It's Guy Fawkes Night! Create a Bonfire With Blends in Adobe Illustrator – Tuts+ Tutorials Remember, remember the fifth of November - gunpowder, treason and plot! It's Guy Fawkes Night in the UK, which is also known as Bonfire Night. It's the anniversary of the day Guy Fawkes was caught trying to blow up the House of Lords using gunpowder. It's observed by lighting bonfires, traditionally with a stuffed "Guy" on top, as well as several firework displays (to signify the gunpowder element of the plot). In this tutorial, you will learn a new technique for creating fire in Adobe Illustrator, with the Blend Tool, which is much easier than with the Mesh Tool. Launch Illustrator then go to File > New to open a blank document. First, draw a rectangle and an ellipse on the right side having the dimensions shown. With the rectangle selected, go to Effect > Distort & Transform > Roughen and apply the settings shown on the left side of the image. In order to expand the Roughen effect applied, select Expand Appearance from the Object menu then Ungroup (Shift-Control-G). And a few more:
10 of My Favorite Infographics Infographics also know as information graphics are visual representations of knowledge or data. The infogrpahics can give small or complex amounts of information quickly for a reader to look at. Examples of these graphics can be seen on signs, maps, electrical schematics and almost anything you want to use a infographic. If you can write it then it might be possible to create an infographic. In the past mostly scientists, mathematicians, and technical users created symbols and put them together so people could easily and quickly read these graphic maps of knowledge. Today we see information graphics everywhere. To communicate the complex information quickly, infographic designers use charts, diagrams, graphics, tables, maps and illustrated grapics to relate to the data. What’s Needed to Make an Infographic? To make a good infographic, the creator will need knowledge of the topic, data, and the tools to create it. Are Infographics the Best Way To Represent Data? My Favorite Infographics 2.
Illustrator Tutorials | Royalty Free Vector Graphics | VectorGuru 40 Useful and Creative Infographics Six Revisions Menu Main Categories CSS HTML JavaScript Web Design WordPress Web Development Design Inspiration UX Design UI Design Freebies Tutorials Tools Links About Contact Advertise RSS Twitter Facebook 40 Useful and Creative Infographics By Jacob Gube Information graphics (or infographics) are graphical depictions of data and information. In this collection, you’ll find forty beautiful and educational infographics, displaying the uncommon spectacle of "art meets science". 1. The proportion of ingredients for popular coffee drinks and their pronunciation keys. 2. This infographic showcases the history of the Swine Flu, starting from 1976. 3. 4. 5. The top breweries and beers in the U.S. 6. 7. 389 Years Ago A rundown of the historic events in African-American culture. 8. 9. 10. 11. An illustrated guide at how the Global Warming phenomenon works. 13. A packed visual piece on tobacco chemicals and tobacco trade worldwide. 14. 15. 16. A graphical representation of consumer spending across the globe. 17.
Add depth and texture in Illustrator | Graphic design Software: Illustrator CS5 or laterProject time: 2 hoursSkills: Add depth with the Grain effect; create halftone patterns; set up a grid in Illustrator Adding extra depth to an image can be a quick process that utilises some simple tools offered by Illustrator. Using the Grain effect you can add a retro texture, which, combined with some halftone patterns and simple brush strokes, can turn a flat-looking illustration into a rich texturised design. Over the following steps, I'll show you how. Expand your vector know-how with out Adobe Illustrator tutorial list 01. Setting up a grid is the first thing to do. 02. Now that you have your grid, rough out your illustration, ensuring you select 'Snap to Document Grid' (View > Grids & Guides). 03. Choose an appropriate colour palette - I've gone for something organic and have used tone to start adding depth. 04. Now let's add texture to the edges of our flat shapes to give them a slight hand-drawn feel. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
The 7 ½ Steps to Successful Infographics You know when you’ve been doing something for a long time and it gets ingrained? For me, that’s infographics. I’ve created a lot of chartage over the last 20 years Take a look: Here’s me when I started at the New York Times, where I was a graphics editor. The middle i.d. is my stint at Fortune Magazine, where I was the Infographics director and got to work with the awesome folks at CNNMoney.com (I’m fading!). Anyway, when Nishant from MIX asked me to write about what I do, it was kind of arresting, like the time that Montana patrolman intercepted my husband doing 94 on a long stretch of highway. So here I am, pulling over. 1. Where does one procure an idea? Usually they’re found in the shower. Don’t wake up with an idea? Our stories are driven by the news, so our graphics are framed by ‘what’s new’ and sometimes ‘what’s different’ and hopefully, ‘what’s relevant.’ Here’s a list I kept to amuse myself when I first started working for Time Inc/TimeWarner, CNN’s parent company: 2. 3. Not! 4.
