Weapons of Mass Creation Fest Vector Skull Icons Pack by Brandon Rike

Hand Lettering Tutorial Release: How to Letter with Jason Carne

Hand Lettering Tutorial: How to Letter with Jason Carne Hey there Go Media Faithful! Love lettering like we do? You’re in luck. Today on the Arsenal, we’re releasing the hand lettering tutorial you’ve been waiting for! Today, we’re expanding our knowledge…

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Introducing Hand Drawn Lettering Elements: All American Grit

Looking to deliver your client design filled with character and an organic quality only achieved with hand lettering? Lacking the tools or time to do so? You’re in luck. Calligrapher Laura Di Piazza’s first Arsenal product, Hand Drawn Lettering Elements:…

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Mock up these Outdoor Mockup Templates from Go Media’s Arsenal!

Hey ya’ll! It’s Heather from Go Media’s Arsenal here.

I think it’s safe to say that, as designers, there are few things more thrilling than to see our designs out living their lives in the real world.

Like so:

Become a Master Typographer: 19 Expert Secrets to Creating Custom Lettering

One way a typographer can communicate a brand is through custom hand-lettering.

As Von Glitschka, Illustrative Designer of Glitschka Studios notes, “Few things can brand a product, business or service like a custom hand-lettered logotype. Illustrative lettering is the perfect balance between design sensibilities and illustration. A unique personality and identity can be imbued from illustrated letterforms that a standard typeface could never achieve.”

Just what should you consider when you’re creating the perfect custom hand-lettered logotype? Von and friends Joey Nelson from Blkboxlabs, Jason Carne, Martin Schmetzer, Albert Trulls Muntañà and Alison Rowan are here to share with us some ever important tips.

Apparel Design: 120+ Inspirations from Go Media’s Portfolio

Today we’re talking a walk down memory lane, focusing on the t-shirts we’ve passionately designed over the years.

Take a peek at our apparel archive with some images Bill, our President, has collected below.

For more of our work, the best in web, print, branding and illustration, head to gomedia.us!

Design with Ease and Efficiency: Introducing the Shark Attack T-Shirt Vector Pack

Design with Ease and Efficiency: Introducing the Shark Attack T-Shirt Vector Pack What if I told you it was possible to produce a high-quality design minus all of the sweat and seemingly endless hours? It can happen, my friends. (You…

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Tutorial: How to Use your Photoshop Mockup Template from Go Media (A Beginner’s Guide)

Hello Rock Star Designer (your name here),

I believe a celebration is in order.

You have just purchased the World’s Best Templates! Now you can:

Present your design to clients in a realistic, 3D setting on an actual product that has been professionally photographed
Test your product’s market potential as well as explore how it might look before going through the expensive manufacturing process
Impress and entice family, friends and future clients who’ll drool over your designs
Fully customize the appearance of your design and end product
Completely revamp your portfolio
Ain’t messin’ around, are you?

New T-Shirt Vector Pack Release: Produce an exceptional and unique t-shirt design in moments. (Yes, you!)

Hello Designers,

If you’re like me, there are a million things you want to accomplish. Like, today.

But time (and frankly, a tiny bit of skill) have kept me from checking those things off of my ever-growing list.

Until now.

Thankfully, I have some amazing friends who have hooked me up with the tools I need to not only check off my to-dos, but look like somebody who’s somebody doing them too.

And they’re here to help you as well.

Best of Graphic Design Conferences 2014: Connect, collaborate and be forever changed: Grab your the ticket to WMC Fest!

When your head is down and nose is to the grindstone, it’s easy to feel disconnected from the world, from your fellow creatives. As projects pile up, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and to even lose that fire you once had as a designer, artist, musician, entrepreneur, maker, doer, dreamer.

What if I told you you have the opportunity to breathe again?

Attend our 5th annual Weapons of Mass Creation Fest (running August 15 – 17) and you’ll experience three days of inspiration on overdrive: three days surrounded by folks just like you, who have all the passion in the world, yearning to become better than they once were. They’ll want to hear your successes, your struggles, to collaborate and connect. They’ll help you see life and work with new eyes. They’ll ask nothing in return.

Packaging Design Inspiration: 50+ Awesome Examples

Here at Go Media, we’re passionate about all aspects of design: web, print, branding and illustration.

Some may say we have too much fun, but we’d disagree. It’s just that we believe it’s really important to love what you do.

Recently, we were tasked with yet another awesome project – packaging design for Dirty Energy, a brand new energy bar packed with all sorts of goodness. We enjoyed building upon its core theme, “built from the ground up,” incorporating earthiness into our design.

How to design a great t-shirt (even with minimal design skills) quickly: The Unleashed T-Shirt Pack by Steve Knerem

In design, it seems, speed and quality rarely go hand in hand.

But there are some instances when you can have it all.

Introducing the T-Shirt Mockup Pack

With our new t-shirt mockup packs, you can design a great t-shirt quickly.

Seriously.

