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How to Design a Font: {Part 3} Make it Digital!

17. November 2008

The Grid Now that you have your font pretty well figured out it’s time to get into the computer. First things first, setting up Illustrator. I like to first turn on the grid. This is the easiest way to transfer your font from the grid paper to the computer. To turn on the grid go to [...]

Advanced Hoodie Video

16. November 2008

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How To Design a Font: {Part2} Draw Up A Storm!

29. October 2008

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How To Design a Font: {Part2} Draw Up A Storm!

Terminology Before we get into the meat of this tutorial I want to give you a crash course in font terminology. I know it’s not exactly the most exciting thing but I seriously think it’s good for you to know this before we get too far. Sans serif: A type of font that doesn’t have accents [...]

How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D

27. October 2008

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How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D

In this tutorial I will walk through the steps I used to create this illustration to bring alive the word “collide.” While you may not find yourself needing to recreate the word “collide,” I hope you will find useful the techniques I will cover: - extruding text in Cinema 4d - using displacement maps in Cinema 4d - [...]

How to Create Awesome T-Shirt Mockups Like Jimiyo

21. October 2008

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How to Create Awesome T-Shirt Mockups Like Jimiyo

EDITORS NOTE: Jimiyo is showcasing a template from Vol. 2 of Fitted Ladies Apparel Templates, which we’ll have ready for release in November. For now, check out Vol 1. Go Media gave me the chance to test out their new women’s t-shirt templates, and I have to say, they are awesome. High quality, crisp images [...]

How to Design A Font: {Part 1} Get Inspired!

16. October 2008

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How to Design A Font: {Part 1} Get Inspired!

I haven’t written a blog post in a while so I thought it was time I jumped right in and did a tutorial series about fonts. There will be three more tutorials that will follow this one. Their forces combined will account for pretty much everything I know of how to make a font. So [...]

Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

13. October 2008

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Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

Hello, my name is Alex Beltechi, a designer that is currently studying in college and working in the print media realm. I would love to explain my vast experience and overwhelming knowledge to you, but due to the fact that I have no such qualities, I’ll stick to sharing what skills I’ve been developing lately, [...]

How to Create a Photorealistic Ladies Tee Mockup

21. September 2008

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How to Create a Photorealistic Ladies Tee Mockup

14 Free Scatter Brushes & How-to

3. September 2008

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I was screen spying on Go Media’s Chris Comella as he was working on a Smashing Pumpkins design in which the dense black typography was exploding shards in every direction. He placed every particle by hand (and it shows). I wondered if scatter brushes could be used to get a similar effect. Sometimes I [...]

How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups

7. August 2008

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How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups

When designing for apparel, presentation of your proofs is very important. A detailed image of a piece simply will not suffice as an adequate proof. You want to hit the design home, and mocking it up on a t-shirt is what’s going to do the job. Apparel designs are much different than regular print jobs [...]

Drawing a Tattered Scroll from Scratch

1. August 2008

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How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings

29. July 2008

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Everyone loves to give away free vectors, but what about teaching a man to fish? Here's how to create your own wings Go Media style. In this tutorial you'll need Adobe Illustrator and some skills with the pen tool.

Vector Freebie & Micro Tutorial: Seamless Swirls

28. July 2008

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Vector Freebie & Micro Tutorial: Seamless Swirls

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 [...]

Become a Master Designer: Rule Five: Add depth to your designs.

23. July 2008

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Part Five of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Catch up on the first four rules here First, let me apologize for the long hiatus I took from this particular series of articles. It’s been really busy around here. I have to squeeze these articles into my spare time (and I don’t have much of [...]

How to create realistic T-Shirt Mockups

20. July 2008

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How to make an animated GIF with 8-Bit Characters: Part 2: Animation

15. July 2008

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In the last post, I showed you how to make 8-bit characters in Adobe Illustrator. In this post, we will animate those characters in Adobe Photoshop using the Animation Window. 1. CREATE A NEW PHOTOSHOP DOCUMENT To Begin, open up a new document in Photoshop and make the dimensions the size you want your final animated gif [...]