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I'm a product designer, living on the graphic design and chocolate. I worked as an art-director for a full-service advertising agency, tasted American design bread, and now I'm leading my own design studio. I'm enjoying as much freedom as my clients give it to me :)
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Methods for Creating Random Vector Noise

Peter Akuratny on Aug 22nd 2008 with 23 comments

In this tutorial, we look at two ways to quickly create vector noise patterns, similar to Photoshop’s Gradient Noise, but this time fully controllable, resizable, and editable, as it will be a vector graphic. For color control we’ll look at the Live Color feature, available in Illustrator CS3.

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Design Gift Boxes Using Illustrator’s 3D Tools

Peter Akuratny on Aug 5th 2008 with 41 comments

Quickly make wrapped and unwrapped gift boxes using Illustrator’s built-in 3D Extrude & Bevel effect. Learn how to make a fully editable 3D ribbon and masked 3D typography. Also, we’ll be creating sparkles using Symbol Tools.

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