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Guide pratique pour créer ou changer de logo. Logorama. A Showcase of Creative Punctuation in Logo Design. When you see punctuation as you’re reading, there is no need to stop and think, “What does that symbol mean?”. You instantly know. You were taught the meaning of punctuation at a young age and have probably encountered it everyday since. It’s this familiarity that makes these symbols effective as design elements, especially for logos. In this post we’ve put together a showcase of creative punctuation in logo design for your inspiration. About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. Related Posts 389 shares Colorful Logos for Your Inspiration We’ve rounded up some examples of logo designs that make excellent use of color.

Read More 497 shares 30 Free Vintage Logo Templates Looking for some high quality vintage logos or insignias? IBM Illustrations. Top Places to Find Quality Illustrator Tutorials Online. This post was originally published in 2009 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. Finding Illustrator tutorials online can be a mission, but luckily there’s a handyful of websites and blogs offering top class Illustrator tutorials, tips and techniques. This post rounds up the best places online to find high quality tutorials and articles to help you learn Illustrator like a pro.

Vectips Vectips is the blog of master Illustrator Ryan Putnam (aka Rype). Ryan regularly posts top class Illustrator tutorials covering handy tips through to complete icon design tutorials. Vectortuts Vectortuts is Envato’s popular destination for everything vector related. Veerle’s Blog Veerle Pieters is a popular figure in the world of vectors. Vector Diary Vector Diary is home to a collection of excellent tutorials, covering the process of creating everything from simple shapes to complex illustrations.

GoMediaZine N.Design Studio N.Design Studio is the home of designer Nick La. Abduzeedo Blog.SpoonGraphics. Illustrator Quick Tips #1 - Complex Symbols with Pathfinder. Last week I posted an article showing some great logos using 3D effects and colorful gradients. There are quite a few ways to do create those effects in Illustrator, however for most of them you will have to use the Pathfinder tools. Because of that I will show you an example based on a few logos from that list. References When I was looking for references for a logo design project that I'm still working on, I selected some awesome logos.

Below you can see some of them. You can visit the sites of these logos at: Step 1 Open Adobe Illustrator and create a new document. Step 2 Duplicate the Circle and resize it, but just the width. Step 3 Repeate the same process of the previous step, this time however reduce the height of the new circle. Step 4 Repeat the Step 2 again, this time align to the right and use yellow for the color. Step 5 Repeat the Step 3 just aligning the new ellipse from the top. Step 6 Select all ellipses and go to the Pathfinder panel (Window>Pathfinder). Step 7 Step 8 Step 9. 70 Excellent Logo Design Tutorials and Resources. By Jacob Gube An effective logo sets the tone and public perception of your brand, and therefore careful thought and creativity must be put into constructing it.

In this article, you’ll find a large collection of tutorials and resources on the topic of designing logos by some of the most well-respected logo designers in the industry. Logo Design Tutorials Step-by-step logo Designer/Author Chuck Green shows us the general process he takes when designing a logo. Big Bocca – Illustrative Logo This downloadable tutorial goes through the process of designing an illustrative logo.

Piranha’s Revenge – Illustrative Logo Artist Von. Logo Frustration Take a peak into a real-world project to see an actual logo designer in action. Creating the Logo / Identity for “Blackberry Creek Community Church” You’ll see, from start to finish, the creation of a logo for the "Blackberry Creek Community Church". Drawing a Good Logo UX Developer Nathan Smith discusses his method for creating an iconic logo design. LogoPond. Logo: DigiTweet. 35 Green, Leafy Logos - Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag. Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now A trend that you may have noticed recently is the use of leaves in logo design.

In some cases the companies using these logos are in a “green” industry, which makes this style of logo a natural fit. Other companies are not in this type of industry, and some of the logos (I believe) are fictional and created for logo portfolios. Even if that’s the case, they may serve as good design inspiration. Greener Ecoexpo Green Labs Envato Green Oil tmiint bionet 22 Clean Integration Core Cider One Leaf Decoflora Three Leaves Crabapple First Baptist Church Environmentally Friendly Cheers Brilliantly Green Ecocafe Environment Tree Maodsza Europa Light5 Seed Ivy Arch Studios Tack Sales Goril Bilesim The Organic Feed Company The Resource Box The Vine Live Active Bio Mondego Spirit Green Leaf Entertainment Bloom Kama’ aina Pro Painters The Seasons For more design inspiration see: About Steven Snell Stephen Snell is the owner and editor of Vandelay Design. 5 useful logo design tips. In this guest post, Jacob Cass briefly covers a few logo tips, listing some logo resources too. 1.

Learn what a logo is and what it represents Before you design one, you must understand what a logo is, what it represents and what it is supposed to do. A logo is not just a mark – it reflects a business’s commercial brand through the use of shape, fonts, colour, and / or images. A logo is for inspiring trust, recognition and admiration for a company or product and it is our job as designers to create an identity that will do its job.

One must first know what a logo is before continuing. For further Reading on what a logo is, check out Wikipedia’s definition or CreativeBits’s discussion on what is a logo? 2. Now that you know what a logo is supposed to do, and what it should represent, you now must learn what makes a great logo aka; the basic rules and principles. As David says: 3. Successful Logos Now you know what the rules are, you can distinguish the difference between a good and a bad logo. 15 tutoriels pour créer un logo sous Illustrator - Le blog de Wi.