Let's go logo design. The most prominent identity item for many businesses is the logo. It appears on almost all printed materials. Explore these logo design tutorials and techniques to help you design the best logo for your business or your clients.
The basis of many logo designs and graphics are simple geometric shapes -- lines, circles, squares, and triangles. Even the graphically-challenged can create great graphics for logos, newsletters, fliers, or web pages using these basic building blocks.
This logo design tutorial shows ways to use lines, circles, squares, and triangles to construct simple graphics, often suitable for logos.
Recommended reading for small business owners and non-designers tasked with creating an identity system for their business. For designers, it is also a valuable addition to any design reference library.
Use basic iconic shapes as a starting point for logo design.
PowerPoint, Word, and Publisher are not the best tools for crafting quality logos. Find out what software works for logo design and why.
Art puts a more positive spin on this logo.
Mixed case text and paper airline give this logo redesign a more fun attitude.
The original logo is simple and interesting but doesn't really convey what the company does.
This tutorial shows ways to link letters together (ligatures) to create logos. Click the green arrow icon to move from page to page of the tutorial.
Discover ways to make dynamite logos with "off-the-shelf art" and a little imagination.
Join Chuck Green for a behind-the-scenes look at an on-going logo design project. View three preliminary designs along with both the artist and client's thoughts and reactions to each.
Chuck takes you from sketchbook to finished logo with a look at interim designs, his thought processes, and how the client sent him back to the drawing board.
HP offers advice and bulleted lists on how to create a logo and related brand-identifying designs.
MyLogo discusses considerations such as age, location, and even sex that play a role in logo design.
Graphic designer Carey Numme developed the winning logo design for the Creative Latitude Web site. She describes the thinking that went into its design.
Eileen Parzek discusses what makes a "good" logo.
Dmitry Kirsanov offers excellent advice on crafting a logo; outstanding discussion of logo design principles.
This is the second part of Dmitry Kirsanov's detailed discussion on designing logos.
This angular logo gets a softer, friendlier look that still conveys strength.
In this logo makeover Faith consolidates old and new into a cohesive identity.
Looks at bitmap and vector formats with tips on how they relate to logo design at The Logo Factory. Shows the differences in the two formats, how different formats are used for logos, and includes advice on conversions and format repair.
Get thumbnail previews of logo designs by The Logo Factory. Click for a larger view.
Discover 8 ways to enhance a plain capital letter logo. All these logo design tutorials have instructions for CorelDRAW but are adabtable to any drawing program.
This logo design tutorial features variations on a simple logo with a letter in a circle.
Makes 6 logos made by combining 2 letters in various ways.
Teaches how to spin a logos with spirals.
Using bitmaps to enhance a logo is the focus of this logo design tutorial.
Shows how to use symbols (or dingbat fonts) as starting blocks for logo design.
Learn how to successfully print your logo on cards, envelopes, and letterhead from your desktop color printer.
Offers tips on finetuning your logo design.
Shows methods of creating 3D logos, using extrusion, block letters, etc.
Explores font options when designing a nameplate or text-based logo.
In an exploration of CorelDRAW 9's new features Gary also shows how to create and explore simple variations in a logo.
Brush strokes, more brush strokes, and glowing text variations enhance these logo designs.
Swirls, extrusions, embossing, and other fun effects for logos are employed in this logo design tutorial.
Get tips and examples using contrast of size, type, and other opposites.
Here's how Gary created a logo for EZ Metrics. Shows thhe how-to and the why each step of the way.
Here's how Gary created a logo for Airia. Shows the how-to and the why each step of the way.
How about a logo to celebrate the year 2000? Offers dozens of design possibilities.
Learn tricks for turning a circle into a stunning logo.
Browse a gallery of free graphic images for small businesses at HP.
It's still red, white, and blue but the shape is much stronger now.
This logo redesign looks fresh and retro.
Graphics and color spice up this logo makeover.
Groucho Marx gets a makeover in this logo re-do.
This logo goes from plain, distorted text to a logo that better represents what this nonprofit housing organization does.
Joe Gillespie provides a discussion of ways to improve a logo, describes two lessons designers can learn from looking at familiar, well-known logos, and offers tips on updating an existing logo and starting from scratch.
In this installment, Joe Gillespie looks at the process of creating a logo including the tools used.
What does a logo say? Does it communicate the desired message? That's the focus of this article by Joe Gillespie which includes logo examples and a brief analysis of each one.
See a series of CornerMark logo design concepts for each company in black and white and color.
Read how the folks at 123 Logo go about creating a new logo.
MyLogo outlines some specific styles of standard and abstract logos and who might use each type.
MyLogo looks at why you might want to start putting your logo on your company checks.
View 123Logo.com logo designs individually or in groups. Includes a discussion of the thought behind the logo design.
Identityworks describes the 6 things that make one logo better than all other choices.
What's as overused as the swoosh? Slorp has a gallery of logos that will make your head spin.
No longer updated, Fifty Cups of Coffee has left up this great gallery of logos that use variations on the "swoosh" including the ball and swoosh and the half swoosh. Think you can come up with an original way to swoosh a logo?
Carole Guevin discusses the difficulties of designing an effective logo and the use or elimination of liners, a tag line attached to their logo which (hopefully) summarizes what is unique about that company.
Step-by-step (14 of them in 5 pages), ArtistMike shows how he made the logo for his Web site.
John McWade examines the seriousness of a logo and a logo redesign and why clients may have some qualms about your new designs even when they like your work.
Kristof Saelen details the redesign of the Digital Web Magazine logo, at their site. Shows the steps taken and the typefaces and colors considered.
Learn how to evaluate a logo design house or individual designer with these tips from The Logo Factory.
The Logo Factory addresses the purpose of a logo and what makes a logo effective.
