Design a Logo

Ensure the logos you create reflect both an understanding of design and the polish of a trained eye. Designers can make logos more valuable to clients by learning to focus on what counts and expressing that in their work. Get ready to pick up the must-have skills needed to make great logos.

• Identify the components of a successful logo.
• Learn how to make a strategic logo.
• Enliven logos with effects, 3D, and animation.

• Course 1: Logo Design: Illustrating Logo Marks
• Take your logo designs to the next level. Learn techniques for creating vector-based logos that display beautifully in any format.
• Course 2: Aaron Draplin Takes On a Logo Design Challenge
• Aaron Draplin, owner of Draplin Design Co., takes our logo design challenge. Watch as he sketches, tests, and tunes his ideas, and provides tips on freelancing and finding inspiration.
• Course 3: Graphic Design: Logo Design Tips and Tricks
• Learn how to design a simple, elegant logo—even if you've never designed one before—with these tips and tricks from Before & After creator John McWade.
• Course 4: Logo Design: Techniques
• Learn how to design a logo. Learn the principles of logo design by deconstructing popular logos and then constructing your own in Adobe Illustrator.
• Course 5: Logo Trend Report 2016-2017
• Learn the secrets of detecting logo design trends with this exploration of over 200 logos, helping you create fresh, original, and relevant logo designs.
• Course 6: Creating and Adapting a Logo
• Learn how to create an eye-catching logo and adapt it to fit a variety of device-independent applications, from business cards to banner ads, using Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Course 7: Logo Design: Visual Effects
• Learn about six different visual effects, from transparency to optical illusion, that you can use in your logo concepts to communicate the right message.
• Course 8: After Effects Guru: Animating Logos
• Combine the powers of Photoshop, After Effects, and Illustrator to make polished logo animations for yourself and your clients.
• Course 9: Cinema 4D and After Effects: Logo Animation and Compositing
• Bring your logos to life with this quick start guide for animating and compositing a logo design in CINEMA 4D and After Effects.