As of this writing our Go Media User Showcase has 143 entries and 98 members. A small improvement over last week, but I’ll take that. Here are a couple pieces that I liked:
I liked this first one because of the original drawing. He definitely has some drawing skills and used our vector packs to help enhance the piece. It looks a little like our Atticus poster but that’s ok. The drawing itself is nice.
SubConArt:
The design below has a nice color scheme and a light feel to it. The vector packs used are subtle but effective in setting the mood.
arkaham:
Nice job you two. Everyone visit their flickr page to see more of their work! And keep posting your designs and you could potentially get showcased!
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I did a short interview with Carpal Tunnel magazine a month or so ago. Their latest ezine issue is out now and you can check out the interview here. We’re a bit of a ways down the page, but make sure you stop and look at all the other artists too. Some good stuff in there!
http://www.carpaltunnelmag.com/Design.html
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Over the past week, I was out of the office. I was on tour with my band, and it was a decent time. I’m not the biggest fan of touring, but it can be fun to go out on the road and play cities that you’ve never been before. Anyway, there is always a lot of time to kill before the show starts, so we would usually stop at the local malls for about an hour or so. In a Hot Topic in (I forget what the name of the mall is) Kansas City, a shirt graphic caught my eye. (more…)
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I’m sure many of you have heard the term “RSS” right? Well, it stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and my first few years of blogging and web design I completely ignored it. It wasn’t until 6 months ago I realized the power and fun behind RSS feeds. I noticed that all my favorite websites, forums, news portals, and blogs had them but for some reason, I didn’t care to click on them or learn about it. I sort of knew what they were about, meaning I could use some sort of RSS reader to view the blog. Why would I want to do that when I can just visit the website every day? I had my routine of visiting about 5-6 websites every single day and I was happy with that. But then it hit me…
I kept hearing all this hype about Netvibes and Google Reader. So, like most people, I ignored it the first 20 times I scanned past it in the news articles I was reading. But I eventually wandered over to Netvibes and decided to give it a try. After about 15 minutes I was addicted like a giddy little web nerd. (more…)
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Howdy. This is week five of my series, and here are three more tips. I hope you enjoy them!
1. Time saving keyboard shortcuts: Really, every shortcut I learn makes using illustrator much more natural, but here are two biggies:
1. Ctrl+F pastes directly in front of the copied object
2. Ctrl+B pastes directly behind the copied object.
These two shortcuts are really essential in Illustrator, especially when using the pathfinder. Ahh, the pathfinder…
Ps- here is the whole list of keyboard shortcuts from Adobe: Keyboard Shortcuts
2. Learning how to use the Pathfinder
I had no idea what the Pathfinder did before Go Media, but I realized very rapidly that I needed to figure it out. My second night back home I sat down with the Illustrator, opened up ‘help’, started figuring out the powerful pathfinder.
The Pathfinder can combine shapes, cut one shape out from another, keep only the shape where two other shapes overlap – and so much more. If you’ve not exploited the power of the Pathfinder to do more stuff with less effort, now is a great time to learn it.
3. A Richer Gradient:
1. Make a regular gradient
2. Copy the gradient and Paste in Front using Ctrl+F
3. Change the pasted gradient to a solid color that is slightly lighter than the shade in the middle of the gradient.
4. Move the solid color to the back with the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+[
5. Change the blending mode of the gradient to multiply from the drop down menu in the Transparency pallete.
The result is a gradient with richer, and probably darker tones than the original.
Many of the technical tips in this series are pretty simple, but when combined and applied they represent the technical tricks I’ve learned at Go Media to make things look better, faster. And there is still more to come! Till then, happy designing.
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Here’s a vector freebie. Probably the first in a series of random free vectors that we’ll give away. Some will be pieces from actual Vector Packs from the Arsenal, others will be random stuff that never made it. This particular free vector piece is from the Ornate set. It’s got a lot of detail and was hand crafted by our designer Dave. Enjoy!
Download Free Vector Ornate
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