Articles by Year: 2015
Our Free Tool Will Help You Create Portfolio Worthy Mockups
Meet T-Shirt Mockup Tool Mockup Everything What’s better than a portfolio filled with your best work? Not much, we say. After all, you never know when opportunity is going to come a-knocking. But this, we know, is much harder than…
Provoking Leadership: Building a Passionate Team
How to Build a Passionate Team Have you ever thought to yourself, “This isn’t working for me.”? Sure, that’s a pretty blanket statement and could mean a multitude of things: The “It’s not you, it’s me” end to a relationship,…
Incredibly Fun Project Alert: Lincoln Electric Automated Welding Cell
Check out our work with Lincoln Electric Our good friends at Lincoln Electric gave us a call because they needed a wrap designed to cover their automatic (robotic) welding cell. They would be competing at the upcoming American Welding Society’s convention.…
From Vector to Augmented Reality: A New Tutorial from Go Media’s Arsenal
You asked, we answered! This all new, in-depth tutorial answers a question asked of us often here at Cleveland creative agency Go Media: “How do you create those awesome vectors?”
Creators. Doers. Makers. – WMC Fest Episode 3: Michael Cavotta
The WMC Fest Creators. Doers. Makers. Series Our new video series highlights remarkable makers and designers that inspire and motivate us to create greatness. Episode Three puts the spotlight on Michael Cavotta, a featured speaker and workshop leader at the best…
Clipping Masks in Illustrator | Design Tip of the Week
Clipping Masks in Illustrator Hey, everyone! For this short and sweet Design Tip of the Week, I’ll show you how to use clipping masks in Illustrator. They are very to do, yet incredibly useful in creating backgrounds, making textured shapes…
Takeaways From Creative Control Fest 4
Creative Control Fest is an annual creative gathering in Columbus, Ohio aimed at bringing ethnically and culturally diverse community together. It was inspired by some of the efforts of our own design festival Weapons of Mass Creation Fest, and works…
Creating Learning Material
-Creating Learning Material: A Beginners Guide to Making Educational Content In 2014, back when I lived in Pittsburgh, I received the opportunity to be an art instructor at a community-focused arts organization known as Wash Arts (located in Washington county).…
Conceptualizing Through Questioning | Design Tip of the Week
Conceptualizing Through Questioning Coming up with an idea can be difficult. Coming up with a GOOD idea is even more challenging. There are times when one faces a creative drought, when those AHA moments feel as if they are never going…
Creators. Doers. Makers. – WMC Fest Episode 2: Michael Bierut
The WMC Fest Creators. Doers. Makers. Series Our new video series highlights remarkable makers and designers that inspire and motivate us to create greatness. Episode Two puts the spotlight on Michael Bierut, a featured speaker at the best creative conference of…
So Your Design Just Got Rejected… (7 Actionable Steps to a Happier Client Relationship)
You’ve just spent the last two days pouring your heart into a design. Then, the dreaded email comes through.
Adjust Rounded Rectangle Corners in Illustrator | Design Tip of the Week
Adjust Rounded Rectangle Corners in Illustrator I forgot who showed me this (I think it might have been Aaron), but man, it absolutely blew my mind. It’s so simple too. In fact, you probably already know this tip, but for…
Expand Your Network Through Facebook: 10 Quick Tips for Small Businesses
What would you like to do with Facebook? (Horrible pun intended).
The first step for expanding your network through Facebook is asking yourself: What are my goals? What do I really want to do with more likes?
If your answer is that you need to increase your likes by x%, your favorite Cleveland graphic, logo and web design studio Go Media can help with that. We love a good contest as much as the next person! However, a contest that increases your community by 1000, 3000, or even 100,000 likes may seem awesome in theory, but do you know what’s not awesome? Talking to yourself. And if you have a bazillion likes who don’t contribute to your page in any way, you’re essentially talking to a wall. That’s why we we strongly encourage our clients to create robust Facebook pages with “Active Likes.”
Our New Storefront & Window Graphics – From Concept to Creation!
