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James Olstein uses his love of screen printing to create stunning digital illustrations with an analogue feel

Creative Boom

Illusration for Scientific American art directed by Michael Mrak It wasn't until he was working on a web project that needed vector icons that he discovered the joys of using Illustrator. It was in 2008, and I think web design is a bit of a different field and not as specialised.

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10 brilliant illustrators you should have on your radar

Creative Boom

Having graduated in fine arts in 2008, he now leads the digital arts course at Shandong University of Arts. Nanjiao's illustration work attempts to merge the rational beauty of "neat and distinct" vector geometry with the "pursuit of similarity and focus on artistic conception" of traditional Chinese painting. Work by Caver Zhang 3.

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Spoon Graphics Turns 13 Years Old — Traffic Down, Subscribers Up!

Spoon Graphics

Highest Traffic Peak (This Year): Tuesday May 14th 2019 – 17,517 visitors ( 10 Distressed Vector Halftone Patterns for Illustrator ). Email Subscribers: 189,773 (up 14% from 2019)*. YouTube Channel Subscribers: 332,014 (up 30% from 2019). That’s down -56% from its peak in 2012.

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Why Adobe needs to “Figmatize” and not the other way around

UX Collective

It was clear that one was used for bitmaps, another one for vector editing, and another for layout publications, but the integration between apps allowed you, in many cases, to do similar things across all apps. We wouldn’t expect a digital illustrator to use them, even though they are vector based. Procreate could be another example.

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The Sony Vaio Logo – The Meaning Behind Sony’s Laptop Logo Designed by Teiyu Goto

Logo Smith

As the original artwork has been shredded around the internet for few years now, I decided to recreate a fresh new version in vector, and uploaded here as SVG. Originally an acronym of Video Audio Integrated Operation, this was amended to Visual Audio Intelligent Organizer in 2008 to celebrate the brand’s 10th anniversary.

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5 UI and UX Design Tools for Designers

HONGKIAT

Adobe XD Adobe XD is a powerful user interface and prototyping tool released in 2015 as a response to the growing popularity of Sketch, a UI/UX vector editor. Sketch Released in 2010, Sketch quickly established itself as a popular design tool, offering a simpler and more efficient alternative to vector-based tools like Adobe Illustrator.

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The Best Adobe InDesign Alternatives in 2023 (Free & Paid)

Just Creative

Launched in 2008, Affinity Publisher is our top choice for the best alternative to Adobe InDesign. InDesign files, as well as raster and vector files, can be imported. This program has many similar features to InDesign but is a much better fit for a small budget.

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