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PROJECT MEETING Basically, we have the icons, but they’re low-

We have a set of icons on our website, but we
client comments well — signs throughout the park, fl yers that we art director comments web, and they can’t be enlarged. Th e good news is
need to use the same artwork in other places as
resolution raster images, so they only work for the
hand out to new guests, and so on.
that you can use the existing icons as templates and,
more or less, trace them to create the new icons.
Our printer told us that the symbols on our
Th e client needs fi les that can be printed cleanly
website are “low res,” so they can’t be used for
print projects. Th e printer also said he needs
vector graphics that will scale larger and still look
feet. Illustrator vector fi les are perfect for this type
of job. In fact, vector graphics get their resolution
good. Th e printer suggested we hire a designer to and scaled from a couple of inches up to several
create digital versions of the icons so we can use from the printer being used for a specifi c job, so
them for a wide variety of purposes, from large you can scale them to any size you want without
signs to small cards, to anything else that might losing quality.
come up.

We need you to help us fi gure out exactly what
we need, and then create the icons for us.

project objectives project objectives project objectives To complete this project, you will:
Use a variety of tools and techniques to create,
align, and transform basic shapes

Control objects’ fi ll and stroke attributes
Import raster images to use as artwork templates

Use sublayers and groups to manage complex
artwork

Use the Line Segment tool to create a complex
object from a set of straight lines
Edit properties of Live Shapes to create fi nished
icon artwork
Draw and combine basic Live Shapes using the
Shaper tool

Draw complex artwork with the Pencil tool

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