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Posts Tagged with pattern
How To: Create a Seamless Diagonal Pattern in Illustrator

12 Oct 2009, Jay Hilgert

I gotten a few emails recently about how to create a seamless diagonal pattern in Illy, so here we go! Illustrator comes with some default pattern brushes, but no diagonal love. Diagonal patterns are a bit more tricky to make than a simple horizontal, or vertical pattern, but with some rock solid alignment, and some manual input into the Transform palette, you’ll be making diagonal patterns in no time. Let’s get started.

How To: Create a Seamless Diagonal Pattern in Illustrator

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Illustrator Tutorial: Dynamic Burberry Text (Guest Post)

30 Nov 2008, Jay Hilgert

Today we are going to go over Dynamic art, vector art that isn’t destructive to the vector paths. Basically this keeps things like text editable. Why would you do this? Well for example, if your designing a post card that has variable data and is going out to 10,000 people and you want it so the receiver gets their name printed on the card, but you want it to look designed and not just plain tex, then you need Dynamic text. Kodak, Epson, and Cannon either offer or are working on printers that support Variable data and Dynamic text. Today we will look at designing it so the printers can re-type the text on the fly.

Here is the goal of today’s tutorial.

Illustrator Tutorial: Dynamic Burberry Text

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