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60+ Beautiful Logo Design Tutorials And Resources
When we talk about a famous brand, the first thing that comes to mind is its logo. The logo is the most essential component of any personal brand and also the hardest part to execute. A logo must be appropriate, aesthetically pleasing and a reflection of the company’s credibility. Furthermore, a logotype should be synonymous with the company or product it represents and should penetrate people’s minds as a selling agent.
An amateurish logo design can more likely make your business fail for a number of reasons. A logo is of great importance in creating brand identity, and you should be very careful in selecting one for your business.
Today, we present some outstanding logo design tutorials to give you a head start when it comes time to creating an amazing logo for your own business.
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Logo Design Tutorials
Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough
Follow this step by step documentation of the whole process of the logo design from conception to completion.
How to Design the Firefox Logo in Photoshop
This tutorial goes through how to create the Firefox logo in a scalable Photoshop format.
Design a Print-Ready Beer Label in Adobe Illustrator
This tutorial takes you from setup to production of a really cool beer label, although this could be useful for any bottled concoction of your choosing.
Dache: Logo Design Process
This case study provides full creative brief and progress images from start to final.
Sikbox Logo Design Process
In this tutorial Artist want to share a bit of the ideas and the design process for the logo creation.
Logo Design (video Tutorial)
Corey recreates a video game logo by building a grid background and circular target using the define pattern and polar coordinate distort commands.
Crest Logo Tutorial in Photoshop
This tutorial shows how to create a crest logo in photoshop.
EURO 2008 Logo Design
Step-by-step tutorial on creating the EURO 2008 logo.
Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment
In the following Illustrator tutorial, Tutorial will teach you how to create a Green type treatment. It works great for logos and other design elements.
Logo Design Process Tutorial
In the following Illustrator tutorial, Tutorial will teach you how to create a Green type treatment. It works great for logos and other design elements.
Creating a Crazy Cool Logo
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create the crazy cool logo.
Step-by-step logo
A very comprehensive Step-by-step Logo Tutorial
Making the ATI Logo
In ATI LOGO tutorial Artist will use Photoshop and a mere mouse. Artist will use basic PS techniques and a little bit of layer styling.
Logo Design Process and Walk-Through for Vivid Ways
In this tutorial, UK-based graphic designer Chris Spooner describes the design process and walks through creating the final logo in Adobe Illustrator.
Making the Metallic Transformers Logo
In this really fantastic tutorial, you’re shown how to build a beautiful logo step by step. The process can be applied to any logo you are creating.
Illustrative Logo: Bow the Knee
In this tutorial, the artist explains step by step how he designed this attractive logo. Source files are included, so you can manually de-construct the method he used to create his reference image.
Papercraft Text Effect
Easily create your own logo using the beautiful text effect in this tutorial. Test your logo with different fonts and colors.
Windows Vista Desktop Themes
A simple step-by-step tutorial on making the Windows Vista logo in Photoshop. Learn how to make the mirror and glossy effects and how to use such Photoshop tools as gradient, pen, bevel and emboss, eraser, etc.
Wooden Text Effect in Photoshop
An outstanding tutorial. Though not a logo tutorial per se, the effect and textures can easily be applied to any logo design. Very clear and easy to follow.
Create a Fly Logo Design, Part 2
This tutorial focuses on the process of creating a logo for a Web design client. It covers developing a logo from concept to completion and working with the client throughout the process.
Virtual DJ
In this detailed tutorial, you will learn how to design this beautiful DJ smile. The tutorial is not specific to logos, but the process and tools used here may be very helpful when it comes to actually creating one.
Mac OS X Logo
Learn how to design an awesome Mac OS X logo wallpaper.
Create a Retro Logo
Your logo is much more than a corporate badge. After all, if you’re in the design business, it ought to reflect the “design” as much as the “business.” Here, the artist puts a new twist on a classic ’70s illustration-based Blaxploitation logo.
Euroleague 3D Logo
Draw 3-D Euroleague logo using Photoshop and Corel drawing tools, gradient fills and 3-D effects.
Star Wars Text Effect
In this tutorial, the artist works on the Star Wars text effect, which you could also implement in your logo project.
Umbrella Corporation logo
The Umbrella Corporation is a fictional bio-engineering pharmaceutical company that appears in the Resident Evil series of survival-horror games by Capcom and in the film adaptations. In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, you’ll create Umbrella Corporation logo.
Create an Origami Logo
By creating the origami logo in this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll get a little taste of one of the logo trends predicted for 2009.
Create a Logo Identity
If you’re setting up shop on your own, you’ll need a logo. Follow Alan Wardle’s advice on creating a unique design.
