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The Botticelli Renaissance

Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Dec 6th, 2015. Artwork published in
circa September 2015
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  1. The one appropriation that designers are most familiar with is not in the exhibition:

    Photo: Kit Cowan. License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No derivatives

    adobe.wikia.com:

    Starting with version 1.0, Adobe chose to license an image of Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” from the Bettmann Archive and use the portion containing Venus’ face as Illustrator’s branding image. Warnock desired a Renaissance image to evoke his vision of Postscript as a new Renaissance in publishing, and Adobe employee Luanne Seymour Cohen, who was responsible for the early marketing material, found Venus’ flowing tresses a perfect vehicle for demonstrating Illustrator’s strength in tracing smooth curves over bitmap source images. Over the years the rendition of this image on Illustrator’s splash screen and packaging became more stylized to reflect features added in each version.

    The image of Venus was replaced (albeit still accessible via easter egg) in Illustrator CS (11.0) and CS2 (12.0) by a stylized flower to conform to the Creative Suite’s nature imagery.

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