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

Thursday, October 1, 2009

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 [...]

Design Solution: Indie Coffeeshop Corporate ID

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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Design Solution: Indie Coffeeshop Corporate ID

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Design Solution: we give 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 tutorial on how to create the artwork, but rather how to tackle all of [...]

AddictiveHobby.com Looking for Artists to Feature

Friday, September 18, 2009

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AddictiveHobby.com Looking for Artists to Feature

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Attention all you creative types: Addictive Hobby (The Fountain of Creations) are on the lookout for new artistic talent to feature in their Trapdoor section. They have already featured top artists like Philip Straub , Henning Ludvigsen and the Nordic Art & Graphic Challenge 2008 [...]

Living In A Die-Cut World

Friday, September 11, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I spot die-cut Assuming you’re in the print or design community, I’m sure you can appreciate my hyper-awareness to the massive amounts of die-cut materials sprinkled throughout our every day lives. Scattered around my kitchen, I’m seeing cereal boxes, pizza cartons, even the regular mail is [...]

Retro Modernist Poster Design with 3D Typography

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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Retro Modernist Poster Design with 3D Typography

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: What you will learn In this tutorial, you’re going to learn how to create a vintage, retro-modernist poster in Photoshop. You’ll also learn some vintage coloring techniques, retro photo effects, and some cool 3d typographic effects. You’ll also need Adobe Illustrator to create vector paths [...]

15 Over-The-Top Business Card Designs

Friday, August 28, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Business cards are one of the elements of corporate design that should be pushed beyond just graphics, and converge with several processes to become what they should be: a memorable, collectible and impressive piece to be carried away everywhere. The following are perfect examples, and have overcome [...]

3D Typography in Photoshop

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Introduction In this tutorial we are going to go over various techniques you may have seen before, as well as a bulk of techniques that may be new to you. After you have completed this intense walk though, I assure you will be able to explore [...]

Go Media’s Jeff Finley: Interview at VectorTuts

Monday, August 17, 2009

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Go Media’s Jeff Finley: Interview at VectorTuts

Just a quick heads up to let our readers know about the extended interview by Sean Hodge with Go Media’s Jeff Finley over at VectorTuts. Jeff shares design, illustration as well as design industry insights, along with related thoughts on graphics software, balancing the personal and business aspects [...]

Print Indie: Logo Lounge 5

Monday, August 10, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Last year I created a logo for silk screening company Print Indie into the annual Logo Lounge publication. I really didn’t think I had a snowballs chance in hell of getting in so you can imagine my surprise when I found out that it was [...]