Articles by: Katie Major
Preparing InDesign Files for your Print Service
Often times when it comes to preparing files for a printer it can get really complicated really fast. Often times when I’m creating a design there are a lot of elements that I use in a file, most of which…
Print Indie: Logo Lounge 5
Last year I created a logo for silk screening company Print Indie into the annual Logo Lounge publication. I really didn’t think I had a snowballs chance in hell of getting in so you can imagine my surprise when I…
- Categorized: Inspiration
- Tagged: Graphic Design, logo design
How to Design a Font: {Part 4} Finishing Touches
Well this is it – the final part in my series “How to Design a Font”! Be sure to catch up with the previous articles in the series: Part 1: Get inspired Part 2: Draw up a Storm! and Part…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Graphic Design, Adobe Illustrator
How to Design a Font: {Part 3} Make it Digital!
The Grid Now that you have your font pretty well figured out it’s time to get into the computer. First things first, setting up Illustrator. I like to first turn on the grid. This is the easiest way to transfer…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Graphic Design
How To Design a Font: {Part2} Draw Up A Storm!
Terminology Before we get into the meat of this tutorial I want to give you a crash course in font terminology. I know it’s not exactly the most exciting thing but I seriously think it’s good for you to know…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Graphic Design
How to Design A Font: {Part 1} Get Inspired!
I haven’t written a blog post in a while so I thought it was time I jumped right in and did a tutorial series about fonts. There will be three more tutorials that will follow this one. Their forces combined…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Graphic Design
Launch of Cambria Suites Site
Go Media is pleased to present the new website for Cambria Suites. This is not your traditional hotel website with information laid out in a straightforward manner. With the unusual videos taking place in each room, you can see that…
- Categorized: News
Workflow Tip: Illustrator to Fontlab
Tutorial: Creating fonts in Illustrator and Fontlab – Part 1 from Go Media on Vimeo This video is a brief introduction into how to prepare a font you design in Adobe Illustrator for Fontlab. Fontlab is the program of choice…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator
Katie’s 5 Tips for Typeface Development
Some of you may know, I’m a typography nut and I have created a few fonts for Go Media’s Arsenal. This article is little precursor to a more extensive article that we’ll submit later on about finding inspiration for typeface…
- Categorized: Tutorials