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Creating Professional Logos in an Instant

Grace FussellLessons: 8Length: 35 minutes
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2.1 Sketching and Vectorizing Icons

Let’s start with a sketching exercise, to draft rough ideas which will form the basis of our logo icons. Once we’ve chosen a theme, we can start to vectorize some of our stronger ideas in Adobe Illustrator.

1.Introduction
2 lessons, 04:29

1.1
Welcome
01:27

1.2
Picking a Style for Your Logo Kit
03:02

2.Building Block #1: Icons
2 lessons, 09:23

2.1
Sketching and Vectorizing Icons
05:08

2.2
Refining Your Vector Icons
04:15

3.Building Block #2: Frames
1 lesson, 06:11

3.1
Creating Framing Elements
06:11

4.Building Block #3: Typography
2 lessons, 11:32

4.1
Choosing Great Typefaces
05:01

4.2
Formatting and “Mapping” Typography
06:31

5.Conclusion
1 lesson, 03:10

5.1
Your Finished Logo Kit
03:10

Grace Fussell
Grace Fussell
Grace is a graphic designer and design writer, and heads up creative agency Blue Whippet Studio, based in Manchester, UK. A self-confessed 'print geek', Grace loves to share her experiences of graphic design with others and has written about creative trends and design history for a wide range of publications and blogs, including Adobe, Shutterstock, Envato and InDesign Magazine. Grace studied social anthropology and the anthropology of design at Cambridge University and UCL, before working in marketing and graphic design roles in agencies and in-house. Today she balances running Blue Whippet alongside top-ranking design blog InDesignSkills.com. Visit bluewhippetstudio.com and indesignskills.com.
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