We teamed up with Jakprints to show off our brand new store front as well as their awesome large format printing capabilities. Here you’ll get to see the full process from conception to installation.
Step 1 : The Concept
We ran through a few different ideas before finally landing on a concept for our first set of window banners. We wanted to create a large collage of icons which all, in one way or another represented the life of an artist and more specifically the crew here at Cleveland graphic, logo and web design studio Go Media. This included a good mix of the tools we use, the things we like and Cleveland, Ohio!
We thought it would be most helpful to start by creating a list of all of the individual items that needed to be created – then we asked our entire staff to add items that they felt represented Go Media and being an artist to them. We made sure to include a piece of everyone.
Color Linework in Photoshop | Design Tip of the Week
Black and white linework is always nice, but sometimes a bit of color is needed to add a pinch of visual flavor to your delicious illustration soufflé . (Hooray cooking metaphors!) Let’s get into it and show you how to…
Designing a Kick-Ass Logo? Here are 7 Mistakes to Avoid
Mistakes to Avoid When Designing a Logo When you think of great products or companies, the visual image that forms in your mind is probably that of their mark; McDonald’s golden arches, Nike’s Swoosh and Coca-Cola’s wave. The inherent value…
I Just Learned to Embrace My Inner Kanye. (4 Key Takeaways from WMC 6)
The sixth year of Cleveland creative conference Weapons of Mass Creation Fest came and went (a little too fast), but if one thing’s for certain, the fest did not over promise and under deliver. This year, Heather Sakai and Bryan Garvin took over as Event Directors and it’s safe to say we all left feeling refreshed and inspired, with our hearts full of good laughs with new and old friends. Let’s talk about the takeaways from Cleveland creative firm Go Media’s WMC Fest 6.
Creators. Doers. Makers. Video Series – WMC Fest Episode 1: Danielle Evans
Our new video series highlights remarkable makers and designers that inspire and motivate us to create greatness. This week we put the spotlight on Danielle Evans. You may recognize Danielle’s work from this year’s Ink Wars competition or her downright delicious Food and Dimensional Typography Workshop – both featured at the best creative conference of the summer, Go Media’s Weapons of Mass Creation Fest!
Positive and Negative Space in Illustrator| Design Tip of the Week
Positive and Negative Space in Illustrator We all know that Illustrator is great for creating dynamic linework and wonderful shapes, but what about creating lines WITH shapes? You know, positive and negative space? Get what I’m saying? Picking up what…
Tips on Landing an Internship
Tips on Landing an Internship Sadly, the day has come where my amazing internship with the designers at Cleveland design firm, Go Media ends. But before I go, I want to pass on helpful advice to any designers out there…
Introducing the Halftone Triple Technique Tutorial!
Say it three times fast…
Halftones: those cool little dots that create lovely tonal values, yet still maintain that flat, graphic look. If you search “how to do halftones” on Google or YouTube, you’ll find that there are a number of ways to achieve this effect. Here at the Go Media’s Arsenal, the best site for design resources on the planet, we tasked our designer Jordan Wong to find the best methods to share with you!
Adventures in Design: Episode 331 “LIVE from Ohio” WMC Fest 6 Keynote Performance
Adventures in Design Live from WMC Fest We here at Cleveland creative agency Go Media, producers of design conference Weapons of Mass Creation Fest were beyond honored to have Mark Brickey of the Adventures in Design Podcast as a keynote speaker…
With Each Day You Get Little Bit Better | Design Tip of the Week
With Each Day You Get Little Bit Better. A week may have already passed since Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 6 ended, but I’m still riding that inspiration wave and hopefully can share it with others. Therefore, this week’s tip…
My Junior Shadowing Day at Go Media
My high school requires a Junior Shadow experience therefore I sent my requests to shadow a company to many companies in the Cleveland area and in Ohio. I was initially contemplating a career in Game Design and contacted a variety of companies. Go Media had been recommended to me by a faculty member from an art school in the area. I looked them up to see what they were about and I could then see why they came so highly recommended.