We begin a new series of articles about the time-tested, but rarely used Adobe Illustrator tools. As far as possible, these articles will help beginners to reveal hidden potential in these tools. Let’s talk about the Knife Tool.

Today I’d like to talk about five excellent vector tools, which I often use in my working process. They are convenient, intuitive and there are no analogues to their function among native tools. They save my time, speeding up the routine workflows.

The halcyon days of water cooler discussion about the previous night of television are long gone. They were replaced by the immediacy of the Internet. Today, television viewers have turned the watching of their favorite programs into a communal experience. The evolving nature of television consumption has led to the exploding popularity of Second Screen viewing. Read the accompanying infographic for more interesting information.

If you’re a fan of using vector artwork in your designs, but not a fan of traditionally priced (ie. expensive) stock image subscriptions - here’s some pretty awesome news…

Rule like a King in Illustrator with VectorScribe VectorScribe is our #1 selling plug-in for Adobe Illustrator, featuring the Smart Removal Brush, intuitive Path Extension, advanced path editing, dynamic shapes, corners and measurement. “VectorScribe is a game changer! It makes vector building far easier and more intuitive than Adobes own tools” Von Glitschka, Lynda.com trainer, author, …

In fact, many businesses create business cards from bog-standard templates, which are fine if you’re on a budget, but making use of these will always mean that the design won’t be unique to your business. Many businesses also overcomplicate their business cards, filling them with unnecessary information, imagery and flamboyance. 
The truth is, minimalism is usually the way to go with business cards, as a well-designed business card should be clear; it should also let the recipient know what your business is all about. Here are a few of the most inspiring minimalistic business cards we’ve come across…

A huge factor of brand identity is the company logo, essentially the signifying factor for the customer that the product or service they are using is the end product of a certain company’s creation. Essentially, there can be no confusion, wishy-washiness or extra parts. The logo must include just what is necessary and nothing more.

This week, Adobe has released the next version of its product for vector graphics - Adobe Illustrator CC 2015. Let's take a closer look at new innovations and compare them with the previous version.

ColliderScribe2 for Adobe Illustrator bring the brand new Space Fill allowing you to dynamically pack in artwork of any size into any shape! The revised collision tools, including the new Rotate To Collision Tool allows you to collide objects by simply snapping or rotating with speed and precision. Watch the clip…

These free tools play an essential role for designers who require accuracy. SubScribe is useful for technical illustration, logo and font design. With its help, you can create tangents and perpendiculars to the paths, create a circle according to given points, quickly align objects relatively to horizontals or verticals, create circumscribed and inscribed circles and much more. In today’s review all 14 tools are described, and animated pictures hopefully will help you understand their properties at a single glance.