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Weekly Review Aug 11-18
Back again for another weekly review. This time, I’ve got some cool links to share with you. Here’s what I got done this week. Jeff’s Weekly Review Launched “Design Help via Twitter” network. Very experimental, and it could end up being…
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,…
Continue reading...Weekly Review August 4-8
Monday, August 11, 2008
Last week was kind of a short week. We all spent Wednesday at Cedar Point - and we also had to think of 4 different ideas for new products or ways to ramp up our design services aspect of our…
Continue reading...Weekly Review July 28 - Aug 1
Monday, August 4, 2008
In an effort to further describe to you the behind the scenes happenings of a design studio, here’s another weekly review. Last week was super busy. And I have encouraged other Go Media staff to write their own weekly reviews!…
Continue reading...15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry - 2 of 3
Thursday, July 31, 2008
5 more mistakes make up part 2 of the 15 mistakes series. This article covers issues such as lack of originality, following directions, and other bonehead mistakes made by designers.
Continue reading...Jeff’s Weekly Review July 21-29
Monday, July 28, 2008
Judging by the welcoming response to last week’s review, I’ll go ahead and continue with this one. You suggested that I keep posting the reviews because it reminds you that you’re either a) slacking off and need to get to…
Continue reading...Jeff’s Weekly Review July 14-18
Monday, July 21, 2008
Here I am back again for another weekly review. Are you readers getting any value out of these reviews? I’m not sure. It’s good for ME to do them to stay organized, but what is in it for our readers?…
Continue reading...Jeff’s Weekly Review July 7-11
Monday, July 14, 2008
I should have done this on Friday, but I ended up working on this new article I’m writing all the way until the end of the day. The new article is about common mistakes made by designers in the music…
Continue reading...Jeff’s Weekly Review 6-30 to 7-3
Monday, July 7, 2008
Round 4 of my weekly review. Here’s what I got done in the short, 4-day workweek last week. I didn’t get around to posting this last week because of the holiday (Independence Day for readers outside the US). Launched the…
Continue reading...Jeff’s Weekly Review for June 23-27
Friday, June 27, 2008
This is the third time I've done this weekly review, and I think it's pretty helpful. What do you guys think of it so far? Are you keeping track of what you're doing? I hope so. Anyway, here's the list for what I got done this week.
Continue reading...Jeff’s Weekly Review June 16-20
Friday, June 20, 2008
For my second installment of the weekly review, here’s what I got accomplished this week. Feel free to judge me on how much or how little I get done in a given week. Finished bumper animations for the new tattoo show Started…
Continue reading...Moleskine: The Artists’ Notebook
Thursday, June 19, 2008
I’ve often felt product lust over those shiny Moleskine notebooks on the shelf in Borders, and this is why: guys like Jeff Finley use ‘em - they must be good. As I was flipping through the Moleskine that sits on Jeff’s desk…
Continue reading...Getting Things Done: My First Weekly Review
Friday, June 13, 2008
After a long day at your desk, do you ever ask yourself “What the heck did I accomplish today?” I know I could be working like a madman and pushing projects out before deadlines and I still won’t even remember…
Continue reading...Project Managment: Go Media Style
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Go Media’s Prooflab Demonstration Video from Go Media on Vimeo. This video will walk you through our customer and project management system called “Prooflab.” We built this application from the ground up based on our specific needs as a design firm. There are…
Continue reading...The Dreaded Design Lull - 9 Ways to Get Out of a Slump
Friday, April 18, 2008
Recognizing and reacting to a slowdown in design work. I can remember clearly when it was just me alone in my apartment running this design firm. It was easy to stay busily and happily working on a non-stop string of client…
Continue reading...A Pseudo-Sugar Skull: From Start to Finish.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Hey people! It’s Dave again giving you all yet another excuse to get your knowledge on. This isn’t as direct as my previous Gigposter Tutorial (by the way - thanks to everyone who found that helpful!) because I’m actually covering…
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- Gigposter Design: The New Sex
- Beautiful Vector Illustration
- Old School Type - Line Gradients
- Ornate Lettering Process
- An Angel Grows Wings. Animated Mask in Flash
- Badass Bling Effect in Photoshop
- Intricate Patterns in Illustrator
- From Sketch to Vector Illustration
- Become a Master Designer: Rule Three: Contrast, Contrast, Contrast
- Comic Book Style Graphic Design
- Gigposter Design: The New Sex (215)
- Free Vector Pack 9 Sampler (169)
- Free Vectors: Set 8 Sampler (161)
- Designing Ultra SceneXCore Apparel! (159)
- Become a Master Designer: Rule Three: Contrast, Contrast, Contrast (145)
- From Sketch to Vector Illustration (126)
- New Design is up! Feedback wanted! (116)
- Comic Book Style Graphic Design (103)
- 15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry - 1 of 3 (103)
- Suggest Ideas for Vector Pack 12 (102)
- The Beauty of Package Design: Inspiration and Tips
- Weekly Review Aug 11-18
- Crazy Idea? Go Media Offers Design Help via Twitter
- 15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry - 3 of 3
- Vector Freebie: Fingerprints
- Weekly Review August 4-8
- User Showcase Contest: Results!
- How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups
- Go Media HQ Construction Update
- Weekly Review July 28 - Aug 1
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Tasty T’s Plus Resources & Tuts
- Freebies - Grunge Circle Photoshop Brush Pack
A set of 8 high resolution grunge circle photoshop brushes are free for you to use however you like, commercial & non-commercial.
- 8 Heatmap Tools and Why / How to use them
Heatmaps visualize the stream of visitors on your website - showing hot and cold click zones. Learn how to boost your site easily!
- Free Photoshop Brush Set - Snow Prints
A free brush set made from snow prints. Large scale and very detailed!
- 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Illustrator
Teach yourself how to use Adobe Illustrator in 30 easy to follow, fun filled tutorials.
- 8 Free Brand Logo Download Websites You Should Know
Companies logos are always needed for client portfolios, mock-ups or presentations. In addition to our first article about downloading logos of companies, here is a collection of 7 more logo websites. The logotypes should be manually sorted and checked. All the files are available in vector formats and most of them are totally free.
Monday, August 18, 2008
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