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How to Create the Definitive Designer's Essential Pack in Adobe Illustrator What You'll Be Creating Because I believe that all designers have their own secret essentials pack, I decided to show you how to build a small yet cute set of illustrations that you can use however you like. The entire creative process will focus on using the Rectangle Tool's basic shapes, which we will adjust here and there. 1. Setting Up Our Document Open up Adobe Illustrator, and create a New Document (File > New) using the following settings: Number of Artboards: 1 Width: 600 px Height: 600 px Units: Pixels And from the Advanced tab: Color Mode: RGB—standard digital color model for the digital medium Raster Effects: Screen (72 ppi) Align New Objects to Pixel Grid: checked 2. Layering Our Document If you’ve followed any of my other tutorials, you might have noticed that I have a “thing” for Layers. So the current...