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Quick Tip: The Adobe Exchange
Here’s a quick tip for all you Adobe software users out there: The Adobe Exchange. What is it? The Adobe Exchange (which seems to have recently been renamed to the Adobe Marketplace & Exchange) is a community resource to share and download lots of extras for your Adobe software products: Actions, Brushes, Custom Shapes, Displacement Maps, Filters, Flash Panels, Gradients, Droplets, Patterns, Plug-ins, Scripts, Styles, Templates, Symbols, Patterns [...]
Continue reading...Create a Complete Apparel Tech Pack
27. June 2009
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 your vision! [...]
Continue reading...10 Great Time-Saving Mac Utilities For Graphic Artists
17. June 2009
Need more time in your design day? Put that Mac you bought to good use and let it do the work for you. This post covers some time-saving productivity/utility software gems for graphic designers, illustrators and any other creatives using Mac OS X, including some great plugins and utilities for Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator.
Continue reading...Rule Seven: Composition: putting it all together.
14. April 2009
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 on the secrets of adding depth and [...]
Continue reading...Don’t Be A Whore!
26. February 2009
10 Tips to help designers avoid being taken advantage of. If you’re freelancing or just starting your own design company, you may be in jeopardy of being a whore. That’s right. Some seemingly sweet client may come along, wine and dine you, bend you over the back of the couch, have their way with you – [...]
Continue reading...Rule Six: Motion
15. January 2009
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, I’m simply talking about creating a sense of [...]
Continue reading...12 Tips for Flawless Service & Happy Clients
31. December 2008
12 tips for improving your e-mail correspondence with your design clients. Hey true believers! At Go Media we’ve started having in-house “classes.” Basically any designer from Go Media that has some good advice to pass along to the staff will schedule a time to do a quick presentation. Everyone in the office can choose to attend [...]
Continue reading...47 Essential Resources for T-Shirt Designers
24. November 2008
Interested in starting your own clothing line? Or maybe you just want to get an edge on some of the other designers on the major social t-shirt sites. Either way, there is a world of resources to be discovered that can help you do both. This post will help you find all the tools [...]
Continue reading...10 Tips to avoid designer’s block.
20. October 2008
Ever feel like some days you can crank out amazing looking designs with little effort? Then on other days it feels like nothing is working, you’ve lost all your talent and you’ll never make another good design for the rest of your miserable life? Don’t panic – this is
Continue reading...How to make a vector pattern brush
1. October 2008
Hey everybody! I hope the last few weeks have gone well for you – whatever that may mean. I hope that you found at least a little time to soak up all the great resources and knowledge being shared around the design blogosphere. Finally I hope you enjoy this little tutorial and [...]
Continue reading...The Day After: Photoshop CS4 Resources
24. September 2008
We didn’t get a chance to beta test Photoshop CS4 here at Go Media, but it looks like a worthy upgrade. Here’s a collection of previews & feature lists of the latest & greatest Adobe Photoshop. If you’re in a rush here is the meat of what I gathered from picking through these previews: Photoshop CS4 [...]
Continue reading...First Look: Adobe Illustrator CS4
23. September 2008
Thirteen versions and twenty-one years after the very first Illustrator, Adobe is rolling out beta versions of Illustrator CS4. After so many iterations, you might wonder what Adobe could possibly do to make Illustrator CS4 worth the cost of the upgrade. In this preview, I am going to highlight the most noticeable [...]
Continue reading...How to Win at Design by Humans
9. September 2008
I talked with Marc Hemeon, one of the brilliant minds behind the t-shirt design contest site Design by Humans. If you can remember, they were the only company able to pull off the impossible Bold is Beautiful shirt a few months back. Oliver had also won Shirt of the Month with his Concentric [...]
Continue reading...How to Set up Your Wacom for Awesome Results
22. August 2008
A lot of you have asked about how to set up your Wacom for awesome results like this. In this post we’ll cover the basics of getting your Wacom working, some finer details of getting it to work well, and finally some tips for getting better at drawing with a Wacom. We use Intuos [...]
Continue reading...The Beauty of Package Design: Inspiration and Tips
19. August 2008
To me, the feeling of opening a well designed package exemplifies good design. All the little nuances contribute to an individual experience. This article will teach and inspire you about the beauty of packaging and working with your hands as well as your eyes.
Continue reading...Vector Freebie & Micro Tutorial: Seamless Swirls
28. July 2008
Hey it’s a Monday morning freebie! This one took a little extra time to make, so I really hope you enjoy it. It is (mostly) seamless, so you can drop it into your swatches panel and fill any shape with it. I say mostly because it went through a series of transformations [...]
Continue reading...- Gigposter Design: The New Sex
- Vector Freebie & Micro Tutorial: Seamless Swirls
- Beautiful Vector Illustration
- Old School Type - Line Gradients
- 14 Free Scatter Brushes & How-to
- An Angel Grows Wings. Animated Mask in Flash
- Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography
- Ornate Lettering Process
- From Sketch to Vector Illustration
- Badass Bling Effect in Photoshop
- Go Media User Link Feed (1398)
- Gigposter Design: The New Sex (313)
- Free Vector Pack 9 Sampler (260)
- Free Vectors: Set 8 Sampler (192)
- Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography (189)
- How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D (175)
- From Sketch to Vector Illustration (174)
- Designing Ultra SceneXCore Apparel! (174)
- Should Shepard Fairey Be Sued for his Obama Poster? (160)
- Become a Master Designer: Rule Three: Contrast, Contrast, Contrast (159)
- Create A Photoshop Tool Preset for Custom Text
- Quick Tip: The Adobe Exchange
- Behold its Greatness: The NEW Fail Sticker has Arrived
- Create a Complete Apparel Tech Pack
- Discussion: Do you publicly advertise your pricing?
- 10 Great Time-Saving Mac Utilities For Graphic Artists
- DIY Striped T-Shirt in 3 Easy Steps
- Degree or No Degree?
- New Go Media Affiliate Program
- Monthly Review – May 2009
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20 Outstanding Letterpress Business Cards
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These 20 letterpress business cards featured in this post are a great example of how effective letterpress business cards can reflect you or your company. - Gizelle
How to Create Out of Bounds Effect Plus Amazing Examples
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Out of Bounds or simply OOB is a technique used to add a 3D feel to a flat photo image. Its a lot of fun and pretty easy to do. - The Product Guy
From Liberating Your Password to Modular Innovation Trends
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10 Awesome Photoshop Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts You Probably Don't Know!
- Derk Kimball
What tools make you a better graphic designer? Here's my list of things I can't live without as a designer: http://www.derekkimball.com/tools-to-make-you-a...
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1. July 2009
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