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
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How Google Got Its Colorful Logo
The Logo Design Process of Top Logo Designers
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dau phong
December 17th, 2010 10:20 pmomg….it’s wonderful
Poeps
January 25th, 2011 7:57 pmthanks for the great tutorial
Surya
February 18th, 2011 8:22 amThanx for this good idea! u done a great job!!
its better to post Game logos, Computer logo
Theraisa K
February 23rd, 2011 2:45 pmSome of these are really useful tutorials. I enjoyed the green type treatment tutorial.
Tushar Garg
April 1st, 2011 10:51 pmThanks this a very helpful collection.
Aftab
April 6th, 2011 3:14 pmGreat, it’s wonderful ..
struckbychArm
April 7th, 2011 10:30 pmi absolutley love ur website…the look and feel that ur website gives is awesome and ur content is also very good and creative..good work team.Keep it up!
alger
May 10th, 2011 6:48 pmvery artistic dsign you came up with idea’s nice how come this was not your list?
bit.ly/reflectwords
Adnan Niaz
May 12th, 2011 4:05 pmNice Tuts, i am realy impressd
Megan Oliveri
May 17th, 2011 10:12 amIncredible compilation of articles and tutorials. Very, very helpful!
Glenn Reiser
May 27th, 2011 7:09 amThis is a great resource. Thank you so much. Here’s another site that may be of some interest to the readers of this post. graphicd-signs.com. Some really neat retro logos and designs.
tonny brand
May 30th, 2011 11:24 pmI like on this list and will be contacting some of them for some similar designs for my customers
Hisham
June 21st, 2011 1:06 amI need to Prepared me logo in 3D logo draw
oluwatosin john
July 9th, 2011 8:43 ami need a logo for my self please help me to create a logo…
Alice
July 12th, 2011 5:32 amdosen;t work the tutorials…. :(
Nithin Varghese
August 6th, 2011 5:43 pmThanks,it’s great!
sarah
August 26th, 2011 12:39 pmi just like it !!!!
fatima
September 20th, 2011 9:22 pmI really like it ….
but i need a help, Am a graphic designer, and am working in a security company, and they ask me for a logos designs, but unfortunately they see my logo design not strong enough…. so what can you advise me to work with , i mean kind of books, websites that show tutorials ….
I’ll be more than grateful
Jess
October 21st, 2011 1:43 pmThanks heaps! Really helpful, love the third one down :)
harjeet
October 23rd, 2011 9:48 amGood design but that one “Clone wars” is so cool and awsome.Thank you so much.
I need a golden logo to design this word: topratinggames.
TechnoFreak181
November 9th, 2011 8:40 pmThis site earned 1st place in my favourites list
miss
November 21st, 2011 10:37 amThankyou for sharing.
Lucretia Nickell
February 7th, 2012 12:31 amAwesome logos! I am a newbie to design, and will some day with good luck will be this good! Thanks for the inspiration!!
a
August 31st, 2012 1:01 pmthnks…:) awsme logos…
Shahnawaz Sayyad
February 10th, 2013 10:19 amAwesome resource and a very nice effort. Thanks a ton for sharing
kanchon
March 19th, 2013 12:34 pmnice logo and excellent logo
Mash Bonigala
May 6th, 2013 5:35 pmGreat list of inspiring logo design tutorials. Here is another one: http://goo.gl/n6cvi.
This one is geared more towards to the thought process and workflow side of things rather than the actual vector path and shape mode of lecture.