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Typographic Logos: Typography and Lettering for Logo Design

1.5 hours on-demand video

$ 17.99

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Brief Introduction

Learn the beginning to end process for creating your own custom type-based logo.

Description

Learning and improving upon your type-based logo designs is one of the most important investments you can make in your design career. In this course we'll go over the entire process of creating a type-based logo, from idea to implementation. Let's get started!

In this course we'll cover:

How to find and apply inspiration
Learn the Digital and Analog Tools you'll need to create your logos
Use both Traditional and Untraditional tools to create your logo
Special techniques to refine your design
How to structure letterforms and overall composition
Sketch design thumbnails
Create a clean vector design
Implement color theory, shading, and add a 3D effect
How to add texture in Photoshop and Illustrator

Then it's up to you to take these methods and create something incredible!

As a bonus, you will also receive:

26 Bitmap Textures to use in Illustrator
26 Photoshop Brushes to add texture to your own designs
A collection of vector halftone gradients
The finished "Typographic Logos" design in vector format

Requirements

Requirements
Even though beginners are welcome to this course, you should already have some familiarity with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to get the most out of Lectures 13 through 19 of this course. These sections are Mac software focused at an intermediate level. If you understand layers, various tools, and how to draw objects in Photoshop and Illustrator, then this should be enough for you to follow the computer sections of this class.