Intro to Adobe Illustrator

Get up and running with the design world's standard software for drawing logos, icons, and all types of vector artwork.

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Every professional designer who wants to be marketable MUST know Adobe Illustrator, the industry standard software for drawing icons, logos, and vector artwork. Vectors are the curves that you draw with Illustrator, and they can be enlarged many times over without loosing quality, unlike raster art, which uses pixels on a grid, and distorts if it gets too large. Illustrator's vector files can be exported to raster formats, like .jpg, .gif, or .png, for projects that need them, like websites. I'm Joseph Caserto, a graphic designer with over two decades of professional experience, and I've been creating vector artwork that whole time. In this course, I'll help you master the basics of drawing simple vector shapes. Once you've got those essentials down, we'll move on, and use them to help you learn more intermediate ones. You'll build a solid foundation, which you can use beyond the course, to develop your own projects that showcase your skills in this application that's critical to know if you're going to be competitive in the professional design world.

What You'll Find Inside

  • A curriculum that lets students build confidence and skills by starting with essential techniques, moving on to fundamentals, and finishing with advanced methods.
  • Downloadable files for students who want a hands-on learning experience, allowing them to follow along with lectures.
  • Six hours of instruction through 50+ high-quality, downloadable HD videos that have clear audio and easy to see menus and windows.
  • A quiz at the end of each section so students can review their knowledge before moving on.


Your Instructor(s)


Joseph Caserto
Joseph Caserto

Joseph Caserto is an award-winning graphic artist, educator, and consultant, who is based in New York City and specializes in publication art direction and design.

Joseph earned a BFA with honors in Graphic Design from Pratt Institute, where he completed one of the first classes that covered the Mac as a design tool.

With over 20 years of professional experience, he is currently a freelance art director and designer whose clients have included Billboard, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Marie Claire, and Vibe magazines. He has won American Graphic Design Awards from GD USA magazine annually, since 2008, when he also received a Create Award.

Joseph is an active member of AIGA, Freelancers Union, Graphic Artists’ Guild, and SPD, the Society of Publication Designers. He sat on the Freelancers Union Board of Directors from 2011-13, and is on the SPD Student Outreach Committee, where he Chaired the annual Pub(lications) Crawl from 2008-12.

He has taught at The City College of New York, NYU, and Pace University.

A lifetime resident of New York State, he grew up in Ulster County, part of the State’s historic Mid-Hudson Valley, and has lived in Brooklyn since the late 1980s.

Web: josephcaserto.com

Twitter: @josephcaserto

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Course Curriculum


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Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
What if I am unhappy with the course?
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 30 days and we will give you a full refund.