Design Makeover is a column at Layers Magazine. Each issue features a client in need of a makeover and and three designers up for the ...

...A widow is a short last line of a paragraph and an orphan is a short fragment of a paragraph that appears at the top ...

The Divine Proportion is a little-known phenomenon that suggests that there’s a mathematical equation that’s consistent with the aesthetics of good composition.

I have a selected object with multiple stroke listings of various colors and weights in the Appearance palette (Window > Appearance). The top-listed stroke in ...

Incompatibility of fonts between Mac and PC has been a major issue since the very beginnings of cross-platform computer graphics. As a Mac user, I’m ...

I embedded a 4-color product photo into an Illustrator cartoon to be used in an ongoing newspaper ad campaign that I’ve been working on. The ...

In a tip a while back, I discussed creating Custom Strokes by selecting “Stroke Styles” under the Options menu of the Stroke palette and then ...

You’re making changes to a brochure layout that folds in half horizontally before folding vertically a couple of times. To assure that everything reads correctly ...