Typographic Logos: Typography and Lettering for Logo Design (Udemy.com)

Learn the beginning to end process for creating your own custom type-based logo.

( 311 Reviews )

Created by: Ray Dombroski

Produced in 2016

What you will learn

You will be able to come up with an idea, create thumbnail sketches, and refine your design into a finished type-based logo.
You will be able to download the working files that were created in the video so you can see them up close.

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Course Description

Learning and improving upon your type-based logo designs is one of the most important investments you can make in your design career. In this course we'll go over the entire process of creating a type-based logo, from idea to implementation. Let's get started!

In this course we'll cover:

How to find and apply inspiration
Learn the Digital and Analog Tools you'll need to create your logos
Use both Traditional and Untraditional tools to create your logo
Special techniques to refine your design
How to structure letterforms and overall composition
Sketch design thumbnails
Create a clean vector design
Implement color theory, shading, and add a 3D effect
How to add texture in Photoshop and Illustrator
Then it's up to you to take these methods and create something incredible!

As a bonus, you will also receive:

26 Bitmap Textures to use in Illustrator
26 Photoshop Brushes to add texture to your own designs
A collection of vector halftone gradients
The finished "Typographic Logos" design in vector format
Who this course is for:
This course is for anyone who is interested in improving their type-based logo designs.
This course does not cover icon design or logo designs that do not contain lettering.
This course shows the process of creating a type-based logo. However, it is not focused on the history and fundamentals of type.

Intermediate Level

Time: 1.5h

Instructor Details

Ray Dombroski

4.5 Rating
311 Reviews

Ray's extensive background in the surf apparel industry started in 2002. Since then he has designed for many of the top surf apparel brands in California and Hawaii, such as O'Neill, Billabong, Ocean Pacific, BodyGlove, and Local Motion. He is the founder of TheVectorLab, a website that offers graphic design resources, tools, and tutorials. As a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and Florida State University his experience is backed by a mix of business and design knowledge.

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By Marc Hage on 10/19/2020

full of resources, cool instructor/teacher, requires some knowledge of graphics editors (he uses Adobe, but maybe brushes and opening pdf's work in others as well? I should give that a try...)

By Kevin Brown on 9/27/2020

took much talking and not enough show on how to create

By James visser on 9/22/2020

I thought this course was very informative. I liked the way overlapping was used. The distressing of layers looked really nice as well. Thank you for sharing your skills!

By Cornelia Meinig on 9/20/2020

This is a really great and in-depth course. Sometimes I would have wished for a little more explanation of how Ray is doing what he is doing, but overall the steps were very clear and easy to follow.

By Carla Daniela Miranda Afonso on 9/14/2020

Pretty nice course. I do wish there were more hand draw techniques but overall it leaves no questions and you can apply the tricks. If you have experience with Photoshop and Illustrator you probably won't need to watch all classes.

By Scott Tuscani on 9/1/2020

Excellent class Ray...Thanks for sharing your knowledge, much respect!

By Gary R. Swain on 8/26/2020

Files often are does not function on pc based systems such ai etc.

By Sudeep Melekar on 8/10/2020

Full of well known and relatable examples. Straight on point approach. Extremely engaging

By Mvvenkatanagananda on 8/3/2020

really worth

By Amber on 7/26/2020

I think it could have been better

By Julio Reyes on 7/25/2020

When I first took typography classes, I was struggling on how to actually make typographic logos on the computer. Then I learned that the whole process isn't as simple as I thought it would be. This course shows me an example on how to make your logo design through a couple of steps. This course is very helpful on my studies and I can recommend this to anyone who wants to try to do typography!

By Ajay G on 7/23/2020