Tag Archive | "typography"

Badass Bling Effect in Photoshop

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

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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…

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New Font - Celest

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

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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…

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

Thursday, January 31, 2008

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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…

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Ornate Lettering Process

Thursday, November 1, 2007

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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…

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Create an Old-World Look in Photoshop

Monday, September 17, 2007

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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…

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New Font!

Thursday, September 13, 2007

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New Font!

Greetings all, Like many designers, I’m someone who’s always been interested in typography. I’m always trying to learn more about it and get better at using it. One activity that I’ve been spending a lot of time with is making my…

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Old School Type - Line Gradients

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

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Old School Type - Line Gradients

One of our readers suggested we write a tutorial explaining how to do this cool text effect. On the Dragonforce logo above, the basis of my typography was sketched on paper first and then vectored in Illustrator using the Pen…

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Become a Master Designer: Rule One: Limit your fonts

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

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Become a Master Designer: Rule One: Limit your fonts

Part One of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Ok, “master designer” might be a bit of a stretch – but you can at least become a “proficient designer” by following 7 easy principles. This will be the shortest,…

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Work in Progress: Mastodon

Saturday, June 2, 2007

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Work in Progress: Mastodon

Here’s a shirt design I’m working on for the band Mastodon courtesy of Warner Bros. Records. They are great because they allow our designers to be really creative and have fun.

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Gigposter Design: The New Sex

Thursday, May 3, 2007

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Gigposter Design: The New Sex

Tutorial Introduction: A lot of people are making them. A lot of people suck. We don’t suck, and neither do you. This tutorial requires NO drawing talent… so don’t trip folks. You will however need Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or higher and…

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Title Animations in Flash

Thursday, February 8, 2007

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Title Animations in Flash

Our good friend Justin over at Cartoon Smart just put out his latest video tutorial. This time he’s showing everyone how to make slick title and bumper animations in Flash. He even used our vector packs! I’ve bought a few of…

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What Makes a Great Logo?

Friday, July 21, 2006

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What Makes a Great Logo?

Having a quality Corporate Identity (Commonly referred to as a “logo”) is the critical first step in building a business! What makes a great corporate Identity? (What makes a great logo?) Your corporate Identity must have several characteristics to make it “great.” First and…

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