Graphic Design
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…
Free Mockup Templates & Brand New Templates for Pro Users of Mockup Everything
We meet again!
Thanks for stopping by to check out this month’s Mockup Everything templates, bringing us up to 201 templates in total! This great news, combined with our now-active transparent background feature and the success of our ongoing Design Battle, has us all giddy.
Go Media Podcast – Episode 23: A Conversation with Mike Jones from CreativeSouth.com
Podcast for Designers – Episode 23: A Conversation with Mike Jones from CreativeSouth.com This month, we sit down with Mike Jones from CreativeSouth.com to talk about the event he co-founded and how Creative South is changing the design community in…
10 Mistakes Freelancers Make and Should Avoid Making Today
New freelancers can run into a myriad of problems. Without the support of a firm, freelancers hold a world of responsibility in their hands. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed right out of the gate. Some of our favorite freelancers are here to remind us that it’s only natural to make mistakes. Take note and try to learn from theirs today.
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.
An Interview with Rock Star Designer Tad Carpenter
He’ll be the last to tell you, but for us here at Go Media, WMC Fest 3 alum Tad Carpenter is a rock star. Designer, illustrator, author and teacher, Tad balances good stuff like brand identity, packaging and book design, illustration and interactive along with his role as Professor at University of Kansas. Surrounded by design (his parents were artists and his wife Jessica a designer, too), Tad creates whimsical, smart and all-around fun for clients like Macy’s, Chronicle Books, MTV, Adobe and Hallmark Cards.
Photoshop Mockup Templates are only $2.99 each!
I know how many grueling hours you put into that design. You’re so super excited that you’re tempted to just send it off to the client as is, amIright?
NO! You’re smarter than that.
Tell me that you have a few moments (and a few dollars) to make that design shine.
I promise it will take your design from ordinary to extraordinary.
Texture Tutorial: Aged poster design with the Photocopy Noise Texture Pack
Hello there! Simon from Studio Ace of Spade here. Long time no see. I’m here to introduce you today to a texture pack I’ve created, called the photocopy noise texture pack. I’m delighted to announce that it’s finally on sale at the Arsenal!
eCommerce Nightmare: How CS-Cart handcuffed us for years and why we switched to WooCommerce
Oh dear, where do I start? I feel like there’s a huge story behind the scenes that we’ve never let our community in on. To be honest, we’re quite embarrassed about it and we’ve been trying to make things right ever since. But I think it’s time to come clean.
TL;DR: We’ve been trying to upgrade our graphic design resource marketplace, the Arsenal since 2010 and have failed miserably due to working with a heavily customized version of CS-Cart which seemingly handcuffed us to their development team. 4 years, headaches, panic attacks and tens of thousands of dollars later we are FINALLY breaking the chains and getting a taste of freedom! We’ve switched our platform over to WordPress and WooCommerce. Wordpress and WooCommerce both happen to also be Go Media’s preferred solutions for so many of our own clients…
So what was the problem?
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.
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!
I’m going to teach you how to bring your logo to life in 5 easy steps.
(This is a trick used by actual Go Media designers. A good lookin’ crew, huh?)
New Templates from the Best Mockup Template Site Ever in the History of the Earth. (Promise)
Hey look at you! You just finished the world’s best design. You’ve outdone yourself this time.
If you were back in the days of old you’d send that bad boy via horse and buggy, ride it off into the sunset.
But times have changed, my friend. Now we need to step up our games. And step ’em up good.
Episode 22: Surviving As A Designer With OKPants
In this episode, Jeff, Bryan, and Bill sit down with Aaron Sechrist (aka OKPants) to talk about surviving as a designer in Cleveland, America.
Why Working from the Beach Could Double Your Income
So recently I took a couple of months out from design to go travelling around South East Asia. Get me. I’d love to peg it as an adventure where I was searching for the lost city of whatever to find the hidden treasure of something something, but this was really just a straight up holiday.
I really don’t do holidays that often. I don’t really feel the need to – I love what I do for a living so why would I ever need a break? That being said, I’d had one too many big projects with tight deadlines in a row and even I was starting to feel like I was getting worn a little thin.
However after just maybe a week of exploring the Orient I genuinely started to pine for my wacom. I missed designing. I’d told myself that this was going to be a proper refresh for me, so I’d brought no laptop, no drawing pads, not even a pen! “Anyway”, I told myself “Bangkok really isn’t the kind of place you could sit down a get a really productive days work under your belt”, and so I tried to put it out of my mind.
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.
On Developing a Dedicated Sales Team
One of the best part of our jobs here at Go Media is connecting with fellow creatives. Recently, Jeff Gapinski, Co-Founder and Creative Director at Huemor Design in Commack, New York, reached out us. Jeff had some great feedback about Drawn to Business, as well as some questions about developing a killer sales team.
We thought we’d share the exchange with all of you. Enjoy and please feel free to continue the conversation with us in the comments below!