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Cristiano Siqueira, popularly known as Crisvector, is a digital illustrator from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Siqueira blends vector art, 3D design and Photoshop together to create his distinct digital art. Deriving his inspiration from web 2.0 and the worlds of music, movies, gaming and art, Cristiano pushes the boundaries of his visual planet on a daily basis.

A logo is the first impression of any brand or agency. It’s the symbol of your company, so it’s important to create a memorable and effective logo. Here are some guidelines for effective logo design and use.

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator share many of the creative capabilities of the other. Photoshop is a bitmap image manipulation and processing program that is perfect for creating, outputting or modifying digital images of a photographic nature. Illustrator is a vector based drawing program that generates individual vector objects (Bezier curves) that retain their characteristics and are not part of a bitmap. Although the creative programs Photoshop and Illustrator are manufactured by Adobe, there are quite some differences.

Back in the Sixties, Twiggy became the first international supermodel at the age of 16. With her long legs, boyish bob and huge eyes, she dominated the fashion and lifestyle magazines. Twiggy’s mod style conquered London and changed fashion forever.

Vector Magic is an online script developed by the University of Stanford, which is capable of converting raster images to vector images. Illustrators and graphic designers are guided thoroughly through the procedure with explanations, which help them understand each step in the vectorization process.

Vector illustration of Andy Warhol, a key figure of the Pop Art movement. Pop Art emerged in the USA and elsewhere in the Fifties to become prominent in the Sixties and Seventies. As a master of multiple creative forms of expression, Warhol was a pop art painter, music producer, writer, magazine publisher, avant-garde filmmaker and photographer.

Adobe has introduced a lot of improvements and new capabilities to its flagship vector drawing program Illustrator CS5. New Illustrator tools and features are perspective drawing, a bristle brush, a shape builder tool, multiple board enhancements, resolution independent effects, integration with the new Flash Catalyst CS5 and crisp graphics for web & mobile devices.