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Hey there, my name is rhyme and my profile picture is boring and outdated.
Let's change that!
Designing a Logo is not hard. Just open paint and write your name. You can say that is your Logo, but it won't make a great Logo, designing a good Logo including a fitting Icon can be rather difficult.
Take this as Guideline how the Process of Designing a Logo works best.
The first step when Designing a Logo is gathering Information about what you need to convey.
in my case, I am client and Designer at the same time, so I ask myself: "What do I imagine as a fitting Logo".
Client-Me had these Requirements in Mind:
- simple
- catchy
- should show an R.
- preferably only black and white ( pick colors that fit before you design the Logo, Here is a guide on Color Usage: Color guide )
Once you got some simple guidelines, search for a few similar Logos, I found these three:
Now, let's go with the fun part,
Step 2: make a few sketches of what your Logo could be. I prefer doing this on paper:
View attachment 55
Don't take too much time for your ideas, just write them on the paper. It really doesn't have to look good.
Tip: Try to think in Shapes, it makes designing much easier.
Step 3: Open your Design program, I will be using Inkscape because it is a little simpler than Illustrator ( and it's free! ).
Get your favorite Sketch in Digital Form:
Tip: Whenever you like how it looks duplicate it and go on with one of them so you can come back to that step and compare them easily.
for example:
Once you are Where you wanted, look what you like and what you don't.
In my Case I don't like the Double stroke in the middle:
So I have to come up with a solution on how to fix this.
Starting again:
This is what I came up with.
But I don't like the Proportion and it looks like an "h", so once again:
I am pretty satisfied with this one, so I try multiple variations of it:
Now
Now i simpy choose my favourite and im done:
Let's change that!
Designing a Logo is not hard. Just open paint and write your name. You can say that is your Logo, but it won't make a great Logo, designing a good Logo including a fitting Icon can be rather difficult.
Take this as Guideline how the Process of Designing a Logo works best.
The first step when Designing a Logo is gathering Information about what you need to convey.
in my case, I am client and Designer at the same time, so I ask myself: "What do I imagine as a fitting Logo".
Client-Me had these Requirements in Mind:
- simple
- catchy
- should show an R.
- preferably only black and white ( pick colors that fit before you design the Logo, Here is a guide on Color Usage: Color guide )
Once you got some simple guidelines, search for a few similar Logos, I found these three:
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Now, let's go with the fun part,
Step 2: make a few sketches of what your Logo could be. I prefer doing this on paper:
View attachment 55
Don't take too much time for your ideas, just write them on the paper. It really doesn't have to look good.
Tip: Try to think in Shapes, it makes designing much easier.
Step 3: Open your Design program, I will be using Inkscape because it is a little simpler than Illustrator ( and it's free! ).
Get your favorite Sketch in Digital Form:
Tip: Whenever you like how it looks duplicate it and go on with one of them so you can come back to that step and compare them easily.
for example:
Once you are Where you wanted, look what you like and what you don't.
In my Case I don't like the Double stroke in the middle:
So I have to come up with a solution on how to fix this.
Starting again:
This is what I came up with.
But I don't like the Proportion and it looks like an "h", so once again:
I am pretty satisfied with this one, so I try multiple variations of it:
Now
Now i simpy choose my favourite and im done: