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George Coghill is the editor of Go Media 'Zine and a freelance humorous illustrator/cartoonist specializing in mascot cartoon character design & cartoon logos. His cartooning & illustration work can be seen at CoghillCartooning.com and at his cartooning and illustration blog. Be sure to follow me on Twitter here!

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Blank Canvas: Creative Resolutions

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

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It’s that time of year again. January first always seems to bring out the best intentions in people, and us creative types are no different. Some may choose to lose weight, get in shape or quit a bad habit. But Go Media is curious what you the design community wants to change, improve or quit [...]

Go Media Instagram Challenge

Thursday, December 9, 2010

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So who hasn’t heard of Instagram by now? If you haven’t, it’s a photo-sharing service based around a free iPhone app. It’s huge, and to be honest I’m not exactly sure why. You take photos, add an optional retro filter to it, then upload and share to people who follow you. Kind of like Twitter [...]

Scriptographer

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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Scriptographer is a pretty amazing plugin available for Adobe Illustrator. It basically frees the user (at least those familiar with JavaScript) from relying on a third-party developer to create the plugin or script that you have in mind, by allowing you to create it yourself. I’m going to start off by saying that I don’t [...]

Blank Canvas: Students — What’s Missing From Your Classes?

Thursday, December 2, 2010

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Blank Canvas: Students — What’s Missing From Your Classes?

Go Media has a large student readership. We’d love to hear from you regarding your current classes and offered classes — what’s missing? I know back in my college days, it was a far different environment than it is today. The school and professors were considered reputable in their field, yet I found some of [...]

Blank Canvas: Stock Photography

Thursday, November 18, 2010

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For this installment of Blank Canvas, Go Media Zine would like to get some reader feedback on stock photography. Do you use it? What’s your favorite site? Do you sell your own stock photography? For the most part, when stock photography comes up for a project, I tend to use iStockPhoto. They have a pretty [...]

Ai to Canvas HTML5 Plug-in

Thursday, November 11, 2010

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Hot on the heels of the Adobe HTML5 Pack, here’s a handy new Adobe Illustrator plug-in from Microsoft’s MIX Online web developer resource site that will export vector and bitmap artwork directly to an HTML5 canvas element that can be rendered in a canvas-enabled browser. The Ai->Canvas plug-in enables Adobe Illustrator to export vector and bitmap artwork [...]

FoldRite Template Master plugin for Adobe InDesign

Thursday, November 4, 2010

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The FoldRite Template Master plugin for Adobe InDesign by Fold Factory is an interesting niche tool for working with folded paper. Paper is dimensional, and if it is to fold into itself to form a brochure, the panels that fold in must be slightly smaller to accommodate for the thickness of the sheet, and for subtle [...]

iPad Magazines: DOA?

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

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Khoi Vinh, former design director of the New York Times website, has a recent post where he opines that the current crop of iPad magazines (and tablet-based magazines in general) “run counter to how people use tablets today and, unless something changes, will remain at odds with the way people will use tablets as the [...]

Adobe Illustrator: Opening Tricky Files

Thursday, October 7, 2010

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Sometimes files just don’t want to play nice. And usually when that happens, there’s a deadline looming. Knowing ahead of time how to get out of a tricky situation can make the difference between having time to do the job at an easy pace, or pulling your hair out. I’ve come across two handy Illustrator [...]