Introduction to Adobe Illustrator for Fashion Design
Course 3: Items and Garment Details: Buttons! Symbols Window
By Mila Moura , Clothing and Textile Designer
About the video: Buttons! Symbols Window
Overview
“You will see how the Symbols window works. In addition, I am going to share a small hack to align and distribute, for example, the buttons, according to the space or distance you want.”
In this video lesson Mila Moura addresses the topic: Buttons! Symbols Window, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 3: Items and Garment Details. Edit your sketch and add buckles, seams, bows, and volume..
Partial transcription of the video
“ADDING ELEMENTS TO GARMENTS / COURSE 3 UNIT 3 Buttons! Symbols Window In this unit I will share with you how the Symbols tool works and how we can apply it to our technical drawing. Let's use the example that we have been working on, which is the buttons. Let's get started. If I go to the Symbols window we can see something like this. Again, if you don't see this window, you can go to the main menu, Window, Symbols. What we have here are different default symbols in Adobe Illustrator. Here we just, for example, select this flower and drag it directly onto the canvas. Another alternative is ...”
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Course summary for: Course 3: Items and Garment Details

Mila Moura
By Mila Moura
Camila Aguirre Moura, also known as Mila, is a clothing and textile designer. While studying her degree at the Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, she was offered the role of assistant professor, thus sparking her interest in teaching which culminated in the creation of María de los Geometrales, now known as Estudio MG, in 2014.
Estudio MG is a hub for students, fashion designers, and industry professionals who want to learn new skills to digitalize and boost their projects. They offer intensive workshops on topics such as digital figurines, garment specification sheets, and print design, among others. They also advise brands and entrepreneurs helping them to develop the technical side of their collections, from the digitalization of designs to networking with workshops and suppliers.
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