Articles by: George Coghill
Blank Canvas: Creative Resolutions
It’s that time of year again. January first always seems to bring out the best intentions in people, and us creative types are no different. Some may choose to lose weight, get in shape or quit a bad habit. But…
- 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
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
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
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
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: Illustrator, Adobe
Review: Phantasm CS plugin for Adobe Illustrator
Not many Adobe Illustrators are aware of the plug-in functionality of Adobe Illustrator. I don’t believe it’s promoted very well. There’s not a good one-stop shop to find plug-ins in one place, with reviews and user feedback. And it’s a shame,…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Illustrator, Adobe
Roundup: Mac Utilities for Designers
A quick round up of some interesting new and updated Mac utilities of interest to creative types. Photoshop Automator Actions 5.0 (free/$19.95) A package of Actions that lets you control many of Photoshop’s most common functions from within Mac OS…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Illustrator, Photoshop
Photoshop CS5: Performance Tips
So I recently jumped the gun and upgraded to Photoshop CS5 on the Mac. And I wasn’t too happy about it. Let’s just say that the performance levels were not to my liking. In fact, Photoshop CS5 performed worse than…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Photoshop, Adobe
Adobe: Create Digital Magazines for the iPad
There’s been quite a brouhaha between Adobe and Apple as far as the lack of Flash on Apple’s iOS devices (iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch). I’ve mentioned on GoMediaZine in the past that I believe Adobe’s best plan of action…
Kickstarter.com: Fund Your Creativity
Have a creative project that needs funds from supporters to get things going? Not sure where to start or how to get the word out? Look no further than Kickstarter. I can’t do a better job than Kickstarter themselves did…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
Blank Canvas: How Do You Learn?
For this installment of Blank Canvas, I’d like to hear from our readers on the topic of learning new design and illustration techniques and software. Obviously here at the Go Media Zine, we offer plenty of design and illustration tutorials,…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: illustration, Graphic Design
Inspiration Sea
Inspiration Sea is a worldwide community spreading inspiration through art. It allows designers of all kinds (graphic designers, illustrators, web designers, photographers, etc.) to showcase their best work. Users can sign up for a free account to gain access to…
- Categorized: News
- Tagged: illustration, Graphic Design
Blank Canvas: Design Contests
There seems to be quite a growing number of websites such as 99 Designs offering design services by way of “contests”, where the client will submit specs for the project, and the designers will then submit actual designs in order…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
Kaleidoscope: Text & Image Comparison Utility
Kaleidoscope for Mac is an interesting new file comparison utility. It looks to be a great tool for both web developers as well as designers, and as far as I know it’s the first utility of it’s kind to do…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
Adobe Digital Publishing Platform
Today Adobe announced their Digital Publishing Platform, which in their own words is “a platform which consists of applications, technologies, and services that allow publishers to cost effectively author, produce, and distribute groundbreaking content to the broadest possible audience on a…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Adobe
Blank Canvas: Personal Projects
For this installment of Blank Canvas, Go Media is interested in hearing about your forays into the analog world. With so much design work being created and used online and in digital format, it’s easy for a creator to only…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: illustration
Blank Canvas: Flash vs. HTML5
Recently we published a post regarding Apple’s stance on Flash and their iDevices. The gist of the situation is that Apple has decided they don’t want to be reliant on a third-party plugin for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Adobe
Flash, Floppy Disks & FreeHand
Apple’s Steve Jobs just posted a long open letter on the reasoning behind the decision to exclude Flash support on mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Jobs lists six major points surround the decision, but wraps…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Adobe
The ArtCast Network
This one goes out to all you illustrator types. Children’s book illustrator Dani Jones was an early adopter of using online video such as YouTube and live broadcast video service Ustream to share her tips, techniques and talents with others.…
- Categorized: News
- Tagged: illustration
Blank Canvas: Photoshop, Crashes & RAM
“Photoshop crashed!” I see this cry all over Twitter, on blogs, in web comics — you can’t go anywhere online that has a tangential relationship to Photoshop without seeing this complaint. So why is it that Photoshop never crashes for…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Photoshop, Adobe
Adobe Creative Suite 5
It’s that time of the, um 18-month release cycle again. Time for a new version of Adobe’s Creative Suite. This time up: version 5. For this initial overview, I’m just going to talk about the new stuff in Photoshop and…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Adobe, Photoshop, Graphic Design, Illustrator
Blank Canvas: Adobe Creative Suite CS5 — Are You Upgrading?
It’s that time of year again fellow creative types. Well, actually that time of the 18-month release cycle for Adobe’s Creative Suite upgrade. I know many users out there have a feeling of “didn’t I just upgrade?”, but in fact…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Photoshop, Adobe, Illustrator