There are lots of ways to create swirls in Illustrator, you can even download vectors from sites such as bittbox and dezignus, and if you are using Photoshop you can download brushes with those sorts of symbols.
However in this tutorial I will show 4 ways to create swirls, and by mixing them you will learn some very powerful techniques that will allow you to easily make tons of different styles of swirls and crazy sperm vectors.
The wallpaper of this week is an amazing photo taken by Everaldo Coelho. If you don't know Everaldo, first of you should :) he is a design legend especially in the realm of UI and icon design. Everaldo is also senior designer at Apple and as we can see from this wallpaper a very talented photographer.
For more information about Everaldo visit http://www.everaldo.com/
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The book suggestion of this week is about colors, one of the most important skills for any designer. The book is called Color Design Workbook: A Real World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design and it's not only a very useful book, it's a very well designed one.
