Become a Master Graphic Designer in 7 Easy Steps

Rules of Graphic Design: a Quick Guide by Your Friends at Go Media, Cleveland’s best website design company Welcome to the Go Media’s Zine! Are you a passionate creative, student, designer, entrepreneur? You’re in the right place. Inside you’ll find…

Student’s Guide to the ‘Zine

Student’s Guide to the ‘Zine: a Quick Guide by Your Friends at Go Media Welcome to the Go Media’s Zine! Are you a passionate creative, student, designer, entrepreneur? You’re in the right place. Inside you’ll find the tools you’ll need…

WMC 5 Audio – Veronica Corzo-Duchardt – Cultural and Historical Influences in Design and Creativity

Veronica Corzo-Duchardt, Cuban-American designer and artist behind the Chicago-based creative studio, Winterbureau, treated us to an intriguing talk at Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 5. In her time on stage, she discusses cultural and historical influences in design and creativity, as well as the intersection of design, art and archeology in her work.

WMC 5 Audio – Grace Bonney – Do the Things That Scare You

WMC Fest Podcast: Grace Bonney Grace Bonney, Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 5 speaker, is the founder of the blog Design*Sponge. She founded a national meetup group for women running creative businesses in 2008 and in 2011 she published her…

Designer’s Debate Club: Is the phrase “Do What You Love” ruining design?

Is The popular refrain “Do What You Love” ruining design?

“Do what you love” — it feeds the soul but will it pay the bills? As this dreamer’s mandate has spread from an idealized dream to the driving force in work/life decisions, we are left to wonder — is it ultimately ignorant of life’s harsh realities: that doing what you love and making what you want requires a lot of unlovely doing. Is this popular refrain a privileged ex-post-facto for the already successful? Is it a comforting hymn we all sing as we walk away from that well-paying job into the dark unknown? Or are we really on the verge of a brave new world where doing what you love is the fastest way to getting what you want out of life?

Cultural and Historical Influences in Design and Creativity: A WMC Fest Talk by Veronica Corzo-Duchardt

Veronica Corzo-Duchardt, Cuban-American designer and artist behind Chicago-based creative studio, Winterbureau, is the next-in-line to treat us to engaging, enlighting real talk, Weapons of Mass Creation Fest style.

Here, Veronica discusses cultural and historical influences in design and creativity. And the intersection of design, art and archeology in her work.

New Designer and Developer Resources – August 2014

At Go Media, I’m a front-end developer, a podcaster, a content creator, a designer, and a maker. Just like you, I like to wear a lot of hats and I like to keep up on the current trends, tools, and…

25 Art & Design Speakers that Will Leave You Completely Inspired this Summer

Introducing the Weapons of Mass Creation Fest Speakers Inspiring talks on subjects like design, creativity, entrepreneurship, community activism, and pursuing happiness as a creative go-getter, WMC Fest speakers are known to bring a tear to the eye. Let’s meet this…

Full Weapons of Mass Creation Festival Lineup Announcement and Merch Giveaway

For all of us here at Go Media and the Weapons of Mass Creation Festival 5 team, it is hard to believe that another year of hard work is about to pay off, yet again, in dividends. Though we have a million details to work out before the best art, design and music event in the US opens on August 15, the light at the end of the tunnel is again in sight and we know that some of the best days of our life are upon us.

We cannot wait to share another weekend of inspiration and collaboration with all of you. We look forward to seeing many familiar faces and welcoming brand new members into our WMC Fest family.

If you’re reading this and have yet to attend the Fest, we encourage you to join us.

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.

100 Top Resources for Typography and Hand-Lettering

Some of the questions we hear asked often around the design community are:

What is the best way to learn about typography?
Where do I find the best hand-lettering/type inspiration?
Who are your favorite letterers?
What are the best typography and and lettering tutorials?
We decided to pull together some of our very favorite resources for you today. Here’s what you’ll find below:

Some of our favorite hand-letterers and typographers (some modern day experts on type, you might say!
Online educational resources
Awesome type and hand-lettering tutorials
Best sources of type and hand-lettering inspiration we’ve found
Super inspirational found-type collection posts
Books about type and hand-lettering
Off we go!

