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Create a Complete Apparel Tech Pack
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...Shading with Watercolor Textures
Thursday, April 30, 2009
This tutorial will try and show an alternative way of using the watercolor texture files (as most of you know, you can download Go Media’s watercolor texture pack here, or you can try and make some of your own by painting them and scanning them into a digital format) in order to give some color [...]
Continue reading...From the Portfolio: Maylene & the Sons of Disaster
Monday, February 23, 2009
This is a design from roughly a year ago. While I was pretty excited about it at the time, I look at it now and get disappointed.
Continue reading...Illustrate a Malevolent Skull in 8 Steps
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
In the tutorial I will go over how to create a cool looking malevolent skull that can be used for bands, t-shirts, or just vector art of your choosing.
Continue reading...From the Portfolio: Jedidiah Clothing
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Client: Jedidiah Clothing Designer: Jeff Finley Designer: 2007 This shirt design was one of the designs I completed for Jedidiah Clothing back in 2007. It was accepted, but I still have never seen it printed or for sale. As a designer, even though you were paid to do a design, the client may not have found [...]
Continue reading...Pointers for Designers Working with Apparel Companies
Monday, December 29, 2008
There is often a disconnect between an artist and a screen printer. Problems often arise when there is a lack of understanding of the print process and a lack of communication between the designer and client. Screen printers get mad when a customer sends them a job that has a bazillion colors and [...]
Continue reading...47 Essential Resources for T-Shirt Designers
Monday, November 24, 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...Tennery Typeface & New Apparel Templates
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Watch out! It’s Big November at Go Media – and that not only means tons more awesome design resources to spice up your upcoming projects, but a whole new & improved Arsenal. We’re kicking it off with the Tennery Typeface and latest installment of Apparel Templates. Tennery I remember when Oliver started working on [...]
Continue reading...T-shirt Template Freebie
Thursday, October 23, 2008
It’s been a little while since we’ve had a freebie on the Go MediaZine, and an email I got this morning provided the perfect opportunity. Here’s what Jan had to say about the Fitted Ladies Apparel Templates we just released: Adam, I just love your t-shirt templates for both guys and girls and as a shirt [...]
Continue reading...How to Create Awesome T-Shirt Mockups Like Jimiyo
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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 [...]
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...Go Media Vectors Found on Tees at Target
Saturday, September 6, 2008
I mentioned in my post about the usage of stock art that I found some poorly designed interesting tees at Target that abused featured the Go Media Vector Packs. Joe had asked what tees I was talking about so I am posting them here. Some of the designs are kinda neat, and others are [...]
Continue reading...Help Go Media on Design by Humans!
Friday, September 5, 2008
I had some spare time at home last week and thought I’d submit something to Design by Humans’ 10K contest. I tweaked another piece from 2006’s Concentric Series into a tee. I actually think it will make a better shirt than the design that won shirt of the month in June,which is currently [...]
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...How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups
Thursday, August 7, 2008
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 [...]
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.
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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!
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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
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