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Your Imagination is the Combination
Ghent, Belgium –
Mario De Meyer is a freelance graphic designer with a strong focus on typography.
He has worked with the likes of Adobe, Bloomberg, Fortune, Inc., Ogilvy & Mather, IBM, Wired and more.
We were particularly captivated by the fabric-like feel of this one below:
[Read more…] about Novelty Waves 4 – Mario De Meyer
Even the best of them could use a few shortcuts every now and then. The team down at Hongkiat has assembled wallpapers in 1024×768, 1024×1024 (iPad), 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200 and 2560×1440 to help you save time. When it comes to design, isn’t that what it’s all about?
Source: Notcot via tagoartwork
Designers can work hours into the night to produce their best work for clients, their portfolio or their pet projects. To make the process easier, most would use shortcut keys on their regular design and development tools particularly Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Flash, to expediate the process. You can be sure that they are not going to go back to the traditional (and slower) click-and-search methods.
That is why you can find tons of cheatsheets on the Web, designed to help designers and developers make better use of their time – in producing their masterpieces, not looking through the rows and rows of commands for the right action.
In this episode Terry White shares 10 Random Illustrator CS5 tips to make you more productive. Although all of these tips work in the latest version of Illustrator, some go back to previous versions and therefore can be used by all.
Learn more about ADOBE ILLUSTAROR CS5 here.
If you use Adobe products, this icon will be familiar to you. Point and click.
By Harry Hamernik
Harry has a great teaching style. It’s obvious here.
As someone who loves Adobe Illustrator myself, it’s nice to find someone who has a strong understanding of the application.
This video is a perfect example of Harry’s ability to take the mystery out of one of my favourite palettes: The Pathfinder.
Check it out:
Harry Hamernik has created this tutorial that explains how to create illustrator graidents and transparencies. I hope that you find it useful. Harry has a great way of explaining Adobe Illustrator‘s abilities in a way that is very easy to grasp.
