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Create a Minimalist Logo Design in 15 minutes.

teacher avatar Nam Dang, Professional Graphic Designer

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Topics include illustration, design, photography, and more

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction video

      1:30

    • 2.

      1: Get Inspired by well-known designers

      2:23

    • 3.

      2: Set up the file

      1:22

    • 4.

      3: Overall looking at the logo

      3:32

    • 5.

      4: Create the circles

      2:59

    • 6.

      5: Introduce to the powerfull tool

      3:23

    • 7.

      6: How to use that tool efficiently

      3:24

    • 8.

      7: Rotate the elements

      8:50

    • 9.

      8: How to fill in the color

      3:41

    • 10.

      9: Final touches and create shadows

      11:47

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Hi all, my name is Chris Dang, currently living in Moncton, a small city located in East Coast Canada. I am a big fan of minimalist, modern design, let alone logo design and I hope everyone is reading this has as much passion as I do for the logo design. In creating these videos, I wish I can spread my little knowledge in not only using Adobe Illustrator but as well as in developing a sense of how to come up with the better ideas in the very first steps of a designing process. I hope you'll find the useful tricks and information that you've been looking for after watching the lessons. This class is particularly the level 1 in the total 3 levels that I will be creating in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for more!

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Hi awesomeness, welcome to my portfolio, it has been a pleasure to me that we finally meet. Astronaut, doctor, football player, TED speaker, CEO, entrepreneur; I'm none of the above, just a guy loves creating good stuff. I strive to provide the ultimate experience every client deservedly should have. Let's get together, talk, work, have some coffee, and last but not least, have some fun. Yayyy!

