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Designing a Logo for a Band

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Overview

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A great band deserves a great logo. Learn how to take a client brief and turn rough ideas into a polished logo design.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
1. The Design Brief
  • Kicking off the project with the client's brief
  • Defining the logo-design process
2. Exploring Ideas
  • Establishing a workflow
  • Exploring type casing and weight
  • Exploring letterspacing and alignment
  • Evaluating typefaces
  • Combining the words
  • Adding an enclosing shape
  • Adding lines
  • Combining type and symbols
3. Presenting Ideas
  • Forming logo idea 1: Mysterious Figure
  • Forming logo idea 2: Lost Highway
  • Adding perspective and texture to logo idea 2
  • Forming logo idea 3: NxNW
  • Presenting the logo ideas
4. Finessing Ideas
  • Choosing colors for the logo
  • Evolving the logo idea
  • Fine-tuning the logo design
  • Preparing variations of the logo design
  • Formatting the logo for different uses
  • Saving separate versions of the logo
  • Creating a web-optimized logo
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Nigel French

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