Articles by: Go Media
The Home of Art & Soul: Why Cleveland Designers are Here to Stay
Cleveland Proud With our headquarters in Ohio City, one of our city’s most culturally rich and diverse communities, we here at Go Media are proud to call Cleveland home. Living in the home of rock and roll, music, design, and art are in…
We Asked, You Answered: My Biggest Challenge Running a Design Business
Here at Go Media, we’re buzzing about the release of Bill Beachy’s book, Drawn to Business including new extra goodies! This nuts and bolts strategy guide highlights the successes, failures, the in and outs of growing a design firm: namely, ours.
How to Land the Design Job of Your Dreams
You’re knee deep in loans. You dream in Adobe. You crafted the-most-memorable video resume of all time.
Or so you think.
You’re knocking on doors and they just seem to be closing.
Slamming, really.
What is it that you’re missing?
We asked Dan Weiss, Talent Acquisition Specialist, from American Greetings and Taryn O’Bra, division director for the Creative Group in Seattle, to share with us some sure-fire ways to get hired at a creative agency.
What’s Go Media Been Up To?
What’s Go Media been up to? Oh, just a little thing called Weapons of Mass Creation Fest…
20 Designers You Should Follow on Instagram
Hello from @Go_Media Here at our buzzing Ohio City design headquarters, we love giving you a look inside Go Media, all thanks to Instagram! Thanks to this app, we also love taking a peek into the lives and work of…
Inspired by Weapons of Mass Creation Festival
Weapons of Mass Creation Festival … left us all inspired. We asked you, our readers, to submit art created as a result of your experiences at the Fest. Check out the submissions from these talented folks and submit your own…
Why Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 4 Changed My Life
We here at Weapons of Mass Creation Fest and Go Media are still reeling from what we feel was the most moving, inspirational, simply the best WMC Fest yet. As we strike the set, pack up the gallery and sweep…
Go Media Launches Motivideos!
Go Media has been honored to work with the lovely people over at digital video production and marketing company, Motivideos, on version 2 of their website, now live! One of the first producers to self-distribute leadership content online, Motivideos relies heavily on their site to create and distribute original pay per view online Leadership Videos, as well as to generally tell clients their story, generating greater brand awareness online. Go Media’s dev team has been thrilled to help them achieve their vision.
Essential Tips for Success from Designers We Trust
It’s a big, bad world out there. We asked some of our favorite designers, what is your #1 tip for success?
Design Tools I Can’t Live Without
We asked our favorite designers…What design tools can’t you live without?
Inspiration Now! 11 Ideas from Our Favorite Designers
We’ve all been there, staring at the screen: cursor blinking, artboard sadly stark white, pencil sharpened and nowhere to go. Looking around you want so badly for inspiration to jump off the screen and bite you. Sometimes, just sometimes it does – but more often than not, you have to go looking for it. Even our favorite designers, on those dark and desperate moments, have to dig deep and think out-of-the-box to seek inspiration everywhere – and today they’re here to share with us some places you might find it, too.
Top 100 Design & Inspiration Blogs: Go Media & Friends Favorites
Google Reader is retiring, but we here at Go Media believe RSS is far from dead. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of 100 of our favorite blogs to follow, however it is you may choose to do so. And even better, we had a little help from our friends.
An Eye for Design: Building An Affordable Luxury Brand
Kumar Arora is entrepreneur meets designer.
His mother, a student of all things art, and his father a scientist specializing in nano coatings for eyeglass lenses, Arora was surrounded by inspiration. Watching, observing, studying, a student of Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University and an Economics major at the Ohio State University, it seemed as if he was destined to create something big, something of his own one day.
“Rogue Eyewear has been a project well thought out over the years but is finally coming to fruition.”
Introducing Feedly Cloud + 5 Tips and Tricks
The countdown has begun. Google is set to drop its RSS aggregator, Google Reader, on July 1, 2013. Announcing to its devoted following two reasons for its disbanding, one being a decline in usage and two their need to pour energy into other products, Google offers Google Takeout for those needing to download a copy of their data stored from Reader.
For those married to RSS, there is life beyond Reader.
The Road to the Rustbelt Almanac
A fresh new copy of Rustbelt Almanac just arrived on my desk, the pages crisp, clean and full of goodness about all makers, doers and dreamers. This, the first issue by producers Noah Purdy and Michael Artman is being passed around and poured over by all of us here at Go Media. Just great stuff.
We’re proud, too. Rustbelt recently interviewed our very own Jeff Finley about this year’s Weapons of Mass Creation Fest.
We recently had a chance to talk to Rustbelt Almanac about their recent issue, their road to copy and the vast sprawling rusty region that they call home.
