Helpful Articles & Videos

Downloadable Illustrator Reference

From Adobe themselves, a 679 page pdf with detailed info on every tool and feature in Illustrator Creative Cloud (last updated 11/04/2019).

Adobe Help: helpx.adobe.com/illustrator

Adobe official video tutorial site. Very good tutorials on lots of subjects. I'll be highlighting some of the better ones throughout the semester and consolidating them here.

Layers Magazine has some good tutorials

TutsPlus

Lynda.com - Excellent tutorials from industry professionals

YouTube The Futur Academy: Top 5 Adobe Illustrator Tools You Should Know - Design Tutorial

How do you design a great typeface?

Article on Mathew Carter, one of the world's greatest typeface designers.

A SciFi eyechart

Can you identify the SciFi show behind the typeface?

Movies & Designer Bios

Helvetica

The story of the world's most ubiquitous typeface, free at Documentary Mania

Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight

Glaser is one of the worlds greatest and most famous graphic designers, on Netflix

Videos on Live Color / Recolor Artwork

My YouTube MART 372 Playlist