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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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…

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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…

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New Release: Grid Kit

Grid Kit Released We cooked up the grid kit to be a go-to ingredient in your page layout process. We revisited the classic tomes of page construction and put together a smashing sampling of grids that will inspire & guide…

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Arsenal: Pullover Hoodie Templates!

Hi again everybody, it’s Adam from Go Media. If I had a feather for every phone call, email, and comment from designers requesting pullover hoodie templates, I could build the Big Bird float from Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. Maybe two of…

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Weapons of Mass Creation Interview: Chad Lenjer

We’ve already posted 4 of the video interviews we were lucky to film with attendees of the first Weapons of Mass Creation event last fall. Currently we’re busy planning a much more ambitious festival to celebrate contemporary creative visionaries, called…

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Weapons of Mass Creation Interview: Fuel Brand Inc.

Welcome to the fourth interview 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! We sat down with Adelle Charles & Joshua Smibert of Fuel…

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Weapons of Mass Creation interview: Mark Weaver

Here’s the third installation of the Weapons of Mass Creation video interview series featuring designer & illustrator Mark Weaver. Not sure what this is all about? Read the kick-off article to get caught up! You’ll find both the video interview…

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Go Media featured in Advanced Creation: Illustrator

Near the end of 2009 we were contacted by Stéphanie Guillaume & her team at the French outpost of Advanced Creation about re-releasing a couple tutorials from The GoMediaZine. We said “sure!”, and sure enough, the hefty 150 page special…

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Weapons of Mass Creation Interview: Geoff May

User Showcase Highlight Round 14

Since the last User Showcase Highlight post the Go Media User Showcase Pool has ballooned from 1142 images to 4,672! Our members are up to a healthy 1181 and growing. After browsing through dozens of pages of great submissions, two…

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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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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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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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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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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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The Best Spray Paint Textures

Do a Google search for “Spray paint textures” and you’ll see why knew that the artistic community deserved better. So, we brought in a well-known graffiti artist from right here in Cleveland to show us what he could do. And,…

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Design Solution: Indie Coffeeshop Corporate ID

Ask the Readers: Who is a current household name in design?

LeBron James, Barack Obama, Terrell Owens, Britney Spears – names you all recognize I assume? For better or worse, I think that just about everybody in the United States would know these people by name. So I wonder: Who are…

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10 PC Productivity Tools for Graphic Designers

A great roundup of 10 excellent time-saving utilities for PC-based graphic designers. These run the gamut from graphics software specific tools to general Windows utilities any creative types out there will find useful for their day-to-day PC usage. Boost your productivity and have more time to create with this extensive list from Go Media’s Adam Wagner.

Free Vector Pack 15 Sampler

User Showcase Highlight 13

Somehow a whole half a year has zipped by since the last User Showcase Highlight Post, and that is a travesty. In the meantime you’ve more than doubled the number of images (now weighing in at 2,481) and gained 321…

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Designers’ Guide to the Apparel Printing Industry

Over the last couple of years the GoMediaZine has been a cookie jar full of tips, tutorials & practical advice about designing for apparel. There have been in depth tutorials, lots of inspiration, a fantastic three-part series full of experience…

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