Do WEB designer need to know Illustrator?

When I started my carrier I was a printed ad’s designer. I mostly worked on Fronthand and was able to do amazing things on this poor peace of software. After two years I figured out that I am not such a person who is able to done things by 100% and moved to web development and forget about vectors. Till today.

There was a time when web was a fool of smiling faces. After than was an absolute clean style domination. Even corporative sites was designed in a couple of pastel tones. There was a 3D time and flash (remember 2advanced). But now it’s vectors and cartoon time. So, knowing Illustrator is the necessity.

Look at ndesign-studio.com. Sure, its the next web design sight. And here is an illustration by author of this site.

And the answer for this post title is: Sure, you can do well if You are using Photoshop only, but If you or the clients need a web that isn’t yesterday you must think to use Illustrator. I’m not talking about technique, but time what is wasted to do tings in photoshop when there is Illustrator, who is easy to learn and have no brakes to stop your creativity.

I’m telling you, vector is the next big thing of web design, indeed!

Some more random examples: investingissimple.com www.katrinwegmann.de www.malenehald.dk www.cult-f.net