Turning a Cube into a Hex Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

Deke turns last week's intreguing cube into a hypnotic hex pattern in Adobe Illustrator

Deke's Techniques 201: Op Art Experiment 2a: An Undulating Pattern in Illustrator

Deke continues his quest to create the best digital Op Art possible. This week, he creates an undulating pattern that will make your eyes hurt and your Illustrator skills soar.

Deke's Techniques 199: Creating a Pattern of Size-Changing Circles in Illustrator

This week, I show you how to create a free-form pattern of size- and color-changing circles in Illustrator. Which I do by blending between groups and blended groups.

Deke's Techniques 173: Designing a Double-Wave Line Pattern in Illustrator

Today, I show you how to create the components for an entwined-rope pattern that you can assemble into a cohesive whole using Illustrator's Pattern Brush feature.

Deke's Techniques 154: Designing a Seamlessly Repeating Hex Pattern in Illustrator CS6

This week, I show you how to use Illustrator CS6's new Pattern Options panel (as well as its new pattern-editing mode) to create a seamlessly repeating hex pattern.

Deke's Techniques 060: Designing a Magically Updating Pattern

Nothing says "magic" like a dynamically updating pattern in Illustrator. No, I'm not talking about Illustrator's standard tile patterns. I'm talking pure unadulterated magic.

Deke's Techniques 028: Creating a Seamlessly Repeating Pattern in Photoshop

This week, I show you how to create a seamlessly repeating tile pattern in Photoshop, which involves as many applications of the Offset filter as it requires leaps of logic.

Photoshopping the Great Masters

There is no objective standard of beauty. In fact, the very definition of beauty shifts from one generation to the next. Want proof? Watch a 16th-century honey turn into a 21st-century hottie in this dekePod.

Employing a Seamlessly Repeating Pattern

The Art of the Seamlessly Repeating Pattern