About us
Built by designers, for designers
Since 2006, Astute Graphics has been creating advanced workflow tools and bespoke solutions for Adobe Illustrator professionals worldwide. We help designers work faster, solve real production problems, and produce their best vector work.
Our story in numbers
Proven tools, global reach, lasting impact
We help designers work faster, solve real production problems, and produce their best vector work.
200k+
Designers Worldwide
20+
Years of Innovation
190+
Countries Reached
4.7/5
Customer Satisfaction
Our mission
Our mission is simple, your workflows can be.
We create powerful design tools that make drawing more enjoyable, speed up creative workflows and help designers meet deadlines with ease.
Deep expertise
Since 2006, we’ve focused exclusively on improving vector workflows in Adobe Illustrator.
Human support
Fast, knowledgeable support from people who genuinely understand creative workflows
Learn & grow
Extensive tutorials, documentation, and training resources to help users master Illustrator.
How it started
Make it blue to worldwide Adobe Illustrator tools
Astute Graphics began with a simple design challenge: changing artwork colors in Adobe Illustrator was far harder than it should be.
After founder Nicholas van der Walle spent months on a design, a request to “make it blue” led to weeks of frustrating rework. That experience inspired the first Astute Graphics plugin, launched in 2006.
Today, our Illustrator plugins help thousands of designers and brands, including Adidas, Google, Nike, Casio, and Facebook, work faster, boost creativity, and save time.
Meet the founder
Driven by design,
powered by Lego
Nick is a man on a mission, a mission of Lego. In his spare time he also heads Astute Graphics.
Nick is an experienced and driven CEO with an engineering background and innovative vision that continues to take us from strength to strength.
Outside of work he likes to drink coffee in his local café. He isn't a coffee connoisseur, he just likes to hide there and add to his obscene hoard of loyalty points.
Kickstart your workflows
Take your Adobe Illustrator workflow to the next level.
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