Clipping Masks in Illustrator | Design Tip of the Week

Clipping Masks in Illustrator Hey, everyone! For this short and sweet Design Tip of the Week, I’ll show you how to use clipping masks in Illustrator. They are very to do, yet incredibly useful in creating backgrounds, making textured shapes…

Conceptualizing Through Questioning | Design Tip of the Week

Conceptualizing Through Questioning Coming up with an idea can be difficult. Coming up with a GOOD idea is even more challenging. There are times when one faces a creative drought, when those AHA moments feel as if they are never going…

Adjust Rounded Rectangle Corners in Illustrator | Design Tip of the Week

Adjust Rounded Rectangle Corners in Illustrator I forgot who showed me this (I think it might have been Aaron), but man, it absolutely blew my mind. It’s so simple too. In fact, you probably already know this tip, but for…

Color Linework in Photoshop | Design Tip of the Week

Black and white linework is always nice, but sometimes a bit of color is needed to add a pinch of visual flavor to your delicious illustration soufflé . (Hooray cooking metaphors!) Let’s get into it and show you how to…

Positive and Negative Space in Illustrator| Design Tip of the Week

Positive and Negative Space in Illustrator We all know that Illustrator is great for creating dynamic linework and wonderful shapes, but what about creating lines WITH shapes? You know, positive and negative space? Get what I’m saying? Picking up what…

With Each Day You Get Little Bit Better | Design Tip of the Week

With Each Day You Get Little Bit Better. A week may have already passed since Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 6 ended, but I’m still riding that inspiration wave and hopefully can share it with others. Therefore, this week’s tip…

Meet Other Creatives | Design Tip of the Week

Meet Other Creatives I wanted to write an article about meeting other creatives, but struggled with it. The advice of networking and connecting to those in the industry can often be belaboured by college professors and concerned parents. However, they…

How to Halftone Photos | Design Tip of the Week

Halftones are a fantastic method of achieving lovely tonal values through a flat, graphic look. From the time of Andy Warhol to the present, they are still being stylistically used in art, illustration and design. Don’t know how to do them? You’ll find this…

Using Keyboard Shortcuts | Design Tip of the Week

Using Keyboard Shortcuts Keyboard shortcuts are truly a wonderful thing. With quick pecks at the right keys (at the right time), designing and illustrating becomes faster, more efficient and enjoyable. Imagine if you had to keep laboriously clicking around to…

Sharpen Images in Photoshop | Design Tip of the Week

Sharpen Images in Photoshop It was actually Carly, one of the wonderful designers here at Go Media, who showed me this tip: using the High Pass filter to sharpen images in Photoshop. It’s real easy and super quick. Check it out!…

Hanging Punctuation in InDesign and Illustrator | Design Tip of the Week

Hanging Punctuation in InDesign and Illustrator This week, we’re getting into a nitty gritty aspect of type: hanging punctuation. For those who do not know, hanging punctuation is a method of typesetting punctuation marks (and bullet points) to preserve the ‘flow’ of a body…

Making Perfect Curves in Illustrator | Design Tip of the Week

Making Perfect Curves in Illustrator Hello, hello! Last week, I gave some tips on designing faster in Illustrator, but this week, we’re going to focus more so on quality. In Illustrator (as you all know,) you have super-tight control over line weights, shapes, etc.…

Design Faster with Vectors on Hand | Design Tip of the Week

You’re a pro. We all know it. However, do you ever find yourself drawing the same shape over and over again? With the growing popularity of icons and simplistic, geometric illustration, it’s not uncommon for elements to be used time after time in your designs. This does not mean that we have to stay trapped in some sort of weird, repetitive dimensional hell of making that perfectly-narrow (or wide) triangle.

Tips on Drawing Symmetry | Design Tip of the Week

Tips on Drawing Symmetry I have a hard time drawing things perfectly symmetrical. I mean, really, who doesn’t? Drawing symmetry is tough! We’re not robots with mathematical precision. No worries, here are some quick tips that will surely help. One trick…

Branding & Logo Design

Branding + Logo Design Branding + Logo Design Beautiful Logo Design Branding is a key component of any business – large, small, retail or B2B. When your branding strategy is effective, it gives your organization a colossal edge amid increasingly fierce…

Graphic Design

Creativity + Communication Creativity + Communications Beautiful Graphic Design WE LOVE WHAT WE DO. Go Media was founded by passionate Cleveland artists and illustrators. We love highly creative and engaging graphic design. We focused our talents on the entertainment industry…

10 Great Resources to Help You Learn Graphic Design in 2019

Graphic design is a challenging, competitive, and exciting discipline that lets you express your creative side. For example, making your own book covers, company newsletters, or social media profile headers can be a lot of fun, even if you don’t…

5 Tips for Graphic Designers Who Work Remotely at Home

It’s great that you landed a remote graphic designer gig. You’ll have no more stressful drives to the office and you’ll have the ability to take walks when you want. You can schedule medical appointments during the week instead of…

Email Marketing for Designers: Getting Started Tips

Digital marketing – and the internet in general – has made marketing much more accessible. The same digital marketing instruments used by big corporations are now available to small businesses and professionals, including you as a designer. It is easy…

How to Have the Best Graphic Design Portfolio on the Block: 3 Tips

Graphic Design Portfolio Tips by Go Media – Hello Go Media Faithful! Hunting for your dream job? The last two weeks we’ve been discussing the resources you need to submit in order to gain the attention of your dream design firm.…

Conquering Customer Service: 5 Tips to Keeping Your Customers and Clients Happy

Improving Relationships with Clients & Customers Whether you’re the head of an advertising agency, the president of a design firm, or a freelance designer exchanging emails with a customer, you need to be educated in the world of customer service.…

Design FASTER: Seven tips to becoming a faster, more efficient graphic designer

How to Become a Faster Graphic Designer I wanted to talk about a subject that is very important to being a successful designer – speed. I’m talking about how fast you can produce designs for your client, boss or even…

Design Project Management Software Debate: Basecamp VS. Podio Part 1

What’s the Best Project Management Software for design firms? Part 1. There’s a cool new kid on the Project Management block, and her name is Podio. Podio has been receiving a lot of attention from our industry lately. Creative professionals…

40 Excellent Art, Illustration and Poster Inspirations from our WMC Fest Designers

Entering its fifth year, Weapons of Mass Creation festival has drawn comparisons to TED and SXSW, but stands apart as the premier art, design, and music event in the USA. The three day event, which takes place August 15-17, 2014…