Articles by: Heather Sakai
Graphic Design Jobs: Where to Find Your Dream Career Online
Seeking employment in the field of graphic design? When you’re looking for a new start, LinkedIn, Indeed, Simply Hired, Glassdoor, and Monster aren’t your only options. There are several sites that can connect you to your next freelance gig or…
Stop and Follow These Super Fun, Empowering Illustrators on Instagram
Follow these Illustrators on Instagram Hate social media bringing you down? Hate scrolling and slowly feeling down about yourself as the posts roll by? Follow these ten illustrators on Instagram we suggest below and you’ll perk right up. We promise!…
70’s Graphic Design Inspiration
70s Graphic Design: Ideas from our Pinterest Board As you may have noticed, companies and designers have been drawing inspiration from of our favorite decades lately. Graphic design inspiration from the 1970’s is all the rage. There is something about…
Becoming a Professional, Freelance Artist
How to Become A Professional Artist with Lindsey Jo Scott Have you had to urge to leave your full-time position and pursue your love of art full-time? Today, with the help of local artist, Lindsey Jo Scott, we explored what…
Growing Your Small Business: 14 Questions for Entrepreneurs
Starting your own firm or freelance business? Have your own small business, but looking for a boost? We here at Go Media, your favorite Cleveland design firm, are here to help by providing you with 14 fundamental questions that will…
Designer Face Off featuring Mike Klok and John Lee Clair
Welcome to Designer Face Off, where we ask two designers to go head to head, asking one another burning questions about their shared passions for design, entrepreneurship, and all things creative. Facing off today are designer Mike Kluk of Stuffed…
Graphic Design Agencies to Follow on Instagram
Some of our most popular posts have included our posts about who we suggest you follow on Instagram, such as our recent post entitled, “21 Hand Lettering Artists to Follow on Instagram.” Today, we thought we would recommend our favorite…
Top Social Media Hashtags for Creative Business Owners
Hey Designers, one of our most popular posts is about Top Social Media Hashtags for Designers. We thought we’d continue to shed light on this topic, this time focusing on the best hashtags for creative business owners. We hope that…
8 Steps to a Faster Loading Website and More Money in Your Pocket
Ways to Speed Up Your Website In the dog-eat-dog, scrappy world of gaining and keeping online traffic, a slow-loading website can crush your chances of making a mark before you even get started. The statistics are frightening. You have about…
Our Top Reasons to Attend WMC: Off-The-Grid — October 5–7th, 2018
Design Conference 2018 – WMC: Off-The-Grid by Go Media We here at Go Media (your favorite design shop in CLE) are thrilled to introduce a new event to our community this year, an offshoot of our annual design conference Weapons of Mass…
This Week’s Top Five Links (7/6/2018)
Here are five links, images or videos from the web that stood out to us this week. We thought we’d pass them onto you and share the love. We hope you enjoy them. Please tweet us and let us know…
Twenty Eight Actionable Ways to Up Your Game, Increase Your Exposure and Expand Your Audience
Best Ways to Market Yourself as a Graphic Designer Whether you are a freelancer or head of an advertising agency, there is always an opportunity to gain more exposure for your personal brand, your products and services. Here are 28…
Finding Inspiration for Your Next Poster Design (& a Few Freebies to Help You On Your Way)
How to Design an Inspiring Poster – 5 Tips from Go Media Hey designers, one of the topics you come to us most about is finding inspiration for your next graphic design poster. So today, we are giving you five…
Simple but Sweet Packaging Designs that are Making us Smile
Simple Packaging Design Inspiration 2018 When you are designing packaging, you want your customer to feel like they are opening a present on Christmas day. But over design and you’ll take away from what’s inside. Here are some simple yet…
Why User Experience Matters and How You Win at It
Your client’s website may be aesthetically-pleasing and ranking on top positions, but does it provide a good user experience? This is one of the things that digital marketing agencies need to understand and an important task that any white label…
Celebrating International Women’s Day with our Free Feminist Vector Pack!
Download our Free Feminist Vector Pack! It’s International Women’s Day, which means it’s time to “celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women” – which we should be doing every day if you ask us. But the fact…
Download: Free Slime Textures
Presenting Free Slime Textures Introducing the Slime Texture Pack, created by young creative BearCubSlimes. The eight free slime textures included in this pack are high-resolution photography of homemade slime, some of which are available on her shop on Etsy. These…
Tutorial: How to Use Vector Textures in Adobe Illustrator to Distress Your Logo/Design
Free Vector Textures + How to Use Them We are so excited to announce the release of a new vector set, the Fistful T-Shirt Design Graphic Vector Set. This new vector set was created by new Arsenal Artist, Dedda Sutanto,…
Web Roundup: 77 Poster Designs to be Inspired by
Poster Designs What’s better than a post dedicated to great posters? Here’s another one chock-full of poster designs you can be inspired by. Click on each poster for more information and to link to our Poster Pinterest Board.
50 Poster Layout Design Inspirations, Do’s and Don’ts
You’ve been asking for tips on poster layout design and we’re here to help. Today, we’ll be using a sampling of inspiring posters to show you how to design your own.
Download Free Stock Vectors & How to Use Them PDF
Download: Free Stock Vectors Guide & Freebies Go Media’s vectors are known industry-wide as being the best of the best. We have thousands of these hand-crafted illustrations (all royalty-free) for you to use in your own design work. But not…
How to Collaborate with Your Fellow Designers for Maximum Results
How can you collaborate with other designers? Here at Go Media, we hold an annual design conference called Weapons of Mass Creation Festival. Weapons of Mass Creation Fest is a three-day art, design and music conference that features a diverse…
How to Take Your Inbox to Zero
Is a flooded inbox a daily nightmare? Here are some tips and tricks to keeping your inbox neat, tidy and even (gasp!) completely empty!
Why You Should Attend a Design Conference (like WMC Fest)
Hello current and future friends of Weapons of Mass Creation Fest, If you have yet to hear of us, we are the premier art, design, and music conference in the Midwest. We welcome you to join us for this year’s…