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Interns Inc., Vol. 3

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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 [...]

Interns Inc., Vol. 2

Thursday, August 12, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hey everyone! My name’s Max and I’m one of Go Media’s interns for this summer. I’ve been here since early July but this is my first post for our Zine. I’ve bounced around several of Cleveland’s fine institutions of higher education and am currently a junior at Cleveland [...]

Interns Inc.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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I’ve been at GoMedia for a couple of weeks and I figured it was high time I introduced myself. I’m Joanne, one of GoMedia’s interns for this summer. A little bit about me: I will be a third year student (oh, how time has flown...) at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design pursuing a degree in Communication Design. Though I call Pittsburgh home during the school year, I’m originally from Akron, OH; home of LeBron James the Black Keys and tires.

State of the Union: Grunge Design

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Grunge design was getting popular when I got started in 2004. I was inspired by the artwork and branding behind the underground punk, metal, and hardcore music I listened to. Naturally their aesthetic seemed to be riddled with dirt, grime, and blood because it seemed it fit the bands [...]

Blank Canvas: Personal Projects

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: For this installment of Blank Canvas, Go Media is interested in hearing about your forays into the analog world. With so much design work being created and used online and in digital format, it’s easy for a creator to only see their work on the screen. And typically the [...]

Blank Canvas: Flash vs. HTML5

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Recently we published a post regarding Apple’s stance on Flash and their iDevices. The gist of the situation is that Apple has decided they don’t want to be reliant on a third-party plugin for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch products. Apple’s suggestion is for developer’s to embrace the [...]

Flash, Floppy Disks & FreeHand

Thursday, April 29, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Apple’s Steve Jobs just posted a long open letter on the reasoning behind the decision to exclude Flash support on mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Jobs lists six major points surround the decision, but wraps it up and confirms what I suspected was the [...]

Blank Canvas: Photoshop, Crashes & RAM

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: “Photoshop crashed!” I see this cry all over Twitter, on blogs, in web comics — you can’t go anywhere online that has a tangential relationship to Photoshop without seeing this complaint. So why is it that Photoshop never crashes for me? I’m not bragging or anything, but instead actually [...]

Creativity & Control

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Encouraging creativity while remaining the “boss” How does one balance the business side of running a design firm with creating an atmosphere that encourages creativity? Well, for starters I believe very strongly that creativity starts with the designers. If you have a passionate and creative group of talented designers [...]