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Grid Systems – Making grids in Illustrator
Designing within a grid system involves defining the material you are going to work with, defining the page size, making a proportional grid onto the space and then fitting your design into the grid....
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Grid Systems – Making grids in Illustrator 2
There is hardly a one grid system that works for everything or everybody. Different needs call for different grids. Grids that involve certain rules, like proportions being by the Golden Rule are very...
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Convert CMYK swatches to Pantone numbers in Illustrator
Converting colors between color systems is a never ending story for designers. Much of the converting can be done by the method described in a previous article on this site. There is one conversion not...
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How to make a circle color spectrum in Illustrator
So you want to make a color spectrum like this, using Illustrator? Here is how you can do it. Start by making a new document in Illustrator. The size does not really matter because Illustrator is...
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Grid Systems – Easy Grid Calculator
Calculating a grid for a layout can be time consuming. It’s not only the calculation itself but planning and laying out the whole thing is a task that eventually will take some time. How many columns...
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Customize QuickLook for fonts
QuickLook, the ability to see a quick preview of files and folders simply by selecting and then pressing the Space bar has been available for some time now. This is a great time saver and gives access...
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Grid Systems : Calculate grids for layouts in InDesign with the help of the...
One of the tools I have used while calculating a grid for a layout was an Excel file I had used to experiment with different kinds of calculation methods. A collection of over a dozen different...
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Making seamless patterns in Illustrator
Making a pattern in Illustrator can be as simple as dragging any object or objects to the Swatch panel and you have got a pattern so to speak. But that is not what is called a seamless pattern where...
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Calculate multiple objects in a circle in Illustrator
When you are drawing or designing in Illustrator you probably at one time or another need to put multiple objects in a circle. This is basically very easy by using the rotated tool, click somewhere...
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Draw a Braun watch in Illustrator
At the minimalismo.com site, I came across an article showing re-issued line of Braun watches from the seventies, designed by Dieter Rams and Dietrich Lubs. At the same time I was trying to solve a...
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