From the course: Designing a Logo for a Band

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Forming logo idea 1: Mysterious Figure

Forming logo idea 1: Mysterious Figure - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Designing a Logo for a Band

Start my 1-month free trial

Forming logo idea 1: Mysterious Figure

I'll be supplying three ideas to my client. From these, they'll choose one, possibly combining it with elements of the other two. And then I'll refine this idea further. I'm naming each of my ideas to help identify them, and to keep focus. I'm working in black and white at this stage, because I don't want the issue of color to confuse things, either for me or my client. The first idea I'm calling Mysterious Figure. I'm taking as my starting point this image supplied by the client. It's a photograph by French photographer Jean Bartho. To begin with, I Live-traced the image to create a vector silhouette. My first few iterations have this juxtaposed with the type, in an enclosing rectangle. Here I'm also applying transparency to the types, so that we get some interaction of the type and the shape behind. And then I'm also experimenting as how it would look as a circle with the enclosing shape rather than a rectangle. I'm aware that I need to modify my figures so that it bears no…

Contents