Change background color of just one artboard in Illustrator CS5?

Question

I'm not sure if illustrator supports just changing the background color of one artboard but what I am looking to do is have one black background artboard and leave the other five or six artboards in my project white or transparent.What i'm trying to do here is make a white version of our corporate logo. It's hard to do that on white or transparent background. I already have a large "corporate branding" project that has all other logo variations so I would like to keep everything together however to do that I need at least one black artboard.I found the usual way of changing the color of all artboards and it got me wondering if I could just do one. I guess if this isn't supported I'll just lock a big rectangle as a lower layer and draw on top of that so I can see my white text.

Answer 1

The best way to add a "colored background" in Illustrator is to create a colored rectangle that goveers the entire artboard. There's really nothing in the preferences to set a colored background.

I usually cover the entire artboard (including the bleed area with a colored shape) and lock that layer. That's what I normally do for t-shirt mockups and logo presentations.