today I have five logo design
must-haves for graphic designers how
many of them do you have
what is up people Tom from tutorial graphics back
again with a graphic design tips video
I'm a graphic designer with over seven
years of actual work experience under my
belt you can check out some of my work
over my portfolio say in the kind of a
majority of my projects have been based
around logo design and brand design in
general and today i want to share with
you five resources or tools that i think
will really help you in local designing
the first local design tool may seem
obvious to some but I realized that
there are people who have lost our
connection with pen and paper creating a
solid relevant and professional leaguer
design requires time and dedication to
the design process one of the key
aspects of this process is to sketch out
your ideas brainstorm and develop these
ideas over and over into have a strong
design direction your sketches do not
have to be pretty or masterpieces the
panel allows you to take your creative
ideas from your thoughts to a physical
form quickly just because it is more
primitive and basic tool does not mean
it loses its relevancy you do not see
chefs using laser beams to cut meat in
the kitchen they still use knives of
course
you need to be inspired in some way and
sometimes we have blocked and bogged
down with the creative block which I
myself had one very recently actually in
it sucked
you can draw inspiration from various
different places when thinking about
logo design i really like looking
through the local lounge books you can
find them on ebay amazon and they're not
super cheap but they do have a huge
selection of local designs spawning
different styles i would also like to
point out that there is a fine line
between being inspired by a design and
totally ripping it off a wacom tablet is
something I've only been using for the
past 12 years and I wonder how I managed
to live without it before
okay that would be exaggerated but it
really does help with local design and
graphic design in general i find it
fills the gap between using a pen and
paper and using the pen tool in adobe
illustrator you can still use your
artistic wrist action and sketch out
logo concepts but you're also making
effective part in Illustrator it saves a
lot of time and it really does help
local design in my opinion in the last
point I mentioned adobe illustrator well
again this might be obvious to a lot of
you play still hear about people
designing logos in adobe photoshop
granted there are other vector programs
out there aside from adobe illustrator
adobe illustrator is the most common my
point here is that you must be designing
logos as a better format i'm not going
to go into much about why that's
important now but I've made a video on
that before
in short a vector file allows the design
to be scaled up or down to any size and
still retain quality it does this
because about the path relies on points
rather than pixels
lastly i want to suggest something that
you're not going to expect for a local
design must-have list
aside from the obvious is having a
decent computer to design the logo on I
suggest that you get yourself a decent
pair of headphones i personally prefer
old-school-style headphones because the
base feels more alive and the comfort
factor is on point when we design
something such as a logo design we get
into a kind of creative flow to
paraphrase or quote that I heard when
designing something better to design in
18 hour session rather than 24 hour
sessions why well because you getting to
a creative mindset and creative flow
when you design something if we break
that creative flow it can prevent you
from designing something to the fullest
to help with this is a great idea to
zone out from the world around you and
what better way to do that than to put
on your favorite music for your dope
beats i have a pair of sony MDR
headphones and I've always liked the
quality of sony personally when you buy
electrical equipment you really do want
to give us something that's high quality
you do get what you paid for in this
industry so did you find my five logo
design musts insightful let me know with
your thoughts in the comment section
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