logo design tutorial

One of the secrets of being a good logo designer is to get inspired by other people’s logo work. As one famous author put it: “It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.” (Steven Wright)

Winter Holidays are swiftly approaching and everyone is decorating something. Decorations create atmosphere and remind us of the upcoming Season. Big companies are undertaking huge design projects to decorate their logos for Holidays, but here's a quick and easy tip that you could do to give your logo a Christmas feel.

Sometimes you need to play to get the creative juices flowing. Even the simplest idea  can give you a boost in the creative process especially when used to the potential. So i was thinking to go back in time to elementary school and work with an idea that we used to play with back then. We are going to create a butterfly logo out of paint.

Sometimes i seem to be in need of a folded paper-like text, so I thought I'd give it a try and simulate this in Adobe Illustrator. You'll be able to use this either for a folded paper logo design or for other design work. We will use only Illustrator to create a text that will look like built using folded strips of paper.

I haven't used this tool in Photoshop until recently, but i found that it can be a very powerful tool and nevertheless fun to play with. This tool can be used to design lots of things and for this post i found it very useful for designing a barbed wire logo.

I alway like to keep handy different design ideas before approaching a new logo project. So i thought i'm going to do a series of logo design ideas and post here. The first approach is to use a photography to design a logo element or symbol. This is especially appropriate when in need of a natural element, like a flower, a tree, a fruit or a landscape and has the advantage of giving the final product a sort of natural or wild appearance.