We’re kicking it off with the Tennery Typeface and latest installment of Apparel Templates.

Tennery

I remember when Oliver started working on Tennery last summer. I was a big fan of it even in the early stages, and I think it shaped up into an incredible typeface. It’s really unique and yet totally applicable - and comes with three weights plus oblique versions. The lower case ‘y’ in Tennery is one my favorites. Definitely worth checking out.

Ladies Short Sleeved Templates

You may remember that last month the Ladies Long Sleeved Template Pack was released. Jimiyo wrote a pretty sweet tutorial about his process for mocking tees back then, but he was actually using an early version of our Ladies Short Sleeved Templates . A lot of you commented wanting to know when those would be available. Well today is the day!

We listened to your feedback about our first Apparel Template Pack and made a lot of changes for this latest version. They’re now in PSD format (no more Tiffs!), have layers that make it even easier to change the shirt color and new highlighting (in addition to shadows). The biggest change is probably how much easier it is to paste ‘Your Art’ right into the shirt area. No more mask dragging. Just paste & go.

Arsenal 2.0

Finally! We’re getting really close everybody. We’ve totally outgrown the current Arsenal, and we’re pretty pumped to be able to do a better job giving you fresh design ammunition. So get excited for more reliable downloads, forums, better search, and user accounts!

We’re opening the flood gates on new design resources. Look out for a ton of new stuff this month!

Here are some photos. If you wanna read the article, I suggest you swing by your local bookstore and pick up a copy:

More Photos after the jump

Orlando, FL, April 16, 2008 – Go Media Inc., won the Best Midwest Feature Design crown in Create Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Awards. Go Media conquered tens of other candidates to earn the title and was selected based on their innovative design and eye for detail. The award-winning work, a regional feature design titled “Webtechnologic,” dazzled the world in the Jan+Feb 2007 Midwest issue.

“Go Media was a true pleasure to collaborate with on this project,” said Create Magazine Art Director Kristen Schaeffer-Santoni. “Passionately taking the creative challenge to heart, the end result was a wonderful expression of their vision and skill. The design stands out on its own as well as complements the style of the magazine as a whole.”

Create Magazine has seen some fantastic creativity grace its pages in the last year. From advertising to design, writing to gadgets, the Create Team has singled out the best of the best in a showcase for the May+June 2008 issue. With fun quirky categories like “Most Likely to Make you LOL,” the Editor’s Choice Awards provide recognition based on a different set of criteria.

The May+June issue of Create Magazine will be on newsstands on May 12, 2008. Create is also available online at www.createmagazine.com for Create Magazine subscribers and Create Network members.

About Create Magazine
Create Magazine’s mission is to inform, connect, inspire and educate creative professionals. First published in 2001, Create Magazine is an award-winning, bimonthly creative industry magazine published for those who produce or use creative services and products. As a networking resource, Create Magazine provides an insider’s perspective on the people, news, trends and events that influence both local and national advertising and creative production industries. Each issue features articles by industry leaders and insiders who are the trusted source for information and commentary on the Advertising, Design, Printing, Photography, Film and Video, Animation and New Media industries. To find out more, visit Create Magazine online at createmagazine.com.

Go Media is fortunate enough to be included twice in the new Feb 08 issue of Computer Arts Magazine. Haley wraps up the 4 part tutorial series for cross-media design by explaining how to output a logo to a mobile device. And I wrote a tutorial doing some ornate typography from sketch to vector. Check it out:

From the article…

“Ornate lettering isn’t anything new. It’s been around for centuries and there are many ways to create it. You can get out your pens, pencils, brushes, rulers, French curves, and a compass; but I can almost guarantee that most young designers today would rather just use the computer than create it by hand.

The purpose of this tutorial is to give you an insight into my workflow and inspire you to create your own lettering. Have fun!”

Here’s an excerpt from the Cross Media design Part 4:

“In our November 2007 issue we began a series of tutorials showing you how to create brand artwork and adapt it for different media. We started off by creating a logo and a print ad, then animated the logo for the web, and last month brought it to life for broadcast with a range of special effects. We finish the series this issue with exporting an animation for mobile devices.

This tutorial will give you a breakdown of the different formats and procedures that you need to choose between. We’ll take a look at Adobe’s Device Central, a great resources for finding specs on the latest devices, and explore how it can be used to preview mobile content. We’ll also cover how to export to M4V, 3G, and FLV formats using QuickTime Pro and After Effects.”

So you can either pick up the issue if you’re interested in reading the tutorial or visit their website. www.computerarts.co.uk

I Want your Skull is an indie zine that showcases the art of skull illustration and design. It’s a pretty niche market, but it’s cool. This issue has a nice feature on Justin “Angryblue” Kamerer. The zine includes artwork from artists such as Dwitt, Doktor A, Shawn Hebrank, Kevin Mcnutt, Jerry Vigil, J. Statts, Tyler Kline, Mike Thompson, Eric Talbot, Alex Barrera, Miss Pinny, Shaun Friend, Punchgut, The Pit, Scott Benson, R.M. Hanson, Nate Nolting, Ryan August, Marald Van Haasteren, Ed Syder, and Jim Altieri.

Get your copy for $20 US here.

Well, not directly, but the Pepsi More website we built for Damon over at Communicator International won Best in Class in the Marketing category.

Damon and his crew at Communicator were hired by Pepsi to help market their campaign with the Black Eyed Peas. Communicator did what they do best and came up with all the great marketing ideas that formed the foundation for the website. Communicator hired Go Media to bring those ideas to life. Basically, we took all their ideas and developed the graphics, animation, and technology. They were the brains, while we were the creative production team. We’d like to thank Communicator for hiring us and trusting us with their project and Bernstein & Andriulli for hooking us up together.

The site scored extremely well on all of the judges criteria:

Design
Content
Feature Functionality
Usability
Standards Compliance and Cross-Browser Compatibility

For more information, check out the Interactive Media Awards

I did a short interview with Carpal Tunnel magazine a month or so ago. Their latest ezine issue is out now and you can check out the interview here. We’re a bit of a ways down the page, but make sure you stop and look at all the other artists too. Some good stuff in there!

http://www.carpaltunnelmag.com/Design.html

Here’s what it says:

“American design studio Go Media’s vector packs show that the grotesque can be beautiful with artworks of ornamentally framed skulls. Nature lovers among you should go for the individual vector packs Trees and Flock of Birds. To raise the temperature of your designs, opt for the individual vector packs Flames and The Sexy Pack. Go Media has collaborated with the Black Eyed Peas, Metallica, Virgin Records, Pepsi, and Coca-Cola.”

You can get all those packs at gomedia.us/arsenal

Here’s the front and back covers of the issue in case you want to pick it up. They will be at Siggraph 2007, which Bill and I plan on attending this year. If anyone else is going, maybe we’ll see you there!

Oh and by the way, we found this interesting: