Articles about Logos:

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Some tips on designing logos with Adobe Illustrator

Designing logos are the ultimate challenge for the graphic designer and there is nothing simple about doing them. The logo is the first and most important visual cue of a company or brand. Logos (usually) should be simple, compact and of one or two colors. Because you have less to play with, it’s the design [...]

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How to web 2.0 your logo

After I had designed a vector logo for a client, I was asked to web 2.0-ify it. This is what I did. The “Toby Beresford” and the cogs are on separate layers in Photoshop. Individually I set the Layer Styles of Gradient Overlay and Bevel and Emboss. The Gradient Overlays are the same on both [...]

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Freelance graphic designer’s picture quiz #5: Spot the logo symbol

The best kind of logo, in my opinion, is one which relies on an image or shape to convey the company or brand. I would call it archetypal communication. Above is an amalgam of five of the most famous of such symbols (actually four, the fifth is from a text logo!), can you spot where [...]

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Designing different vector logo options

I was asked to come up with a logo for Toby Beresford an application developer that specialises in third party apps for Facebook. The client wanted something neat, simple and modern that could have a shiny web 2.0 effect put on at a later date. I find it better to start off with Adobe Illustrator [...]

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Freelance graphic designer’s picture quiz #4 – spot the logo

The above picture is made from 17 logos of the most famous brands in the world. The question is very simple: which letter comes from which logo? Please leave your answers in the comments section of this post.

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Do all graphic designers think alike?

You may wonder … Great idea from Graphic Design Blog for a design experiment. Designers were asked to quickly sketch or produce logo ideas for a couple of made-up companies “Caffeine Rush” being one of them. Here’s my interpretation. I can’t wait to see if someone has come up with exactly the same thing!

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