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1. Introduction video: Hi, everybody. Have you just step into local these iPads And we're looking for a slide that could bring the elegance feel read the profession are available to everyone who is looking at it. Have you been tire burning? More looking level size on every corner on the street? Well, if you are, whether you are clearly a professional graphic design graphics leader, nice school or just simply a person who happens to create a you local lessons lasting majors for you with Leslie 15 minutes a tutorial. We'll walk you through from start to finish. Minimalist, Modern, especially Notre Win Rick Skills required. No experience required either. In addition off that I'm going to show you one particular tour that you would be using throughout the lessons. Personally, I believe this quirk Brady's through that nobody has ever created for in here you'll be able to create your old fabulous. These eyes that could be sold online is ready made those just like idea. So less is Harvey you on the road to financial freedom turnover and YouTube tutorials video You're watching right now. Open up, Illustrator. That hasn't been touched for years. Struggling. Go skate away. Starting with me. I'm here to help you 2. 1: Get Inspired by well-known designers: we get started before we do anything at least we we should have an idea A general idea of how the year How is the particular start looking ways That and yeah, it was started in common. So I recommend you I subject you to follow on Instagram of these this designer that I found they have really particular Styer They have really the Styer that I really have mind solve them I actually get in spy by some of the locals Something these eyes so he can have. Look at that animals low girl like this one jail metric logo is Thea Animal Collection Will goes really cool. She is there Tackled Tab Taboo Kiani I'm not sure how to pronounce this, but there is one. And here's another one. He's really amazing. Really talented designer He is Sandra Ola The Ash Ship Sandra Lilley Osh. Really Not sure Excuse my language and this is Josh. Book will cry. He is like the guard off this style against really, really amazing these eyes. So yeah, that's just my preference. I suggest you to follow their and get in spy because you know, who knows that someday you can fire you the ideas somewhere you can look it up on my on the pro fires on by this 3. 2: Set up the file: So the first thing you want to do is set up the fire for you Work. I'm using the Adobe's illustrator 2017 and I believe our the version using right now is basically the same. His heart is having the same background. So we go into neat fire. You knew off the shark er is control. And on we nose and command and on mats five new is that, you know, communal table pop, though. And you're gonna set the name for the for the five year one. I'm gonna go with the 1400 by 500 resolution because I'm gonna upload it on, be hands off Business day. They, uh, the require up to be hands. And I'm gonna go with the Peso's The column always rgb for the waves. So we all said, let's create 4. 3: Overall looking at the logo: to start off. I'm gonna have You have to look at our local. We're gonna meet Doing through other less is here. I have a so called global basically, as you can see with a glass that is a circle local Here one stride one strike anodyne spry Here this is I called it a strike coma one stripe combo. And throughout the logo we have three exactly like that. We have to my Zachary like this one. So this one stripe combo this is another one stripe combo. Here we have another one that's just basically being rotated through. Rotated, going, circling right there. So how can we do that? Exact. We go to the L'Est through, I'm gonna show you real quick. Waas Why is that? What? How did you do that? Basically created circle. Whole shift in our in order to create a perfect circle. And we just got that in the struck color. Not the few color it is the few color white color we're gonna hit. The squad feels and struck. Color shape X. That's the shark er on windows. There you go. You have it creek outside to taste like that. But we want to say that that so we're duplicate that. As you can see here, one strike is essentially is created by two circle eyes. Still here, choose that. We're gonna definitely k implicate this one by holding shift and also at the same time Old . The old option is the implicate option. If you want duplicate any object in a nobody illustrator going Hold hold noted Teoh Becae that and host ships Basic. Please. You want it? Knew what hits it keeps going straight A so ho shifting are the same time Track it all the way out here. Remember to click first. Could see object first, then you holding shit in dollars after track it out here released the mass burden. There you have it. As you can see right here this is the stripe that you want And that is basically what we're gonna do with the logo here throughout the lesson. That's just there. I going to you that stress there. So let's come back to the lesson 5. 4: Create the circles: still, here we go. Create a new purpose. So cool by going to Larry's toe, click and hold. Keep holding the mouse burning And at the same time holy shit and old. Track it over here. Remember to do really big. Really big. We want that really big. Okay, release the mass burden. Clear car quickly to combat the selection through quickly. I did that. I want to see that shift in order at the same time. Track, click First post. You drag it all the way out here. Really? Still last. We want to duplicate the whole thing. Duplicate this thing at the 1st 1 So but typically this glad by if we do as the hour outweigh like holy chiefs and order at the same time tracking down between these two you gonna do? We deterred one, but you don't know right here, right? This that you don't know. Waste the the gap. How how is that have to do that? Is that green? The gap between got the first guy. You can basically you can measure that. You literally can. You're not able to do that. So I will show you a trick right there. Tracking here released mouths. But then you hit control V the control. The option technically is gonna repeat the previous that that you just did. So you don't have to worry about gap here. You don't have to worry about whether is exactly with gap above it is. Is that me to say by hitting control E as, uh, really powerful tree that you should remember? So there you have it. You have three strikes. That's only one right now. 6. 