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Design Solution: Indie Coffeeshop Corporate ID
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Design Solution: we give an imaginary project at the Go Media designers, and ask them to give us an overview of how they would approach the project. Not so much a tutorial on how to create the artwork, but rather how to tackle all of [...]
Continue ReadingDesign Process: “Sick” Metal Band T-Shirt
23. September 2009
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: This is the first in a new series we’re going to run on Go Media ‘Zine: Design Process. We’re going to throw an imaginary project at the Go Media designers, and ask them to give us an overview of how they would approach the project. Not so much a [...]
Continue ReadingLiving In A Die-Cut World
11. September 2009
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I spot die-cut Assuming you’re in the print or design community, I’m sure you can appreciate my hyper-awareness to the massive amounts of die-cut materials sprinkled throughout our every day lives. Scattered around my kitchen, I’m seeing cereal boxes, pizza cartons, even the regular mail is [...]
Continue ReadingCreate a Complete Apparel Tech Pack
27. June 2009
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: So you just spent 10 or more hours creating a crazy t-shirt design and your client has officially signed off…so what now? You may have created stellar photo-realistic mockups and used tons of really cool colors- but none of this means ANYTHING if your [...]
Continue ReadingRule Seven: Composition: putting it all together.
14. April 2009
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Part Seven of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Ok Folks, This is it; part seven of seven. I’ve hopefully convinced you to limit your use of colors and fonts, taught you to provide sufficient contrast, suggested that you properly space your elements and [...]
Continue ReadingRule Six: Motion
15. January 2009
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Rule Six: Motion – Have movement through your design. Part Six of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Movement? Are we talking about a video here? How can I have “movement” in a static printed design? It’s not a flip book [...]
Continue ReadingHow to print giant designs onto shirts
22. May 2008
I thought this was pretty cool. For those of you who wonder how this kind of printing is done, here is a good example. Just get a machine like this! Demonstration video of the 12 color Workhorse Falcon E Duplex Automatic Textile Printer. Oversized 47″x40″ honeycomb pallets from Action Engineering [...]
Continue ReadingKatie’s 5 Tips for Typeface Development
17. March 2008
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Some of you may know, I’m a typography nut and I have created a few fonts for Go Media’s Arsenal. This article is little precursor to a more extensive article that we’ll submit later on about finding inspiration for typeface and font development. [...]
Continue ReadingBecome a Master Designer: Rule Four: Spacing Is Your Friend
31. January 2008
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Part Four of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Sorry for the long delay in releasing this latest installment of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. We have been slammed here at Go Media and I literally haven’t [...]
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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
30. September 2009
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