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My decision to join Go Media after graduating college was pretty simple. It went something like this: “I won’t be happy doing anything else knowing the team at Go Media is creating amazing things.” Well, I had no idea that the adventures in store would be as wonderful as they turned out to be. In the last four years, I’ve had the privilege to participate in the move-in to a beautiful warehouse studio, conversations and relationships with all of you reading this, the evolution of Weapons of Mass Creation from an ad campaign to a cutting-edge design conference, a folk-punk band with Go Media partner Jeff Finley, dozens of advances in the Arsenal product line, the birth of an industrial design studio by Chris Comella (2nd Shift), the encouragement and support to fulfill the dream to build a recording studio (Bad Racket), and the chance to work on a dream project: build the ultimate project management tool (Proof Lab). I’ll be leaving renaissance Cleveland and Go Media in April to do product design for Copilot , a tech startup in San Francisco. As you can tell, the decision to leave was NOT easy, but one of the most important lessons I learned here is to do uncomfortable things . I am young and life is long. I expect our paths to cross again, and look forward to it. Of all the things that have happened, the mentorship and camaraderie are the most memorable.

Introduction Hello dear Zine readers. Simon and Jon from Studio Ace of Spade here. Today, we’ll have the pleasure of walking you through the making of our entry for an old installment of The Fox Is Black’s Recovered Books contest . Our goal with this walk-through/PSD break down is to provide some insight on the concept behind the poster, and on the various techniques that helped during the execution phase of it. Let’s be clear: we don’t think we’ll give you any magic recipe to create a cool poster, but rather a detailed look at what our workflow for this one was, and a look at some of our favorite techniques when manipulating images and blending them with type elements and textures. We hope you’ll be tempted to actually play with the various values we used in our level editings and filters as well as the different textures in the packs we used, in order to make this piece your own.

Yet another awesome giveaway! Ladies and gentlemen, we have the pleasure to announce that the awesome folks at Mighty Deals have decided to sponsor on giveaway on the Zine! Who’s Mighty Deals? That video should help: The concept is pretty straight forward: submit your email and other requested information in the Mighty Deals widget below, and you’ll be entered to win the Mighty Deal of your choice free of charge. There will be 5 winners that will be chosen at random and announced on this very blog on March 19th, 2012. Piece of cake, right? Good luck, and see you in a week for the winners! The widget The Mighty Deals Giveaway! is a post from: GoMediaZine Go Media is a creative agency based in Cleveland, Ohio. Besides the GoMediaZine, we also work for clients and sell stock artwork and design files on the Arsenal.

Hey Go Media faithful! I am just now one month into writing my book ! If you’re unfamiliar with it, I’m writing a book about how to build a design firm. It’s basically my life story up to this point. I’d say it’s half autobiography and half how-to. Rest assured that the autobiographical part of the book focuses on life stories that pertain to building my design business. Specifically, I tell lots of stories about how I’ve failed – miserably. Hopefully these stories will be both entertaining as well as informative. Even if you’re just working as a freelance designer and have no intention of building yourself into a firm, this book will be chalk-full of design business insights and life lessons. Which brings me to the point of this blog post

Before we get started Hey everyone, Chris Parks (AKA Pale Horse ) here for Go Media. Today, I’ll be outlining my recent experience working with The Indomina Group , a global entertainment company who produce and distribute movies, television, music and interactive games. Their latest project was a Hong Kong, wire-fu, murder mystery release called “Detective Dee & the Mystery of the Phantom Flame”. Indomina contacted me to create a limited edition poster design to promote the release of the film here in the U.S. I absolutely love screen-printed, movie posters, as they give artists the chance to create a piece that is far more interesting and collectable than the standard, glossy, big budget designs released to the masses. Below is a shot of the final, approved artwork that was printed for the release. Client correspondence To give you full insight into the project from start to finish, I’ve included the interaction emails with the client and progress shots along the way so you can follow along. Lauren Fisher – Client We’ve started a project at Indomina where we release an art/teaser poster for every theatrical release we do

It’s been a busy year for us at Go Media and we recently had our Year in Review meeting at the beautiful Punderson State Park.  The picturesque views were the perfect backdrop to discuss our accomplishments over the past year and what we hope to achieve in 2012! One of our biggest undertakings, Proof Lab – design management software for freelancers and design firms alike, has finally gone live and we have been receiving excellent feedback from our initial users.  This has been a 3 year project in the making, and we are so pumped to finally have it available live for all of you. Below is more of “what we have been up to” here at Go Media : Jeff Finley Designing the website for MockUpEverything.com . Designing the website WMC Fest 2012. Designing the website for the new GoMedia.us. Helping Bill prepare to write his new book about building a successful design firm. Decluttering my workspace and computer. Preparing for my talk at Pecha Kucha Night in Cleveland. Preparing for a panel discussion about sustainability and entrepreneurship.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! The good people at Punchtab, who were sponsoring the Drobo giveaway contest , gave us the name of the lucky 2 people who are going to have a top-notch backup solution to ornate their office soon. These 2 people are Jacob Anderson, from Ukhia, CA and Andrew Gordon, from Reminderville, OH Jacob and Andrew, you should have been contacted by Go Media and Punchtab in order to get your prizes already. If it’s not the case, give a shout to @Go_Media and/or @Jeff_Finley on twitter, that should speed up the process! We’d like to thank all of you who entered, and keep an eye out for the next contests! Giveaway: Win a Drobo Storage Device — The winners! is a post from: GoMediaZine Go Media is a creative agency based in Cleveland, Ohio. Besides the GoMediaZine, we also work for clients and sell stock artwork and design files on the Arsenal.

A little introduction I stumbled upon Hannes’ project via the Go Media Flickr pool and have been hooked since. Now that project is over, Hannes was kind enough to take the time to answer to a few questions about the project and what it may span. In Hannes’ own words, here’s what the ADED project is about: The All Day Everyday Project is something like my graphic design diary. Many designers did similar projects before – designing something cool everyday. And so do I now. When you work for an agency or clients, you’re often not allowed to make things look exactly like you want it – which is sometimes frustrating, but that’s the way it goes.

Go Media is seeking a talented front-end web designer/developer to work full-time in its Cleveland, Ohio headquarters. Go Media is an award-winning creative agency that provides design services, products, and knowledge to clients that value resourceful creativity and thoughtful ideas. We work with clients as well as develop our own products and web applications for the design community. We’re a small, tight-knit team of designers, developers, and entrepreneurs who have a passion for art and design. We’re seeking a front-end designer/developer fluent in XHTML/CSS, Javascript, and UI/UX Design. Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, WordPress, JQuery, and Responsive Web Design, are welcomed.

FOUNDFONT™ tutorial Andy Hayes here from Hucklebuck Design Studio . The subject for this tutorial will revolve around a pet project of mine called FOUNDFONT™ . Foundfont™ is dedicated to typographic archaeology as well as the use of found typography within design. It’s about extracting unique type for specific design needs or creating complete type sets based on found examples. FOUNDFONT™ offers typefaces but also hopes to inspire designers to do their own digging. In this tutorial we’ll talk about what makes a good FOUNDFONT™ source and the steps to creating your own usable vector characters from found samples. Type is where you find it Useful typography is not only found within the bounds of one of today’s successful foundries