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15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry - 2 of 3

5 more mistakes make up part 2 of the 15 mistakes series. This article covers issues such as lack of originality, following directions, and other bonehead mistakes made by designers.

Zine Features You May Have Missed

It’s late at night and I saw we hadn’t posted today. So I wanted to point out a couple things on our site that you may not be familiar with. I don’t really mention them much, but take a look…

How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings

Everyone loves to give away free vectors, but what about teaching a man to fish? Here's how to create your own wings Go Media style. In this tutorial you'll need Adobe Illustrator and some skills with the pen tool.

Vector Freebie & Micro Tutorial: Seamless Swirls

Hey it’s a Monday morning freebie! This one took a little extra time to make, so I really hope you enjoy it. It is (mostly) seamless, so you can drop it into your swatches panel and fill any shape with…

Jeff’s Weekly Review July 21-29

Judging by the welcoming response to last week’s review, I’ll go ahead and continue with this one. You suggested that I keep posting the reviews because it reminds you that you’re either a) slacking off and need to get to…

Concentric Downpour wins Shirt of the Month

It’s been a few weeks now, but I’m extremely happy to say that my first DBH Submission, Concentric Downpour, has won shirt of the month for June on Design by Humans! A big thanks to everyone that voted, left a…

15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry - 1 of 3

Designers in the music and apparel industry are some of the most talented designers around. I’m willing to bet there isn’t a sector of graphic design that allows more creativity and more artistic freedom. Despite the amazing talent and style,…

Become a Master Designer: Rule Five: Add depth to your designs.

Part Five of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Catch up on the first four rules here First, let me apologize for the long hiatus I took from this particular series of articles. It’s been really busy around here. I…

Vector Freebie: Night Lights

Be honest - is this what you would see if you took off your coke-bottle glasses on a late night drive home? These out of focus night light vectors can add a sleepy, dreamy feeling to a design. This freebie…

Jeff’s Weekly Review July 14-18

Here I am back again for another weekly review. Are you readers getting any value out of these reviews? I’m not sure. It’s good for ME to do them to stay organized, but what is in it for our readers?…

How to create realistic T-Shirt Mockups

An Arsenal First!

If you’ve hopped over to the Go Media Arsenal lately you might have noticed quite a few recent updates. In the last two weeks we’ve released a new motion pack and two new fonts. I’m pretty excited that the new graffiti font…

Moving beyond Freelancing: 4 Insights to Growing your Design Firm

I received a series of questions from a freelance designer concerning how to grow from being a one-person freelance designer into a “real” design firm. I thought I should share my answers to her questions with you. Here is the…

How to make an animated GIF with 8-Bit Characters: Part 2: Animation

In the last post, I showed you how to make 8-bit characters in Adobe Illustrator. In this post, we will animate those characters in Adobe Photoshop using the Animation Window. 1. CREATE A NEW PHOTOSHOP DOCUMENT To Begin, open up a new…

Jeff’s Weekly Review July 7-11

I should have done this on Friday, but I ended up working on this new article I’m writing all the way until the end of the day. The new article is about common mistakes made by designers in the music…

Vector Freebie: Floral Wallpaper

Hey designers! Today we’re posting free floral vectors reminiscent of old wallpaper. There are four vectors in all. Two main floral designs as well as two grungy variations. Go Media Freebie: Floral Wallpaper