Friday, February 7, 2014

Logo Redesign - Arby's

For this assignment we chose an already existing logo and designed a new logo. We put four of the previous logos on the side of our new logo. We then made a business card for the company.

New logo

  1. Find four of the original logos and place them on the side of the screen. (Preferably oldest on top to newest on bottom.
  2. Draw lines to separate them.
  3. Copy and paste the most recent logo and make it much bigger and make a duplicate copy.
  4. Erase the bottom half of one logo and the top of the other. Erase the writing.
  5. Scale the logo to the size you want. Find a pattern you like and paste it inside both the top and bottom halves (hat) of the logo.
  6. Choose a font you like(AR Delaney) and write the logo name.
  7. Arrange the pieces to make the hat.
Business Card


  1. Make a light pink rectangle and give it and extremely light, swirly texture.
  2. Copy and paste the logo you made earlier to the card.
  3. Write the information in the same font you used to make the Arby's part of the logo.
  4. Make the information smaller than company name.
  5. Draw five rectangle and put the the main colors of the card into each.
  6. Name the colors.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Logo Redesign

For this assignment we had to create a new logo for a company. The (fake) company I used was Solar Mapping. We also had to have a color scheme, the 5 colors I used are at the bottom of the image.

  1. Draw a rectangle to fill the canvas.
  2. Change the gradient to linear and rotate the design.
  3. Change the colors so that the bottom right hand corner is the darkest blue on the panel. Then incorporate the other blues and add a very light blue half-way across the bar. Then add the red to the top left corner.
  4. Add the texture Mesh at 3%.
  5. Lock the layer.
  6. Draw a circle and make the gradient Radical a light yellow on the inside and then turning to a darker shade then the red on the very edge.
  7. Give it a Swish texture at 20%.
  8. The border is watercolor thick at 3 and red.
  9. Move the circle to the top left corner and slightly off the screen.
  10. Lock the layer.
  11. Write "Solar Mapping" at size 96 on font AR DESTINE. Yellow with blue border of 7 thick watercolor.
  12. Convert the text to path and ungroup it. Then make the S and M bigger.
  13. Lock the layer.
  14. Draw 5 squares and change the colors to your main colors.