This month’s graphic design quest gathers some of the better tutorials for designing logos. We begin with an excellent tutorial by Chuck Green, then show you others that will help you develop your own design processes for designing logos
This month’s graphic design quest gathers some of the better tutorials for designing logos. While they’re certainly not complete, these just sort of stood out from the rest. I almost NEVER advocate using Photoshop for designing logos, but it does work. For the best design work of this sort, use Adobe Illustrator! These tutorials will help you develop your own design processes for designing logos.
On all the pages except Chuck’s, always look out for broken links. I cannot believe how many people on the web allow their content links to go dead! Tsk, tsk, tsk. Anyway, if you hit a dead link please tell me about it! As always, we remind you, especially Windows users — be careful what you click. There are malware, phishing stalker and predator links abundant in many of the replicated sites these days. Whatch those little popups in the text. Just stay on the tutorial / content paths and you’ll be okay.
Step-by-step Logo
This is another excellent tutorial from the pen of Chuck Green and his IdeaBook. Herein, Chuck illustrates a thorough discussion on creating logos in Photoshop
Step-by-step Logo
Logo Design Process Tutorial
Another set of tips on creating logo is presented in this tutorial from the Dry Icons people. Visit their site and download all the free vector graphics you can stomach. dryicons.com
Logo Design Process Tutorial
The Process of Redesigning a Logo
Kristof Saelen is the Principal of EvilNation in Belgium and the designer of the Digital Web Magazine logo. He furnished this tutorial for beginners to learn how to redesign a logo … any logo.
The Process of Redesigning a Logo
Logo / Branding for the Godbit Project
Nathan Smith brings us this thoughtful although somewhat sophomoric, as he talks about the influences and factors that went into branding the Godbit Project.
Logo / Branding for the Godbit Project
Creating the Logo / Identity for a Church
This is a detailed tutorial on creating a logo in Photoshop. The tutorial was written by the very talented, Mark Misenheimer of Misenheimer Creative, Inc. — an expert freelance graphic designer who has been in the design business for years in design Project Management, Logo Design. (Adjust the web page to your monitor, it’s sort of weird and squeezes the graphics!)
Creating the Logo / Identity for a Church
Sikbox Logo Design Process
Here’s another tutorial from Fabio Sasso, from Porto Alegre, Brazil – http://fabiosasso.com — learning the process of creating the Sikbox logo.
Sikbox Logo Design Process
Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways
Chris Spooner brings us this discussion on creating a logo in a comprehensive illustrated tutorial. Chris is a designer who has a love for creativity and enjoys experimenting with various techniques in both print and web.
Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways
Creating a Typographic Logo in Photoshop
The tutorial here discusses steps in creating a unique and cool logo using modified typography in Photoshop. (Careful there are so many animated ads and shrouded scripts running on the page you may want to just immediately print to PDF file and get out!) Does it work? Let’s see how it works in grayscale and pure black and white — two brutal tests. An truly good logo will work well in all three.
Creating a Typographic Logo in Photoshop
Which ever example above you find suits you, experiment and try your favorites from all of the above. Once you are comfortable, you’ll develop the right questions to ask the client before beginning the project. Hopefully, with the right questions, and the answers to those questions — along with your design process — you’ll go on to design some outstanding logos! Have fun, and …
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