Articles by Year: 2012
10 Mistakes Designers Make When Applying for Jobs
Applying for jobs can be a daunting process, but it is important to remember to put your best foot forward when sending out your applications. Employers get tons of submissions every day, so make yours stand out by not making…
Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders part 7 of 7
My experience attending AIGA & Yale’s School of Management course Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders. It’s Friday – our last day of class. Today is only a half day. Our debriefing session wraps up at 2pm. They scheduled it this…
Some Like it Dirty: Comic Book Inking and Coloring Tutorial
Comic Book Inking and Coloring Tutorial Earlier this year I was commissioned to come up with a series of character illustrations for Cohort Pictures new film project; ‘The Northern Mist‘, a suspense horror set during the Roman occupation of Briton.…
Photoshop Action: Stamp/Print Effect
Works great on any single color logo, emblem, mark, seal, crest. Because of the great response to my Aged Type action, I took it a bit further and made a similar effect that could be applied, not only to text,…
Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders part 6 of 7
My experience attending AIGA & Yale’s School of Management course Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders. **These last two posts were delayed due to the internet being out at our hotel following a big thunderstorm.** Before I get into it, here…
Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders part 5 of 7
My experience attending AIGA & Yale’s School of Management course Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders. I’m exhausted. I really need some sleep badly. If you decide to take this course – which I highly recommend, don’t plan on blogging at…
Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders part 4 of 7
My experience attending AIGA & Yale’s School of Management course Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders. Fair warning: I’ve been drinking – a lot. AIGA and Yale’s Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders course is NOT like any educational experience you will…
Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders part 3 of 7
My experience attending AIGA & Yale’s School of Management course Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders. Ok, wow. I’m pumped. Today was better than I had expected. Knowledge is power. At least, it feels like I’ve just acquired a super power…
Thick Line Art: Creating Iconic Vector Art
I recently posted a new illustration on Dribbble called “Revivalist” and it got quite a lot of likes. I thought I’d write a tutorial about how I created it. So let’s do this! Introduction One of our clients Disciple Clothing…
Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders part 2 of 7
My experience attending AIGA & Yale’s School of Management course Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders. Ok, so this will probably be my least informative post in this series. But I want to give you the complete experience, so despite the…
Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders part 1 of 7
My experience attending AIGA & Yale’s School of Management course Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders. When my partners and I started Go Media many years ago, none of us had any formal business training. What we had was a passion…
The Chicago Neighborhoods Project
As many city dwellers know, each neighborhood in their city has a culture and feel all its own. And as any designer knows, it is important to infuse the specific culture and artistry of each client, company, or organization into…
The Beat Goes On
For 3D artist Mike Winkelmann (aka Beeple) every visual has a corresponding beat By day Mike Winkelmann is a graphic designer who works mostly on projects for the Web. Outside of his day job, though, he is better known as…
Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 2012: the video
Weapons of Mass Creation 2012 from Weapons of Mass Creation on Vimeo. We are the Weapons of Mass Creation. WMC Fest 3 took place on June 8-11, 2012 in Cleveland, OH. For more info visit wmcfest.com Director by Aaron Freeder…
When to Seek Brand Therapy
Go Media prides itself in brand-building. We’re adept at tapping into the core identity of our clients’ brands and helping them find ways to reflect their values. So why would we hire an outsider to help with our own brand?…
5 Tips for Creating Successful Packaging Design.
Good Brief… Any good packaging project starts with a creative brief that is well written and clearly lays out the objectives of the project. This document should give the designer precise information about the brand’s values and the brand’s promises…
DSLR Love: Improve Your Photo Mojo (Part Two)
ISO ISO is one aspect of photography that is not exactly the same in the film and digital realms, but they are related. In film, ISO referred to the films light sensitivity or speed. This meant shooting 100 film would…
Weapons of Mass Creation Fest Recap
Everyone at Go Media has let out a big WHEW now that we have wrapped up the 3rd annual Weapons of Mass Creation Festival. We spent all year planning the fest and we couldn’t be happier with how well it…
DSLR Love: Improve Your Photo Mojo (Part One)
A little bit of background If you’re into design, you may have an interest in photography at least on a basic level or if you’re like me, you love photography (I specialize in family portrait photography). Some of you may…
Disciple Clothing interview
Jeff spoke to one of our clients, Lauren at Disciple Clothing, and asked some questions about her experience running an apparel company. Here are her responses, enjoy! Can you tell our readers about Disciple, how it started? Disciple started with…
Album Cover Artwork Throughout the Decades
First off, let me start off by saying, I am a lover of Album Cover Artwork. And I don’t mean some dump-ya-after-3-dates kinda lover, but a put-a-ring-on-your-finger kinda lover. ;) I have read a crazy amount of books on the…
Watercolor Design Trends: Where We’ve Seen Them & How to Use Them
Lately we’ve been noticing a lot of watercolor inspired designs floating around. Watercolors have been around a long time and have made their presence known in everything from fashion to stationery design and everything in between. It seems to be…
Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 3 – Ask A Pro
Ask A Pro at the 2012 WMC Fest This year’s WMC Fest will feature an “Ask A Pro” table where students, young designers and freelancers can have their design industry questions answered. The table will feature a number of local…
The music of Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 3
Weapons of Mass Creation Fest: J-25 Ladies and gentlemen, Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 3 is less than a month away! This means that the frequency of Fest-related content published here will slowly but surely increase in the next couple…