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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Living In A Die-Cut World

11. September 2009

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Living In A Die-Cut World

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 [...]

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Create a Complete Apparel Tech Pack

27. June 2009

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Create a Complete Apparel Tech Pack

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Rule Six: Motion

15. January 2009

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Rule Six: Motion

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 [...]

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How to print giant designs onto shirts

22. May 2008

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How to print giant designs onto shirts

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 [...]

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Katie’s 5 Tips for Typeface Development

17. March 2008

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Katie’s 5 Tips for Typeface Development

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. [...]

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Become a Master Designer: Rule Four: Spacing Is Your Friend

31. January 2008

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Become a Master Designer: Rule Four: Spacing Is Your Friend

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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