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Thoughts on Design Integrity. Getting what you want from your client
You’ve just been given a project and the client has made a list of demands that will surely result in a total design failure. Your integrity as a good designer is on the line… …WHAT DO YOU DO? Manage the client’s expectations BEFORE the project brief is even written. In an IDEAL world, the battle over [...]
Continue reading...Rule Seven: Composition: putting it all together.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Part Seven of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Ok Folks, This is it; part seven of seven. I’ve hopefully convinced you to limit your use of colors and fonts, taught you to provide sufficient contrast, suggested that you properly space your elements and let you in on the secrets of adding depth and [...]
Continue reading...Rule Six: Motion
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Rule Six: Motion – Have movement through your design. Part Six of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Movement? Are we talking about a video here? How can I have “movement” in a static printed design? It’s not a flip book we’re talking about are we? No, I’m simply talking about creating a sense of [...]
Continue reading...12 Tips for Flawless Service & Happy Clients
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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 Design a Font: {Part 4} Finishing Touches
Friday, December 5, 2008
Well this is it – the final part in my series “How to Design a Font”! Be sure to catch up with the previous articles in the series: Part 1: Get inspired Part 2: Draw up a Storm! and Part 3: Make it Digital Great now we’re finally into fontlab. This is pretty much the easiest part of [...]
Continue reading...How to Design a Font: {Part 3} Make it Digital!
Monday, November 17, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Katie in Copenhagen
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Last week I went to Copenhagen Denmark! I was there visiting my little sister who is studying there. Being of Danish decent it was pretty amazing to see where my family came from. While in Denmark I did the typical touristy stuff like visiting castles and really, really old churches but I also got to [...]
Continue reading...How To Design a Font: {Part2} Draw Up A Storm!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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 [...]
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 Design A Font: {Part 1} Get Inspired!
Thursday, October 16, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...The Day After: Photoshop CS4 Resources
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
We didn’t get a chance to beta test Photoshop CS4 here at Go Media, but it looks like a worthy upgrade. Here’s a collection of previews & feature lists of the latest & greatest Adobe Photoshop. If you’re in a rush here is the meat of what I gathered from picking through these previews: Photoshop CS4 [...]
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...What’s Your Opinion on Stock Artwork?
Friday, September 5, 2008
A recent comment by “Smutek” inspired me to ask this question. His comment was on Dave’s tutorial about designing on a budget. The tutorial covered the use of stock artwork (specifically Arsenal stuff) to create a pro-looking design in less than an hour for that client that wanted it yesterday and doesn’t have the [...]
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...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...- 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)
- Free Vectors: Set 8 Sampler (192)
- 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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- Last.fm - Jeff Finley
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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