Designing a logo or a corporate identity sometimes eat up a whole lot of project time than designing its theme or any other part of the site. It may be the misguiding client specifications list or a designer’s block, or for starters a know-how block. Well, one can find numerous tutorials posted for designing a logo, but I’ve handpicked a few of most commonly used tools and designing elements that go into making an appealing logo.
1. A Guide to Creating Professional Quality Logo Designs
Let’s take a look at some of the general rules of logo design, see what guidelines we should stick to in order to build high quality logos, and see how they can all be put into practice to create a logo design that works in the real world.
2. Professional 3D Logo From Scratch
Very detailed tutorial on how to create a professional looking 3D logo in illustrator.
3. Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways
How to come up with the logo design? Whats is idea behind it? Chris Spooner writes about a detailed post about the process of creating a logo.
4. Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough
As part of the overall design process one of the first jobs of the project was to develop a logo and brand for the website, follow this step by step documentation of the whole process of the logo design from conception to completion.
5. Volks Logo in Gimp
Create the Famous Volkswagen using Gimp.
6. Creating a Crazy Cool Logo
In this tutorial Fabio Sasso from Abduzeedo teachs you how to create a logo using shapes in Adobe Illustrator. A very cool concept.
7. Zee Logo in Illustrator
In our case it’s not different, we’ve changed our business model and decided to create a new logo.
8. Pathfinder Logo tutorial
There are quite a few ways to do create those effects in Illustrator, however for most of them you will have to use the Pathfinder tools. Because of that I will show you an example based on a few logos from that list.
9. Abduzeedo 2010 Logo Design
So in this tutorial/case study I will show you how I created the symbol and what the inspiration behind it was. We will use Adobe Illustrator for the tutorial
10. Sikbox Logo Design Process
This project was done pretty quickly. I had the honor to work on the logo and web design with my brother, Eduardo Sasso, the Ninja programmer, and Fabiano, the CSS samurai.
Anyway, in this post I want to share a bit of the ideas and the design process for the logo creation.
11. Design a Print-Ready Beer Label in Adobe Illustrator
We get to cover all kinds of useful Tools like Type On A Path, Live Trace, and the Opacity Mask. My buddy brewed his own beer and I made him labels using this technique, and they were an instant hit! I’m very happy to show you how it’s done. OK, let’s do it!
12. 3D Encide Logo Tutorial (PSD Included)
A full length video of a 3D logo being created in Photoshop. There is no sound or voice instruction, but the entire video is directed with captions below. Enjoy
13. Obama Logo Tutorial
What’s that? You don’t think we can do it? I have three words for you my friend.
Yes. We. Can.
14. Create an Origami Logo
Create an Origami Logo in Illustrator; getting a little taste towards one of the trends of 2009 Logo Design and answering to those that requested an Illustrator version of the previous Origami Logo tutorial!
15. Making of Metallic Transformers Logo
We will use an image of the Transformers logo, Cracks Brushes from Falln Stock and Texture Set from Krakograff.
16. Logo Process Tutorials
The first thing when designing a logo, is to understand the context, history and what’s the image it has to deliver to the audience. Asking Carlos about the meaning of the logo, he explained to me that the logo was, of course, related to “brainstorming”.
17. making the Windows Vista logo in Photoshop
Simple step by step tutorial – how to make Windows Vista Logo – Photoshop Tutorial. Learn how to make a mirror and glossy effects, and how to use Photoshop tools – gradient, pen tool, bevel and emboss, eraser tool etc.
18. Create Rainbow Logos with Warped Grids
This tutorial is another user’s request. It’s an easy technique, but I’m sure you will be able to use it in all sorts of designs. It’s very versatile. In this case, I used this technique for a logo, but I could use it to create grids with light effects as well.
19. Quick Logos with Live Trace in Adobe Illustrator
Perhaps one of the most underutilized features in Illustrator is Live Trace, which can convert any photograph into vector art in just a few clicks. In this tutorial, we’re going to use Live Trace to vectorize a photo for a logo design. Now, of course, all images are different, so depending on the final effect you want to achieve, you’ll need to experiment with the settings that we’ll be using here.
20. Photoshop Logo Jelly Remake
A new way…. MY way to make everything “jelly” ~ Enjoy and have fun.
