

Chapter 01 Project Builder 2:
Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator
Iris Vision Labs has contracted with your design firm to bid on a design for their logo. Researching the company, you learn that they are a biotech firm whose mission is to develop cures for genetic blindness and vision problems. You decide to build your design around the idea of an iris.
- Create a new document that is 6" × 6".
- Save the document as Iris Vision Design.ai.
- Create an ellipse that is 1" wide × 4" in height, and position it at the center of the artboard.
- Fill the ellipse with [None], and add a 1-point blue stroke.
- Create a copy of the ellipse rotated at 15°.
- Apply the Transform Again command 10 times.
- Select all and group the ellipses.
- Create a copy of the group rotated at 5°.
- Apply a red stroke to the new group.
- Transform again.
- Apply a bright blue stroke to the new group.
- Select all.
- Rotate a copy of the ellipses 2.5°.
- Create a circle that is 2" × 2".
- Fill the circle with a shade of gray.
- Remove the stroke from the circle.
- Position the gray-filled circle in the center of the ellipses.
- Cut the circle.
- Select all.
- Paste in back.
- Save your work, then compare your illustration to the image below.
- Close Iris Vision Design.
Source: "Adobe Illustrator CS3 Revealed" by Chris Botello