Christmas is over but if you’re an Illustrator fan who didn’t quite get what you wanted, don’t despair. There’s still one gift for you lurking under the tree. And by "tree" I mean the Apple App Store. AI Early Years is a free app for iPad that chronicles the birth and development of Adobe Illustrator with photos, video, interactive graphics, and interviews from the folks who were there.
With the app, you can learn why Boticelli’s Venus came to appear on the splash screen (think: "hair"), and why Bézier curves were used. The app also includes behind-the-scenes photos, slideshows of the original sample artwork, and a gallery of splash screens with the new features from each version of Illustrator from 1.1 to CS6.
Here’s the product description:
Adobe Illustrator shipped on March 19, 1987. It was Adobe’s first software application based on Adobe PostScript, the technology that changed the entire publishing industry. Illustrator not only altered Adobe’s course dramatically, it changed drawing and line art forever.
For a lot of the current users of Illustrator it’s hard to imagine the impact that Illustrator made in a world where designs and illustrations were done manually.
With the app ‘Adobe Illustrator, the early years’ we want to give some insight into the early years of Illustrator and celebrate the creative freedom that Illustrator brought to designers and illustrators.
This article was last modified on December 26, 2012
This article was first published on December 26, 2012
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