5: Introduce to the powerfull tool: and now you have it. So the nest that we would be doing is there, Just have a look back at the local here. We just We just He will have two different thing, right? But is that with same? But we just go on one. So we're gonna get rid of one of them either. Either is the a proper off the lower per up to knees. I is Is that the same? And now I introduce you. No. You know, the worst is that I lied to you to a new too. I'm gonna serve you are that you've never You used to never being used of this tour before . This the shape butto is being using constantly in the local process and is the most powerful that I I ever imagined. If if creating a logo with our age issue would be issue would be real hard, this too technically essentially allows you to combined. You raise shape in the artwork, your artwork. That's exactly it. Let me story show you a real quick example. I'm gonna control a to select the whole thing. And I'm I go to shave your through The shocker is each ship and on your keeper. And here, if you you're harboring you give you hovering the design, the off jag. You're going to see these this leader bar person pattern here. And if you click and track it all the way to here, it's gonna compile combined the whole thing into one particular object and it controls the zed to come back to here. If I hold old, you see this minus miners icon right there. If I really released the odds, he is there. This is the default. If I hope the old key is the My Miners option disc. When you want to really raise something, when I click here, it disappears. Creek here disappear, Cook here disappear. So that is basically Harig works. No, we just Now we know how you growth. Right? So now we're gonna get rid. I'm gonna get rid of the lower part 7. 6: How to use that tool efficiently: before gonna We're gonna go to the nest there. I'm gonna have you have looked back at our logo. Me. So, as you know, is here regardless what you're doing with the logo, you're gonna keep the house. I Ciriaco as it is, we don't need to touch it. We don't need to do anything with it. We just have to keep it. We let it there. Done right. As you can see, there is one Sir coli outside of the whole thing. That is the That is the root. Okay, so we want to keep it back. Similarities. I, as you can see, if we're going, were gonna rate of the whole lower per So were we keeping the upper part? Then? This is the outside the's media outside soco that I mentioned. Basic. Where? This square. We're gonna keep it. So I'm going to change the color it to make a stand out bread. It's OK. Okay, So Well, we don't do is we're not gonna get rid of this thing. Keep it. So now control aid to see like oh, go to shave your to Remember what I said. How all and click do you raise the probably you don't want. But remember, remember, don't go through here. Gonna keep the outside circle that we go. Let's see how you look and see this thing out. Asylum over when they read of thes two tails on either side on both sides. Should be Ritter. Hold order at the same term. Just go. Oh, Cory, cross us something you don't want. Just don't mean for the tiny little in terror And yeah, the shark er with zero meanness. How off and scroll your your musky your mouth. That's it. That's a sharp curve. Is there means zoom out. Auction. How old? Zoom in. Uh, okay. We're gonna very of this. Keep doing. Keep doing so. Yeah. You can see here days the I said, That's the That's the you've done what? One of the staff or instead, closer to the end 8. 7: Rotate the elements: Welcome back. So now we're in the final steps. As you notice here, our logo is basically one strike combo being rotated throughout the circle. We have one here. One here in the 3rd 1 is here. Exactly the same SD of the tombs. So now we have one cumber right here. That's the job is almost done. We're gonna have to rotate it. Implicated twice, and we rotated the more. Now I'm gonna prove them are go to crack lake to group and then click that Go to a date, Carpi the shark Guys Control. See? Now you go to aid it again and go to pasting for so that says you have one other thing on tower, the other like that. Okay, so now we have the second combo right there. We're gonna go to the rotator too. Double click that to rotate that. So it I'm not sure that you remember, But the whole circle, let's imagine, is that 3 60 degrees? So we have three objects exactly the same. So we're so we're gonna rotate it that the angle is a is exactly But the whole circle 3 60 degrees is divided by three. Is ik 01 20 degrees. That's the number of want I had a preview unless he previewed to see various. So OK, that's the And now we're gonna dip Lick eight, this thing, another term. Go to a did carpi and it paste them for I repeat that. Okay, so there we go. We have it. We have the holes. No, Let's remember, What's the truth that we used to get rid of the part of the week we don't want. And you see here we want a stray light. The strays tribe here and here and here and now in. Here's another stage, as you can see here. Do you see that? This latest? This they control a to see, like, the whole thing. But just a quick hazard. Before you do anything at this part, it's there. We want to change the stroke. Do you see the stroke? Ocean option? Good. We gonna go into their going to stroke option here at your you. Right side off your art. Burke, You go places you see this leader icon here is the stroke Caution. You can bring that off from the window. You hit the green arrow, it's scroll out a stroke. It's the control of 10 or your Kieber as the shocker. So the first thing you want to do is there You want to see, like, the whole thing of the you gonna steal it? The whole desire. Let's hit control. Wait. Is this like the whole thing and go into this stroke option? And the part of doing this is the sometime that this advantage of using the shape you're too. It's Sometimes you you can get, like a good day. The Jackie, the Rafi out of the stroke. We don't want that at all in any desire that we're gonna be doing so in order to avoid that going to stroke option and make sure that you see, like the round car for the cap, the route, joy for the corner and a life struggle will keep that as a default. It's that the year life struck to Sander. So this is everything is Ferrari. So this is good. Now we can get to star, so I'm gonna fast forward at this part. Is that okay? Just go to shape Very true control agency like the whole thing. How old at the same time and quick to depart You don't worry and just keep going through the local. If sometimes you're doing something wrong, don't panic. Just let him controls that to come back to the previous. Don't be worried and keep going. Just do it. Nice. Smooth. Really. All right. I see you in a minute. 9. 