Good Logos are not easy to design at all but they are essential for any successful business. This article is a logo designers toolbox to get you started creating logos. First of all logo design requires knowledge of the business and how to use this information in the logo design process. Logos should be relevant, timeless and aligned with the strategy and the products and or services offered. Once you have the concept in place and a solid idea you need to be able to create the image in tools like Illustrator. This article provides links to a lot of tutorials that will help you pick up the needed skills. Please share with us you ideas, favourite tools, comments and online resources we should add.

Index

• Logo Design Tutorials
• Logo Designs for Inspiration
• How and where to seek professional Help

Logo Design Tutorials

Use Illustrator To Create A Fun 3D Character Logo

In this tutorial we’ll use illustrators 3D tool to create text with depth. We’ll give the letters personality by placing them at angles and choosing a fun font. We’ll add a crazy rabbit character and unify all the colors as we add simple shading. Lastly,

Drawing the Honey Farm Logo

Designing a logo is a common task in Adobe Illustrator. In this final project, we will sum up what we have learnt so far in Illustrator to create your own custom logo. I will show you the process in drawing a logo and hopefully you have more confidence after this tutorial.

Create a black and white logo

Freelance design studio Thinkdust shows you how to create a one-colour logotype that has a contemporary yet classic look

Step By Step Design: The Thomas & Gray Logo

Design a Print-Ready Beer Label in Adobe Illustrator

This tutorial takes you from setup to production of a really cool beer label, although this could be useful for any bottled concoction of your choosing.

Making a Logo

Logo Design Project Step by Step

In this tutorial, UK-based graphic and web designer Chris Spooner walks learners through the process of creating a logo design for a company called myNiteLife. He discusses his process of sketching, typeface selection, all the way to digital illustration and production in Adobe Illustrator.

Obama Logo Tutorial

No matter what you think of his politics, U.S. presidential cantidate Barack Obama has a pretty incredible marketing and design machine behind him. One strong example of this is his “O” logo. Simple, attractive, symbolic, it’s undeniably an effective logo.

Photoshop Logo Jelly Remake

Creating a crazy cool logo

This logo design tutorial by Brazilian graphic/web designer and blogger, Fabio Sasso, shows us how he designed the logo for a company called Zagora. The technique involves creative use of the Ellipse tool, the Direct Selection tool to merge and delete anchor points, and using effects and the Gradient tool to add the finishing touches.

Design Bump Logo Design Process

Designing a Cake Shop Logo

Modern Day Green Logo Tutorial.

Logo Design Process

This case study provides full creative brief and progress images from start to final.

Design a Grungy Circular Logo

In this logo design tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a circular logo with the company name wrapped around the outer perimeter (a popular logo design style).

Zee Logo in Illustrator

When companies redesign their logos, that means, most of the time, that they are changing something in their business, it can be a new strategy, new products, etc… But it’s pretty much sure that something is new behind the logo. In our case it’s not different, we’ve changed our business model and decided to create a new logo.

ProBlogger Logo Design

Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways

Designing a Cake Shop Logo

Google Chrome Logo Design

A detailed tutorial on how to create this awesome logo.

Sikbox Logo Design Process

In this tutorial Artist want to share a bit of the ideas and the design process for the logo creation.

Create a Fly Logo Design Part 1 and Part 2

Glossy Vector Web 2.0 Logo Text in 5 Easy Steps

In this tutorial, you’ll discover a very simple technique for creating a vector-based, glossy logo style popularized by Web 2.0 startups.

Web 2.0 Logo Reflection in Vector format with Illustrator

Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment

This text treatment Illustrator tutorial shares a technique for achieving a nature-inspired logotype design. You’ll observe a variety of techniques employed in the tutorial, including using the Pen tool to illustrate the leaves to be used in the text treatment.

Roundtrip Logo from Illustrator to Photoshop

You’ll see the process of utilizing both Illustrator and Photoshop to create a grungy logo design in this video tutorial by Dave Cross (well-known Photoshop expert and author).

The Logo Design Process for Ultimate Potential

I will guide you through the process of creating the logo for one of my recent clients, Ultimate Potential. This article offers insights into, not only the thought process behind creating the logo, but also the creation of the logo itself.

Big Bocca – Illustrative Logo

Creating a logo for a company that thrives on creativity seems like it would be a no-brainer project. Well that isn’t always the case. This illustrative logo for an italian animation studio will show you a very quick turnaround and the design politics we sometimes have to deal with in our artistic pursuit to create the best work we can.

Silhouette Logo for a Steak House Restaurant in Adobe Illustrator

This tutorial goes through the methods behind producing a logo for a steak house restaurant. It discusses some common mistakes when designing a logo, and then goes through the preliminary sketching process, setting up your Illustrator document with a stock photo reference, all the way through the completion of the logo.

Drawing a Good Logo

UX Developer Nathan Smith discusses his method for creating an iconic logo design.

The process of redesigning a logo

Kristof Saelen discusses an effective course of action for updating an existing logo.

Jelly Remake

This is a great tutorial that shows how to create a candy-like logo and covers some good basic techniques you can use in Photoshop.

Skull logo Tutorial

Learn about the pen tool, pathfinders, and transforming objects while making a fairly basic but cool looking skull tattoo Logo.’

Cloud Logo

Creating clouds in Photoshop seems to be quite popular these days, so in this tutorial I am going to be teaching you how to create a cloud logo for your site.

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