I thought global colors in Illustrator were something everybody knew about, but perhaps not. Doesn’t anyone read the manuals for their software?
James Dempsey over at The Graphic Mac just posted a brief overview of the global process color swatches in Adobe Illustrator.
Handy list of all ‘Hidden Characters’ used in InDesign text blocks: http://twurl.nl/sl7py8
Just saw this over at design blog BittBox: when drawing with the Shape tools in Illustrator (rectangle, circle etc.), holding the tilde key (the squiggle key to the left of the 1 key on U.S. keyboards) and then dragging the mouse will result in lots of duplicates of the shape following the trail of your mouse pointer.
(via Creative Bits):
A neat little trick to work up original, radially symmetrical star-type shapes using multiple copies of rotated text. Good stuff!