How to Launch a T-Shirt Line in One Day

Organize Your Design Files – Or ELSE!

Organizing your design files – Or ELSE! Design file names and folder structure are a key ingredient to your success as a graphic designer. Ok, here’s the scenario; a client calls you because he just picked up the presentation your…

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Go Media Flickr Pool Showcase – May 2011

It’s that time of the month again Yep, it’s time for another installment of our Flickr group showcase. And once again, you guys are not making this easy because the work that’s in there is just so great. Remember that…

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Thread’s Not Dead live broadcast — The wrap-up

Hello GMZ readers! If you’re looking for the video from last Thursday’s live broadcast, you’ve come to the right place. We wanted to summarize some of the things that were said during Jeff’s live broadcast about his ebook Thread’s Not…

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Daily Inspiration: Eat Well

Understanding & Using Color in Branding

How are you feeling right now? What are you thinking? Are you suddenly excited and passionate, yearning for adventure? Or did a Zen-like calmness just pervade your being? Maybe your mind is on money. Or, if not that, you’re considering…

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Weapons of Mass Creation Fest: 30 Days Away

Weapons of Mass Creation is a month away! Oh boy, oh boy. I don’t even know where to start. I’m so excited about WMC Fest you know. The amazing lineup I’m pretty sure you’re aware of the lineup and schedule…

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Thread’s Not Dead – The live broadcast!

[Edit #1 – 5/10/2011 – 2:20PM] The live page is, well…live! Hope to see you all there on Thursday (May 12th) for an awesome live session with Jeff. Check it out. Ladies and gentlemen, we have the pleasure to announce…

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Creating a Fantasy World

Intro: We often dream of living in a fantasy land. Creating such a fantasy in Photoshop is really great fun. In this tutorial we will be creating an imaginary world where we will be covering interesting topics such as the…

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WMC Fest portfolio contest: the winners

Hello, hello! Today, I am pleased to introduce you to the winners of the WMC Fest Portfolio Contest we had going. The prize is a spot at the WMC Fest design show! We had a total of 114 submissions. The…

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Go Media’s Flickr pool showcase – April 2011

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you… The April 2011 Go Media Flickr Pool Showcase (dramatic music, such as this on repeat for instance, is to be played in the background while reading this sentence)! Once again, yours truly went…

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Daily Inspiration: Getting Started

Hot Rod Monster Design Process

Distress type by hand in Photoshop

There must be something about digital type that we don’t like. We put a lot of energy into distressing, aging, texturizing, and simulating letterpress techniques with digital type. There are a lot of cool techniques out there. So here I…

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Go Media’s Flickr pool showcase – March 2011

Time for the March showcase in our monthly (-ish) series! It’s me, Simon here speaking writing. Once again, if you’d like to see your work here, the only thing you have to do is to submit it in our Flickr…

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Newbie’s Guide to Beautiful T-Shirt Mockups

50 and 50 – The state motto project

Hello hello! Today, I’d love to start a “new” series of posts about inspiration to talk about one of the great collaborative design efforts currently going on in the design community (no, it’s not the Weapons of Mass Creation Fest).…

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Daily Inspiration: The Courage to Quit

How to create a Leprechaun’s shoe in Adobe Illustrator CS4

How to create a Leprechaun’s shoe in Adobe Illustrator CS4 In this detailed tutorial we’ll be learning how to create a Leprechaun’s shoe in Adobe Illustrator CS4 for the upcoming holiday, St. Patrick’s day. Combination of linear and radial gradients…

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Go Media’s Flickr pool showcase – February 2011

YAFS (Yet Another Flickr Showcase)! We’re close to mid February and I’m ready to show you another amazing hand picked selection of amazing pieces from the Go Media Flickr Pool. Also, you should stay tuned for cool news related to…

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Mix Cover Tutorial: Outer Limits Pioneer

Creating a Mix Cover In case you didn’t know, whipping up mix covers is a great way to exercise some of your creative muscles. It’s an outlet I like to focus some of my more random ideas towards… whether it…

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The Surreal World of French Illustrator McBess

Hello there! Simon here today, with an interview of the fantabulous (yes, it’s a word. I just decided that it would be so.) illustrator McBess. We are stoked because Go Media/Weapons of Mass Creation is sponsoring FITC Toronto, an event…

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Daily Inspiration: Design Firm Business Systems

How to model and render a basic mobile phone using 3ds studio max

Hello again! I have been recently experimenting and working with mental ray and v-ray renders in both 3ds studio max and Autodesk Maya. For this tutorial I will be teaching you guys some basic modeling, easy rendering techniques using mental…

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