Articles by Year: 2010
Call of Duty: Black Ops features Go Media Vector Art
We’re all still pretty young here at Go Media. Heck, Go Media founder Bill Beachy is only in his thirties. So yea, it’s fair to say we’ve played plenty of Activision’s award-winning action game Call of Duty. That’s why we…
- Categorized: News
The Ultimate Guide to Managing your Design Projects – Part 1. A false start.
WARNING! This entire blog article is an advertisement. Wait! I know what you’re thinking – either 1. “This guy is crazy,” 2. ”I’m going to stop reading this article immediately” or 3. “This is all just a clever device to…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Graphic Design
Learn to Create Collage Typography
Ever been asked to come up with a type driven design but still wanted to use imagery? Creating text through collage can be an awesome solution. Here’s what you’re going to need to create a successful piece: 1. An open…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Illustrator, Photoshop, apparel, illustration, Adobe, Graphic Design
Freebie: Hi-Res Grunge Textures
Who doesn’t like free textures? Some nice grunge textures for you, our loyal readers. Click on any of the preview images below for a nice, juicy hi-res version for your designs. Go!
- Categorized: Graphic Design
Blank Canvas: Students — What’s Missing From Your Classes?
Go Media has a large student readership. We’d love to hear from you regarding your current classes and offered classes — what’s missing? I know back in my college days, it was a far different environment than it is today.…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
Go Media’s Flickr Pool Showcase: November 2010
Hello there! Simon here, for another showcase of the amazing work posted in the Go Media Flickr pool. It’s so hard to select, as the level of submissions keeps getting more and more fantastic. If you’d like to see your…
- Categorized: Inspiration
- Tagged: illustration, Graphic Design
Video Tutorial: The Making of Andrew Jackson Follow Up
Hey guys, It’s me, Jeff Finley, with a quick video message for everyone thinking about grabbing The Making of Andrew Jackson video tutorial. You know I still get emails asking about the process & techniques I use to achieve that…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Photoshop
Blank Canvas: Stock Photography
For this installment of Blank Canvas, Go Media Zine would like to get some reader feedback on stock photography. Do you use it? What’s your favorite site? Do you sell your own stock photography? For the most part, when stock…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Graphic Design
Grab Wacom Illustration Video Tutorial, get Vinyl Record Mockup Templates Free
Yo everyone, hope your world has been spicy & happy. If you’ve spent any time around here, you probably know about Jeff’s Wacom Illustration Video Tutorial. In this two hour voyeuristic walk through, Jeff shares his process from concept to…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
Starting Your Own Shirt Line — Part III: Business & Relationships
Hi Friends, Welcome to the third and final installment to Starting your own Shirt Line. In this article I’ll be talking about elements of business and planning and the importance of developing relationships. Quick recap of past two articles. In…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: apparel, business insights
iPad Magazines: DOA?
Khoi Vinh, former design director of the New York Times website, has a recent post where he opines that the current crop of iPad magazines (and tablet-based magazines in general) “run counter to how people use tablets today and, unless…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
Hot Topic T-Shirt Wall Game: Name That Designer!
I thought this would be a fun game. I’m sure you’ve been into Hot Topic and looked up at the t-shirt wall for inspiration on designing tees. You might even have the pleasure of seeing one of your OWN designs…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: apparel, Graphic Design
Inspiration: Designers Who Started Their Own Clothing Line
As I’m writing the “Designers Guide to the Apparel Industry” eBook that I plan to release soon, I started to take notice of WHO are the role models that inspired this book. Essentially, who are the designers who started freelancing…
- Categorized: Inspiration
- Tagged: apparel, Graphic Design
Design Show: Go Media’s Dirty Laundry
Go Media is airing our laundry for all to see! All GoMediaZine readers are cordially invited to our first annual Design Show “Dirty Laundry.” Please come and partake in our celebration of the past year, and allow us the opportunity…
- Categorized: News
Advanced Digital Painting in Photoshop
Hello! My name is Hatice Bayramoglu and I am a 3D artist and illustrator from Turkey. In this tutorial I demonstrate how to draw and color a character design and illustration for a children’s book. I’m going to explain my…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Photoshop, illustration
Top 20 T-Shirt Design Tutorials and Articles
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I’ve been working on an eBook titled Thread’s Not Dead: The Designer’s Guide to the Apparel Industry. (EDIT: it’s out! buy it here in ebook and hardcover) During my research,…
- Categorized: Graphic Design, Inspiration
Creating a Cloudy Dream Scene in Photoshop
Sometimes real life can be boring so artists extend their imaginations and designs to extreme limits through dream scenes, fictional world, or surrealistic images. Today we’ll be creating a cloudy dream scene using Photoshop’s different tools and techniques. Tutorial Details:…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Photoshop
Go Media’s Flickr Pool Showcase – October 2010
Hello there! Simon H. here. It’s about time to have the next installment on the post series we started last month. Here’s more beautiful art, hand picked from the Go Media Flickr pool. Just a reminder: if you want your…
- Categorized: Inspiration
- Tagged: Graphic Design
Adobe Illustrator: Opening Tricky Files
Sometimes files just don’t want to play nice. And usually when that happens, there’s a deadline looming. Knowing ahead of time how to get out of a tricky situation can make the difference between having time to do the job…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator
WebP: Google’s New Web Image Format
So here’s one I didn’t see coming: Google has announced a new image format for use on the web. Named “WebP“, Google claims To improve on the compression that JPEG provides, we used an image compressor based on the VP8…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
Starting Your Own Shirt Line. PART II: The Creation of Your Art and Working with a Printer.
Hey Guys, Welcome to the second article in the series ‘Starting Your Own Shirt Line’. In the first article, Start – Up, we covered the topics: Originality Research Who will like it? In Part II I’ll take you through my…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: apparel, Graphic Design, illustration, business insights
GMZ Reader Special: The Making of Andrew Jackson
Hey Go Media Zinesters, Jeff Finley here. If you didn’t know, I actually spent all of August working on new Arsenal and Zine stuff exclusively. To be specific, I was working on some really rad tutorials. One of which you…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator CS5 HTML5 Pack
Adobe recently announced the release of their HTML5 Pack for Adobe Illustrator CS5. It’s totally free for Illustrator CS5 users. Here’s a quick rundown from their site: Efficiently design for web and devices by exporting Illustrator Artboards for unique screen…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Adobe, Illustrator
Go Media’s Flickr Pool Showcase – September 2010
Hello there! My name is Simon. You’ve probably met me electronically through the links I post on the Go Media and Arsenal Facebook pages: I sign ^SBH. Anyway. The good folks at Go Media and I were thinking that there’s a…
- Categorized: Inspiration