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6 Steps to Professional Logo Design - Are you a graphic designer and need to brush up on your logo design skills? This article defines several basic tips that you will need to keep in mind when designing and branding a logo. Logo Design tips such as keeping it simple and not using too many colors are some of the design principles that will be covered within this article
Choosing the Right Color Palette in Your Logo Designs - When choosing a logo design for your business, you should use your own favorite colors. Using the correct color combinations for your business identity and logo are an integral part of your business' success. This article will guide you through the methodology of approaching successful color palette and color combination choices for your logo and business identity. This article is meant for business owners looking to have their business identity designed but this is also good for graphic designers who want to write up a list of questions they should ask their clients when designing a logo for them.
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Coloring Your Logos - Choosing the Right Color Combinations for Your Logo Designs - Are you designing a logo soon? Choice of colors could make or break your logo. Are the colors that you chose for your logo the right one? Which colors determing which mood. Take a look at this logo article and find out what colors are the best for the design and mood of your site.
Corporate Branding and Professional Logo Design - There are a few different types of corporate branding and logo design and this article details what these are. Basically there are 4 types of logos, glyph, alpha-glyph, alphanumeric or a combination of any of these types of logos. Read this corporate branding article to find out more.
How Do You Define a Good Logo Design? - How do you know whether a logo design is good or not? There are several pointers that you should follow to know whether a logo design is good and this article will guide you through this process. This article can be for you if you are looking to hire a designer to design your logo or also if you are a graphic designer looking to hone your logo design skills.
Logo Design and Branding Points to Remember in Logo Design - Are you a graphic designer and need to brush up on your logo design skills? This article defines the point that you need to remember when designing and branding a logo. Simplicity is the main point you need to remember in logo design, keep it simple and you will turn out with a great logo design.
Logo Design Mania - Logo Design Tips and Pointers - This article details how important your logo is to your company. This article doesn't tell you how to design a logo, it just discusses what a logo should convey to its viewers.
Logo Designs on The Go - Logo Design Tips and Ideas - If you are in the business of graphic design then I am sure that logo design is one of the services that you offer. Do you know what a logo should convey and the rules of design that you should follow when designing a logo? This article will give you some basic logo design tips that you should follow.
Logo Design Files - Color Variations of Logo Save as RGB CMYK Pantone EPS PDF Vector Tiff Jpeg Gif - As a graphic designer, I am sure that you need to design logos on occasion. You should provide different versions of the finished designed logo in order to give different file formats to the customer. You should also give the customer different color variations of the logo along with different file types for each color variation.
Strategy and Tactics for Successful Logo Design - A good Logo Design can impact a company for years and years and represents the company it is designed for...so as you can imagine Logo Design is very important. While you, the graphic designer, designs a logo, you will need to remember what your customer has conveyed to you about his or her company. This article will guide you through the process of planning out the logo design and then implementing these logo design strategies with these following tips.
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A Roundup of the Best Photoshop Logo Design Tutorials Online - I have collected the top Photoshop Logo Design tutorials online and listed them for you below. There are also plenty of Web 2.0 Logo Design tutorials as well.
Logo Design Creation Process from Start to Finish by Expert Graphic Designer : Mark Misenheimer - This article was written by the very talented, Mark Misenheimer of Misenheimer Creative, Inc. Mark is an expert freelance graphic designer who has been in the design business for years. He has documented the design of a logo from start to finish in order to help other graphic designers. I know that you will learn something from this tremendous logo design article.
Logo Design Creation Process from Start to Finish by Expert Graphic Designer : Angela Ferraro-Fanning - We are very excited to have Angela Ferraro-Fanning guest write for us this week. Many of you will find that she is a graphic designer that is very talented and experienced. She wrote this article to guide you through her own creative logo design process, from start to finish.
Logo Design Creation Process from Start to Finish by Expert Graphic Designer : Jose Soto - Within this article, I am going to detail the “six steps” that I took to design the logo for the “Seventh Congress of Zoos and Aquariums”.
How to Design a Logo for Your Customer - A Logo Design Tutorial for Freelance Designers - A step by step logo design tutorial.
Logo Design Inspiration - Cool Logos Part I - I saw some really beautiful logos today so I thought that I would share some with you and then make a series out the idea. This is part I of a multiple part series of the coolest logo designs.
Logo Design Inspiration - Cool Logos Part II - This is part II of a multiple part series of the coolest logo designs. You can use this list as a source of logo inspiration or just look at it because it is fun to do.
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