Create Professional Logos in an Instant! | Adobe Illustrator

Logo design when time is short can be a tall order. Learn to bypass the panic and develop a foolproof method for creating professional logos. We’ll break the method down into three simple building blocks, allowing you to create multiple logo concepts that combine vector elements to high-impact effect. By the end of the course, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to create your very own flexible “logo kits” which meet the brief each and every time.

1. Introduction
0:00 1.1 Welcome
1:27 1.2 Picking a Style for Your Logo Kit

2. Building Block #1: Icons
4:30 2.1 Sketching and Vectorizing Icons
9:39 2.2 Refining Your Vector Icons

3. Building Block #2: Frames
13:55 3.1 Creating Framing Elements

4. Building Block #3: Typography
20:06 4.1 Choosing Great Typefaces
25:07 4.2 Formatting and “Mapping” Typography

5. Conclusion
31:38 5.1 Your Finished Logo Kit

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[thierrykam]

For those who are wondering:
1: To join the path on the owl's eye lines: select the anchor points with direct selection tool (A) then right-click -> Average then right click -> join
2: Create only one side (line + eye) then group then use the copy option in the mirror panel. It's faster and it's easier to maintain symmetry after when moving the object.
3: To make a perfect triangle : Select the star shape and while maintaining ctrl or cmd press the down arrow till you reach a triangle. Maintaining shift at the same time will put the base down flat too.
4: Maintaining shift while creating the circle makes it perfectly round.


Hope it helps.

[princet]

Your accent and voice is so kind. Makes watching video super easy.

[TheseusTitan]

Instead of copying, pasting and then going to the reflect tool you could just go to the reflect tool and copy and paste it all in one step.

[otonaxo]

just created my first logo in 6 hours and i have never used illustrator b4. believe it or not. youre are very good

[Topazurey]

This tutorial saved my life! Not even for the actual logo part (although they are lovely) but simply for learning how to group multiple strokes and then use pathfinder to properly combine them! I am only learning and could not find this anywhere else! Was doing my head in ! Thank you so much for this <3

[andraslippai]

wow! I made it! after i saw this and I practice a day and now I'm a proffesional graphic Thanks!!!

[bekahbuck]

How to make owl beak pointy (Join two arcs)

Learning this for the first time and I feel like this tutorial missed a step. In order to make the (2) arcs meet together in a point *the two arc end points that meet in the middle of the owl need to be joined*.

To Join = Select the end point of the (left eyebrow) path with the direct selection tool (A), hold shift and select the end point of the right arc (you might select the owl head by accident, if that's the case only select the owl head and lock that object (ctrl+2) object>lock>lock selection) then hit (ctrl+J) to join the points or go to object>path>join.

Once joined you can select the anchor bezier handles to adjust the sharpness.

I don't know if this is the exact way to do this, but it worked for me

[MusicGirl]

Thank you for creating this very informative video. I appreciate the time and effort you obviously put into creating this video. Great content!

[FluentScholar]

The best free straight-to-the point, easy to follow video I have watched! THANK YOU!!

[gdelezx]

Thanks a lot, Im from Ukraine and I watched a lot of videos made by our designers but no one did that as good as you do. Even language barrier didn't work now. I understood everything. Just keep goin you're doing it so well

[breakran]

wow!!! Watching this video feels like I am in a classroom. 😍. Thank you for making it simple and easy

[ArjunKocher]

Honestly, this is the first illustrator video that I could follow and create a logo that I’m happy with. Thank you, make more videos on simple designs.

[cristinebautista]

Thank you for this! I haven't practiced my graphic designing skills in a while now. This is a great help for me.

[nazarkabanov]

I buyed some Futur lessons... And... It was horrible. But this video for free. I really enjoy it!

[christophersilvester]

Thank you! One of the best instructors for illustrator

[rgarlinyc]

Great teaching - lucid, fluid and insightful; thanks a lot!

[masterman]

Thanks mate, owl keep those tips in mind.

[gorgeousbutterfly]

Wow, 10 mins in and already learn a lot of information & tips. Thanks!

[CNUVAS]

You made my day... Now I have some idea on how to do logos. Thank you.

[SandraDi]

I love using Illustrator to create custom logos for clients! This is a great tutorial :) well done!