Inspiration
Go Media’s Flickr pool showcase – June 2011
Hello there! Simon here. Here’s a bit of inspiration goodness with our monthly Flickr pool showcase. This post might be a tad less extensive than our other episodes, because there’s going to be loads of goodness to see and hear…
Weapons of Mass Creation Fest Preview
Update: We’re giving away an awesome Wacom Intuos 4 tablet. Read on for details! It’s so close I can feel it Weapons of Mass Creation Fest is this weekend! I can’t believe it’s already here. This post serves to give…
The Lost Type Co-op
This is NOT simply another type foundry Hello dear readers. Today, I want to talk about the Lost Type Co-op. If you want to be cynical about it, you could say it’s just another type foundry. Well, you’d be wrong.…
Thread’s Not Dead live broadcast — The wrap-up
Hello GMZ readers! If you’re looking for the video from last Thursday’s live broadcast, you’ve come to the right place. We wanted to summarize some of the things that were said during Jeff’s live broadcast about his ebook Thread’s Not…
Weapons of Mass Creation Fest: 30 Days Away
Weapons of Mass Creation is a month away! Oh boy, oh boy. I don’t even know where to start. I’m so excited about WMC Fest you know. The amazing lineup I’m pretty sure you’re aware of the lineup and schedule…
Go Media’s Flickr pool showcase – April 2011
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you… The April 2011 Go Media Flickr Pool Showcase (dramatic music, such as this on repeat for instance, is to be played in the background while reading this sentence)! Once again, yours truly went…
Go Media’s Flickr pool showcase – March 2011
Time for the March showcase in our monthly (-ish) series! It’s me, Simon here speaking writing. Once again, if you’d like to see your work here, the only thing you have to do is to submit it in our Flickr…
50 and 50 – The state motto project
Hello hello! Today, I’d love to start a “new” series of posts about inspiration to talk about one of the great collaborative design efforts currently going on in the design community (no, it’s not the Weapons of Mass Creation Fest).…
Go Media’s Flickr pool showcase – February 2011
YAFS (Yet Another Flickr Showcase)! We’re close to mid February and I’m ready to show you another amazing hand picked selection of amazing pieces from the Go Media Flickr Pool. Also, you should stay tuned for cool news related to…
Distressing Techniques in Adobe Illustrator
Hey designers, attend our all-inclusive soul-fulfilling three-day design retreat, WMC: Off-The-Grid, this October 5 – 7th. To learn more, head to wmcfest.com. Simon from Studio Ace of Spade here. Jeff Finley asked me to compile a list of some common distressing…
Go Media’s Flickr Pool Showcase: November 2010
Hello there! Simon here, for another showcase of the amazing work posted in the Go Media Flickr pool. It’s so hard to select, as the level of submissions keeps getting more and more fantastic. If you’d like to see your…
Inspiration: Designers Who Started Their Own Clothing Line
As I’m writing the “Designers Guide to the Apparel Industry” eBook that I plan to release soon, I started to take notice of WHO are the role models that inspired this book. Essentially, who are the designers who started freelancing…
Top 20 T-Shirt Design Tutorials and Articles
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I’ve been working on an eBook titled Thread’s Not Dead: The Designer’s Guide to the Apparel Industry. (EDIT: it’s out! buy it here in ebook and hardcover) During my research,…
Go Media’s Flickr Pool Showcase – October 2010
Hello there! Simon H. here. It’s about time to have the next installment on the post series we started last month. Here’s more beautiful art, hand picked from the Go Media Flickr pool. Just a reminder: if you want your…
Go Media’s Flickr Pool Showcase – September 2010
Hello there! My name is Simon. You’ve probably met me electronically through the links I post on the Go Media and Arsenal Facebook pages: I sign ^SBH. Anyway. The good folks at Go Media and I were thinking that there’s a…
New Limited Edition Art Prints for Weapons of Mass Creation Fest
Go Media teamed up with Imagekind to offer a limited edition print run of our Weapons of Mass Creation poster in support of the Weapons of Mass Creation fest. All proceeds of these art prints go to help raise money in support…
Mac Vector Apps
Our recent “Blank Canvas” post asked the question: “Adobe Or Not?“. As a followup, here’s a quick web roundup of some alternative vector graphics software applications for Mac OS X. These applications vary in price from free to about $100,…
15 Over-The-Top Business Card Designs
Business cards are one of the elements of corporate design that should be pushed beyond just graphics, and converge with several processes to become what they should be: a memorable, collectible and impressive piece to be carried away everywhere. The…
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…
User Showcase Highlight 13
Somehow a whole half a year has zipped by since the last User Showcase Highlight Post, and that is a travesty. In the meantime you’ve more than doubled the number of images (now weighing in at 2,481) and gained 321…
Top 28 Best Motion Graphics Blogs and Resources
We’ve scoured the net and tapped every resource we could to get you THE best list of mograph blogs and resources out there. Both novice and experienced mographers will get some insight here. We’ve also posted the twitter links of the brains behind some of these sites. So check it out!
From the Portfolio: Maylene & the Sons of Disaster
This is a design from roughly a year ago. While I was pretty excited about it at the time, I look at it now and get disappointed.
From the Portfolio: Jedidiah Clothing
Client: Jedidiah Clothing Designer: Jeff Finley Designer: 2007 This shirt design was one of the designs I completed for Jedidiah Clothing back in 2007. It was accepted, but I still have never seen it printed or for sale. As a…
From the Portfolio: Swap Beats Logo
Client: Swap Beats Swapbeats.com is a hybrid social network and music marketplace that allows a user to connect with other musicians around the world and to collaborate on musical endeavors. Users are able to upload music tracks and swap, sell,…