Illustrator: Designing with Grids and Guides

1h 22mBeginner2018-01-05

Authors

Nigel French

Graphic Designer, Author, Artist, Trainer

Course details

Guides, grids, and tools related to these bring structure and consistency to your designs. By suggesting visual relationships, such tools can help you design more efficiently and experiment more easily with different layout options. In this course, learn how to work with the suite of guide and grid tools in Adobe Illustrator to improve your designs and mockups. Review fundamental concepts—including how to set basic guide options and grid preferences—and discover how to create modular and baseline grids, and work with perspective and diagonal grids. Plus, learn how to create a grid from an object mosaic, a logo from a grid of circles, and more.

Learning objectives
Reviewing grid and guide tools
Using the GuideGuide plugin for Illustrator
Creating modular and baseline grids
Designing using constraint angles
Creating a pattern from a grid
Creating type with a grid
Creating a grid from an object mosaic

Skills covered

IllustrationIllustratorAdobeAnimation and IllustrationDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files

1. Grid and Guide Tools

03 - Basic guide options
04 - Global and artboard rulers
05 - Grid preferences and settings
06 - Smart Guides and snap to options
07 - The pixel grid
08 - The transparency grid
09 - Work with the GuideGuide plugin

2. Grids and Guides in Action

10 - Create a modular grid
11 - Create a baseline grid
12 - Convert shapes to guides
13 - Radial grid - Example 1
14 - Radial grid - Example 2
15 - Work with a perspective grid
16 - Design using constraint angles
17 - Work with a diagonal grid
18 - Work with construction guides

3. Everything Is a Grid

19 - Create a pattern from a grid
20 - Create type with a grid
21 - Create a gradient mesh
22 - Create a grid from an object mosaic
23 - Create a penguin logo with a grid of circles

Conclusion

24 - Next steps