3D Logo Tutorial
In this tutorial, you’ll start making a logo shape, put it in rough 3-D and then finish it in Photoshop. So easy even a beginner can do it.
How to Create the Volkswagen Logo
This tutorial shows you how to draw the legendary Volkswagen emblem, using layer styles, radial gradients and the polygonal lasso selection tool (to do the tracing part).
The Amazing Spiderman
Learn how to easily make the Amazing Spiderman logo for a wallpaper.
Cool Music Logo on a Grunge Background
You will find these techniques to make a logo and background for a cool grunge-style website outstanding.
3D Encide Logo Tutorial (PSD Included)
A great tutorial, showing the entire process of making a logo in Photoshop.
How to Make an Awesome Logo
In this tutorial, the artist documents the entire process of creating a logo, from start to finish. He encourages you to open up Photoshop and follow each step, which would help you learn a lot more than by just reading it.
The Chronicles of Narnia Logo
In this tutorial, the artist shows you how to create the “Chronicles of Narnia” logo, such an outstanding piece of artwork.
Create Rainbow Logos with Warped Grids
Warped Grids are an easy technique, but very versatile, too, and you will be able to use it in all sorts of designs. In this case, the artist uses it for a logo.
3-D Glossy Box Logo
Create a 3-D glossy box logo in this amazing Photoshop tutorial.
Sony Ericsson Logo
In this tutorial, the artist makes Sony Ericsson logo in about 20 minutes. Besides doing this, you will learn how to save time, change layer styles and re-use copies of your original effects and forms. So let’s go.
Versus Inspired Photoshop Logo Tutorial
This Adobe Photoshop tutorial shows you how to create a rounded logo, inspired by the Versus cable network. This tutorial, in which gradients and layer styles are used, is great for all Photoshop users, from beginner to intermediate.
Glowing and sparkling intense light 3d logo
In this tutorial Artist going to teach you how to create a glowing and sparkling intense light 3D glow logo. This tutorial shows different techniques.
In this tutorial Artist will try to show you how he normally make his pics look retro.
Brainstorm9 Logo Process
Comprehensive Briefing the design process of Brainstorm #9 Logo.
Logo Presentation Tutorial
This tutorial will teach you how to present your logotype, simulating a macro photo of the logo printed on paper.
Logo Design Articles and Resources
Logo Design Creation Process from Start to Finish by Expert Graphic Designer, Mark Misenheimer
10 Things to Expect from Your Logo Designer
How Google Got Its Colorful Logo
The Logo Design Process of Top Logo Designers
Logo Design Process for Just Creative Design’s Award-Winning Logo
The World’s Best Logo Designers
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Aquil Akhter is doing his job as a web graphic designer and working in this field since 8 years. He also runs the blog webdesigncore.com, which focuses on free web resources and inspiration especially for designers and developers.
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- 2April 30th, 2009 10:19 pm
Thanks for mentioning my Papercraft Text Effect!
- 3April 30th, 2009 10:20 pm
You are great again! Thanks!
- 4April 30th, 2009 10:21 pm
Great post, I really enjoyed the Vivid Ways proces, beautiful logo. It’s always an inspiration to see how other people think and create. Thanks Smashing Magazin for sharing.
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- 6April 30th, 2009 11:27 pm
The Firefox logo is fantastic!
- 7April 30th, 2009 11:38 pm
Thank you for the many links out to my articles and resources… also check out:
http://logodesignerblog.com/ and http://logooftheday.com – thanks! - 8May 1st, 2009 12:22 am
well the ff logo looks good on the screen but as a logo its just a fail :D
- 9May 1st, 2009 12:34 am
Nice Resource !! I also recommend to Try design your own logo. It’s cheap, visionary and meaningful.
DKumar M.
@instantShift - 10May 1st, 2009 12:51 am
GREATTTTTTTT WORK
AQUIL IS MY FAV WRITER FOREVER - 11May 1st, 2009 12:58 am
Great article! Smashing Mag rules! :)
- 12May 1st, 2009 1:11 am
Thanks very much for mentioning my webmynd logo design process article :^)
Kind regards,
David Pache - 13May 1st, 2009 1:15 am
awesome …
very very inspiring n fresh - 14May 1st, 2009 1:20 am
This is priceless!! Thanks for this awesome post.
- 15May 1st, 2009 2:37 am
Great Timing, Im in the process of designing a logo. Thanks Smashing
- 16May 1st, 2009 3:05 am
AMAZING article.
Fantastic sample and great works.
- 17May 1st, 2009 3:56 am
thax for this wonderful post ..
- 18May 1st, 2009 4:24 am
Thanks, I’m always on the look out for logo ideas!
