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Collaboration! Two samurai (artists) are more powerful than one.

21. December 2011

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Illustration Collaboration Hey Go Media faithful! As Go Media has evolved over the years, we’ve learned that collaboration with other artists and designers can be a very powerful tool when trying to deliver the very best product to your client. Different designers have different skill sets. When Go Media [...]

Introduction to InDesign

2. November 2011

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Page layout is not as glamorous or interesting to a lot of designers and digital artists as creating t-shirts, posters and album covers. However, page layout is an important function for a lot of design projects, and there is an opportunity to do quite a bit with a layout. While QuarkXPress was [...]

The ArtCast Network

27. April 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: This one goes out to all you illustrator types. Children’s book illustrator Dani Jones was an early adopter of using online video such as YouTube and live broadcast video service Ustream to share her tips, techniques and talents with others. Over time she had found that there were quite [...]

Fave Font: Knockout

6. April 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: We all have our favorite bunch of typefaces we use on a regular basis. When I first started out I was a font-a-holic downloading every free font that I could get my hands on. Over time, perhaps I’ve become less adventurous, but I’ve limited my pool to just a [...]

Design Solution: Indie Coffeeshop Corporate ID

30. September 2009

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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 the logistical details. This [...]

Design Process: “Sick” Metal Band T-Shirt

23. September 2009

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Design Process: “Sick” Metal Band T-Shirt

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 [...]

Living In A Die-Cut World

11. September 2009

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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 filled with standard [...]

Create a Complete Apparel Tech Pack

27. June 2009

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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 screen printer can’t clearly interpret [...]

Rule Seven: Composition: putting it all together.

14. April 2009

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Rule Seven: Composition: putting it all together.

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 let you in [...]