Discussion: Design year in review

The past year has been a fantastic close to a decade filled with great design advancements in all media, but especially on the web. New artists, new firms, new techniques, styles & trends. We’ve seen a lot of stuff that…

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Interview with Illustrator Godmachine

GoMediazine: Let’s start with the usual questions: tell us about yourself, what Godmachine is all about and where you’re from. Godmachine: I am from Wales in the UK and have been designing T-shirts for about 2 years now. I studied…

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Help us decide: What Templates are next?

Hey readers, you probably know by now that Go Media makes really cool t-shirt templates. We often get emailed suggestions for new mockup templates like pullover hoodies, jeans, cd packaging, etc. So we’re going to run a poll here to…

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Weapons of Mass Creation Video Interview: Horsebites

Welcome to the first installation of the Weapons of Mass Creation video interview series. Not sure what this is all about? Read the kick-off article to get caught up! Our first interview will be with Richard Minino, better known as…

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ForeverSave: Versioned File Backup for Mac

Although it rarely happens to me, I see tons of Twitter friends posting about their Adobe software crashing while working on a file. InDesign has a pretty robust temporary file feature that usually saves what you were working on, however…

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Interview Series: Weapons of Mass Creation

This past September, fourteen fantastic designers, animators, web developers, strategists and illustrators visited Go Media’s studio to be part of the Weapons of Mass Creation art campaign. It was exciting for us at Go Media to meet people that we’ve…

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How to Create Fanatics as a T-Shirt Designer

How To Create Fanatics as a T-Shirt Designer Quick…think of the top 3 most popular t-shirt designers that you know of. You probably came up with names like Geoff May, Jimiyo, Wotto, Collision Theory, Corefolio, Godmachine, and many more. Just…

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Juggling Design, Programming, Bands, and Life. Dave Garwacke tells all.

Dave is a guy that has always impressed me. He manages to run a site that produces all its own video and audio content, play in 5 different bands, do freelance design/coding, and have a social life. This interview probes…

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Flipping Websites with Designer Henry Jones

GoMediaZine: Hello Henry, for those who aren’t familiar, can you tell us about yourself? Do you work alone, or with a team? Henry Jones: I am a web designer, developer, blogger, and an entrepreneur. I have been designing and developing…

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Freelancers, what’s your largest business expense?

It’s nearing the end of the year. Americans are out hunting turkeys and folks around the world are pinching pennies in preparation for the winter holiday season. So, I’m curious: Where are you spending the most in your freelance business?…

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Foil Stamping: A Finishing Favorite

Foil stamping is always a fan favorite, due to the elegance and high visual impact that it can provide. Foil stamping (also called hot stamping, dry stamping, foil imprinting, or leaf stamping) can be used to add flair to products…

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Back Up Your Mac

Hard drive failure. Not something creative people think about often. At least not until it’s happened to you. I went from not even considering a “backup solution” to being (probably) overly cautious and redundant about my backup setup for the…

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Design a Vintage Poster, Part II

Welcome to part two of designing a vintage poster. If you missed part one, be sure to catch up! Last week’s tutorial covered most of the heavy lifting: concept, color, and composition all took place in Illustrator using elements from…

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Blank Canvas: How Do You Promote Yourself?

Self-promotion is a must for any self-employed or freelance graphic designer or illustrator. This installment of Blank Canvas asks our readers: how do you promote your services? Cold calls? Mailing lists? How do you use the internet for your marketing?…

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Font Sleuth: Find Fonts Fast

Font Sleuth is an interesting new font browser application for Mac OS X. The first thing I noticed about this app—pretty darn fast. No font manager I have ever used is lightning fast when it comes to previewing fonts. Font…

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Vectors Imitate Life with Gradient Mesh

When an artist is given a choice about creating a photo-realistic image on the computer, their first instinct would be to turn to any of the raster-based image editors, such as Photoshop. However, what if they were told that they needed to create this photo-realistic image in a vector-based image editor? Amazingly enough, with the advent of the “gradient mesh” feature, the creation of a photo-realistic image is completely doable in Adobe Illustrator.

An Interview with Bill Beachy: Go Media President

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Timeline: Version Control Plugin for Photoshop

Timeline by PixelNovel is an interesting version control system built for designers who use Adobe Photoshop. As far as I am aware, there’s really nothing else like this out there for Photoshop users. Timeline allows you to save and review a…

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Blank Canvas: Where Do You Freelance?

This installment of Blank Canvas is directed towards you freelancers and self-employed illustrators and designers out there. Go Media wants to know: where do you work? There are quite a bit of options for those who can choose where to…

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Mac Vector Apps

Our recent “Blank Canvas” post asked the question: “Adobe Or Not?“. As a followup, here’s a quick web roundup of some alternative vector graphics software applications for Mac OS X. These applications vary in price from free to about $100,…

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Interview: Designer Paul Lee

GoMediaZine:Hi Paul, thanks a lot for being part of this interview! I’ve admired your work for awhile now, so it’s pretty great to be talking with you. You don’t have much biographical information on your portfolio site, so can you…

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Adobe Illustrator Feature Requests: Round 1

A while back I ran a post encouraging Adobe software users to use the feature request/bug report feedback form on Adobe’s website. This time around I want to start an semi-regular feature asking our loyal readers and visitors to take…

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Tutorial: Killer 3D Poster Design with 3DS Max & Photoshop