Illustrator

Our team of Illustrator experts has assembled the 9 Best Illustrator courses and classes for 2023. This includes both online Illustrator courses and in-person Illustrator classes with live instructors, as well as free Illustrator tutorials. The list includes an…

Adobe Illustrator is a software application for creating drawings, illustrations, and artwork using a Windows or MacOS computer. Illustrator was initially released in 1987 and it continues to be updated at regular intervals, and is now included as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud. Illustrator is…

Designers working across a range of fields need to know the best way to learn Illustrator for creating artwork and product designs using Adobe Illustrator. The best way to learn Illustrator depends upon your specific…

There are several ways to learn Illustrator, including classes, private training, online courses, books, and video tutorials. Learning Adobe Illustrator is useful for creative, design, and marketing professionals. Adobe Illustrator primarily used to create logos, artwork, icons, and…

Adobe Illustrator allows architects, engineers and construction professionals to create high quality digital representations of their work that can be integrated with other computer aided design (CAD) drawings and Photoshop artwork. These can be helpful to showcase the vision for a project as…

Icon design is increasing in importance as the number of applications being developed grows and the number of internet connected devices is also expanding rapidly. Although icon design was once limited to applications on desktop and laptop computers, it has spread well beyond phones and tablets…

Creating great logos and brand identities requires more than learning Illustrator or taking Creative Cloud classes. Many of the most iconic logos and brand identities were created long before digital design…

Based upon the number of companies hiring sneaker and shoe designers, the best city for shoe design jobs is Boston. The diversity of companies filling shoe designer jobs in and around Boston is second to none. While most shoe companies have moved their manufacturing from the mills of New England…

Adobe has updated their professional drawing and illustration tool. As you will find in this Illustrator CC 2017 review, the new features borrow heavily from capabilities previously available in Adobe InDesign. Many InDesign users will see more convergence between the apps,…

This week started with Emoji Day which is based upon the date visible on the calendar used in certain Emoji in the Apple iOS. Emoji are the small icons available for sharing in messaging apps, used to convey emotions and ideas with simple pictures. For this reason, Emoji are often referenced as…

The logo design process that Google went through this week shows how an effective design process in creating a logo helps to produce successful results. As they created the fifth variation of their logo since they started in 1998, they had a significant undertaking. The Google logo and brand…

If you look at the shoes of artists, designers, and creative, you’ll find a great many pairs of Converse being worn. The most common among the Converse All Star line is the Chuck Taylor. The Converse All Star shoes were originally designed as one of the first sneakers back in 1920s, and the…

Fashion designer Donna Karan has announced that she is leaving the company she founded, Donna Karan International (DKI). As part of this transition, she is stepping down from will no longer be the chief designer for the brand that bears her name.

She founded the fashion and apparel company…

If you think of pink flamingo lawn ornaments you may imagine that they are the product of an artist in Florida. Yet they are the unlikely product of a Boston area artist, designer, and inventor Don Featherstone who died last week. Born and raised just west of Boston in the city of Worcester, in…

Graphic designers and those who develop branding love to evaluate logos. The recent release of logos for U.S. Presidential candidates provides a great opportunity for commentary amongst the design community. The two logos released over the past week are from the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and…

The team at American Graphics Institute has a long and wonderful relationship with Adobe Illustrator. Our instructors have written books about how to master it, we use it for much of our own design work, and we teach Adobe Illustrator classes and…

Not many athletic events get their own shoes, but the oldest marathon in the U.S. has inspired several Boston sneaker designs that have been announced surrounding the 2015 Boston Marathon. With the deep history of shoe manufacturing in the Boston area, it’s no surprise to see these Boston…

Sport team logo redesigns are happening across all types of sports this year. The Milwaukee Bucks professional basketball team are the latest in a series of high profile sports teams to redesign logos. They follow close behind recent redesigns unveiled by Cleveland Browns football team and the U…