Create a Daft Punk GIF Animation Using Illustrator and Photoshop I'm going to show you how you can create an animated Daft Punk helmet GIF using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial requires a bit of time but it will all be worth it when you see your helmet come to life, so lets get popping. The actual example of the Daft Punk graphic is just for training purposes and is not to be used in a final personal project without permission from the original creators. As part of this tutorial, you can check out the sped up time lapse of the tutorial by checking out the video below! If you're wanting further detail on the whole process, scroll to find out more. Launch Adobe Illustrator, and create a New document (Command + N) and place (File > Place) the Daft Punk artwork from "Random Access Memories" onto your art board. To begin with, you want to create five layers on top of the layer that contains the album artwork. I suggest you Lock all the layers you will not be using at this moment. This is beginning to look like an actual helmet.
The Anatomy Of An Infographic: 5 Steps To Create A Powerful Visual Information is very powerful but for the most bit it is bland and unimaginative. Infographics channel information in a visually pleasing, instantly understandable manner, making it not only powerful, but extremely beautiful. Once used predominantly to make maps more approachable, scientific charts less daunting and as key learning tools for children, inforgraphics have now permeated all aspects of the modern world. I designed a couple of infographics back in college, the need arising especially around the time Soccer World Cup fever spiked. It was a fun process representing the different groups, predicting winners in each group at each stage and creating a mock pairing of teams that would clash all the way leading upto the finals. Infographics can appear daunting to some with the sheer amount of data they present, but designed in the right manner and step by step, they can actually be one of the most fun things you will ever create. Anatomy Of An Infographic 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
How to Draw a Vector Kiwi Ever wonder how to make a vector kiwi in Adobe Illustrator? Well I did and here is what I came up with. In this tutorial, I will teach you how to do it using illustrator effects like Texturizer, Pointillize, Grain and Film grain. Hope you can learn some new stuff in this tutorial. Drawing the Kiwi Shape Open a new document. Next, take the Ellipse tool and draw am oval shape like the one below and rotate it a little so that it looks more natural. Drawing the Kiwi Fruit Pulp Now we will start creating the fruit pulp. Go to Object>Transform>Transform Each. You should have something like this. Next, we will add some color. Position the shape in the center of our kiwi. For a more realistic look, we will create 2 more shapes. Next, go to Effect>Stylize>Outer Glow and set the values as shown below. Now, position the shape on top of the first one. To give it more depth, copy and paste the first shape again. Now, we will make the heart of the kiwi. Drawing the Kiwi Seeds Drawing the Kiwi Skin
10 Tips for (journalists) Designing Infographics This article was originally published on “Digital Newsgathering”, a class blog for Journalism 226 at San Francisco State University, Instructor: Staci Baird. I wrote this post as a guest author, and with permission I am republishing it here. Assuming you’re not working for a media corporation with huge graphics and statistics departments at your disposal, you may want to create some infographics for your own articles. With today’s flood of information, infographics allow readers to quickly digest and understand complex data. Here are 10 tips for designing better infographics (click the images to go to their original sites): 1) Be Concise: Design your infographic to convey one idea really well. This example is an infographic poster I created about the caffeine content in drinks. The Caffeine Poster, by Randy Krum 2) Be Visual: Design your infographic with your final for viewing size in mind. Google PageRank Explained, by Elliance Who Participates Online? BBC Budget, by David McCandless
How to Create a Rainy Window Vector Background Using the Symbolism Tools, plus a bit of Gradient Mesh, learn to make a realistic window covered with raindrops. This is an advanced tutorial that assumes a fair amount of Illustrator experience, but everyone should be able to follow along. It can be done with earlier versions of Illustrator, but takes full advantage of newer features in CS4. Let's get started! Republished Tutorial Every few weeks, we revisit some of our reader's favorite posts from throughout the history of the site. Final Image Preview Below is the final image we will be working towards. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS4Difficulty: Intermediate to AdvancedEstimated Completion Time: 1.5 hours Step 1 Create a new document 11 inches by 8.5 inches. Step 2 Draw a square the same dimensions as your artboard, and fill it with a medium blue from your color group. Step 3 Now manipulate the mesh points to create an amorphous, abstract background. Step 4 This will give more depth to the "lights." Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8
InfoGraphic Designs: Overview, Examples and Best Practices | Inspiration Information graphics or infographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics are used where complex information needs to be explained quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. They are also used extensively as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians to ease the process of developing and communicating conceptual information. They can present a rich amount of information without intimidating you. Or sometimes they intimidate you, but make the digesting of the information much more bearable. Here in this article below, we are going to discuss best practices for designing infographics followed by some examples which might help you learn a thing or two. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. Feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts that our readers may find helpful. Don’t forget to and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates. 01.