For all of you fashion design majors that have not ventured too far into the technology side of the design world, here is a great free online resource book to help you along the way. So put down your old school pens, pencils, and Pantones and start practicing your bezier pen tool. I have interview with several companies that only design in Adobe Illustrator. Besides CAD, which can run hundreds of thousands of dollars for the premium software license, Ai is the next best thing. Plus it has become the industry standard for those who are wanting quick results from domestic and foreign manufacturers. Unless your job is to design in CAD for production, manufacturers are going to interpret your detailed Ai drawings in CAD for you. Here are a few examples of sketches that Ai will produce. Now open Ai and get to learning!
-david d’angelo