Graphic Design with Adobe Illustrator I

Introduction

Today you will be learning the basics of Adobe Illustrator. This introductory video provides an overview of some of the things you can do using this tool: https://video.tv.adobe.com/v/14977/.

Tutorials

• Open Illustrator then navigate to Help -> Illustrator Help (this should pull up the Discover window).
• Go to Hands-on tutorials -> Orientation and go through the following tutorials:
  • Discover How Illustrator Art is Unique
  • Take a Tour of the App
  • Jump into color
  • Get started with Text

Create a Course Flyer

Note for Spring 2023: below material has been moved to Graphic Design with Adobe Illustrator II

To put your new skills into practice, you’re going to design a basic flyer for this class.

• Navigate on your computer to your intro-digital-studies folder you created in the Files and Folders tutorial earlier in the semester. If you haven’t done so already, create a tutorials folder inside this folder.
• Make a new folder inside your tutorials folder named graphic-design
• Download the following Adobe Illustrator file and put it inside your new graphic-design folder: course-flyer.ai.

Open course-flyer.ai in Illustrator and complete the following:

• Change the blue background to black
• Add text for the course title, meeting place, and meeting time (get this from the course website) onto the white background and change the color and font to something other than the default.
• Change the text size so the course title is the largest piece of text
• Add text objects listing some of the skills you’ve learned in the class so far and place this text on top of the black part of the background
• Move and resize the CU icon so that it is anchored to the bottom left corner of the flyer
• Bonus: see if you can figure out how to download and add this vector image to the course flyer.