In the beginning, there was Illustrator… Twenty-five years ago, John Warnock, Chuck Geschke, and the team at Adobe Systems released Illustrator 1.0. (Mordy Golding — author of Real World Illustrator, presenter of Illustrator Insider Training at lynda.com, and ex-Illustrator product manager at Adobe — tells us that the official date is today, March 19.)
We’d like to express our ginormous HAPPY BIRTHDAY wishes to Illustrator. To celebrate, we’d like to share two fun movies. First, here is John Warnock telling us all about Illustrator 1.0; it’s a movie that shipped with the product. If you haven’t seen this, you must:
Second, here’s a movie that Mordy and Ted Alspach and others folks from Adobe created about a decade ago. It’s silly, but we thought y’all would like it:
(We’re going to ignore the fact that back in the 90s we actually like Aldus Freehand more. That’s fine. We’re not holding a grudge or anything. Illustrator is amazing now. In fact, it has become our favorite InDesign plug-in of all time! Photoshop is second, of course.)
This article was last modified on December 21, 2021
This article was first published on March 19, 2012
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