Creative Patterns for Graphic Design
Setting up Your Illustrator to Create Complex Patterns
A course by Giorgia Smiraglia , Graphic Designer
About the video: Setting up Your Illustrator to Create Complex Patterns
Overview
“Here I will show you some additional tools in Adobe Illustrator that will allow you to design cool patterns, like a pro.”
In this video lesson Giorgia Smiraglia addresses the topic: Setting up Your Illustrator to Create Complex Patterns, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Patterns for Graphic Design. Get inspired by your surroundings to create unique patterns and apply them to a mock-up product set in Photoshop and Illustrator.
Partial transcription of the video
“At this stage, you should already know how to use the basic tools in Illustrator. Now let's go one step further and I will introduce you some additional tools in Illustrator that will allow you to design patterns like a pro. I show you how to make pattern brushes, a fun way to develop your pattern along a line, I will show you how to play with blends and also how to create a round pattern. Let's take a look. As with the previous patterns, also here we start by drawing a tile. Then? Go to the menu window and open the Brushes panel. Now select the tile. And from the brushes panel click on the...”
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Course summary for: Creative Patterns for Graphic Design
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Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Design, Pattern Design, Product Design, Traditional illustration

Giorgia Smiraglia
A course by Giorgia Smiraglia
Giorgia Smiraglia is an Italian graphic designer. After receiving a degree in graphic design from the Instituto Europeo di Design in Milan, Giorgia moved to London where she has been working as a freelance designer in the branding sector.
Her designs have been used for international brands ranging from body care products, alcoholic beverages, luxury hotels, restaurants, and fashion firms. Giorgio’s client list include Fila, The Body Shop, Marriott International, Fortnum & Mason, Pernod Ricard, Glenlivet, Glenfiddich, Rothschild, Mondadori.
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