Typographic Logos: Typography and Lettering for Logo Design

Master the art of creating custom type-based logos from inspiration to implementation with this comprehensive course. Enhance your design skills today.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about creating your own killer type-based logos! From brainstorming ideas to bringing them to life, you'll learn how to nail each step in the process. Plus, there are tons of cool tools and techniques to explore. Let’s get designing!

Key Points

  • Find and apply inspiration for logos
  • Digital and Analog tools for logo creation
  • Traditional and Untraditional tools usage
  • Special techniques for design refinement
  • Structure letterforms and composition
  • Sketch design thumbnails
  • Create clean vector designs
  • Implement color theory and 3D effects
  • Add texture using Photoshop and Illustrator

Learning Outcomes

  • Develop skills to brainstorm and sketch logo ideas
  • Master various digital and analog design tools
  • Create refined type-based logos ready for use
  • Understand color theory and apply 3D effects
  • Use textures to enhance designs in Photoshop and Illustrator

About This Course

Learn the beginning to end process for creating your own custom type-based logo.

Learning and improving upon your type-based logo designs is one of the most important investments you can make in your design career. In this course we'll go over the entire process of creating a type-based logo, from idea to implementation. Let's get started!

In this course we'll cover:

  • How to find and apply inspiration

  • Learn the Digital and Analog Tools you'll need to create your logos

  • Use both Traditional and Untraditional tools to create your logo

  • Special techniques to refine your design

  • How to structure letterforms and overall composition

  • Sketch design thumbnails

  • Create a clean vector design

  • Implement color theory, shading, and add a 3D effect

  • How to add texture in Photoshop and Illustrator

Then it's up to you to take these methods and create something incredible!

As a bonus, you will also receive:

  • 26 Bitmap Textures to use in Illustrator

  • 26 Photoshop Brushes to add texture to your own designs

  • A collection of vector halftone gradients

  • The finished "Typographic Logos" design in vector format

  • You will be able to come up with an idea, create thumbnail sketches, and refine your design into a finished type-based logo.

  • You will be able to download the working files that were created in the video so you can see them up close.

Instructor

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Ray Dombroski

Ray's extensive background in the surf apparel industry started in 2002. Since then he has designed for many of the top surf apparel brands in California and Hawaii, such as O'Neill, Billabong, Ocean Pacific, BodyGlove, and Local Motion. He is the founder of TheVectorLab, a website that offers graphic design resources, tools, and tutorials. As a graduate of the Art...

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4.9 course rating
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ui-avatar of Alana Krakowski
Alana K.
4.0
9 months ago

thanks some great tips for a new designer!

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ui-avatar of ENGUILBERTO ITZA UCK
Enguilberto I. U.
5.0
11 months ago

Excellent

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Chetan P.
3.5
1 year ago

good

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ui-avatar of Arturo B Macias
Arturo B. M.
5.0
1 year ago

I cant wait to learn more about all the work that goes into the texture, color, art and display of everything.

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ui-avatar of Rajesh Manoharan
Rajesh M.
5.0
1 year ago

Good

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ui-avatar of Shalini Negi
Shalini N.
5.0
1 year ago

good

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ui-avatar of Deborah Glover
Deborah G.
5.0
1 year ago

Many thanks. I loved some of your ideas and felt you taught the course well.

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ui-avatar of Kaitlin Annett
Kaitlin A.
4.5
1 year ago

A really great that gave me a lot of great tools and foundation to begin working on my portfolio again!

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ui-avatar of Robert P.
Robert P.
5.0
1 year ago

I learned a lot and I really enjoyed it! Now I know how to create a professional typography logo, thanks Ray!

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ui-avatar of Yogesh Jadhav
Yogesh J.
3.0
1 year ago

nice

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