Tara Hornor spends her days writing about marketing, advertising, branding, web and graphic design, and other small business topics. She is Senior Editor for Creative Content Experts, a content creation and link building company that she co-owns with her husband. Connect with @TaraHornor on Twitter to see daily marketing and graphic design advice on her feed.
If you plan to create illustrations that repeat a lot of graphics, such as trees, grass, flowers, floating shapes and swirls, then symbols should become your best friend in Illustrator. Take the time to really play around with them and grasp this gem!
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Tara Hornor takes a look at one of the less-mentioned features of Adobe Illustrator: the Warp tools. The aim of this article is to provide one more resource to improve your logos, illustrations, posters and more.
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Typography is not only an all-important aspect of design, it is also an art form in and of itself. Choosing the right font, the perfect spacing and even the correct shape of text can be an important factor as to whether a project fails or succeeds. Although Illustrator is not really used for multiple-paged projects, many would agree that it is one of the most powerful applications for creating vector graphics, such as logos, and it is also often used for one-page documents, such as business cards, posters, or postcards.
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