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An Arsenal First!

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…

Computer Arts Projects: Typography Feature for Jeff Finley

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…

Moleskine: The Artists’ Notebook

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…

Funkrush Shirt printed and up for sale

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.

2 New Fonts to Help you Win at Life

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…

Katie’s newest font - Identity Theft

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…

Workflow Tip: Illustrator to Fontlab

Workflow Tip: Illustrator to Fontlab

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…

12 Sources of Inspiration for Creating Your Own Lettering or Typeface Designs

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…

Katie’s 5 Tips for Typeface Development

Some of you may know, I’m a typography nut and I have created a few fonts for Go Media’s Arsenal. This article is little precursor to a more extensive article that we’ll submit later on about finding inspiration for typeface…

Ornate Lettering Tutorial 2

This tutorial I wrote on Ornate Lettering is now available for free on Computer Art’s website.

Badass Bling Effect in Photoshop

Written by guest author Barton Damer. Introduction: This tutorial will show you step by step on how to create a “Badass Bling Effect” using layer styles in Photoshop. Once you create the layer style, you can easily “blingify” any layer. There is…

New Font - Celest

We have released a new font called “Celest” and it was designed by one of Go Media’s newest designers Katie Major. She’s actually been working for us for about a month now and doing very well! She describes this font as “a…

Become a Master Designer: Rule Four: Spacing Is Your Friend

Part Four of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Sorry for the long delay in releasing this latest installment of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. We have been slammed here at Go Media and I literally…

Ornate Lettering Process

I’m going to show you the process as to how I do my ornate lettering. This is a new design I did for Stone Sour that utilized this technique. Now right off the bat, this is not a step by…

Create an Old-World Look in Photoshop

Our friends over at PSDtuts.com wrote a nice tutorial on using some of the Arsenal freebies to create an old-world style look in Photoshop. I thought our readers might learn a little from it so I thought I’d post a link to…