- 19May 1st, 2009 4:38 am
Cool list! I’m twittering it! :)
Btw, once you’re done with the logo, here are several guidelines on how designers create the logo usage guidelines.
- 20May 1st, 2009 4:44 am
Such timing. I need to redesign a logo this weekend. Thanks for the usual dose of creative inspiration, SM!
- 21May 1st, 2009 5:17 am
What a wonderful post my darling smashings
- 22May 1st, 2009 5:42 am
Some great logos, some ugly logos. But overall very helpful – thanks! :)
- 23May 1st, 2009 5:46 am
Disappointing how many of these fail some of the most basic logo design criteria like legibility, scalability, and one color application.
- 24May 1st, 2009 5:50 am
Fantastic selection here…
- 25May 1st, 2009 6:03 am
Firefox has the best logo ever.
- 26May 1st, 2009 6:29 am
Another superb and inspiring post !
- 27May 1st, 2009 6:40 am
Not sure if it’s mentioned in the tuts, but as a design blog, it should be your responsibility to lean people towards Illustrator rather than Photoshop. I remember being green and designing what I thought was a beautiful logo, only to be told that it needs to be a minimum of 300dpi to even consider printing, much less it being in RGB.
You should preface this article with logo 101, as a lot of these are “make it in Photoshop”.
Just sayin’.
- 28May 1st, 2009 6:58 am
I agree with Greg and Jwo. These are great to be used as inspiration and even learning techniques to things you didn’t know.. but Logos should be done in Illustrator and certainly many of these tutorials aren’t, and many of these so called logos break every rule when it comes to logo design. Many aren’t scalable, & many won’t look as good when you remove the gradients and move to a 1 color application. Nice article for inspiration but seems a bit irresponsible not to bring all that up.
- 29May 1st, 2009 7:00 am
WOAH very comprehensive, I also think more focus should have been towards illustrator.
- 30May 1st, 2009 7:32 am
Amazing… thank’s a Bunch… This is something Really Amazing you guys have done!
Thanks… I Loved it!
- 31May 1st, 2009 7:44 am
It’s pretty but it’s not good design.
- 32May 1st, 2009 8:03 am
Sweeet Set!
- 33May 1st, 2009 8:17 am
Thank you for the great inspiration! I’m working on a new logo for my small business and all of these provide great food for thought.
- 34May 1st, 2009 8:37 am
And here I was hoping to actually read about tips for good ‘logo design’ not ‘logo recreation’.
Perhaps an article on actual logo principles needs to be thrown around the internet before we forget all of the important principles, such as; print reproduction, legibility and scalability, one-colour reproduction, readable type etc. etc. etc.
Just a thought.
- 35May 1st, 2009 9:00 am
I don’t know why but I can’t make logo’s. I think it’s because they are to simplistic.
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- 37May 1st, 2009 9:29 am
My logo tutorial is featured in here and I’ll be the first to tell you, it’s not a great tutorial. I wrote it several years ago and it’s based in photoshop and was meant to just be a tutorial for photoshop owners only and how to hack one together..
What’s interesting is my tutorial seems to show up in most of these lists across different design blogs, and it’s only because it ranks high in google for logo tutorial related keywords.. it pretty much goes to show how the authors of these lists go about building them… But hey, I won’t complain from getting link love ;)
- 38May 1st, 2009 9:53 am
Awesome!
- 39May 1st, 2009 9:55 am
Nice article…
- 40May 1st, 2009 12:24 pm
I have to say that I love the vivid ways logo so much! And the 3D logo tut is also nice.
- 41May 1st, 2009 5:01 pm
This is an amazing logo resource, thanks!
- 42May 1st, 2009 8:53 pm
I just want to thank you for the feature :) I really appreciate it.
I hope also that my tut help in something of course :)
This site is in my favs now. I have to see the other tuts and resources, for sure.
Regards,
Nuno Lopes
(nunosk8.deviantart.com) - 43May 1st, 2009 10:52 pm
Thank you for featuring DryIcons’ Logo Design Process Tutorial.
The introduction text for our tutorial is pasted from the Vectortuuts text, maybe you would like to get this right :)
Regards!
- 44May 1st, 2009 11:23 pm
Typical smashing mag post. A few gems lost in a sea of garbage.
- 45May 2nd, 2009 12:20 am
wow – great list of resources…thanks
- 46May 2nd, 2009 12:46 am
I’m not sure if all of the tutorials should titled “designing ____ logo” as they lean more towards simply crafting the logo rather than going through the whole design process, which in turn can become very misleading, especially coming from a design blog. Though the process-based walkthroughs are pretty insightful.
