read 2 Kings, 17 chapter especially to see what happens to those that deliberating do not follow God, even if He continues to try to speak to them.
I was contacted by Marketing Support company to design for them a 4 page brochure. Actually it is kind of a folder.
In the first step I did some research on pharmaceutical marketing. Marketing Support Romania has as main field of expertise the pharmaceutical marketing. This brochure is targeted to this are of marketing, but in the same time they requested that the brochure could be used for other companies as well. If it would have been targeted 100% for the pharmaceutical field, than the brochure was more high-tech, with bottles, pills and chemical signs.
After the research was done, I had to decide on the colors I was going to use. I worked on color palette, that I later used in the graphic design process. I was provided with Marketing Support logo. But, I didn’t like the colors, the tints actually. After the color palette was chosen, I stepped to deciding the fonts and the point size that I’ll use. The logo I was provided with was actually in word, so I had to redo the logo it in Adobe Illustrator.
The next step consisted in creating the general layout. Because it is a simple brochure with only 4 pages I decided to do all the main work in Adobe Photoshop. I had to do some work on this because from the first place I already had an idea on how the brochure should look. In the end I got a better result than my original idea. Of coarse the color palette had to be tweaked.
After the fun part, came the DTP work. Many may say that it is just a cop-paste process. But that is not right. You have to fit everything to look just right. Play with the font size that I chosed and in the same time tweak it a bit. Because it the main target for this brochure is the pharmaceutical field I used as bullets a pill. I made the reflection and look for the best positioning of the bullet regarding the paragraph.
After all this was done, I had to take care of the graphics and images to use in the brochure. This took me a while, but in the end I was happy with the results.
Of coarse in all this process the client was involved. I provided them with plain versions and also 3D ones of the brochure’s preview. I asked the people from Marketing Support Romania if they like what I did. They send me their feedback and I did the changes accordingly, without the debates on what is best to do. This process repeated a few times, until it materialized in the final version of the brochure as you can see bellow…


Amen to all of that in my life
Dear God,
Thank you for discovering me what I should ask from you. I am most honored that you spoke me and showed me what I need, what I should desire. So, please God:
AMEN
For a long time and even now people have been living with The Law. Not by The Law, but with it next to them, not knowing what is it. What The Law really means for their life. The Law is like a technical book that comes with us. When you buy a vacuum cleaner they give you a technical book. You have to read it and use your new vacuum cleaner obeying the specifications listed in the technical book. The same is with us. We have this technical book. If we want to function well, we have to do as it asks us to.
When Adam and Eve ate from the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil they died in terms of innocence. They were no more innocent. They came to know what is good and what is wrong. And like this they became to know the bitterness of sin. God never intended us to feel bad about anything, so He made us pure. But, because He is a loving Father, God gave us the right to choose. He lifted us on a huge cliff, God gave us a magnificent power – the free will. Then the man saw left and right, saw what is good and what is bad with their full meaning. Before the man knew that he has the power to choose, that there is wrong and there is good, but he knew just what follows the good, and not the bitter taste of sin.
By the time of Noah, we see a transformation in the human kind. We have 2 states:
A. total innocence that knows nothing more than being good
B. total sinner that knows nothing more than being bad
In all this time until Noah we see a decaying of the human race. God decides to give the humans another chance, starting all over again with people that really loved Him. God gave common sense another chance to prove itself. He let the thing inside us, that came to birth by the time Adam and Eve ate the fruit, show that it has really the power to turn us to Him. When God saw once again that the humans turned back to sin with much speed, He decided to use another tactic. So, God choose a had of people and called them His. This was the Judaic people. But, also them didn’t bring a happy smile on God’s face all the time. Then God gave to His people the law, even if we all had by that time the common sense in us, our conscience.
It is like we buy the vacuum cleaner but in the first place they don’t give us the technical book, because they supposed that because we know how to use the vacuum cleaner we will use it in a good way. But we keep coming with the device back because it is broken. It gets repaired and so on. But one time we are given the technical book: “Here you are! It seems that even if you know how to use the vacuum cleaner, you forget sometimes. So here is the technical book. Read it over and over again. Your conscience is not enough it seems. Read it, apply it, read it again, write it on your hart, write it in your mind over and over again.
1-5 Dear friend, do what I tell you; treasure my careful instructions. Do what I say and you’ll live well. My teaching is as precious as your eyesight—guard it! Write it out on the back of your hands; etch it on the chambers of your heart. Talk to Wisdom as to a sister. Treat Insight as your companion. They’ll be with you to fend off the Temptress — that smooth-talking, honey-tongued Seductress. Proverbs 7:1-5
But, it seems, that this didn’t work either because the wickedness of man.
God gave us one more chance through His Son. God planned so Jesus would die for us. This implies that the man would change from inside out. It is a total different way of transforming. But before this God send someone to prepare the path of His Son. And here John appears in the scene. Take some time and read what John said to the people that came to him…
7-9 When crowds of people came out for baptism because it was the popular thing to do, John exploded: “Brood of snakes! What do you think you’re doing slithering down here to the river? Do you think a little water on your snake skins is going to deflect God’s judgment? It’s your life that must change, not your skin. And don’t think you can pull rank by claiming Abraham as ‘father.’ Being a child of Abraham is neither here nor there—children of Abraham are a dime a dozen. God can make children from stones if he wants. What counts is your life. Is it green and blossoming? Because if it’s deadwood, it goes on the fire.”
10 The crowd asked him, “Then what are we supposed to do?”
11 “If you have two coats, give one away,” he said. “Do the same with your food.”
12 Tax men also came to be baptized and said, “Teacher, what should we do?”
13 He told them, “No more extortion—collect only what is required by law.”
14 Soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?”
He told them, “No shakedowns, no blackmail—and be content with your rations.” Luke 3:7-14
From now on, God’s new plan for us starts. A whole new perspective appears in front of our eyes.
The transitions of mankind were tough and we sadden God. He has no other backup plan for us. God gave for us what He had most precious – His Son. Jesus Christ died for me and you, so that we would really get transformed from within.
Yesterday evening, I went to a meeting with the other people from Iasi that have blogs. It was good to know that there are others interested in the subject. I knew just one of them – Ciprian. The rest of them were unknown to me. We were quite a few there (alphabetical order): Adrian Mi, Adrian Mo, Alex C, Alex P, Andrei, Ciprian, Ines, Mădălina, Sebi. It was good to know other people that have blogs. Maybe sometime we could actually do something significant, that I’ll feel with.
Some time ago I wrote about the multi touch technology tweaked by Jeff Han and his team. Now I found that Microsoft adopted Jeff’s research and implemented it in a commercial product (Microsoft Surface) that will be shipped this year. So, my dream of my future computer will be soon possible, in less than 4 years.