Hot Topic T-Shirt Wall Game: Name That Designer!

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I thought this would be a fun game. I’m sure you’ve been into Hot Topic and looked up at the t-shirt wall for inspiration on designing tees. You might even have the pleasure of seeing one of your OWN designs up on the wall. Or you might recognize the [...]

Inspiration: Designers Who Started Their Own Clothing Line

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: As I’m writing the “Designers Guide to the Apparel Industry” eBook that I plan to release soon, I started to take notice of WHO are the role models that inspired this book. Essentially, who are the designers who started freelancing and eventually started and now run a successful clothing [...]

Design Show: Go Media’s Dirty Laundry

Go Media is airing our laundry for all to see! All GoMediaZine readers are cordially invited to our first annual Design Show “Dirty Laundry.” Please come and partake in our celebration of the past year, and allow us the opportunity to share with you our design process. Tasty hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be provided. [...]

Best of GoMediaZine: Apparel Industry

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I’ve been working on an eBook tentatively titled “The Designer’s Guide to the Apparel Industry.” During my research, I’ve realized that we’ve actually written a LOT about the subject in the past 3-4 years. Articles that I have completely [...]

GMZ Reader Special: The Making of Andrew Jackson

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hey Go Media Zinesters, Jeff Finley here. If you didn’t know, I actually spent all of August working on new Arsenal and Zine stuff exclusively. To be specific, I was working on some really rad tutorials. One of which you folks read last week about how I created the [...]

Design Process: Creating the Cover Art for Parachute Journalists

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I’m going to show you all how I went about designing the cover art for my band’s new single “24th of January.” Listen/Download for free here. If you aren’t aware, 2/3 of Parachute Journalists are members of Go Media: Jeff Finley (me on drums), and Adam Wagner who’s voice [...]

Iconic Poster Design Tutorial (with video)

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hey I’m Jeff Finley and I’m going to show you how to make an iconic poster using the new Vector Set 18 from Go Media’s Arsenal. I sent out an email to all our Arsenal customers and the two things they wanted most were more tutorials and to show [...]

State of the Union: Grunge Design

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Grunge design was getting popular when I got started in 2004. I was inspired by the artwork and branding behind the underground punk, metal, and hardcore music I listened to. Naturally their aesthetic seemed to be riddled with dirt, grime, and blood because it seemed it fit the bands [...]

Tutorial: Iconic Poster Design