Case Based Critical Thinking
Mark is a well-known illustrator and artist who started his own design firm two years ago.Because Mark's business is more about illustration than anything else, he is constantly challenging his staff to hone their skills in Adobe Illustrator.He finds that, though many have "played around" with the software, most of his designers are Photoshop gurus who don't fully appreciate the abilities and the concepts associated with Illustrator.
-One of Mark's logo designs - created exclusively in Illustrator - was used on the cover of a corporate annual.Now the client has called and asked for the same logo to be used in an outdoor billboard campaign.One of Mark's designers worries that Mark's logo is too small to be used on such a large display - that the reduction in quality will be unacceptable.Based on this interaction, Mark realizes that his designer doesn't understand the concept of ____.
A)bitmap graphics
B)pixels
C)interpolation
D)resolution independence

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The concern about the logo being too small for a large display and losing quality is addressed by understanding resolution independence, a feature of vector graphics like those created in Adobe Illustrator. Vector graphics can be scaled to any size without losing quality, unlike bitmap graphics which can become pixelated.