Workflow Tip: Illustrator to Fontlab

Workflow Tip: Illustrator to Fontlab

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 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 [...]

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

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 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 [...]

Katie’s 5 Tips for Typeface Development

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 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 and font development. As a designer I have found [...]

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

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 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 also a video tutorial as well. Video [...]

New Font – Celest

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 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 new concept in human communication conceived through [...]

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

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 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 haven’t been able to touch anything except paying [...]

Ornate Lettering Process

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 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 step tutorial. It’s more of a look behind the [...]