Adobe® Master Class: Illustrator®: Inspiring artwork and tutorials by established and emerging artists

Introduction

When Adobe launched Illustrator in 1987, the key factor was that designers could create crisp illustrations and logos using vectors. Illustrator creates graphics based on mathematical paths and points, so artwork is infinitely scalable. Imagine that! A logo that can literally be printed the size of a billboard without any pixilation—the edges remain the same high quality just as if it were sized at 100%!

Now I confess, when all of this started, I didn’t even know what a computer was. I was still messing with pencils and rolls of wallpaper on my mother’s carpet. It wasn’t until about 10 years ago I discovered vector art and what it was capable of. At the time, I thought of vector art as being something similar to a cartoon-styled ...