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Go Media’s Flickr Pool Showcase: November 2010

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Hello there! Simon here, for another showcase of the amazing work posted in the Go Media Flickr pool. It’s so hard to select, as the level of submissions keeps getting more and more fantastic. If you’d like to see your work featured here, just join the group! Sorry for not posting this earlier, but you [...]

Creating a Cloudy Dream Scene in Photoshop

Thursday, October 14, 2010

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Creating a Cloudy Dream Scene in Photoshop

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Sometimes real life can be boring so artists extend their imaginations and designs to extreme limits through dream scenes, fictional world, or surrealistic images. Today we’ll be creating a cloudy dream scene using Photoshop’s different tools and techniques. Tutorial Details: Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: [...]

Go Media’s Flickr Pool Showcase – October 2010

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

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Go Media’s Flickr Pool Showcase – October 2010

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hello there! Simon H. here. It’s about time to have the next installment on the post series we started last month. Here’s more beautiful art, hand picked from the Go Media Flickr pool. Just a reminder: if you want your art to be featured, just post in the group [...]

Starting Your Own Shirt Line. PART II: The Creation of Your Art and Working with a Printer.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

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Starting Your Own Shirt Line. PART II: The Creation of Your Art and Working with a Printer.

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hey Guys, Welcome to the second article in the series ‘Starting Your Own Shirt Line’. In the first article, Start – Up, we covered the topics: Originality Research Who will like it? In Part II I’ll take you through my process of creating the Octolady and my experience working with a [...]

Design a Sleek Website Interface in Photoshop

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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Design a Sleek Website Interface in Photoshop

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create a sleek & clean portfolio/blog Website interface design inside Adobe Photoshop. As we go through, we will deal with selections, layer styles, some basic typography, and so on…We’ll also use 960 Grid System to keep our layout nicely well-aligned. [...]

Design Process: Creating the Cover Art for Parachute Journalists

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

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Design Process: Creating the Cover Art for Parachute Journalists

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I’m going to show you all how I went about designing the cover art for my band’s new single “24th of January.” Listen/Download for free here. If you aren’t aware, 2/3 of Parachute Journalists are members of Go Media: Jeff Finley (me on drums), and Adam Wagner who’s voice [...]

What is a “Brand”?

Thursday, September 2, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I read a lot of industry produced articles and papers on branding, all have one thing in common, the message is confusing, they use a plethora of “tech talk” and what I can only describe as gibberish, so let’s start anew. First off a logo is not a brand; [...]

Interns Inc., Vol. 3

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Internships are an awesome way to gain experience and to learn about being a designer in the real world. Most are mainly summer internships, but there are definitely internships that extend throughout the school year. Typically, students aren’t expected to score internships until their third year, but it’s not [...]

Iconic Poster Design Tutorial (with video)

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

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Iconic Poster Design Tutorial (with video)

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hey I’m Jeff Finley and I’m going to show you how to make an iconic poster using the new Vector Set 18 from Go Media’s Arsenal. I sent out an email to all our Arsenal customers and the two things they wanted most were more tutorials and to show [...]