{"id":17919,"date":"2012-12-23T08:09:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T16:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=8329"},"modified":"2012-12-23T08:09:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T16:09:28","slug":"celebrating-illustrator-through-an-ipad-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/23\/celebrating-illustrator-through-an-ipad-pub\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Illustrator through an iPad pub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember when Adobe was a hardware company, making software only to sell printers & peripherals? Okay, that imagined future never came to be (despite being the founders’ original business plan), but the company was<\/em>, for its first five years, all about PostScript. Illustrator marked a big departure\u2014into the creation of application software (crazy talk!).<\/p>\n

To celebrate Illustrator’s 25th (!) birthday, Adobe’s Ton Frederiks & his brother Hans have put together a free iPad app that tells the story of AI’s early years<\/a>. They write,<\/p>\n

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Adobe Illustrator shipped on March 19, 1987. It was Adobe\u2019s first software application based on Adobe PostScript, the technology that changed the entire publishing industry. Illustrator not only altered Adobe\u2019s course dramatically, it changed drawing and line art forever.<\/p>\n

For a lot of the current users of Illustrator it\u2019s hard to imagine the impact that Illustrator made in a world where designs and illustrations were done manually.<\/p>\n

With the app \u2018Adobe Illustrator, the early years\u2019 we want to give some insight into the early years of Illustrator and celebrate the creative freedom that Illustrator brought to designers and illustrators.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Related: Here’s the video demonstration that co-founder\/CEO John Warnock shot & included on VHS with every copy of the product.<\/p>\n