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12 Tips for Flawless Service & Happy Clients
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...How to Win at Design by Humans
Tuesday, September 9, 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...The Beauty of Package Design: Inspiration and Tips
Tuesday, August 19, 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...Crazy Idea? Go Media Offers Design Help via Twitter
Friday, August 15, 2008
Go Media is trying something new here. We’re using our official twitter account to offer design help and customer service. Crazy? Maybe. Basically, designers like you can ask a question and we’ll try to answer it. It’s like having a know-it-all designer working next to you that you can bug [...]
Continue reading...15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry – 3 of 3
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
In an effort to help further educate designers about things they should NOT be doing, here is the last installment of the popular 3-part Mistakes series. Part two talked about staying original, following directions, utilizing the medium to its fullest, showing respect to fellow designers, and when to release source files for your projects. If [...]
Continue reading...15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry – 2 of 3
Thursday, July 31, 2008
5 more mistakes make up part 2 of the 15 mistakes series. This article covers issues such as lack of originality, following directions, and other bonehead mistakes made by designers.
Continue reading...15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry – 1 of 3
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Designers in the music and apparel industry are some of the most talented designers around. I’m willing to bet there isn’t a sector of graphic design that allows more creativity and more artistic freedom. Despite the amazing talent and style, the “scene” suffers from a few fatal flaws that need to be remedied. [...]
Continue reading...Moving beyond Freelancing: 4 Insights to Growing your Design Firm
Thursday, July 17, 2008
I received a series of questions from a freelance designer concerning how to grow from being a one-person freelance designer into a “real” design firm. I thought I should share my answers to her questions with you. Here is the exchange we had – starting with her first e-mail. Mary’s e-mail: Hi Bill, I’m a graphic designer [...]
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 (1400)
- Gigposter Design: The New Sex (313)
- Free Vector Pack 9 Sampler (260)
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- Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography (189)
- How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D (176)
- 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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45+ Excellent Website Analytics/Monitoring/Counter Services
Everybody needs to track their website visitors. Not everybody has the right tools. Here's a compilation of 45+ web analytics tools, each of which, has a unique feature sure to satisfy your needs. Check them out and monitor your visitors!
- Dainis Graveris
13 Beautiful Wordpress Showcase Sites
This article shows you beautiful showcase websites, which collects WordPress based blogs and delivers long run inspiration.
- Gizelle
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
http://tpgblog.com/2009/07/03/pricing-passwords... - derekkimball
10 Awesome Photoshop Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts You Probably Don't Know!
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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