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1. Pro Dan Rubin

   It's harder than I expected to draw a simple shape that so many people have illustrated before, and still have it feel unique. Or maybe it's just that I have no right working in Illustrator...

   Working on variations with different blade counts, too.

   over 3 years ago

2. Pro Dan Cederholm

   Nicely done, sir. The subtle curves of each blade totally nail it.

   over 3 years ago

3. Shaun Inman

   The simpler you try to make something, the fewer variations possible. Therein lies the value of constraint.

   At least, that's what I tell myself.

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   over 3 years ago

4. Pro Veerle Pieters

   Nice looking shape indeed :) And you are right, not that simple to create. Even I would have to think about this for a bit before I toss it into a simple tutorial. It would certainly involve some Pathfinder options for 1 single element, and then a 60° 'copy' rotation (via cmd+d, 4 times in row).

   @Shaun you sound very smart :)

   over 3 years ago

5. Pro Dan Rubin

   Thanks folks :)

   @Shaun: You're exactly right, of course — it's easy to make something too complex. Also, I could learn something from your mad illustration skillz.

   @Veerle: Speaking of "mad skillz," I've died and gone to illustration praise heaven to have such a comment from you :) I'm sure I made this in the hardest way possible, not being familiar enough with Illustrator, even after years of playing with it. For example, I didn't use the copy rotation, I manually rotated two copies of the first blade and then flipped the three (easy with an even number of blades; odd blade counts, not so much).

   over 3 years ago

6. Sebastiaan de With

   It looks great - reminds me a bit of the Aperture Corp. logo from the computer game 'Portal'.

   over 3 years ago

7. Pro Dan Rubin

   Get this as a temporary tattoo by Jason Santa Maria, here: http://beta.tatt.ly/products/aperture :)

   almost 2 years ago