Articles by Month: July 2008
15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry – 2 of 3
5 more mistakes make up part 2 of the 15 mistakes series. This article covers issues such as lack of originality, following directions, and other bonehead mistakes made by designers.
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: business insights, apparel, Graphic Design
Zine Features You May Have Missed
It’s late at night and I saw we hadn’t posted today. So I wanted to point out a couple things on our site that you may not be familiar with. I don’t really mention them much, but take a look…
- Categorized: News
How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings
Everyone loves to give away free vectors, but what about teaching a man to fish? Here’s how to create your own wings Go Media style. In this tutorial you’ll need Adobe Illustrator and some skills with the pen tool.
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Illustrator, illustration, Adobe Illustrator
Vector Freebie & Micro Tutorial: Seamless Swirls
Hey it’s a Monday morning freebie! This one took a little extra time to make, so I really hope you enjoy it. It is (mostly) seamless, so you can drop it into your swatches panel and fill any shape with…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator
Jeff’s Weekly Review July 21-29
Judging by the welcoming response to last week’s review, I’ll go ahead and continue with this one. You suggested that I keep posting the reviews because it reminds you that you’re either a) slacking off and need to get to…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
Concentric Downpour wins Shirt of the Month
It’s been a few weeks now, but I’m extremely happy to say that my first DBH Submission, Concentric Downpour, has won shirt of the month for June on Design by Humans! A big thanks to everyone that voted, left a…
- Categorized: News
- Tagged: apparel, Graphic Design
15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry – 1 of 3
Designers in the music and apparel industry are some of the most talented designers around. I’m willing to bet there isn’t a sector of graphic design that allows more creativity and more artistic freedom. Despite the amazing talent and style,…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: business insights, apparel
Become a Master Designer: Rule Five: Add depth to your designs.
Part Five of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Catch up on the first four rules here First, let me apologize for the long hiatus I took from this particular series of articles. It’s been really busy around…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: illustration
Vector Freebie: Night Lights
Be honest – is this what you would see if you took off your coke-bottle glasses on a late night drive home? These out of focus night light vectors can add a sleepy, dreamy feeling to a design. This freebie…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Adobe Illustrator, Graphic Design
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…
- Categorized: News
Moving beyond Freelancing: 4 Insights to Growing your Design Firm
I received a series of questions from a freelance designer concerning how to grow from being a one-person freelance designer into a “real” design firm. I thought I should share my answers to her questions with you. Here is the…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
How to make an animated GIF with 8-Bit Characters: Part 2: Animation
In the last post, I showed you how to make 8-bit characters in Adobe Illustrator. In this post, we will animate those characters in Adobe Photoshop using the Animation Window. 1. CREATE A NEW PHOTOSHOP DOCUMENT To Begin, open up…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Illustrator, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Vector Freebie: Floral Wallpaper
Hey designers! Today we’re posting free floral vectors reminiscent of old wallpaper. There are four vectors in all. Two main floral designs as well as two grungy variations. [download#17#nohits]
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Adobe Illustrator, Graphic Design
How to make an animated GIF with 8-Bit Characters: Part 1: Design
Have you ever wanted to make a kick ass animation of 8-BIT characters tearing each other to shreds? Well now you can. In this tutorial, I will take you through the process of creating vectorized 8-bit characters for use in…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Adobe Illustrator, illustration, Illustrator
57 Inspirational Sites from 7 Remarkable Apparel Designers
I gathered 7 of the top t-shirt designers today and asked each of them for a handful of sites they couldn’t live without; sites they surf for inspiration, design resources, advice, community, etc. I was surprised at what I found.…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: business insights, Graphic Design, apparel, illustration
Jeff’s Moleskine Round 2
Here we are again with another round of scans from my Moleskine. Not much to say about these other than I was just having some fun drawing skulls and things. I was using just a regular ball point pen, which…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: illustration
Discover new design resources faster than Smashing Magazine: Use Yahoo Pipes
Ever since I first heard about Yahoo Pipes more than a year ago, I’ve been looking for reasons to put it to work for me. But for some reason or another, it always ended up in the “cool but of…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
Go Media User Link Feed
Hey folks! This is the Go Media User Link Feed. Everyone is allowed to submit a link and give a short description. It will show up in the sidebar on every page on the GOMEDIAZINE. However, all links submitted must…
- Categorized: News
122 Raster & Vector Wings
Lately I’ve been reading a lot about lucid dreaming, keeping a dream journal, watching Waking Life, and generally trying everything I can to take control of my dreams. The first thing I’m going to do in a dream – FLY!…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Photoshop
Accountants, lawyers, and doctors, oh my! A designer’s guide to business.
Before I get started I want to stress a few things. First and fore most, it should ALWAYS be your goal to run your business 100% legally. This means paying ALL your taxes and following ALL laws. If you truly…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: business insights, Graphic Design
New Design is up! Feedback wanted!
We’re really happy to announce a brand new site design to the Go Mediazine. Or should I officially say GOMEDIAZINE – all one word. Or you could spell it GOMEDIAzine or something like that. But anyway, we’re still tweaking some…
- Categorized: News