Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways

This post was originally published in 2009 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. I recently finished up a project with Scott McIntyre of Vivid Ways and Jon Phillip of Spyre Studios. My part in the project was to work on a new logo design for the Vivid Ways website and brand. Here’s my design process and a walkthrough of how the final logo is created in Adobe Illustrator. Vivid Ways is a new blog focusing on the topic of personal development and colourful living, it aims to inspire and encourage readers through ideas and tips on how to live an amazing life. I started work sketching out my ideas for the logo, my main focus for the graphic of the logo was to display the letters V and W in a creative way that could be seen as an abstract mark, but also recognisable as the letters under closer inspection. The logos graphic were then drawn up in Adobe Illustrator and experiments were conducted on the appropriate type styles. Creating the Logo in Illustrator

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