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oliver - who has written 13 posts on GoMediaZine.
I'm a designer, art director, illustrator, bowling captain, bass player, shortshop, strategist, and much much more. Follow me on Twitter and check out my Flickr
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Continue reading...From the Portfolio: Maylene & the Sons of Disaster
Monday, February 23, 2009
This is a design from roughly a year ago. While I was pretty excited about it at the time, I look at it now and get disappointed.
Continue reading...From the Portfolio: Triple Five Soul
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Client: Triple Five Soul
Continue reading...Barack Obama Portrait Deck on UrbanOutfitters.com
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
In August, the Obama campaign was running a contest for the next Obama T-shirt. I thought to myself “Self, you don’t like John McCain, and you certainly don’t like Sarah Palin. You DO like drawing, fresh ideas, and what Barack Obama will bring to this mess of a country that we’re living in.” [...]
Continue reading...Help Go Media on Design by Humans!
Friday, September 5, 2008
I had some spare time at home last week and thought I’d submit something to Design by Humans’ 10K contest. I tweaked another piece from 2006’s Concentric Series into a tee. I actually think it will make a better shirt than the design that won shirt of the month in June,which is currently [...]
Continue reading...Concentric Downpour wins Shirt of the Month
Friday, July 25, 2008
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 comment, or bought one. It’s already sold out in medium and large! [...]
Continue reading...“Concentric Downpour” Printed on DBH
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Another Design by Humans winner for Go Media. I tweaked one of the pieces from the Concentric Series to work as a shirt design and it won shirt of the day. They did a great job with printing, and making sure the artwork flowed onto the back of the shirt. Big thanks [...]
Continue reading...Help us get our shirts printed and get an Arsenal Discount Part 2!
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Hey friends! We’ve posted another design on Design by Humans. You readers did a great job of supporting Jeff’s first submission so we figured that we should keep you all updated on more DBH postings. This is our second submission and it is the apparel version of one my “Concentric Series” prints. [...]
Continue reading...Application advice for creative jobs
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Because we’re looking to expand our staff here, I want to off some key advice to anyone applying. IT IS ALL ABOUT PRESENTATION!! Some of these things are common sense, but you’d be surprised how many people don’t think about what they are doing when applying for a job. If anyone [...]
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- Drawing a Tattered Scroll from Scratch
- How to Create a Photorealistic Ladies Tee Mockup
- Advanced Hoodie Video
- Amazing Distressed T-Shirt Mockups in less than 3 Minutes
- Intro To 2.5D Compositing in After Effects [Video Tutorial]
- Adobe Photoshop CS5: Sneak Peek [video]
- How to create realistic T-Shirt Mockups
- Gigposter Design: The New Sex
- Vector Freebie & Micro Tutorial: Seamless Swirls
- Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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