187 Branding your calendar with a field of logos

In this movie, I will show you how to add a field of logos behind your calendar, represented…in our case by these gears with these lightning bolts inside of them.…In order to follow along, we will need Illustrator CS6 or later because that version of the program…includes a new pattern maker that accommodates hexagonal shapes.…I will go ahead and switch to our calendar so far.…I will zoom in on this region between January, February, and March.…If you're working along with me, then turn on the logos layer here inside the Layers…panel which contains a couple of rudimentary shapes that we're going to use to build the logo.…

We'll come back to those in a moment.…We also need to add a hexagon behind these shapes, so we can better see what's going on.…We'll do that by duplicating one of the existing hexagons.…So, go ahead and click on one of them with the Black Arrow tool.…And that selects all of them because they are grouped together.…The easiest way to get to just one of them is to ungroup them.…So, go up to the Object Menu and choose the Ungroup command, or press Ctrl+Shift+G, or…