40 Logo Design Tutorials
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Logo design is a sophisticated and complex process. The hardest thing to do is to come up with the concept behind the logo. Once you know what kind of logo you want, you sketch and design it. Logo design is one of those thing that has to be perfected, because a logo represents an idea, a brand and an identity. In recent contest I asked Desizn Tech’s reader what kind of post they would like to see, some readers asked about logo design tutorial. In this post, you will find 40 different kind logo tutorial from beginners to advanced level. Beside logo design, some of the links includes broad analysis behind the logo design process which should be helpful for graphic designers and web designers.
1. Quick Logos with Live Trace in Adobe Illustrator
Layers magazine shows how to create a logo quickly using Illustrators live trace technique.
2. Jelly Remake
A very unique tutorial that shows how to create a candy-like logo.
3. Bubble Tutorial using Photoshop
If you are looking a simple logo tutorial, this tutorial shows how to create a simple logo using Photoshop.
4. A Brief Logo Tutorial
An HTML page tutorial shows how to add a refection after creating the logo in Vector.
5. Futuristic Web Logo Design Tutorial Using Photoshop
PSD Rockstar shows how to create an awesome logo using layer styles properties in Photoshop.
6. 3D gradient logo in Illustrator
Nick La shows how to create create a 3d Logo in Illustrator, which is a great technique for making 3D graphic objects and icons.
7. Rectangular Glassy Logo
Create a glassy dark looking logo step by step in photoshop .
8. Making the ATI LOGO
This tutorial shows the recreation process of ATI logo in photoshop.
9. 3d Logo in Gimp
This PDF tutorials shows that you can create a 3d logo even using GIMP.
10. Skype-like logo in Pixelmator
Skype has a very cool looking logo. If you wanted create something like that this tutorial shows how create a similar logo like that.
11. Professional 3D Logo From Scratch
Very detailed tutorial on how to create a professional looking 3D logo in illustrator.
12. Awesome Logo Using Anime Charater
This tutorial comes from a Professional Logo designer Gary Simon. He shows a detailed necessary process on creating a logo.
13. Create a 3D Logo in Corel Draw
Corel Draw is another well Known Image Editor. This tutorial shows how create a 3D logo in Corel Draw
14. Logo Presentation tutorial
You have logo that you want to perhaps print it on paper. This tutorial will teach you how to do that.
15. Volks Logo in Gimp
Create the Famous Volkswagen using Gimp.
16. Design the Firefox Logo in Photoshop
A detailed tutorial that shows how you can create the Firefox logo in a scalable photoshop format.
17. Professional Logo
Who said you can not design a logo like professional. Using photoshop pen tool you too can create a professional looking logo
18. Logo Design Process Tutorial
Dryicons has some of the best icons on the web. Now, on these tutorial they present a logo tutorial: from sketching logo in paper to designing it in illustrator and printing in it paper again.
19. Digg Logo in Illustrator
If you thought creating a digg logo/icon was hard, get ready to be surprised. This tutorial shows how create digg logo in easy steps everyone can follow.
20. Step by Step Logo
Chuck Green presenting a detailed analysis and step by step logo creation process .
20. Simple Vector Logo Tutorial
Another tutorial that takes simple approach on creating a vector logo.
21. Coffee Shop logo in Corel Draw
Create a very unique looking coffee shop logo in Corel Draw .
22. Transformer Logo Tutorial
Using trace counter method create transformer logo in Illustrator.
23. Dark Logo in Photoshop
How about some dark logos? This tutorial shows how to create a dark logo, which you can your for those a gaming or dark layout websites.
24. Creating the Brand Identity for a Sports Team
This tutorial which comes in a PDF shows how to create a logo and turn it into a brand.
25. Medieval Crest Logo
Are you creating a historic website?Need a Medieval logo? This tutorial shows how to create a crest logo in photoshop.
26. Skull logo Tutorial
Create skull type logo using pen tool in Illustrator.
27. Cloud Logo
PSDCORE presents a very cool photoshop tutorial, that shows how to create could logo for you site.
