25 New Illustrator Tutorials That Will Make You A Master Of Vector Art Just because you can usually get a similar effect in Photoshop doesn’t mean the end result will be as good as using Illustrator (depending on the project). If you are like me (and I will bet most of you are) you will go ahead and use PS because you know it much better even though the final project will not be as good or as functional as it could be. Well it’s time to buck up and get this learning curve completely out of the way so you make the right choice next time. Below are some sweet Illustrator tuts that will leave you in vector heaven once your done. Adobe Photoshop is one of the most popular photo editing programs that has ever been created. This tutorial teaches you how to make a portrait of William Shakespeare in Illustrator using text. Article Link Advertisement A very interesting tutorial, from Design Instruct, that takes you behind the scenes and shows you the illustration process from start to finish. Article Link Article Link Article Link Article Link Article Link Article Link
@ at MoMA Ray Tomlinson. @. 1971. Here displayed in ITC American Typewriter Medium, the closest approximation to the character used by a Model 33 Teletype in the early 1970s MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design has acquired the @ symbol into its collection. It is a momentous, elating acquisition that makes us all proud. Contemporary art, architecture, and design can take on unexpected manifestations, from digital codes to Internet addresses and sets of instructions that can be transmitted only by the artist. The acquisition of @ takes one more step. In order to understand why we have chosen to acquire the @ symbol, and how it will exist in our collection, it is necessary to understand where @ comes from, and why it’s become so ubiquitous in our world. A Little History The @ symbol used in a 1536 letter from an Italian merchant Arroba sign in document from the 1400s denoting a wheat shipment from Castile Ray Tomlinson’s @ Is @ Design? Why @ Is in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Media Pioneer – Dioniso Punk Like a Georges Méliès of the information age, Zbigniew Rybczyński employed specially constructed rigs and cutting-edge — for its time — technology to create a kind of visual sorcery leaving you asking “how on earth did he do that?”. The film he’s most noted for, Tango, was the first ever Oscar awarded to a Polish artist — 1983. Thirty-six characters from different stages of life — representations of different times — interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by a static camera. In Tango, Zbigniew exploits this concept of the single offscreen space by filling it with a plethora of actions. It soon becomes obvious that such a small space, that of a small room, could not possibly contain all the actions taking place. Zbigniew also makes critical use of off-screen space, exposing it for the artifice it is. “I had to draw and paint about 16.000 cell-mattes, and make several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer. Mi piace: Mi piace Caricamento...
Create an Abstract, Textured Artwork in Illustrator Ever wondered how to create a textured, abstract piece of art only using Illustrator. Well, here your challenge is to learn how to do it! We'll be using mostly the Blend Tool, Paintbrush Tool and textures to enhance the image. A basic understanding of each and every tool is advised. Final Image Preview Below is the final image we will be working towards. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS4Difficulty: BasicEstimated Completion Time: 30-60 minutes Step 1 First, we'll start off with looking for some textures. Create a square document (I made mine 1800 by 1800 pixels), inside Illustrator. Step 2 Add some grungy watercolor splats to give it that traditional painted feeling. Place them on top of the texture and use the blend modes Darken or Multiply to blend them on top of the texture. Step 3 It's time to create an art brush for the abstract forms. Draw a square using the Rectangle Tool (M), while holding Shift to constrain it's dimensions. Step 4 Make a new art brush once again. Step 5
Design Search Code Manual - Table of Contents - Introduction 1. The General Guidelines provide broad instructions and procedures for coding and interpreting the design search codes. 2. Each design search code is a numerical classification index that codifies design figurative elements into categories, divisions and sections. For example, a five-pointed star would be coded in category 01 (celestial bodies, natural phenomena and geographical maps), division 01 (stars, comets) and section 03 (stars with five points). The design code manual also contains explanatory notes and specific guidelines that provide instructions for specific code sections, cross-reference notes which direct users to other code categories, sections and divisions, and notes describing elements that are included or excluded from a code section. 3. The individual coders for design trademarks have been instructed to look at the designs from two aspects. This design is retrieved because it has the image of an elephant in the mark.
Moving Image Early cinema, Experimental film, Expanded cinema, Video art, Live cinema, Film labs, Media archives, Community television, Demoscene, VJing, VVVV, Live coding .See also Artists' cultures. Create a Google Phone Styled Background in Illustrator in 6 Easy Steps The new rumored “Nexus One” Google Phone has a pretty cool (and probably animated) background image. Today I’ll show you how to create that style with a few simple steps that powerfully integrate transparency modes to create cool lighting effects. Author: Brian Tom Hi! My name is Brian Tom and I’m the San Francisco based Freelance Graphic Designer who works under the alias of Hoshimo. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS3Difficulty: BeginnerEstimated Completion Time: 10-15 minutes Final Image Preview Below is the final image that you’ll get from working through this tutorial. Step 1 – The Pattern Shapes Create a new document in Illustrator with a Basic RGB Document Profile. 600px x 800px, 72ppi is good. Step 2 – Finishing the Pattern Now that each triangle within the square is a separate shape, we are going to color them in using shades of gray to give the shape some depth. Step 3 – The Background Step 4 – The Beam This is the fun part. Step 5 – The Light Step 6 Conclusion
Free Math Help and Free Math Videos Online at MathVids.com Björk holds weirdly magical live motion capture press conference to tease new virtual reality album When it comes to the fantastical and strange, everyone is always going to have a hard time topping Icelandic singer Björk. But today Björk took another step into the realm beyond where the rest of us live by conducting a press conference in which she appeared as a live motion capture avatar. While Björk was 1,200 miles away wearing a “mocap” (motion capture) suit in a studio at the Icelandic Media College in Reykjavik, her image was appearing in a London gallery rendered in a swirling rainbow of colors and objects. On her Facebook page, Björk said the motion capture stream was intended to emphasize her embrace of new technology and the role virtual reality played in the creative process that led to her new album, Vulnicura. “Technology is enabling women to work outside the already formed hierarchical systems,” she wrote. The rendering of her motion capture badself today was aided by #D technology from Autodesk and Unity. Here’s a bit more detail on the album from a press release:
950+ Photoshop Tutorials To Keep Your Skillset Updated I know how much everyone loves tutorials, I know I love writing them too. Well in this post I have taken my time to roundup some Photoshop Tutorials and some Photoshop Roundups that I think is valid to be featured in this post. I know quite a few people are going to love me for this, but let’s keep it professional. If you think that I was kidding about the title, well then you’re making a mistake, there is really 1000 tutorials in this post. I hope you guys enjoy the post and the resources. Design a Brilliant Product Advertisement Source Create a Stunning 3D Liquid Explosion Artwork Source Design a Slick 3D Ice Text Effect Source Logo Design Tips: Letterspacing & Typefaces Source Make a Retro-Space Typography Poster with Colorful Lights Source Create a Grunge Snowboard Poster for the Winter Olympics – Photoshop Tutorial Source 60 Tutorials Creating High Quality Design Icons Source 31 Outstanding Logo Tutorials Source 20 Amazing Tutorials to Help you Make Icons Source 20 Tutorials for Creating HDR Images