May 2007


Go Media's Arsenal: Memorial Day Sale

On May 28 and 29, two days only, you can save 25% on everything you purchase at Go Media’s Arsenal. So on those days, just visit the following link and enter “memday07″ as your discount code and enjoy your savings. This includes all our vector packs, texture packs, fonts, and signature series.

http://www.gomedia.us/arsenal

One a side note, we’ve begun production on Vector Pack 6 and we hope to have it available in June.

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The Fall of Troy gigposter design

Tutorial Introduction:

A lot of people are making them. A lot of people suck. We don’t suck, and neither do you. This tutorial requires NO drawing talent… so don’t trip folks. You will however need Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or higher and Illustrator CS2 or higher. My name’s Dave, and this is my first ever solo tutorial. I’m very unorthodox and direct… so forgive me if I lose you guys during any part of this. I’ll do what I can to answer questions for people who think my tutorial is too confusing.

So we’re going to make a gig poster! Subject matter: Deftones and The Fall of Troy in Cleveland, Ohio at the House of Blues on May 30th. Why are the Deftones not first, you ask? Because I like The Fall of Troy better… and this is an unofficial poster, so who cares?

Let’s get to business.

So what to make? Hmmm… something fierce. Maybe something militaristic? Considering the legendary event of the fall of Troy… we’ll go that route. After searching through (more…)

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Knowville Illustration by Dave Tevenal

About twice a week I will get a letter from a student or young graphic designer that asks me a variety of questions. Typically they are questions like: “How do I get started in the design industry?”, “What software should I study?”, and “How can I work for Go Media?”

After writing lots of very long emails, I thought perhaps I should put together an article of my answers and post it here so that everyone can read it.

I want to stress that these are only my opinions (I’m William A. Beachy). These are not necessarily the opinions of everyone at my firm (Go Media Inc). And, they are only that: opinions. There are a great many ways to design, a great many ways to get into the industry and a lot of different pieces of software. I can only give you my recommendations based on my personal experiences. If I say something that does not fit with what you’re doing – don’t necessarily stop what you’re doing, Just take my advice and log it in your brain. Over time you will figure out what works for you.

So here goes….

Does Go Media offer internships?

We do have very few limited internships. We are typically looking for designers that are in their junior year of college. Basically, you need to have enough skills to come in and be a productive employee. While you will learn a lot as an intern (more…)

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New Go Media Site!

Over the past few months, we’ve been making time to redesign our homepage at gomedia.us. We went with a really minimal and clean approach. We put the artwork in the foreground and tried to make it as easy to access as possible. We took out a lot of the fluff and really got down to what we are all about. So check out this no-nonsense redesign of Go Media!

http://www.gomedia.us - click to see the new design

Please, comments and critiques welcome.

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