You can d/l a trial of Illustrator from Adobe here.

Designers:

• Bert Monroy (Photoshop artwork)
• Andre the Giant
• Louise Fili (packaging design)
• Sagmeister
• James Victore
• Emigre
• David Carson
• Susan Kare- UI Graphics
• Dave McKean
• Hillman Curtis

Links Related to Course Topics:

• Resources related to the Design Basics course book
• The AIGA design archives
• The Language of Curves- about Vector graphics
• Summary of Wucius Wongs' Principles of 2-d design (our old text book)
• Principles of Graphic Design
• The Golden Mean (a really nifty Flash file)
• The golden ratio in art and nature
• The golden ratio and aesthetics (elaborates on a bunch of material from your GoD textbook)
• Introduction to the Elements of Design
• Massive Website about the golden section, fibonacci sequence, etc.
• Color Cubes
• Color, Contrast, and Dimension in News Design
• Picking a color scheme
• List of font foundries
• Adobe Type Topics - a great resource for learning about type. The type tips section is the best.
• Adobe Typography Primer (bottom right of page).

Quicktime movies about illustrator from Lynda Weinman

Are any of these links broken? Email me!