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Doing eye-catching designs in Illustrator

Eye-catching-swirl-spiral

I’m always on the look out for simple eye-catching ways to communicate a message. I think this is a great example of a visually appealing background that could be used when there are no images, graphics or other ways to improve the typography. This is especially useful in direct marketing (email or mail shot). How [...]

August 6, 2008 35 Comments Filed Under: Design, Illustrator, Marketing
Tagged With: art, art brush, background pattern, brushes, design, equilateral triangle, gradient, graphic, graphics, Illustrator, images, isosceles, margins, menus, message, palette, polygon tool, radius, rectangle, simple, swirls, triangle, typography

Creating a country’s flag inside its map outline

australia-map-flag

Quite often I’m looking for a simple iconic device to represent a country without having to just reproduce the flag alone. So, as you can see above, why not put the flag inside the country’s shape. Also, it’s free! It’s relatively easy to find a country’s flag and shape on the internet and tracing the [...]

October 15, 2007 31 Comments Filed Under: Illustrator
Tagged With: adobe illustrator, australia, australian flag, cmd, diagonals, flag, gradient, highlight, Illustrator, images, inside, Internet, live trace, map, mask, object clipping, objective, opacities, opacity, outlines, overlay, palette, rectangle, reflection, shape, shiny, shiny surface, simple, trace, transparencies, transparency

Graphic design an eye

eye-450

This is one way of reproducing a striking image without having to pay for it! The logical way of doing an image made of dots would be like this: Make sure that your image’s width and height are divisible by 10 pixels (the above is 450 by 300 pixels). Nice round numbers make the following [...]

August 8, 2007 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Design, Illustrator, Photoshop
Tagged With: adobe illustrator, artboard, box, circle tool, circles, colouring, colours, cover, design, dots, graphic, graphics, highlight, holes, horizontal field, Illustrator, images, mosaic, objective, palette, Photoshop, photoshop image, rectangle, striking image, transform

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