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Project Meeting Basically, we have the icons, but they’re low-
Project Meeting
We have a set of icons on our website, but we
client comments need to use the same artwork in other places as
well — signs throughout the park, flyers that
we hand out to new guests, and so on.
Our printer told us that the symbols on our
website are “low res,” so they can’t be used
for print projects. The printer also said he
needs vector graphics that will scale larger
and still look good. The printer suggested we
hire a designer to create digital versions of the
icons so we can use them for a wide variety
of purposes, from large signs to small cards to
anything else that might come up.
We need you to help us figure out exactly what
we need and then create the icons for us.
project objectives To complete this project, you will:
art director comments resolution raster images, so they only work for
the web, and they can’t be enlarged. The good
news is that you can use the existing icons as
templates and more or less trace them to create
the new icons.
The client needs files that can be printed
to several feet. Illustrator vector files are perfect
cleanly and scaled from a couple of inches up
for this type of job. In fact, vector graphics get
their resolution from the printer being used for
a specific job, so you can scale them to any size
you want without losing quality.
o Use a variety of tools and techniques to
create, align, and transform basic shapes
o Control objects’ fill and stroke attributes
o Import raster images to use as artwork
templates
o Use sublayers and groups to manage
complex artwork
o Use the Line Segment tool to create a
complex object from a set of straight lines
o Edit properties of Live Shapes to create
finished icon artwork
o Draw and combine basic Live Shapes using
the Shaper tool
o Draw complex artwork with the Pencil tool