how to do this??

[teaorcoffee?]

hi guys how do you do this logo, ive seen a few things like this but can never seem to get the line tool. is it the line tool? if so how r they creating the curves etc. this may seem a very novice question but once i know it will help me soooooo much.

1. ok so goto this link http://www.seadesign.co.uk/
2. click on OUR WORK in the menu
3. and the logo is for Beyon.



cheers guys you always help.

[Tsmalldon]

I would just draw that in Illustrator with the Pen Tool.

Trevor

[Danger_Mouse]

Pen tool. with stroke pretty thick.

You gotta bend and stretch those handle bars!!

[Tsmalldon]

Danger Mouse, I notice your from Ontario, I am as well, Where abouts?

[Danger_Mouse]

toronto

[Tsmalldon]

Toronto is good times. I'm a frequent visitor to Mount Sinai myself. Im out East,

[teaorcoffee?]

cheers guys, nailed it. did you like the work on that site?

[PrintDriver]

If it's a logo mark, I wouldn't leave it as a stroked line. I'd outline the path if I were you. Less chance of someone scaling with the Scale Stroke and Effects turned off...

[AlexNJ210]

^^^^ditto^^^^

[Danger_Mouse]

If it's a logo mark, I wouldn't leave it as a stroked line. I'd outline the path if I were you. Less chance of someone scaling with the Scale Stroke and Effects turned off...

Good point PD, although we would all hope that if someone enlarged it enough they would notice the change. But maybe not. Could just expand the mfer too. (sorry for the language heh heh)

[PrintDriver]

If you don't enlarge it enough, it's hard to notice sometimes. And vinyl plotters and CNC cutters don't read stroke thickness. While most sign shops would know what to do with a stroked logo, there appears to be more and more of them that don't, judging from the sudden, and I mean real sudden, influx of newb's with plotters on the Signweb boards (more than a few here too ;)).

Make your logos as bullet-proof as possible. Don't overlap shapes, flatten and unite where possible, use compound shapes rather than stacks, or stacks instead of compound shapes in other instances (and know the difference), etc.

[Danger_Mouse]

^agreed

[urstwile]

...use compound shapes rather than stacks, or stacks instead of compound shapes in other instances (and know the difference), etc.
Can you clarify what you mean here, PD, because I'd like to know the difference, and your wording makes me feel that perhaps I don't. :o

[PrintDriver]

You can stack as long as the lines in Outline view don't intersect AND you don't intend the background to show through.
Think of a donut. You can make a small white circle on top of a larger black circle. On white paper that is fine. But if the logo is vinyl on a BLUE background, is the center of the donut supposed to be white or blue? If white, leave it stacked. If blue, make it a compound shape (or subtract using Pathfinder, same difference).

[jessicam]

You can stack as long as the lines in Outline view don't intersect AND you don't intend the background to show through.
Think of a donut. You can make a small white circle on top of a larger black circle. On white paper that is fine. But if the logo is vinyl on a BLUE background, is the center of the donut supposed to be white or blue? If white, leave it stacked. If blue, make it a compound shape (or subtract using Pathfinder, same difference).

I ran into this done wrong a LOT when I worked in the corporate world. I was a jr designer so I wasn't alowed to fix the source files. I was supposed to fix it only on what I was working on. I finally started compiling good source files on my own drive. It was wacky.

[urstwile]

You can stack as long as the lines in Outline view don't intersect AND you don't intend the background to show through.
Think of a donut. You can make a small white circle on top of a larger black circle. On white paper that is fine. But if the logo is vinyl on a BLUE background, is the center of the donut supposed to be white or blue? If white, leave it stacked. If blue, make it a compound shape (or subtract using Pathfinder, same difference).
Gotcha. I wasn't sure what you meant right off by stacks. :)

[Blanket_509]

You can either draw that as a closed object with the pen tool or make it a single line with the pen tool and choose the option to round the ends of the line in the stroke pallette (I'm not sure if they had that option in older version of illustrator).

[icekitty37]

Wow. That logo is pretty neat. I like how it's so simple- but so sophisticated (almost better than thou) looking. Lol.