What designers have done with Adobe Illustrator, each example linked to its source.
A creative-systems consultant connects Claude to Illustrator, gets a 100 × 80 × 25 mm box with die line from his illustration, and lists what went wrong.
A designer and tutor shows how she uses Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Figma and Adobe tools to design, build and market her own products solo.
A designer’s fictional fintech brand uses Midjourney and Ideogram for exploration, then redraws the chosen mark point by point in Illustrator.
Adobe’s 2026 story says Trek’s visualization team builds 1:1 bike twins and swaps meshes to reuse approved paint designs.
A studio’s published guide covers choosing a traceable concept, hand-tracing, colour specs, a logo family, type licensing and file delivery.
Rive’s 2025 story says an agency replaced heavy video with nested, scroll-triggered animations built from Illustrator artwork.
A designer’s 2025 concept exercise combines ChatGPT, Sora and Nano Banana for a studio identity, finished in Illustrator and Photoshop.
Adobe’s 2023 profile covers an artist using generative recolouring alongside her hand-lettering and illustration practice.
In a 2023 X thread, Linus Ekenstam describes a barbershop logo built from Midjourney images, vectorized, then tidied in a vector editor.
An animation studio says it designed a UPI app’s logo and icons and animated onboarding, loading and success or failure states in two weeks.
A 2022 post shows sketching on paper, building shapes in Procreate and finishing in Illustrator for a cut-print look.
According to Adobe, new releases include Photoshop Harmonize and Generative Upscale and Illustrator snapping and gradient tools.
A designer’s portfolio project turns hand-drawn contour lines into cut paper layers stacked into a framed shadowbox.
A Toronto mural artist explains splitting a wall into canvases at 300 DPI and having a vector artist trace them for printing.
A designer reports extending a small brand from a Canva logo into 51 packaging designs, guidelines and an AI photo workflow the client reuses.
A designer reports producing a five-panel carousel for a fintech client in three hours, with AI exploration and manual refinement in Adobe tools.