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WROA Vendor Fair

8/24/2015

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The Washington Rental Owners Association will be hosting their 1st Annual Vendor Fair on September 12 in Everett, WA. This is a great opportunity for businesses to connect with their community!

The Vendor Fair also provides an excellent route for anyone wanting to learn more about the housing and rental industry. The Fair will present a platform for a wide-variety of speakers to discuss topics related to their profession (see flyer for details). In addition to the speakers, there will be vendors operating booths, myself included. So stop by and say hello. The Vendor Fair is open to the public.

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Adobe Illustrator: The Rotate Tool Tutorial

8/21/2015

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Fairly recently, I completed a design project for one of my clients, SPARK Behavioral Associates. This project consisted of a new logo and a business card. To achieve the blue spark graphic for the logo, I turned to my old trusty rotate tool.
In the tutorial below, I provided the steps I took to evenly rotate objects around a circle.

Step 1: Creating the Shapes

Open up a new document in Adobe Illustrator.
In the tool bar, select the ellipse tool (L). While holding down the shift key, use your mouse to click and drag a perfect circle on your art board.

After creating the circle, go back to the tool bar and click on the
rounded rectangle tool to create a vertical beam. Position the vertical beam directly above the circle. Make sure the beam and circle are centered.

ellipse tool (L)

rounded rectangle tool

Step 2: The Rotate Tool

With the beam selected, click on the rotate tool (R) in the tool bar.
Once the rotate tool is selected, you will notice a light blue cross
in the middle of the beam.

rotate tool (R)

Step 3: Positioning the
Reference Point

This is an important step! Make sure you hold down the Alt Key while hovering over the middle of the circle.

Click the center of the circle.

A light blue cross will appear in the center of the circle and a dialogue box will instantly pop up. Note: The light blue cross is your reference point.

Step 4: The Dialogue Box

In the dialogue box, type in 360/10. This means that 10 beams will be distributed evenly around the circle. 360 referring to a perfect circle.
Note: For this example I am using 10, but you could type in any number you'd like.

With the dialogue box still open, make sure you Select Copy & NOT OK.

After selecting Copy, an exact duplicate of the beam will appear right next to the original one.

Step 5: Duplicating the Object

Now hit ctrl-D on the keyboard to make a copy of each beam around the circle. Keep hitting ctrl-D until the circle is completed.

You have now completed a spark graphic!

Thank you for reading my tutorial on the rotate tool.
If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the comments section below and I will get back to you asap!

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New Logo & Business Card for Spark Behavioral Associates

8/5/2015

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Spark Behavioral Associates is a Washington-based behavioral consulting and training company. They work primarily with educators and school districts--and ultimately individual client engagement. Their field involves the scientific study of principles of learning and behavior. Their mission is to help a child, family & community in playing a part in creating a change that positively impact the child's life.

I worked with Spark Behavioral Associates to create a logo and business card for their company. After learning more about my clients and their mission to help children, I wanted to create an image that is personable, friendly & casual, but professional at the same time. Both the clients and I felt that the chosen font and custom-designed graphic conveys that image.

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WROA Vendor Fair

Adobe Illustrator: The Rotate Tool Tutorial

New Logo & Business Card for Spark Behavioral Associates

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