Articles by: Jeff Finley
Vector Pack 8 Out Now!
Get your hands on our latest vector pack set 8! This set contains 220 pieces of artwork including Flourishes, Decorative 2, Arrows 2, Silhouettes, Industiral, Religious, and Music. Click here to view the set Let us know what you think.
User Showcase Highlight: Round 7
As of this writing our Go Media User Showcase has 267 entries and 152 members. Here are a couple pieces that I thought put some of the items in Go Media’s Arsenal to good use. Combines the scribble pack and…
Go Media in “I Want Your Skull” Zine
The new issue of “I Want Your Skull” is out now and Dave and I managed to get some of our drawings in the zine. I did the dirty mullet skull and Dave did the one with the snake. Check…
Design Piracy – What to do when your designs are stolen
It’s happened to the best of us and will inevitably happen to you if it hasn’t already. Your hard work and creativity are ripped off without consent, permission, payment, or even credit. Oftentimes the idiot who assembled a piece of…
The 40% Skull Rule
Back in May, the girlfriend of Go Media co-founder Chris Wilson wrote us a letter expressing her concern about the number of skulls in our portfolio. I thought you might enjoy reading it and what we had to say about…
Create 3D objects in Cinema 4D from vector art
This is a video tutorial on taking vector art and importing it into Cinema 4D to create a 3D object that can be animated, textured, and manipulated in 3D space. In this tutorial, written by David from filmmakingcentral.com he shows…
Great site for Shirt Design Inspiration
There’s a cool new site out there called Emptees that’s showcasing the art of t-shirt design. There doesn’t seem to be a commercial slant like Threadless, and it’s more of basically a hub for inspiration. Some great artists are posting…
Get a Free Complete Set of Vector Packs with TuneCore!
Calling all bands, artists, and musicians! Use TuneCore to get your songs on iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, eMusic, and more and get yourself a FREE complete set of Go Media’s Vector Packs! I’ve worked with TuneCore before on getting my friend…
Freelance Switch Redesigns their Site
On of my favorite blogs (and one of the most well designed) Freelance Switch redesigned their site the other day. FS is an amazing inspiration to me in terms of the site’s growth the past 6 months (nearly 15,000 subscribers…
Answering Questions and Taking Suggestions!
What do you want to know? Sometimes it’s hard for me to decide what to write about or what our next tutorial should be. So what better way than ask you! So, to all our loyal readers, give me
4 Tips to Combat Creative Block
I was asked a question recently how we keep the creativity flowing at Go Media and not get bored, uninspired, and lazy. Well, we have a handful of designers here and they’re often working on a variety of different jobs…
User Showcase Highlight: Round 6
As of this writing our Go Media User Showcase has 217 entries and 131 members. Here are a couple pieces that I thought put the vector packs to good use. I wish this one was bigger so I can see…
Old School Type – Line Gradients
One of our readers suggested we write a tutorial explaining how to do this cool text effect. On the Dragonforce logo above, the basis of my typography was sketched on paper first and then vectored in Illustrator using the Pen…
Go Media wins Interactive Media Award
Well, not directly, but the Pepsi More website we built for Damon over at Communicator International won Best in Class in the Marketing category. Damon and his crew at Communicator were hired by Pepsi to help market their campaign with…
I’m an RSS Addict. Here’s why:
I’m sure many of you have heard the term “RSS” right? Well, it stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and my first few years of blogging and web design I completely ignored it. It wasn’t until 6 months ago I realized…
Step by Step: Using the Vector Packs
Step by Step: How to Use Vector Packs We get quite a few people calling every day with trouble opening or using our Vector Packs. I decided to write a tutorial specifically to help out newbies who aren’t exactly sure…
Web designers Get Clicky!
As some of you know, I’m a stats junkie. Since I’m involved with Cleveland web design, I love web analytics and keeping track of who is coming and going from all of Go Media’s sites. I use Google Analytics of…
New Go Media Motion Packs
The past month we’ve been working hard to come up with some new “weaponry” for the Go Media Arsenal. We are now introducing Motion Packs – premade, animated stock design elements. These are made especially for Motion Graphics artists, animators,…
Go Media in Computer Arts #134
We are happy to announce that Go Media was featured in the latest issue of Computer Arts (#134 – April 2007). They ran a little feature on our vector packs and included a sampling of them on the CD that…
6 Essential Marketing Tips for Designers
6 Essential Marketing Tips for Designers In today’s world, there are so many artists out there looking to get noticed. With design software readily available, everyone is a designer these days. But to those designers serious about getting your name…
Vector Pack Set 3 Released!
We spent the past month developing our biggest Vector Pack set yet! In this set we’ve got a good mix of centerpiece art such as ancient statues and animal skulls. In the mix are tribal ornaments, halftone patterns, grimey doo-dads,…
PS and AI Tutorial: Designing Ultra SceneXCore Apparel!
Introduction This is a tutorial or a simple “how-to” guide to help you with your design projects. This is not the end-all, be-all way of doing things. We will try to make what is normally a long and detailed process…
Apparel Design Tutorial: A Quick and Easy 13 Step Guide
Apparel Design Tutorial This is reposted from my previous blog entry at thewetcat.com (which I never update much). I figured it’d be a good way to get the ball rolling here. This tutorial is brought to you by your friends…
Welcome to the GoMediaZine!
You are viewing this site in it’s infancy. Soon there will be plenty to read. From business insights, design tips, tutorials, commentary, and more. You will learn something from reading this. But give us some time to get it started!…