Here’s what happens: we hook you up hard core with all of the artwork and mockup files. You take those files into AI and modify the original illustration (if you so choose). Then, you mockup your design in Photoshop with some of the World’s Best Templates (ours of course). Bada bing, bada boom: you’ve got a t-shirt to call your very own.

You have ultimate creative freedom, giving both you seasoned designers, and those of you with beginner design skills, countless possibilities.

The Number One Myth of Hiring (& How You Can Overcome It)

Hey Go Media Faithful! Here’s another excerpt from my book, Drawn to Business, about the number one myth I’ve found in the hiring process. For more of my insights and actual tools to help you start your own million dollar company, pick up the book as well as its supplemental materials, now available on the Arsenal.

Hold onto Your Hats: the Hat Mockup Template Pack is finally here!

Ready to realistically mockup your designs and impress the hell out of your clients in one fell swoop?

It’s as easy as picking up the Hat Mockup Templates Pack and pop your design on one of our high-quality, lovingly layered, shadowed and highlighted PSDs, including our:

5 Panel Hat
Ball Cap
Beanie
Cuffed Beanie (Flat View)
Cuffed Beanie (Ghosted, Side View)
Flat Billed Snapback Hat
Headband
Pom Pom Beanie
Trapper Hat
Trucker Hat

Witness 20 Creatives Sharing their Struggles and Successes: the WMC Fest 4 Videos

Jeff Finley, founder of WMC Fest, said it best: “Something about the WMC Fest stage, people stand up there and start spilling their guts. It transcends career. They took off their band-aids and showed us all their wounds, and it’s okay because they know they’ll be supported and taken care of. They will be loved.”

Must-Have PSD Mockups: The Paper Mockup Templates Pack is Here!

The Newest Addition to the World’s Best Mockup Templates

I’m going to share a little trick we like to use to blow our clients’ minds every single time we deliver a design: guaranteed.

In our experience, when we present our clients with their finished design, mocked up in a realistic setting, they were *ten times more likely to be wow’d, impressed and baffled, as in “Wait, what? You’ve already printed the design? Just for me?”

(*more like twenty)

Comic, Creature and Character Illustration: 4 Pro Tips

Dei G of Deisign is a master of comic design. A provider of unique character and creature designs for the entertainment industry, as well as a generator of character driven covers and promotional illustrations, Dei has won numerous awards and has produced work for Paramount Pictures, Stone Circles Pictures and ToonBox Entertainment, to name a few.

His work is captivating, his characters jumping off the page with a refreshing sense of life, movement and vitality.

Just how does Dei animate his illustrations so exceptionally? Here are some of his pro tips:

Want to create a customized rock and roll tee (minus the lengthy design hours)? We can help.

Life as a designer can be completely overwhelming. With projects constantly coming through, work piles up and never-ending revisions make for long days and late nights. It isn’t like we’re not completely thankful, but let’s be honest:

Sometimes we just need a break.

Thankfully, there is a little shortcut sent from heaven that lets us do our job while cutting our hours, saving us money and making us look like a rock star.

Introducing the t-shirt design pack.

Become a Master Typographer: How to Choose the Perfect Typeface

A critical question we often ask ourselves and know other designers contemplate when working on any given design is, “How do I choose a font?”

So many factors go into this decision, however thanks to the help of some friends, including Creative Director Michael Prewitt as well as Art Directors Craig Weiland and Harley Peddie, we’re here to share with you ways you can choose the perfect typeface for every project.

Present Professional Photorealistic, 3D Designs in Minutes using the World’s Best Mockup Templates

Want to knock the socks off of your clients, whilst instantly boosting your street cred? Take a few extra moments in your design process to mock up your art using the World’s Best Mockup Templates. (Promise: It works every time my friends).

The mockup is a trick of the trade for Go Media and the top design professionals in our community. Why? It gives your clients professional, high quality, palpable, photorealistic 3D imagery of your designs. The result fools them into believing you went the extra mile to produce a physical mockup! (But it’s okay, we won’t tell!) Not only will your client be über impressed, but you’ll just generally be able to communicate your vision to your printer and have a clearer vision of the end product yourself.

It’s Here! Introducing the Technology Mockup Templates Pack

Adding to our over 175 Mockup Templates!

Here at Mockup Everything, we are proud to provide you, our users, an easy-to-use online platform for applying your graphic designs to a growing variety of print products.

We offer mockup templates in categories including technology, apparel, print, outdoor and food & beverage, with over 175 templates in our library to date.

Each month, lucky Pro Users* are treated to at least 5 new templates and this month is no different.

Introducing the Awakened T-Shirt Design Pack by Jeff Finley

We’re proud to introduce a brand new product to the Arsenal today: the t-shirt design pack.

This product includes everything you need to design a great t-shirt. The pack includes vector illustrations, a tri-blend t-shirt mockup PSD and the completed original vector design. As a bonus, we’re including a free copy of our popular ebook Thread’s Not Dead: The Designer’s Guide to the Apparel Industry.