Articles by Year: 2008
How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups
When designing for apparel, presentation of your proofs is very important. A detailed image of a piece simply will not suffice as an adequate proof. You want to hit the design home, and mocking it up on a t-shirt is…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Photoshop, apparel
Go Media HQ Construction Update
Hidilly-ho Go Media Army! I’m here to give you all a quick update on the progress of our new Headquarters. I’ll absatively posilutely not bore you with too many words – just lots of pics, Okily-dokily? It’s been a while…
- Categorized: News
User Showcase Contest: $100 & more in Prizes
Sorry, this contest is closed. Winners have been chosen and babies born. Check out who won in our results post. Many talented artists have submitted their work to the Go Media User Showcase, which as of now has 970 entries.…
- Categorized: News
Drawing a Tattered Scroll from Scratch
Draw an old-world style tattered scroll from scratch from Go Media on Vimeo.
- Categorized: Tutorials
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: Adobe Illustrator, illustration, 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: Adobe Illustrator, 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: Graphic Design, apparel
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: Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, 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: Graphic Design, Adobe Illustrator
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: Graphic Design, illustration, apparel, business insights
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