Monthly Archives: April 2011

One thing I believe

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Chip Cullen

VIDEO: F*ck You. Pay Me.

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Chip Cullen

2011/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me. from SanFrancisco/CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

Great, inspiring talk by Mike Monterio about working with contracts. He has his lawyer present with him at the talk, which is helpful.

What I find inspirational is not really the idea of using contracts (legal stuff, but absolutely necessary), but the idea that a designer should have confidence in their place in a client/designer relationship. Designers too often assume the role of the “bottom”, and they don’t need to.

Posted in Blog, Web Design

Adobe Illustrator: Rotate/Copy object tip

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Chip Cullen

Okay, this has been bugging me for years, so I’m glad I finally found the answer:

In Adobe Illustrator, if you want to -

Rotate an object
By a specific amount of degrees
Around an axis that is not the center of the object

This is what you do:

Have the object selected
Select the rotate tool in your toolbox, or just hit “R”
Figure out where you want the rotation axis to be (e.g. the perimeter of an object)
Option Click on that point (or, on Windows, Alt-Click)
A dialog box will appear that lets you specify the rotation in degrees
If you want, you can hit “copy” and make a copy of that object

Source – from Adobe’s help

What can this do for you? Well, for one thing, you can make pretty sweet spirographs with ease, like this: