Tips and News on Logo Design and Tutorials

Since it’s release last year, Montreal’s new logo designhas attracted a lot of attention and controversy from all over the city. Intended to represent our beautiful city and to attract tourists here from all over the world, our Montreal logo design is now a fun, multi-coloured ‘M’ logo design accompanied by a new slogan ("L'espace pour se réaliser” in French; “Greater Montréal: Room to make...

Puma and Biomegahave teamed up this Spring to bring us a new collection of stunning and highly anticipated urban bikes. Designed for freedom and ease of movement through out the cityscape, this new collection of bikes is a hybrid of both European and American styles. Each bike is available in bold, vibrant and rich colour hues. From lemon yellows to funky fuchsias and ocean...

Today, I want to show you how to create a beautiful flower that you can use in your logo design, business cards or stationery. This tutorial will also introduce you to three very valuable Illustrator tools: the Blend Tool, the Rotate Tool  and Transparency.

Below is the flower design that we are going to create:

Step 1: Create the flower petal outline

Using the pen tool, create a...

Logo design is an art form and as such, when a company needs a new logo, that company should seek the consultation of a skilled designer. They should seek the guidance of someone who thoroughly understands both what makes a good logo design. An experienced designer knows that a good logo design should be simple, unique, memorable and highly recognizable from any distance and at...

What is a raster (bitmap) graphic?

A raster graphic or image is made up of pixels. Pixels are small squares of information. In order to understand what a raster graphic is, imagine a large grid that is made up of many squares (pixels) of all the same size (see image below). If you put a different colour in each square and then, you back away from the grid, the individual squares...