When Adobe Illustrator was first released, many designers didn’t believe a computer program could replace their T-squares, rubber cement, and technical pens. See how designers made the often painful, sometimes scary, sometimes delightful, change from traditional to digital tools, and along the way, rode the wave of the digital design revolution. This is Chapter 2 in a series of three videos on the story of Adobe Illustrator.
When Adobe Illustrator first shipped in 1987, the new product not only altered Adobe’s course, it changed drawing and graphic design forever. See how Adobe Co-Founder John Warnock first conceived of Illustrator as a PostScript drawing tool and how PostScript’s Bézier curves could be applied to the shapes illustrators painstakingly created by hand. This is Chapter 1 in a series of three videos on the story of Adobe Illustrator.
Producer/Director
Ami Capen
Executive Producers
Jeffrey Severtson
Terry Hemphill
Dan Cowles
Co-Director/Director of Photography
Christian Bruno
Editors
Ami Capen
Louanne Ponder
Associate Producer/Music Supervisor
Kristin Tieche
Post-Production Supervisor/Additional Editor
Christine Steele
Colorist
Chris Dunn
Sound Mix
Jeffrey Fuller at PLAY
Sound Recordists
Luis Granados
Lauretta Molitor
Gaffers
Andy Olson
K.C. Smith
Additional Camera
K.C. Smith
Motion Graphics
Jayson Tang
Designer
Andre Seibel
Opening Titles
Ben Child
Production Assistant
Joe Zolnoski
Transcriptions
Jenny Chu
Jamie Omar Yassin
Creative Consultant
Tony Coleman
Technical Consultant
Erik Espera
Historical Research/Story Arc
The History Factory
Legal
Justine Jacob
Archival Video & Images:
Doug Menuez/Getty Images/Stanford University Libraries
TIME Magazine
Joe Lertola
emotion studios
Ron Chan
Images:
“Venus”
Dylan Roscover
“Nature’s Journey”
Sabine Reinhart
Yellowstone Map
U.S. National Park Service
Harper’s Ferry Center
“Crystal”
Yukio Miyamoto
“Looking for Adventure”
Yogesh Sharma
“Scarlet Peony and Courtesan”
Ai Kawabata
“Myasthenia Gravis”
Mark M. Miller
Church of London
Vasava
Music:
“Electro Hop” by Wesley Devine
Courtesy of Shockwave-Sound.com
“Drive”
Written by Richard Cooper and Alex Lavery
Courtesy of 5 Alarm / Imagem Production Music
“Prelude 4 Speak N Spell”
Written by Johann Sebastian Bach
Arranged by Audio Android
Courtesy of 5 Alarm / Imagem Production Music
“Young Punks”
Written by John Hyde
Courtesy of 5 Alarm / Imagem Production Music
Licensed under Creative Commons:
“leaves” by airtone (feat. Vidian) (ccmixter.org)
“SUMMER RAIN” by murat ses (ccmixter.org)
“Peace of Mind” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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