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Color Management: Calibration and Profiling

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Introduction Welcome to the second post in our color management series. Be sure to check out Part One if you haven’t already done so. Today we’re going to talk about the importance of calibrating and profiling your input & output devices in your color management workflow. This is probably [...]

Anatomy of a Band T-Shirt

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The “band t-shirt” project can be quite enticing for designers and illustrators. Want to know what goes on behind the artwork? Jeff Finley of Go Media shares his personal experiences of the ins and outs of designing t-shirts for bands big and small – on the business side of [...]

Color Management in Adobe Photoshop

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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This is the first part of a comprehensive detailed series of posts guiding you through the image editing process step by step from profiling your display and managing your color space and settings, to profiling your printer and preparing your work for print out, to saving and distributing your work on the web.

Getting Into Graphic Design: Q & A with William Beachy

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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Getting Into Graphic Design: Q & A with William Beachy

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Go Media receives countless inquiries into the nature of the design business from students all over the world. This posts shares a recent round of Q & A with Go Media president William Beachy. Who was your mentor and what was the most important thing they taught you? I [...]

An Interview with Bill Beachy: Go Media President

Friday, October 30, 2009

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An Interview with Bill Beachy: Go Media President

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: After countless hours of looking at type, learning how type and image work together, filling up sketchbooks, learning how to code HTML and CSS and even sleeping in the art building, two soon to be “little fish” in the big sea that is graphic design wanted to get to [...]

Designing for the Film Industry: Interview With Go Media’s Jeff Finley

Thursday, October 1, 2009

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Designing for the Film Industry: Interview With Go Media’s Jeff Finley

Another great interview with Go Media’s Jeff Finley over at Colorburned. Jeff shares his process and insight regarding his goal to design for movies and the film industry. Lots of inspirational and motivational advice for any designer looking to do the same, regardless of industry. Plenty of great Finley movie poster design as well.

Design Process: “Sick” Metal Band T-Shirt

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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Design Process: “Sick” Metal Band T-Shirt

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: This is the first in a new series we’re going to run on Go Media ‘Zine: Design Process. We’re going to throw an imaginary project at the Go Media designers, and ask them to give us an overview of how they would approach the project. Not so much a [...]

Polishing Your PSD: 3 Friendly Reminders for Front-End Sanity

Friday, July 24, 2009

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Polishing Your PSD: 3 Friendly Reminders for Front-End Sanity

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: So you’re a visual designer who wants to suck up to a certain front-end hat guy. Wouldn’t it be a great gesture to clean-house and organize your file so the slicer doesn’t ‘slip’ and accidentally butcher your brilliant work? Some firms carefully distingush the roles of visual designer and [...]

12 Tips for Flawless Service & Happy Clients

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

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12 Tips for Flawless Service & Happy Clients

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 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 [...]