28. Glowing Sparking Logo
Marco Kuiper’s logo tutorial will blow your mind. Following this tutorial you can create 3D sparking tutorial.
29. Modern Day Green Logo Tutorial.
Creating a site green movement organization and you need a green logo? psFreak tutorial can help on creating a green logo
30. How to Design a Logo.
This more like a guide line then tutorial. Jacob Cass from Just Creative Design explains how to design a logo in a must read detailed post.
31. Simple Multimedia Business Logo.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a glossy and professional logo for a multimedia business website.
32. Leaf Logo
Using photoshop preset shapes you can create an amazing leaf logo with a Web 2.0 style.
33. Making a Logo
A very detailed and well analyzed and detailed article from Mihai Panu-Ionascu about logos and how create a logo.
34. Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways
How to come up with the logo design? Whats is idea behind it? Chris Spooner writes about a detailed post about the process of creating a logo.
35. Retro Logo
36.Designing a Cake Shop Logo
Need a logo for cake shop? This tutorial very nicely show how create a artistic cake shop logo .
37. Create a Planet Logo
This tutorial shows how create a clean and simple logo in photoshop.
38. Fitness Logo
Yet another tutorial that shows how to create a fitness logo using different techniques in photoshop.
39. Simple Vector Logo Design
PSHERO shows how to create custom (vector) logos in photoshop.
40.Creating a Crazy Cool Logo
In this tutorial Fabio Sasso from Abduzeedo teachs you how to create a logo using shapes in Adobe Illustrator. A very cool concept.
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Very nice collection of logos, but unfortunately, the one in which I am interested is not real “tutorial” -> 34. Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways.
Logo Design is where it all starts at, and while people often struggle with this, we can be really grateful for the internet being the huge resource that it is, and bringing us tutorials like these to illuminate the way to go about effective logo design.
A Great collection of logos, really impressing
Super impressive tuts. maybe the best I have ever seen.
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Wow, this is a great collection of tutorials. And i am plaesed to see, that this is not only a photoshop thin.
Thanks for collecting and sharing!
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awesome collection and thanks for sharing but links are not wokring pls fix them.
Sana
Which link are you referringto ? just checked all links are seem to working
A fabulously wonderful collection of tutorials for anyone wanting to design a logo from beginner to advanced. Lovely!
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nice list! thanks a lot
very nice….and lot of thanks to shareable mind u have
congrats!!!
I started to suck a little less anyway. ,
Very good tutorials, great post. Thanks for posting.
Nice tuts. I like the glowing sparking logo, good work.
Nice collection of logos
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amazing post, congratulation!
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good very useful collection in your site i impress your site.
thx for the tutorials
. I have a tutorial 3d logo design – Logo Design behind the Scenes. I use Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Maya, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe after Effects, Adobe Flash and Adobe Dreamweaver. so the final logo ready for printing, TV production and Web Publishing.
http://www.petermikhael.com/tutorials_3d_logo_design.html
Learning from tutorials is a great way to keep up on techniques, and trends in the industry. You will want to make sure that you check the date of the created tutorial, to make sure that its as hip and fresh as you expect it to be.
Thanks for the great info….
Very useful collection of tutorials. Thanks for posting these.
@Ashely Adams: Thanks. hope it was helpful
A marvelous list. I found quite a few ideas that I may use. Lists such as this show you that when it comes to great digital designs, you are limited only by your creativity. Thanks for the compilation.
@sidhart: Thanks for sharing the link
cool its lovely but many are missing… please check out!
Check them out they are amazing too
Great tutorials. It’s so interesting to see the whole process unfold. It really gives you a great creative insight when you see a design from start to finish. Thanks.
@Kawsar Ali: you’re welcome, I’m glad I could help! By the way, if anyone would like to have some “examples” of work with shiny spheres, you may want to check out those templates:
http://www.logobee.com/press51.htm
@Chaotix: Thanks for sharing the link
Cool tutorials! If you want to, you can also check out this website:
http://www.logobee.com/logo-design-tutorial/tutorial.htm
It shows how to obtain a couple of interesting effects with Illustrator.
@qalih: Thanks
Outstanding compliation!
very helpful tuts.. thanks for the list
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