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Re: Daily Inspiration: Attack Your Obstacles Creatively

Geoff May — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:58:01 -0000

Feel free to shoot your own video and then put any design on any OS platform that you wish.

Re: Go Media’s Flickr Pool Showcase: November 2010

Geoff May — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:01:38 -0000

Great stuff!

Re: Create a death metal logo

Geoff May — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:49:58 -0000

Great tutorial!

Re: New Arsenal Release: Wacom Illustration Video Tutorial

Geoff May — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:33:56 -0000

The beginning of your video cracked me up.

Re: Anatomy of a Band T-Shirt

Geoff May — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:38:03 -0000

Nice article, Jeff. I agree with most of the stuff you had to say. Personally, I don't like dealing directly with bands and will rarely do so. When I actually do deal directly with a band I'll request 100% payment up front. No offense to all the hard working bands out there, but when it comes to paying up they're sometimes very slow.

I prefer working with directly with merch companies. First, once you get a good working relationship with them they'll keep you busy, which is always nice. Second, there's a wide variety of bands/artists to do work for, like you mentioned. I get a kick out of doing shirts for Metallica, Slipknot and Pantera and then doing shirts for Rihanna and Lady GaGa.

Not much more to say than you already have. Again, good article!

Re: Giveaway: Ten Ton Photoshop DVD

Geoff May — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:20:57 -0000

sounds cool. count me in.

Re: Art Files: Illustrator’s Missing ‘Collect for Output’

Geoff May — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:31:58 -0000

Not sure that Adobe's intention was to force people to buy InDesign by omitting this feature. They're two different programs that share a few similar features.

Re: Weapons of Mass Creation Interview: Geoff May

Geoff May — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:56:54 -0000

Worst case scenario is they don't reply back. Doesn't hurt to try.

Re: How to Create Fanatics as a T-Shirt Designer

Geoff May — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:50:01 -0000

Cool post with a lot of useful information. Also, thanks for the shout out!

Re: Freelancers, what’s your largest business expense?

Geoff May — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:42:44 -0000

Hardware is a large cost, but I usually only upgrade computers every 2 years (just ordered my Hackintosh parts on Friday), so it kinda evens out.

Re: Freelancers, what’s your largest business expense?

Geoff May — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:09:28 -0000

Yeah, I'd say taxes are my biggest single expense!

Re: Design a Vintage Poster, Part II

Geoff May — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:46:52 -0000

Cool tutorial! Much respek!

Re: An Interview with Bill Beachy: Go Media President

Geoff May — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:35:21 -0000

Great interview, Bill.

Re: An Open Letter to Student Designers

Geoff May — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:30:59 -0000

Great article, Bill. I remember working at an ad agency and the Art Director forced me to layout a series of brochures in Photoshop. When I suggested doing it in Illustrator or even InDesign, he got pretty pissed. Funny stuff.

Re: Wacom Bamboo Touch + Pen: First Impressions

Geoff May — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:20:02 -0000

Thanks for the review. When I first heard about this it didn't really seem like it was something that would help my workflow in the least. Just seems like one more thing taking up space on my desk.

Re: Adobe Shortcuts App – Free Download

Geoff May — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:28:12 -0000

Are you talking about fields on a toolbar, like being able to jump to the next field on the CMYK color toolbar? If so, the Tab button will jump from field to field.

Re: Adobe Shortcuts App – Free Download

Geoff May — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:26:23 -0000

I find it ironic that the guy telling me to grow up is the one talking shit anonymously because I have an opinion about an Adobe product. Probably works for Adobe and knows that their days at the top of the heap are numbered.

Re: Woe is Mac…

Geoff May — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:14:11 -0000

Congratulations?

Re: Woe is Mac…

Geoff May — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:05:42 -0000

Taken from my blog last month:

I’m officially done with Macs and any Apple product, for that matter.

I currently have a 1.5 year old 17″ MacBook Pro. At the time I bought it, it was their flagship laptop.

A month ago I took it in because my battery was swollen, which made it impossible to click on the trackpad. Not a huge deal, I guess. Of course for a $3000+ laptop I’d expect better quality and durability than that. But still, with AppleCare I was able to get it replaced and all it cost me was a trip to the Apple Store to deal with one of their “Geniuses”, who apparently wasn’t genius enough to just look at the warped and bloated battery to know that it was the issue. Instead he had to run a whole system diagnostic to find out, EUREKA, the battery was shot.

Fast forward to last week. No less than 20 times my computer would totally freeze up. The picture looked like some shitty 80s 8-bit video game. I’d have to restart it numerous times to get it working. Take it to the Apple store and they tell me my logic board (fancy name for a motherboard) is hosed. Now this is my work computer. It’s not my only computer, but it is my main work one, nonetheless. I’m going to be out of commission until at least Sunday, they tell me. In the meantime I keep the laptop and work on it sporadically, at best.

I called in today to ask if the logic board has come in, since I was told it would be here today. The “genius” says it isn’t in. I ask when I can expect it and his answer is “it’ll get here when it gets here” and I hear him give a little laugh. I ask “that’s the answer you’re going with?” and he proceeds to tell me how a part is ordered and delivered as if this is all a foreign concept to me. I just hung up.

Needless to say, I’m done with Apple products. I have an $800 Dell that is 3 years old that has NEVER had an issue. I bought what was supposed to be the be all end all in laptops and it’s given me nothing but problems. Don’t get me started about how many times it crashes out of the blue for no reason.

In the end, Apple is a hype machine that should spend more money on R&D and a little less on cute commercials that personify their computers and operating system. OSX is nice but I can hack a PC (that is twice as powerful and half the price) to run it, so it’s a moot point now.

Thanks to the Apple store at Crocker Park for their tremendous “customer service”! I can’t believe I was actually pricing out a new Mac Pro. That would have been a gigantic waste of money.

Re: Adobe Shortcuts App – Free Download

Geoff May — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:33:11 -0000

For once Adobe is actually doing something useful instead of just regurgitating the same bloated software with useless new "features".

Re: Blank Canvas: Who Inspires You?

Geoff May — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:29:10 -0000

My influences are all over the place, though I mostly am into illustrators. Some of my first influences were Todd McFarlane and Coop. I'm also really into Shep Fairey, Shag, Derek Hess, Jim Phillips, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Robert Williams, Gil Elvgren, etc...

I could go on and on but those are the ones that come to mind right away.

Re: ‘Weapons of Mass Creation’ Art Campaign Kick-Off Party

Geoff May — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:06:13 -0000

I had a great time. Can't wait to see the campaign when it kicks off.

Re: Blank Canvas: What’s Your Digital Design Setup?

Geoff May — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:15:02 -0000

Not contradictive at all. I like OS X but hate Apple's overpriced proprietary hardware. I can build a $1500 Hackintosh that has better specs than a $4500 Mac. If you're happy with your mac, great. But don't turn this into a Mac vs. PC pissing contest. Some people prefer different stuff. OK. Back to people's design setups.

Re: Blank Canvas: What’s Your Digital Design Setup?

Geoff May — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:21:49 -0000

Building your own machine is like building something out of Legos. It's surprisingly easy. Like I said, I'm a big fan of OS X. Just not digging the reliability issues I've had with my MBP or the bad customer service I received at the Apple store. I'd rather just provide my own support.

Re: Blank Canvas: What’s Your Digital Design Setup?

Geoff May — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:21:17 -0000

http://lifehacker.com/53514...