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Daily Inspiration: The Courage to Quit

Monday, March 21, 2011

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Go Media president Bill Beachy sits down to give you some daily inspiration and advice. Bill shares his years of experience building Go Media into the company it is today. Topics in this video series include Getting Started, Happiness, Humility, Patience, Flow, Focus, Productivity, Business Systems, Courage, Eating Well, [...]

Daily Inspiration: Design Firm Business Systems

Monday, February 21, 2011

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Daily Inspiration: Design Firm Business Systems

Daily Inspiration: Attack Your Obstacles Creatively

Friday, January 21, 2011

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Daily Inspiration: Attack Your Obstacles Creatively

Learn to Create Collage Typography

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Ever been asked to come up with a type driven design but still wanted to use imagery? Creating text through collage can be an awesome solution. Here’s what you’re going to need to create a successful piece: 1. An open mind. I always find that being noncommittal toward the [...]

Adobe Illustrator: Opening Tricky Files

Thursday, October 7, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Sometimes files just don’t want to play nice. And usually when that happens, there’s a deadline looming. Knowing ahead of time how to get out of a tricky situation can make the difference between having time to do the job at an easy pace, or pulling your hair out. [...]

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 [...]

Color Management: Calibration and Profiling

Thursday, April 22, 2010

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Color Management: Calibration and Profiling

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Introduction Welcome to the second post in our color management series. Be sure to check out Part One if you haven’t already done so. Today we’re going to talk about the importance of calibrating and profiling your input & output devices in your color management workflow. This is probably [...]

Color Management in Adobe Photoshop

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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This is the first part of a comprehensive detailed series of posts guiding you through the image editing process step by step from profiling your display and managing your color space and settings, to profiling your printer and preparing your work for print out, to saving and distributing your work on the web.

Scale Objects in Adobe Illustrator Via Keyboard

Friday, October 2, 2009

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Scale Objects in Adobe Illustrator Via Keyboard

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I’m a big fan of resolution-independent vector art. I’m also a big fan of keyboard shortcuts. It’s been driving me a bit batty that there is no way in Adobe Illustrator to scale objects using just the keyboard. I use this method all the time within InDesign, and feel [...]