the.com/illustrator
Adobe's app for drawing vectors by fighting the pen tool until it loves you.
means A person who creates visual art—drawings, paintings, or digital images—to accompany or explain text, stories, or ideas.
from From Latin 'illustrare,' meaning to light up or make bright, built from 'in-' (upon) plus 'lustrare' (to brighten, purify, or illuminate), which itself connects to 'lustrum' and the general Latin notion of light and clarity. The sense evolved from literally 'making something shine' to figuratively 'making something clear'—to illustrate a point was to shed light on it. The visual-art meaning, a person who adorns text with pictures, emerged as an extension of this: illustrations light up a page, clarifying and brightening the words the way the original Latin root lit up anything it touched.
- launched
- 1987, Apple's first app ever sold
- math
- every shape is equations, infinitely scalable without blur
- rival
- born to out-draw CorelDRAW, mostly won
- irony
- logos designed in it rarely get hand-drawn again