Sean McCabe: Doing What You Love
Sean McCabe’s passion for hand lettering and typography can be traced back to middle school, his homework littered with typographic illustrations. While others doodled, Sean shaped and sculpted his own unique letters, seeing them as shapes and curves full of beauty. His fascination with typography grew into a career, with Sean now doing what he loves most. His love for meticulous detail, attentive eye for precision, balance and composition are all in a days work.
Go Media had the opportunity to chat with Sean about doing what you love…
The Whimsical World of Angela Oster
Cleveland artist and illustrator Angela Oster cultivates and creates a world of whimsy, filled with criminally cute, odd and wonderful beings. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of the Art, Oster gave Go Media a glimpse into her life, her art, and some of her lovely work.
Perspective, Hustle and Passion with Kern and Burn
We’re big fans of Jessica Karle Heltzel and Tim Hoover here at Go Media. Designers, writers and publishers, we are super honored to have Jess and Tim on our list of WMC 2013 Speakers this year.
We recently had a chance to chat with Jess and Tim about their recent success with Kern and Burn, a recently released online and print publication that curates discussions, interviews, and essays about design entrepreneurship.
Kern and Burn: Conversations With Design Entrepreneurs is a beautiful two-color book that features candid conversations with 30 leading designers who have founded startups, channeled personal passions into self-made careers and taken risks to do what they love. In this book they share their failures, successes, and perspectives. Kern and Burn’s hope is that you, the reader, can learn from them — not to follow in their footsteps, but to chart your own course in parallel, one that allows you to thrive, add value to the world and love what you do. Dedicating the book to “those who kern, those who burn and those who embrace the risk of failure daily,” their book is available online now on KernandBurn.com.
An Interview with Jen Adrion & Omar Noory of These Are Things
We are huge fans of designers, illustrators and fellow Ohioans Jen and Omar from These Are Things! Recent podcast guests and speakers for this year’s Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 2013, we just cannot get enough of their inspiring story, enthusiasm and heart. We asked them to answer some questions about their very favorite things, to tide us over until we are reunited again. Enjoy!
What’s Go Media Been Up To?
All is quiet here at Go Media – heads down, noses to the grindstone!
We’ll start with the bad…well, bittersweet news. Our Community Manager, Marissa Mele, has bid us adieu. Our hearts broke as we watched Marissa leave Go Media for the very last time, but we must admit that we’re happy too (read: jealous) – as Marissa is off for warmer weather! At least one of us gets to escape the Cleveland winters. We’ll miss you Marissa!
While we lost one we gained two.
Joining our staff are Simon Birky-Hartmann, new Arsenal Product Manager, and Heather Sakai, taking over as Community Manager.
The Age of Instagram: An Interview with Dan Morgan
Filterstorm, PhotoGene, Camera+, iDarkroom, Instagram.
With a flick of a finger, a simple effect, a toasty filter can bring your dull, camera photo to life.
In the age of the iPhone, such easy access to the camera itself, combined with photo-editing software gives us power and confidence we’ve never had. But do all of these apps with their seemingly unlimited textures, brushes, filters and overlays come at a cost? Do they overshadow the true art of professional photography?
Professional Cleveland photographer Dan Morgan of Straight Shooter, who has been in the business for over 30 years, has embraced the recent explosive advances in his field. Go Media sat down with Morgan to talk about Instagram and related software programs.
Dishing on Design with Valerie Mayen of Yellowcake
Skidding across fresh, bright black and white tile, a very exuberant 6 month husky jumped up excitedly to greet me at the door of Yellowcake, recently renovated and expanded Gordon Square boutique. Owner and Cleveland designer Valerie Mayen was quick to follow. “Mango! Get down!”
“Sorry! She gets very excited!”
Inside Yellowcake lives colorful, custom mod women’s coats, dresses and skirts, and the beginnings of a mens line including crisp ties and jackets. All of her designs crafted right here in Cleveland, Ohio, Mayen has had her roots in the city since November of 2011.
20 Inspiring Designs From Our Friends on Pinterest
Welcome back to the 9th edition of the “Go Media Guest Pinner Gallery Showcase.” If you aren’t a fan of ours on Pinterest click this link to start following what we pin. This showcase features the best pins from our Go Media Guest Pinner Gallery, so these images are the ones that you all found and shared with us. If you would like to be added to the gallery send me an email at [email protected]. Happy Pinning!
Old & New Project Releases Round 3: Turning Points
For many of you this isn’t the 1st time you have heard of the Old & New Project. You may remember a post we did about the project last May which included an interview with the founders. Check it out here if you missed it.
Old & New Project returns this month with another round of religious contemporary graphic art. This time, contributors span both the globe and the current spectrum of design celebrity—with artists both well-known and up-and-coming invited to participate.
Earlier this year the creators, Jim LePage and Troy Deshano, opened a public call for portfolio submissions and several artists from round 3 are from that public call.