Articles by Year: 2008
12 Tips for Flawless Service & Happy Clients
12 tips for improving your e-mail correspondence with your design clients. Hey true believers! At Go Media we’ve started having in-house “classes.” Basically any designer from Go Media that has some good advice to pass along to the staff will…
Pointers for Designers Working with Apparel Companies
There is often a disconnect between an artist and a screen printer. Problems often arise when there is a lack of understanding of the print process and a lack of communication between the designer and client. Screen printers get mad…
Impressive Watercolor Splatter Effect Tutorial & Freebie
This guest post was written by Nick Steimling from HeavyPrints . Many thanks, Nick, for sharing your knowledge with Go MediaZine readers! I have been working with natural media more recently, and as a result, I have been learning how…
How to Design Your Own Custom Hoodie
We know how much you guys and gals love a good tutorial! We just launched our new Hoodie Templates and they are amazing. I decided to sit down and design a hoodie and to write a tutorial in celebration. You…
New Go Media Forum
Registration is now open for the new Go Media Forum! Why a forum? I originally planned it to mainly offer support for customers of The Arsenal. However I received a lot of messages from folks who wanted it to become…
How to Design a Font: {Part 4} Finishing Touches
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…
Cleveland’s Marathon, Go Media’s Design, Bill’s experience
Cleveland’s Marathon This past spring I participated in the Cleveland Marathon. It was a lifelong goal of mine; to run a marathon. Being the designer that I am I couldn’t help but notice the design on the give-away t-shirts (which…
Sexy Holiday Vector Pin-Up Girl Tutorial
A month or so ago I did this sweet tutorial of a pin-up girl on a motorcycle. It had been a project from on of our better clients. Since they liked and bought the design I thought that they wouldn’t…
47 Essential Resources for T-Shirt Designers
Interested in starting your own clothing line? Or maybe you just want to get an edge on some of the other designers on the major social t-shirt sites. Either way, there is a world of resources to be discovered that…
How to Design a Font: {Part 3} Make it Digital!
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…
Freebies, Discounts, Vectors & Textures!
Discounts Last week Go Media’s Arsenal released Tennery & Ladies Short Sleeve Templates. This week Go Media has two major resources to announce – Vector Pack 13 & Fingerpaint Textures! To celebrate the new packs, we’re sharing the discount code…
Go Media Construction Update
Hey Everyone! There have been some requests to see updates on the office construction. We ARE in the new office! Everything is not done yet – but it’s about 90% done. I’ll try to keep the text in this post…
Tennery Typeface & New Apparel Templates
Watch out! It’s Big November at Go Media – and that not only means tons more awesome design resources to spice up your upcoming projects, but a whole new & improved Arsenal. We’re kicking it off with the Tennery Typeface…
How To Design a Font: {Part2} Draw Up A Storm!
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…
How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D
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…
My Create Chaos Experience
My experience speaking at Create Chaos design convention in Orlando Florida. Monday October 13th 1:30pm I’m sitting in Cleveland Hopkins Airport waiting to board my flight to Orlando Florida. I’ve been booked as a speaker at Create Magazine’s design convention…
T-shirt Template Freebie
It’s been a little while since we’ve had a freebie on the Go MediaZine, and an email I got this morning provided the perfect opportunity. Here’s what Jan had to say about the Fitted Ladies Apparel Templates we just released:…
How to Create Awesome T-Shirt Mockups Like Jimiyo
EDITORS NOTE: Jimiyo is showcasing a template from Vol. 2 of Fitted Ladies Apparel Templates, which we’ll have ready for release in November. For now, check out Vol 1. Go Media gave me the chance to test out their new…
10 Tips to avoid designer’s block.
Ever feel like some days you can crank out amazing looking designs with little effort? Then on other days it feels like nothing is working, you’ve lost all your talent and you’ll never make another good design for the rest…
How to Design A Font: {Part 1} Get Inspired!
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…
Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography
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…