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Badge Logo Design for Beginners in Illustrator

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Overview

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Learn the basics of designing striking badges, crests, and logos that visually represent your team by exploring the playful art of digital illustration
  • Introduction
  • Creating Your Project
  • Concept and Structure
  • Cleaning and Perfecting
  • Tweaks and Mock-Ups
  • Final project
Designing a timeless badge logo allows you to create a compelling visual identity for a team or brand. In his artwork for clients like Blink 182, The Walking Dead or Target, graphic designer and illustrator Clark Orr has mastered the art of badge logo design with bold imagery. In this online course, he teaches you how to capture and build the characteristics of your crew or brand with a striking logo.

Learn skills and techniques to combine custom typography with illustration in a balanced emblem. Learn how to use those elements to build the composition for a strong badge logo, from sketching your layout to perfecting your design with expressive type and color. By the end of this course, you will know how to create a visual identity and a unique wearable logo for any team or group!

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • History of Crew Badges
  • Anatomy of a Badge Logo
  • Mood Board
  • What Crew Are You?
  • Sketching and Layout
  • Composition Taking Shape
  • Building Your Structure
  • Lettering and Typesetting
  • Imagery and Focal Point
  • Color Economy and Harmony
  • Finalizing Your Badge Logo
  • Mocking up Your Logo
  • Badge Logo Design for Beginners in Illustrator

Taught by

Clark Orr

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