8: How to fill in the color: So here we are. We're on down and this purse who took a little long term is doing it. That it's okay, is our wolf Azov. People aren t n We're almost done. And the nest there I'm gonna change the background two black. But that's just my preference is up to you. It depends on you. So a chain that black it's just me Better issues me, send it to back by go to train, go to arrange and say Bring centre back shape control and Bracke you keeper And then you're gonna lock it My current our jags is remembered less keeping Let's give a receipt because of Jack and Locke selection. So now the background is our lot Got it changed the stroke of objects by control A Just let them all in going to stroke horror to click on there choose quite color that you go. So now as you remember, at our local the well, we don't want the stroke called We just go on the few color in each one you can see here Street. So I'm gonna So I'm gonna introduce you to a no. The new tour that you probably never bean used before. You've never used before. So that is the life pen bucket through. That's pretty intriguing. Name reasoning. Okay. Basically, when I see, like, the whole thing in go to life, Ben broke in to the shockers K Let switched the color to quite the few color to Guay. And then just like, let's click on the area. The surface that you want a pen, it in the the caller that you work. I'm gonna panic here. Pandit here. Get the way in. Pettitte here. Upended. Here. Here. Let's keep going. Okay, that you go cover to the selection into Confessed. So there you can't. That's basically almost the end. That's basically our logo at this point so far. It looks good, isn't it? But 10. 9: Final touches and create shadows: we're gonna get rid of all the stroke. We just gonna keep the the few Carla. So I'm gonna say like that. Select the whole thing and go to our checked I spend. Make sure that you check the object option so less than okay. And then go Teoh a group right click click on Group Listeria. Another time, right Click on growth. Keep doing that until you can't do that anymore. Okay, so now we just want the stroke. This is one of the stroke. We have a few 1,000,000 billion struck right now, so how can we select them all at once? So here's the magic one through that last terrorist through Select Off the A jet similar in the in all the way. That's technique What it is. So list his quiet on your keeper, or you go to the Magic 12 Unless one of the stroke that you call is all of my directly See , like all of the stroke for you Are the stroke available on your you work paste? It says we don't want that anymore, just diddly. And then you go Pretty simple. So now in the final step. Congratulations, Finalist. There we want to create. We were not give the logo a little bit off death a little bit of dimensional looking by creating Thea shallower effect manually, my outsells not by any affair like in for for Sharp. I had the stuff that looks so fake. So no really used the pento, his pee on your keeper or go to Pento and since will will use the pen to, like, make sure that you go to veer and fast Little smile, guys, auction is checked. Okay? Past the year. That's the crucial thing when using the pain. It's good when using the pen to, you know, will be re straighter. So now really Teoh Tough. Let's hit control. Why? To open the our line auction. Give us the little more the terror and move your pen into this little corner. Here you see it. Click that head. Just click that you don't need to hold it or track it or anything. Just click that and then go to here somewhere here. Around here. Let's click another time. This time you're gonna hold your mouth in tracking until it creates a beautiful a beautiful Kerr. That pretty that's pretty for similar to the year dicker of the local right next to it. Okay, this this looks good. This looks this looks fine. I will say and release your mouths Better you come. Can you follow me? I'm going to choose that again. So go said at the pentru Goes to here, Just click one time collect Don't do anything. Just click and move your mouse to somewhere here as creep, less click and all the time. But this time her you must you must burn. Click and so you must be dragged into Creates the beautiful curve like, uh, release the mouse button. Try and it's quick TV themes Starting poet That's the end. Okay, so now let is control whiner time Rick to go back to normal workplace And since it just they had it is just having the year, the quiet stroke color. We don't want that. I want that you know the Shano is in black, but it's not black. It's but it's basically black. But in you lower capacity. So this leader, you can look through it. So first squad, that too few collar is quiet. No chance to color to black. I do its really slowly right here. And then you go into the opacity. Transparency to normally it would be appeared for a bow of the stroke option and open that . Are you going to see the opacity option? Let's turn the number 2 40 But that looks good. Music. All right. Go to selection. Through they go and we wanna We're gonna We just calling the the Shatter around here, not over the, uh did strive here. We don't want that. So we're gonna use that. What? Yeah, we would use the stray beer it through that allows that to erase two different thing that overlapping each other. Just this, because if we choose this one of the same term less fish, it shaved to just the to slow them. Just this one and host shit and choose this one because shape territory, we create this thing, we're gonna get rid of this thing. It's going to get rid of both. Um right. We don't want that. Still that his state control? Yes. Come back tous time. Which they let this thing really silly asshole shit at the same time. Remember? That's pretty important to asshole shit and then clicked Disc one, this one and this square now into shape your through last whole cult two erased this part. We don't want you go. That's our shadow. Wow, that must also I love the already But now we want we want that too duplicate that choice as greedy with the strives. Right? So we're gonna see that. Let's hold shift this to let Tamar and then right clear. Let's group them together. So no, I do the same thing as greedy with stride. When the rotator. How much? Yes, it Zachary 1 20 degree. They see previews. The old pressing you forgot. Forgot what? What did I forget? Yeah, into BK that so go to our jazz No go to end it. Carpi ended pasting for then go to rotate to 100 turning degree Preview looks ok Still okay with moving down here this less is immune Aly right Poggi isn't that perfectly They go. That's perfect. Relatively got a duplicate er when What time got aided? Carpi ended pasting for Prince Pretty easy, huh? Disc repeatedly to do wanted through to the three tours. Oh, around all through the designing a process Take two okay for season that in here summarily richest have a better look. This that recourse the year profession Beauty As I mentioned, the interaction return. So there you go. We've done congratulations. This is our logo Today. We've made it so far. Wow. Thank you. Thank you for listening. I think, uh, you've been a graze. You've been a great company. Thank you for me. And make sure that you gonna make sure that you're gonna practice moment. You know, Is it don't It? Does not require any. They just simply just keep doing every day to get better. So think. Here. See you in another lesson.