Articles by Year: 2008
Katie’s 5 Tips for Typeface Development
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…
- Categorized: Tutorials
Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal – Part 6 – Additional Functionality and Resources
This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familiar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of…
- Categorized: Web Design, Tutorials
- Tagged: web design
Go Media finishes site for Subscript
Go Media recently finished a job for Subscript, the more “boutique” little sister brand of Triple Five Soul. They wanted a blog format so they could post news, pics, and videos and such. The site is pretty minimal. Check it…
- Categorized: News
Go Media’s Tech Shapes in Autechre Video (cool)
One of our customers emailed me and showed me this really cool video he made for Autechre, an English electronica group that’s said to have been one of the pioneering forces behind IDM. The animator made great use of our…
- Categorized: News
A Pseudo-Sugar Skull: From Start to Finish.
Hey people! It’s Dave again giving you all yet another excuse to get your knowledge on. This isn’t as direct as my previous Gigposter Tutorial (by the way – thanks to everyone who found that helpful!) because I’m actually covering…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Illustrator, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal – Part 5 – Drupal Admin
This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familiar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of…
- Categorized: Web Design, Tutorials
- Tagged: web design
Ornate Lettering Tutorial 2
This tutorial I wrote on Ornate Lettering is now available for free on Computer Art’s website.
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal – Part 4 – Theming Drupal
This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of…
- Categorized: Web Design, Tutorials
- Tagged: web design
Meet The Staff: Bill Beachy
For those of you that ask: “How did Go Media get started?” Well, here is the story. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll think I’m crazy! You’ll also see some cool artwork and learn a little too I hope. I spent…
- Categorized: News
Land Bigger Jobs: Appear “bigger” than you actually are
One thing that Go Media has done ever since we we put our first site online back in 2003, is tried to appear bigger than we were. This can have its pros and cons, but to the designer just starting…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: business insights
Some colored concepts for Go Media HQ
Pete Maric, our interior designer for the new Go Media Headquarters, sent over some color concepts. Let’s have a look: Click on the image to view the full size. We’re not officially set on the colors yet, so we’re going…
- Categorized: News
Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal – Part 3 – XHTML
This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familiar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of…
- Categorized: Web Design, Tutorials
- Tagged: web design
Go Media’s Vector Packs in Super Bowl XLII
Haha, this is pretty damn awesome. We knew our Vector Packs are popular, but it’s still makes us feel good when we see them on a national scale. I don’t know who animated this (it was NOT us, although I…
- Categorized: News
Badass Bling Effect in Photoshop
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.…
New Font – Celest
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…
- Categorized: News
Go Media HQ Floorplan 3D Flyaround
The wonderful Pete Maric sent us his latest drawings and a 3D “sketch” of our new office floorplan. Again, our new building has 3 floors and this is just the 3rd floor which will be our office. The other 2…
- Categorized: News
Become a Master Designer: Rule Four: Spacing Is Your Friend
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…
- Categorized: Tutorials
Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal – Part 2 – Slicing in Illustrator
This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familiar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of…
- Categorized: Web Design, Tutorials
- Tagged: web design
Go Media in Computer Arts Feb 08 Issue
Go Media is fortunate enough to be included twice in the new Feb 08 issue of Computer Arts Magazine. Haley wraps up the 4 part tutorial series for cross-media design by explaining how to output a logo to a mobile…
- Categorized: News
Go Media HQ – Initial Floorplans
Making Some Headway Our good friend and client Pete Maric (www.petemaric.com) is helping us design the floorplans for our new building. After a few modifications and revisions, we’ve reached a really solid floroplan that we will be building out. This…
- Categorized: News
Free Vector Pack 9 Sampler
I figured I’d offer up a free sampler of Vector Pack Set 9 which was just released yesterday. This will give you a good idea of the quality and detail in some of the vector shapes you’ll get. Downlad the…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Adobe Illustrator
Create a Killer band site in Drupal – Part 1 – Design
This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of…
- Categorized: Web Design, Tutorials
- Tagged: web design
Create a Killer Band Site with Drupal: A 6-part Tutorial Series
This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of…
- Categorized: Web Design, Tutorials
- Tagged: web design