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Interview with Illustrator Dan Mumford

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Can you start by telling us about who you are, what you specialize in and where you’re from? My name is Dan Mumford, i am an illustrator/screen printer and i live in London. I know you had formalized study in illustration, did you always plan to do band art [...]

Weapons of Mass Creation Interview: Geoff May

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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Weapons of Mass Creation Interview: Geoff May

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Welcome to the second installation of the Weapons of Mass Creation video interview series. Not sure what this is all about? Read the kick-off article to get caught up! Our first interview was with Richard Minino, otherwise known as HORSEBITES. If you missed it, you can watch the first [...]

How to Create Fanatics as a T-Shirt Designer

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: How To Create Fanatics as a T-Shirt Designer Quick…think of the top 3 most popular t-shirt designers that you know of. You probably came up with names like Geoff May, Jimiyo, Wotto, Collision Theory, Corefolio, Godmachine, and many more. Just how did these graphic designers become household names in [...]

Print Technique: Reflecting on Strike-Through Varnish

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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Print Technique: Reflecting on Strike-Through Varnish

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: When most of us want to add additional flair to our print project, we automatically look for elaborate finishing processes to help us accomplish this, forgetting that a well-designed spot varnish can really take the perception of quality and design up a few notches. Unfortunately, most people look to [...]

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 [...]

Go Media’s Rapid-Fire Illustration Technique

Monday, August 24, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Go Media’s Rapid-fire Illustration Technique Hey Designer and Illustrator faithful! It’s time for another wicked tutorial from your brethren here at Go Media. I had a particular project I was working on recently that I thought would make a great tutorial. The technique I would like to share with [...]

Create a Complete Apparel Tech Pack

Saturday, June 27, 2009

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

Shading with Watercolor Textures

Thursday, April 30, 2009

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

Designers’ Guide to the Apparel Printing Industry

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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Designers’ Guide to the Apparel Printing Industry

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Over the last couple of years the GoMediaZine has been a cookie jar full of tips, tutorials & practical advice about designing for apparel. There have been in depth tutorials, lots of inspiration, a fantastic three-part series full of experience & advice – we even showed you how to [...]