- 47May 2nd, 2009 12:52 am
One of the awesome posts I ever found on the net. I was looking for some resource to design 3D logos and here I got alot :)
Thanks alot dude! - 48May 2nd, 2009 1:13 am
Very good collection of logo process. Worth a bookmark! Thank you.
- 49May 2nd, 2009 5:53 am
Thanks very much! Nice post :)
- 50May 2nd, 2009 8:11 am
Anyone know if there is a good list of which objects/subjects, convey what concept.
You know, an owl or graduation hat, conveys the concept of study, education, wisdom.Any format web, book, etc.
Robert
- 51May 2nd, 2009 10:04 am
Normally I find the lists at Smashing to be, well, smashing!
This list, however, is pretty horrible.
“How to apply this gradient”
“How to apply this green treatment”
“How to make your piss-poor logo look like a shiny marble”
“How to create swirlies a-la every-trendy-kid of 2007″Nothing here gets to the core of true logo design: concept, black-value, legibility, reproducibility, simplicity, communication… etc..
It’s all effects. Anyone who bases their ‘design’ off of these tutorials is doing a disservice to their client and the industry. Sorry.
- 52May 2nd, 2009 10:30 am
thanks for the post I can keep myself busy with these tutorials
- 53May 2nd, 2009 6:04 pm
Absolutely Amazing Post!
Every example gives something wonderful knowledge of Logo Creativity. In spite of being a specialized in LOGO designer, I did learn (and will continue to learn) from this very useful resource.
Tons of Thanks to ALL of YOU….for inspiring Us.
Murtaza Ali.
- 54May 2nd, 2009 6:46 pm
pretty horrible examples. at best it looks like an article from 2006, written by a ps beginner discovering “effects”.
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- 56May 3rd, 2009 2:20 pm
I have to agree with some of the others– not all these logos would pass the basic tests of a good all-round logo: scalable, readable in b&w, etc. You can take whole classes in logo and identity design, so I know it’s a large topic to cover. But I think a big part of these lists is determining what the logo needs are/were for each case– if it’s purely for web, than creating the logo in Photoshop is perfectly fine. I think that would be a great post topic here in the future.
- 57May 3rd, 2009 4:53 pm
some cool ressources here, thanks for the inspiration.
Axl
- 58May 4th, 2009 12:21 am
awesome, thanks a bunch!
- 59May 4th, 2009 12:21 am
I love you, smashing!
- 60May 4th, 2009 2:24 am
Another amazing post. Thanks Smashing Magazine! Some of the tutorials really helped.
- 61May 4th, 2009 6:47 am
Awesome logos for inspiration! AND with tutorials! Thanks Smashing!
- 62May 6th, 2009 9:49 pm
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you very much…
- 63May 7th, 2009 4:43 am
Excellent post! Thank you so much for this very usefull colection!
- 64May 7th, 2009 7:49 am
Really cool, makes me think a little further outside that box.
- 65May 8th, 2009 10:24 am
Some great resources here in one place. There is a big difference though between designing something and building it, the MyNiteLife example is indeed about design but the Firefox example is all about production and really tells nothing about the design process. Both are useful, but “design” doesn’t encompass both skills.
As a production artist in the commercial print industry for almost 20 years the differences in skill sets have been made abundantly clear, I’ve earned a lot of money taking cool looking designs and reproducing them into digital files that are actually useful in production. At least 90% of the files we receive from designers are pure garbage from a production sense and have to be completely rebuilt. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it) most designers have no clue their files are junk. There is an entire economy of fixing bad art.
- 66May 13th, 2009 5:45 pm
I always love smashing collections. This one is also a very interesting collection on logo designing. As a logo designer it would help me alot regarding color correction and use of emblems.
- 67May 14th, 2009 12:43 am
Great jobs!!!
- 68May 14th, 2009 9:01 am
This is a GREAT piece of blogging. I love it when I find something online that really helps to boost the industry and make us designers better at what we do. Keep up the good work.
- 69May 19th, 2009 12:29 am
amazing!!!
thank you so much for posting…
- 70June 18th, 2009 9:48 pm
I am flattered by your creation. I want to be inspired by you. Will u help with my site?
- 71August 28th, 2009 1:38 am
That was some nice logo design tutorials! What I believe is that logo designing needs something more than just simple graphic design. Make sure it’s unique and appealing. And this is something that no tutorials can teach. Also try to use colors that are not too hard on the eyes.
- 72September 10th, 2009 1:26 am
wow nice and creative logo design
- 73November 2nd, 2009 2:27 am
I like my nite life logo
- 74November 4th, 2009 10:14 am
these are alright.
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