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Illustrator 88: Nostalgia

June 28, 2008 2 Comments Written by Cari Jansen

John Nack back in February posted this digitized VHS video from the Adobe archives to YouTube. Maybe I’m getting old or I’m in the mood for some nostalgia 🙂 … but I’d love to see more of these old VHS movies converted and shared.  This one is a promotional video delivered by John Warnock introducing Adobe Illustrator.




Did I see that right? A total of five menus and about a dozen tools?

Illustrator 88 was the very first Adobe application I used, the second one was Photoshop.

I remember constructing stars through placement of a single anchor point, rotating and copying the point around a centre point, than creating a second copy of the previously create points that was rotated and scaled — similar to how John demonstrates creating the petals of the flower he draws in this video — the individual anchor points were then joined, to created a closed path.

Without a gradient tool, gradients were created by blending two lines.  Logo’s were scanned in and manually redrawn using the pen tool and a combination of then available shape and transformation tools. Graphs, pie-charts etc. for annual reports were created using the graph tool.

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  1. Cari Jansen Cari Jansen
    June 30, 2008    

    I continue to be amazed, how software and hardware technology evolve overtime and continue to evolve 🙂

    Feels at times like living ‘the NeverEnding Story’, new adventures to look forward to each day 🙂

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  2. Melissa Melissa
    June 29, 2008    

    I remember doing a VHS tutorial on Pagemaker back in the early 90s?. My dad brought home a computer with a colour screen for me to try it out on. I also used the old Apple Newton! Aaah those were the days…

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