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Examples of how to use the Golden Ratio in design.
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Download a Golden Spiral guideline here.Looking forward to seeing your marks come to life. Please share your finished logo, along with your grids overlaid onto it, and any sketches or rough ideas along the way. Fine-tune your logo and add color - add that extra polish of perfection to your mark.Start gridding and incorporate the Golden Ratio - join your shapes once your grid is complete.Find your reference image and start sketching - update your Project Workspace as you go along!.Pick any animal or plant you'd like - anything naturally occurring.Looking for more inspiration? Head here to discover more classes on logo design. You’ll learn that the best way to get a handle on golden logo design is through practice, practice, practice.įor an introduction to designing with grids, join George's basic gridding class, Logo Design with Grids: Timeless Style with Simple Shapes. The hardest part of designing a brand logo with the golden section is doing it for the first time. George will encourage you to make these last adjustments without looking at your grid but while paying attention to negative space. You’ll learn how to use Illustrator tools like anchor points to smooth out wonky lines and ensure your logo looks like your reference animal. You’ll learn how a grid can influence both the outline and the internal elements of a logo, and how to connect the dots to make all your disparate grid lines a cohesive image that represents the animal of your choosing. Now that you’ve laid down the basic shape of your logo, you can go back and add more grid elements to your design. Remember, your initial Illustrator sketch of the animal is more important than the grid itself, so don’t let the grid take precedence over the design! You’ll see how to realign and adjust the shapes in your grid to clean up minor inconsistencies.
You’ll learn how to find points in your design that naturally lend themselves to the golden spiral and other geometric shapes, as well as when as when it’s time to stop gridding. You’ll watch as George applies the golden spiral to his uploaded design in Adobe Illustrator. You’ll learn how to create a golden spiral in Adobe Illustrator. You’ll learn how to translate your drawn image into an Adobe Illustrator file using anchor points. Remember, it still has to be recognizable as the animal you started out with. Using a pencil and tracing paper, you’ll draw over your reference while looking for opportunities to simplify the form into shapes like circles and squares. You’ll learn how to look at an image and break it down into its basic, geometric parts. You’ll learn how to pick a reference based on the animal’s silhouette. When designing an animal logo, it’s important to start with the right reference image. George will show you examples of his work applying the golden ratio to logo design and prepare you for his assignment. Historically, the golden section has been used in architecture (think the Parthenon), and it occurs often in nature (think owls). George Bokhua will demonstrate how the golden spiral can help you order your logo and turn multiple shapes into a cohesive form.
In this graphic design tutorial, you’ll come up with a logo brand design and learn how to grid your logo after defining your general concept. With this technique, you will be able to grid logos of any complexity, allowing you to create the beautiful, lasting work you’ve always imagined. This class is perfect for designers and illustrators looking to level up their logo designs.
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