be drawn with the Pen tool, circles are easily made with the Ellipse tool and stars with the, errm... Star tool. Create a new document at 100x100mm then draw a large grey rectangle expanding beyond the edges of the artboard. Begin pasting in your graphics and laying out the shapes within the square. When the design is beginning to take shape, draw a selection over all your objects and move them diagonally upwards to extend outside the artboard. Copy (CMD+C) then Paste in place (CMD+F) a duplicate of your objects then hit the Enter key to bring up the Move options. First enter 100mm in the Horizontal field, then repeat the process but enter -100mm in the Vertical field. Repeat the process for a third time, but with both 100mm and -100mm in the Horizontal and Vertical fields. Inspect the areas around the document artboard where the pattern is repeating for gaps. Paste in further objects to fill these gaps but keep them within the confines of the artboard. Select the rectangle tool then click on the artboard to bring up the options box. Enter dimensions for a 100x100mm square, clear out the fill and stroke then align the object with the artboard. Press CMD+A to Select All, then go to Object &gt; Expand. Select just the Stroke option, this will convert all strokes into solid shapes. Hold Shift and click the newly created square that's sitting over the artboard to remove it from the selection, then press CMD+G to