Adobe Illustrator 88

[Designandrew]

the problem I see with Ai is that the program hasn't changed since, well, 89', which means that the type of art you can design is largely limited, and very similar the the mid 90's. Sure there are people who with time and patience can create photorealistic images in ai, but it can now be done faster with other software. I've always used ai for design/layouts, for that it's brilliant but not illustration. Most ai files come out looking like either 90's crap or early 2000's clean flower crap.

[riotofdablood]

CS5 my ass

[Maarttttt]

LASER TECHNOLOGY

[samsamba08]

It's pretty funny, that it's been over 20 years since this, and I still can't figure out how to use the Pen/Line tool (tracing) properly. ;)

Gotta dig the "professional illustrator's" style though. Mullet - check. Wall Street style shirt, suspenders and Oliver Peoples glasses - check. Smug facial expression - check.

[blasticpuddhas]

I hate the "anyone can do it" sales pitch, makes me think of drum machines and bad music.

[videonut33]

Ai '88 looks pretty good compared to Ai CS3,4, and now 5.

[SuperFunkyAfroNinja]

i mean, i've been using it for a while to do some shirt for coins, but it still takes skills lol some pics there are way too complicated for me lol

[Tidusjmcw79]

this is a great program - I was shocked to see it done on such old pc's but that means todays pc's will be giving even better results - that's right, a make is a pc because pc simply means Personal Computer

[Tidusjmcw79]

@Tidusjmcw79 Make + Mac  My bad

[iiiiiifggffggffgfgfg]

I have this app I think - it's 768KB!

In the good ole days that was HUUUGE! IT ALMOST FILLS A FLOPPY!

[castigator]

Juas que tiempos y pensar que yo pasé de la composición en mesa de dibujo a componer en macintosh ci y con adobe. Que viejo soy

[CloudandZack1st]

why would you put this on youtube. this is a fucking OLD video thats in the video.

[wfcposey]

Because youtube is a video hosting site.

[braven117]

Its a piece of history.

[perfectionbox]

Ah, the good old days, before Adobe made a zillion different versions of their stuff and got into suites and bundles and LE versions and God-only-knows-what. Marketing people have a way of destroying everything they touch.

[aMiNaB3LLA]

i miss the happy fake people on tv programs and bright crazy colors everyone wore.. i miss the 80's :(

[matejkovaclc]

The music on the background is cool... techno of 80's

[Rocky1138]

I agree -- reminds me of demoscene.

[bessadale]

A thing to be considered about these graphics packages' marketing material: they always said that everyone could create professional-looking art with those software. But still only the ones with the skill can make good things.

[skawt]

Agreed, look at the works of masters like Miyamoto. He could school all of these new age hipsters who can't even manage a gradient mesh.

[drygnfyre]

I think they mean that anyone willing to spend the TIME to master Illustrator can then create professional-looking results.

I'm not a professional graphics designer by any means, but I know enough about Illustrator to be able to achieve some rather good results.

[CarlosWelu]

No shiiiiiiiiiiiiit?

[agosto1]

fantastic!!

[mguerra79]

Nice one... I liked the video a lot! I first seen Illustrator, I guess, around the 5th to 7th edition, don't know for sure, but it was around 11 years ago... As well as freehand, like the 6th or 7th... Photoshop I guess I seen it first time around the 3rd version, and I can only say... Man those times were good!

Did you noticed when he says that the main purpose of the artist is to go for a PRINTED sheet? WOW...

Not nowadays... Web, mobile, print, TV, and who nows what!

Really nice! Thanks!

[andrewwk6]

lol even the zoom was very laggy!

[M1t0s1sReloaded]

Freehand Rul3z 4 3v3r!

[deadbeat1]

gotta love that new drudgery elimination tool

[arronhunt]

wow........how can I enjoy my new CS4 when the classis 88 is so much better?! o.O

[PowerExpress]

Try to run CS4 on a Macintosh II or a SE.

[aphilby]

Wow! Art isn't a drudgery anymore! Yay!

[cousinajax]

I have an original app diskette

[CamiloSanchez1979]

you have to respect old software and hardware, please do so.

[mingsum]

Hey you know my grandmom she's very beautiful when she was sixteen.

[zakenaio]

we have an old Macintosh LC 630 here at work. With Illu 88.

In these days with CS3, its a good thing to boot up that old machine, and try to create on that. imposible.

I have huge respect for old hardware, and software.

[wolfteamstudios]

cool & easy boy

[kamochachii]

what were the specifications of a pc/apple fo that time in proccessor, memory and video resolution?

[slomacuser]

Macintosh II, Macintosh IIx, Macintosh Plus, Macintosh SE (Motorola 68000/8 MHz - 030/16 MHz, 1 MB to 8 MB RAM)

B&W 9" to 13" color Monitor (1bit - 24bit color mode)

[kamochachii]

wow... that is incredible. i was wondering if my pcket pc has 600mhz and more than 128Mb why can it run the same software? ;-).

[spike9112003]

In 1988 I would have been sold right away O_O

[formsoldier]

Illu 88 > CS3 ...

[Whiteoverblue]

Hahaha! Perfect voice for presentation, perfect music. All what a great tool needs for a great commercial.

I think that man is the guy from America's Funniest Videos, the old version.

[yvosd]

excellent video, this is how I started and I very grateful to Adobe to have provide us such a great tool !

[ELVISSTOO]

Cool

[RickWolff]

That laser printer cost about $7000. Did you notice those s-l-o-w screen refreshes? And how did we see what we were doing on a monochrome monitor 7 inches wide? Ah, those were the days. The "end of drudgery". Yep.

[mgabrysSF]

I'm sure it's a different actor but doesn't he REALLY sound and look like the guy who did the iPhone introduction videos last year? Must be some kind of "Bay Aryan" thing (aka: NoCAL yuppie)

[rinkedoorn]

nice!

[BroadcastZa]

I ike this music in the clip.

[opleks]

this ad is awesome. ;D thanks alot for this stuff; and check out #illustrator on quakenet to hang out with our sort of people. AI, vectors, prepress, DTP, indesign.. etc.

[nabiss]

Love the music

[Hossinfeffa]

I think I heard the Fairlight CMI used in there quite a few times.

[watzupdawg]

The stock market, publishing and graphic design today owe a great debt to AI88. Flash graphics as we know them would not exist and it is really unfortunate that few people know the bezier tools. This is one of the very few tools which made great designers out of young students.

[dolcexo]

I love how this video dates itself, lol

[AEnima77]

My god autotrace sucks! Gladly they removed it in CS2.

We have had a little of Ilustrator 88 in our today computers... basically when you want to export from Flash to Illustrator it gives you the opfion to export in 88 AI... I hope this gets fixed in CS4.

This video is so cool, you should put the other tutorials it comes with.

[ffub]

That is a pretty unconvincing "professional illustrator"

[proscriptus]

You mean, James Spader?

[m0n0mental]

nice stuff!!!

[slomacuser]

I got the tape with Adobe Illustrator 88 box.

[wackymacs]

slomacuser - Where did you find this video originally?

[ezadsms]

cool video