Articles by Year: 2007
4 Tips to Combat Creative Block
I was asked a question recently how we keep the creativity flowing at Go Media and not get bored, uninspired, and lazy. Well, we have a handful of designers here and they’re often working on a variety of different jobs…
User Showcase Highlight: Round 6
As of this writing our Go Media User Showcase has 217 entries and 131 members. Here are a couple pieces that I thought put the vector packs to good use. I wish this one was bigger so I can see…
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…
Go Media wins Interactive Media Award
Well, not directly, but the Pepsi More website we built for Damon over at Communicator International won Best in Class in the Marketing category. Damon and his crew at Communicator were hired by Pepsi to help market their campaign with…
Revelations of a Go Media Intern: The End
Here are some more of the things I’ve learned this summer at Cleveland Website Design firm, Go Media: 1. Design Fundamentals I am not officially educated in design, so many of my blunders can be fixed by adhering to basic…
Become a Master Designer: Rule Two: Limit Your Colors
Rule Two: Limit your colors. Part Two of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer courtesy of Cleveland logo designers, Go Media Rule Two: Limit Your Colors. Sounds a lot like the last rule of limiting your fonts right?…
Vector Packs at the Mall
Over the past week, I was out of the office. I was on tour with my band, and it was a decent time. I’m not the biggest fan of touring, but it can be fun to go out on the…
I’m an RSS Addict. Here’s why:
I’m sure many of you have heard the term “RSS” right? Well, it stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and my first few years of blogging and web design I completely ignored it. It wasn’t until 6 months ago I realized…
Revelations of a Go Media Intern, Part 5
Time Saving Shortcuts Howdy. This is week five of my series, and here are three more tips. I hope you enjoy them! 1. Time saving keyboard shortcuts: Really, every shortcut I learn makes using illustrator much more natural, but here…
Step by Step: Using the Vector Packs
Step by Step: How to Use Vector Packs We get quite a few people calling every day with trouble opening or using our Vector Packs. I decided to write a tutorial specifically to help out newbies who aren’t exactly sure…
Become a Master Designer: Rule One: Limit your fonts
Part One of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Rules about Using Fonts: Ok, “master designer” might be a bit of a stretch – but you can at least become a “proficient designer” by following 7 easy principles.…
Revelations of a Go Media Intern, Part 4
Adobe Illustrator Shortcuts Hello again. These last couple of weeks I’ve been sharing some of the broad lessons I’ve learned this summer with Cleveland graphic designers, Go Media, such as learning from criticism, and realizing the importance of presentation. This week I’m…
Web designers Get Clicky!
As some of you know, I’m a stats junkie. Since I’m involved with Cleveland web design, I love web analytics and keeping track of who is coming and going from all of Go Media’s sites. I use Google Analytics of…
Revelations of a Go Media Intern, Part 3
Heyyy. The lessons at Cleveland Design firm, Go Media are abundant, and here are a few more that have been kindly passed along to me by everyone here. 1.Be Proactive When working for a client or a friend, try very…
Revelations of a Go Media Intern, Part 2
Hello again! While I’ve learned a lot of practical and technical things at here in Cleveland with design firm Go Media, I’ve also learned some more general, but valuable lessons. In my first couple of posts I’d like to share…
New Go Media Motion Packs
The past month we’ve been working hard to come up with some new “weaponry” for the Go Media Arsenal. We are now introducing Motion Packs – premade, animated stock design elements. These are made especially for Motion Graphics artists, animators,…
Beginner’s Guide to Driving Web Traffic
You’ve manufactured your product, paid the talented artists at Go Media Inc. to build your website, posted it live on the internet and then sat back, put your feet up and waited for the cash to start flowing in. But…
Gigposter Design Tutorial: The New Sex
Tutorial Introduction: // // A lot of people are making them. A lot of people suck. The graphic designers here at Go Media don’t suck, and neither do you. This tutorial requires NO drawing talent… so don’t trip folks. You…
An Open Letter to Student Designers
Advice for Graphic Design Students About twice a week I will get a letter from a student or young graphic designer that asks me a variety of questions. Typically they are questions like: “How do I get started in the…
From Sketch to Vector Illustration
Hey everyone! Welcome back to Go Media’s Design Blog – where our talented graphic designers share their wisdom with our fellow artists. There has been such a wonderful response on my vector art tutorial “Beautiful Vector Illustration” that I thought I…
Go Media in Computer Arts #134
We are happy to announce that Go Media was featured in the latest issue of Computer Arts (#134 – April 2007). They ran a little feature on our vector packs and included a sampling of them on the CD that…
Tutorial: Animating Birds with After Effects
After Effects Tutorial from Cleveland Graphics firm, Go Media Introduction: GoMedia_Vector_Freebie_Animating-Birds Like a lot of motion designers I spend many hours trying to accomplish complex animations in a short amount of time, while attempting to optimize my workflow within After…
6 Essential Marketing Tips for Designers
6 Essential Marketing Tips for Designers In today’s world, there are so many artists out there looking to get noticed. With design software readily available, everyone is a designer these days. But to those designers serious about getting your name…
Mask Animation in Flash Tutorial: An Angel Grows Wings
GoMedia_Vector_Freebie_An-Angel-Grows-Wings (INCLUDES THREE FREE VECTOR DESIGNS!) Introduction Like most Flash Motion Graphics designers, I am regularly perusing the web for design inspiration. I don’t know about you, but when I saw complex design elements like plants and tribal shapes grow on…