633 Designing an intriguing cube logo

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…This week, I'm going to show you how to create…what I'm calling an intriguing cube logo…in Adobe Illustrator, and it's this guy right here.…Now, this thing first caught my attention…in an online ad for Google Cloud platform of all things.…They used a different color scheme.…Doesn't matter at all.…Notice that it creates the effect…of a single bar weaving back and forth…and then curling around at the top.…Now, the biggest trick is to take a little bit of time…to setup some custom guidelines in advance,…and then it's just a matter of banging this thing out…using the Pen tool.…

Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…All right here's the final version of that cube logo.…That's ultimately made from a kind of 3D orthogonal bar…that's wrapping back and forth and finally around itself…up here at the top.…Now the toughest part of this project…is figuring out how to make everything…work out exactly evenly, which is why we're going to…setup a fairly complex system of guides,…