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From the Portfolio: Candy Lettering
Here are some examples of vector lettering in a “candy” style. The first was a concept for Fergie and the 2nd is a concept for Paint the Stars Clothing. The Paint the Stars one is currently being sold on a hoodie in their web store. You can buy one here. The [...]
Continue reading...How to Design a Font: {Part 4} Finishing Touches
Friday, December 5, 2008
Well this is it – the final part in my series “How to Design a Font”! Be sure to catch up with the previous articles in the series: Part 1: Get inspired Part 2: Draw up a Storm! and Part 3: Make it Digital Great now we’re finally into fontlab. This is pretty much the easiest part of [...]
Continue reading...How to Design a Font: {Part 3} Make it Digital!
Monday, November 17, 2008
The Grid Now that you have your font pretty well figured out it’s time to get into the computer. First things first, setting up Illustrator. I like to first turn on the grid. This is the easiest way to transfer your font from the grid paper to the computer. To turn on the grid go to [...]
Continue reading...How To Design a Font: {Part2} Draw Up A Storm!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Terminology Before we get into the meat of this tutorial I want to give you a crash course in font terminology. I know it’s not exactly the most exciting thing but I seriously think it’s good for you to know this before we get too far. Sans serif: A type of font that doesn’t have accents [...]
Continue reading...How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D
Monday, October 27, 2008
In this tutorial I will walk through the steps I used to create this illustration to bring alive the word “collide.” While you may not find yourself needing to recreate the word “collide,” I hope you will find useful the techniques I will cover: - extruding text in Cinema 4d - using displacement maps in Cinema 4d - [...]
Continue reading...How to Design A Font: {Part 1} Get Inspired!
Thursday, October 16, 2008
I haven’t written a blog post in a while so I thought it was time I jumped right in and did a tutorial series about fonts. There will be three more tutorials that will follow this one. Their forces combined will account for pretty much everything I know of how to make a font. So [...]
Continue reading...Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography
Monday, October 13, 2008
Hello, my name is Alex Beltechi, a designer that is currently studying in college and working in the print media realm. I would love to explain my vast experience and overwhelming knowledge to you, but due to the fact that I have no such qualities, I’ll stick to sharing what skills I’ve been developing lately, [...]
Continue reading...An Arsenal First!
Friday, July 18, 2008
If you’ve hopped over to the Go Media Arsenal lately you might have noticed quite a few recent updates. In the last two weeks we’ve released a new motion pack and two new fonts. I’m pretty excited that the new graffiti font Go Vandal comes with an exclusive vector pack to jack up the [...]
Continue reading...Computer Arts Projects: Typography Feature for Jeff Finley
Saturday, June 21, 2008
In addition to the feature in Advanced Photoshop this month, I was blessed with a feature in Computer Arts Projects. Issue #111 Typography to be exact. They highlighted some of my 3D typography and ornate lettering techniques. Here are some photos. You can buy this magazine at any major book store.
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 here at Go Media, I thought you might like a peek at it too! [...]
Continue reading...Funkrush Shirt printed and up for sale
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Remember the Funkrush Tee that I designed a while back? Maybe a year ago? Well, they finally printed it and you can now purchase it from the Funkrush Store. The shirts ship from the UK.
Continue reading...2 New Fonts to Help you Win at Life
Thursday, April 17, 2008
We just released two new fonts. They are now available to purchase on Go Media’s Arsenal. These two new fonts are sure to help you attract any customer you want and ultimately win at life. Well, maybe only get you part of the way there! Goatbeard Goatbeard is a handlettered font. It’s got an [...]
Continue reading...Katie’s newest font – Identity Theft
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Identity Theft was created as a reaction to the gradual dehumanization within our society. There is a startling similarity between cults and our mainstream culture. Each manipulates minds to fit into what is acceptable for their society to function. The characters expand and contract to reflect our mechanized manipulation. Check it out and buy it for [...]
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Workflow Tip: Illustrator to Fontlab
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Tutorial: Creating fonts in Illustrator and Fontlab – Part 1 from Go Media on Vimeo This video is a brief introduction into how to prepare a font you design in Adobe Illustrator for Fontlab. Fontlab is the program of choice for building and managing fonts. There are a few steps that you need to do to [...]
Continue reading...12 Sources of Inspiration for Creating Your Own Lettering or Typeface Designs
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
This is an article written by guest author Sean Hodge from AiBURN, a blog about design, creativity, inspiration, tutorials, and vector graphics. Introduction Lettering and Typeface design is a creative endeavor that requires constant sources of motivation, influence, and inspiration. If you dream of painstakingly designing the next amazing Open Type Font, desire to craft beautiful Hand [...]
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45+ Excellent Website Analytics/Monitoring/Counter Services
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13 Beautiful Wordpress Showcase Sites
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20 Outstanding Letterpress Business Cards
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These 20 letterpress business cards featured in this post are a great example of how effective letterpress business cards can reflect you or your company. - Gizelle
How to Create Out of Bounds Effect Plus Amazing Examples
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Out of Bounds or simply OOB is a technique used to add a 3D feel to a flat photo image. Its a lot of fun and pretty easy to do. - The Product Guy
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