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Tips on Landing an Internship
Tips on Landing an Internship Sadly, the day has come where my amazing internship with the designers at Cleveland design firm, Go Media ends. But before I go, I want to pass on helpful advice to any designers out there…
Adventures in Design: Episode 331 “LIVE from Ohio” WMC Fest 6 Keynote Performance
Adventures in Design Live from WMC Fest We here at Cleveland creative agency Go Media, producers of design conference Weapons of Mass Creation Fest were beyond honored to have Mark Brickey of the Adventures in Design Podcast as a keynote speaker…
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…
My Junior Shadowing Day at Go Media
My high school requires a Junior Shadow experience therefore I sent my requests to shadow a company to many companies in the Cleveland area and in Ohio. I was initially contemplating a career in Game Design and contacted a variety of companies. Go Media had been recommended to me by a faculty member from an art school in the area. I looked them up to see what they were about and I could then see why they came so highly recommended.
Bright Ideas From the Intern
Hello Zine Readers! Sad to say it, but my time interning with the amazing graphic design team at Go Media is coming to an end. I am super jealous of the students that get to intern with them in the…
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…
Top 10 Vector Packs of All Time: WMC Fest 2015 Limited Edition
202 of our most popular vector graphic elements of all time + 24 brand new bonus vectors It’s almost time for our annual 3 day design conference, Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 2015! To celebrate, we’ve put together a bundle jam-packed with the top…
Watch our WMC Fest 6 Hype Video >> “The Road to WMC – Our Host’s Journey”
Behold the Weapons of Mass Creation Fest Hype Video …a little video inspiration to hold you over ’til we meet in 17 days… Watch Now >> Then purchase one of the last remaining tickets to one of the best design conferences in…
Line Variation in Illustrator | Tutorial
Line Variation in Illustrator Tutorial In a previous Design Tip of the Week, we mentioned the increasing trend of icons and simplistic, geometric illustration. While their minimal, clean aesthetic is perfect for some situations, there are other times when an illustration…
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.
Energy Gels are Booming Business
Boom! Energy Gel Branding Carb Boom! Energy Gels, that is. Carb Boom Sports Nutrition Inc., founded in 2000, has recently developed Carb Boom! Energy Gels, a fruit-based, high-carbohydrate product that, according to CEO Lammers and partner Mike Cousino, had a…
Logo Design vs. Branding – what’s the difference?
Why do I hate my new logo?
Never fear, your Cleveland Logo design firm Go Media is here to explain!
Everyone knows what a logo is. It’s that shape companies use to represent their company; like Nike’s swoosh, McDonald’s golden arches (M) or Starbucks green mermaid. But what’s branding exactly? Branding is a more holistic perspective of how your customers experience your company. While a logo is only a small simple mark, a brand includes every single touch-point your customers have with your company.
Let’s use Nike as an example and consider the differences between a logo and a brand.
Branding: More Than Just a Logo
How to Build a Strong Brand Identity What is your brand? Who is your brand? And why should we care? When most people think of a ‘brand’ they think specifically about a logo (known by graphic designers as a ‘mark’)…
Design Firm How-To: Writing Your Company Story
How to Write Your Company Story An excerpt from Drawn to Business by Go Media President William Beachy Who are you? What do you do? What makes you different? Who is your ideal customer? What problem are you solving for them? All…
“New” Browns Logo Leaves Cleveland Graphic Designers Deflated
The New Cleveland Browns Logo – Cleveland Designers & Brand Experts weigh in. As anticipation swelled for the unveiling of the new Cleveland Browns logo two years in the works, buzz in the Cleveland graphic design community was especially palpable.…
Go Media’s Simple Yet Powerful Approach to SEO
Does your website crawl? In internet speak, “crawl” doesn’t mean that your website or web page is moving or loading slowly. It means your site’s SEO, or search engine optimization, is working. SEO means your desired audience will find you…in…
Go Media Cleveland Creative Studio: Our 2014 in 3 Minutes
Go Media Cleveland Creative Studio: Our 2014 in 3 Minutes Go Media is so much more than a creative studio. Small in number, we are mighty in what we set out to achieve each and every year – from our…
Go Media’s 1st Annual Best of Cleveland Design Awards
Best of Cleveland Web and Graphic Awards Here at Go Media, we totally geek out about design. It’s all that we do and all that we dream about. We love not only getting our hands dirty every single day, but…
Happy New Year from our Awkward Family to Yours
Have a, like, totally radical new year. Another new year is upon us and here at Go Media, we’re feeling really thankful. Thankful that we get to do what we love to do each and every day. Thankful to be surrounded…
Go Media wins Interactive Media Award
Well, not directly, but the Pepsi More website we built for Damon over at Communicator International won Best in Class in the Marketing category. Damon and his crew at Communicator were hired by Pepsi to help market their campaign with…