Go Media’s 100+ Must Have Design Resources

One of the top questions we’ve been asked recently is: “What tools, resources and programs do you use in your everyday lives over there at Go Media?”

Our creative studio here in Ohio City is filled with awesome, handy tools that keep us cranking out creativity, programs that keep us organized, and treats that keep our energy pumpin.’

Here’s a list of our favs.

What’s Go Media Been Up To?

What’s Go Media been up to? Oh, just a little thing called Weapons of Mass Creation Fest…

Why Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 4 Changed My Life

We here at Weapons of Mass Creation Fest and Go Media are still reeling from what we feel was the most moving, inspirational, simply the best WMC Fest yet.  As we strike the set, pack up the gallery and sweep…

Why This Will Change Your Life: An Insider’s Guide to Weapons of Mass Creation Fest

The Countdown is On With this year’s Weapons of Mass Creation Fest only 14 days away, we here at Go Media are gearing up to bring you the premier art, design and music festival in the Midwest.  An event growing in…

What’s Go Media Been Up To?

All’s well here at Go Media!

Storefront renovations are moving along swimmingly, with progress apparent every single day!

We’re counting down the moments until Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 2013! We’re busy assuring that our awesome Kickstarter backers get their handsome rewards, responding to speaker, designer, band and sponsor questions as well as collecting goodies for promotional tote bags. Last but not least we’re tying up the seemingly thousands of other loose ends that come with planning the best-fest-in-the-Midwest!

Design Tools I Can’t Live Without

We asked our favorite designers…What design tools can’t you live without?

Top 100 Design & Inspiration Blogs: Go Media & Friends Favorites

Google Reader is retiring, but we here at Go Media believe RSS is far from dead. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of 100 of our favorite blogs to follow, however it is you may choose to do so. And even better, we had a little help from our friends.

Introducing Feedly Cloud + 5 Tips and Tricks

The countdown has begun. Google is set to drop its RSS aggregator, Google Reader, on July 1, 2013. Announcing to its devoted following two reasons for its disbanding, one being a decline in usage and two their need to pour energy into other products, Google offers Google Takeout for those needing to download a copy of their data stored from Reader.

For those married to RSS, there is life beyond Reader.

Perspective, Hustle and Passion with Kern and Burn

We’re big fans of Jessica Karle Heltzel and Tim Hoover here at Go Media. Designers, writers and publishers, we are super honored to have Jess and Tim on our list of WMC 2013 Speakers this year.

We recently had a chance to chat with Jess and Tim about their recent success with Kern and Burn, a recently released online and print publication that curates discussions, interviews, and essays about design entrepreneurship.

Kern and Burn: Conversations With Design Entrepreneurs is a beautiful two-color book that features candid conversations with 30 leading designers who have founded startups, channeled personal passions into self-made careers and taken risks to do what they love. In this book they share their failures, successes, and perspectives. Kern and Burn’s hope is that you, the reader, can learn from them — not to follow in their footsteps, but to chart your own course in parallel, one that allows you to thrive, add value to the world and love what you do. Dedicating the book to “those who kern, those who burn and those who embrace the risk of failure daily,” their book is available online now on KernandBurn.com.

An Interview with Jen Adrion & Omar Noory of These Are Things

We are huge fans of designers, illustrators and fellow Ohioans Jen and Omar from These Are Things! Recent podcast guests and speakers for this year’s Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 2013, we just cannot get enough of their inspiring story, enthusiasm and heart. We asked them to answer some questions about their very favorite things, to tide us over until we are reunited again. Enjoy!

GoMediaZine

The Go Media Zine is an awesome digital blog that allows the sharing of ideas, tutorials, and more! Not to mention the web design was all done by the Cleveland web designers at Go Media.

What’s Go Media Been Up To? – November 2012

Black Friday/Cyber Monday Deals We have been crazy busy here at Go Media. Last week, as many of us were stuffing our faces with turkey and mashed taters, the Arsenal team was gearing up for our Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales.…

What Are Your Favorite Conferences & Festivals?

We Need Your Input Hello loyal readers of the GoMediaZine! We are reaching out to you to get your input on what your favorite conferences and festivals are and why. Please comment below with your suggestions and keep a lookout…