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Rule 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 we’re talking about are we? No, [...]

How to print giant designs onto shirts

22. May 2008

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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 (approx. $695 per pallet) are [...]

Katie’s 5 Tips for Typeface Development

17. March 2008

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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. As a designer I have found [...]

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 been able to touch anything except paying [...]

Become a Master Designer: Rule Three: Contrast, Contrast, Contrast

10. October 2007

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Become a Master Designer: Rule Three: Contrast, Contrast, Contrast

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Part Three of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Read Rule 1 and Rule 2 digg_url = ‘DIGG_PERMALINK_URL’; Good contrast in your design goes hand-in-hand with your color selections. Contrast is the value difference between the colors on your design. Value is how bright or dark the [...]

Become a Master Designer: Rule Two: Limit Your Colors

5. September 2007

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Become a Master Designer: Rule Two: Limit Your Colors

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Rule Two: Limit your colors. Part Two of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Rule Two: Limit Your Colors. Sounds a lot like the last rule of limiting your fonts right? Exactly! We want to limit our colors for the same reason we want to limit our [...]

Become a Master Designer: Rule One: Limit your fonts

22. August 2007

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Become a Master Designer: Rule One: Limit your fonts

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Part One of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Ok, “master designer” might be a bit of a stretch – but you can at least become a “proficient designer” by following 7 easy principles. This will be the shortest, most informative series of blog posts you’ve ever [...]