21. Logo Design from Start to Finish
Let me guide you through the basics of what makes a good logo, while also walking you through the process of creating the identity and logo design for one of my recent clients, Vero, a limited liability company based in Miami, Florida. Hopefully, this will give you an understanding of what actually goes on behind the scenes while creating a professionally designed logo.
22. Green Type Treatment
With oil prices the way they are today, everybody is thinking Green. I have done many projects recently that require a Green style applied to the design. In the following Illustrator tutorial, I’ll teach you how to create a Green type treatment. It works great for logos and other design elements.
23. Google Chrome Logo
24. Web 2.0 Logo Reflection in Vector format with Illustrator
This tutorial was actually requested by a BittBox reader, Mr.Byte, and his idea instantly caught my attention. Thanks Mr.Byte. Another thing to note: I included a lot of screenshots for clarity purposes, but this process is actually very simple.
25. How to Design a Logotype from Conception to Completion
This first tutorial at Spoon Graphics covers the process of designing a logotype, this particular logo created in the tutorial is for a fictional business named Purple Lemon, which immediately suggests a modern, trendy, possibly web/internet or design related company.
26. Step By Step Design: The Thomas & Gray Logo
Just as important as the final design is the road it takes to get there. The best way to demonstrate this is by giving you a behind the scenes look at the proven design process that I and many other designers use. I hope it offers insights into the thinking as well as the work itself. I’ll kick things off with step by step design overview of the Thomas & Gray logo. A company that makes custom furniture.
27. Step By Step Design: Weedon Island AWIARE logo
Designing a logo can be a painful, drawn out process. For the AWIARE logo (The Alliance for Weedon Island Archaeological Research and Education) inspiration came quickly. Weedon Island and its Archaeological Research Center are truly unique. After visiting the center, I felt privileged to design a logo for such an amazing place. I’d like to share the thought process behind the design of the AWIARE logo.
28. Design Bump Logo Design Process
The eagle eyed amongst you might have noticed a revamp of the design specific bookmarking site DesignBump.com. John Campbell recently got in touch to ask if I’d be interested in helping out with the redesign. Being a site I’d been subscribed to since its launch I jumped at the opportunity. Here’s an overview of my design process for the project.
29. ProBlogger Logo Design
In this post, I’ll share details and sketches on the new ProBlogger identity.
30. Dache: Logo Design Process
This case study (written by David himself) provides full creative brief and progress images from start to final. Read on to find out how David got inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s art (one of the most famous 20th-century abstract artists) to create this fantastic logo.
31. Red 66 Logo Design
32. Weblog Network Logo Design
33. How to Design the Firefox Logo in Photoshop
This tutorial will go through how you can create the Firefox logo in a scalable Photoshop format.
34. EURO 2008 Logo Design
Step-by-step tutorial on creating the EURO 2008 logo.
35. Logo Design Process Tutorial
This tutorial is intended to benefit both our potential clients, so they can have a fully comprehensive overview of our logo design process and methods; and many of our users, interested in the process of designing and developing a logo.
36. Papercraft Text Effect
Easily create your own logo using the beautiful text effect in this tutorial. Test your logo with different fonts and colors.
37. Cool Music Logo on a Grunge Background
I really like the artwork that is used in Pitchfork’s Web site, so I decided to recreate something similar in Photoshop and make a tutorial on how I did it. These techniques can be used to make a logo and background for a cool grunge-style Web site.
38. Simple & Cool Urban-Style Logo
In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll be learning how to design a simple, urban-style logo, good for your local band website or something like that 
You can see exactly what we’ll be designing below.
39. Web Design Studio Logo
Learn how to create a professional web design logo. We’ll show you several ways of working with text in this tutorial.
The outcome from this tutorial could also go well with our Product Sales Page tutorial, as a proper logo wasn’t really made for it.
40. Cool Metal Brand Vehicle
Do you want to know how to create realistic view metal brand vehicle. Ok, I will try to explain to how you can do this.
41. Logo Presentation tutorial
I hope this tutorial is ok to learn this thing. But if you have any problem in some step, you can ask me. Maybe I can help you.
ENJOOOOY!!!!!!!!!!!! 
42. Illustrator type technique using shapes
The technique I have in mind is something that only works for logo’s that contain only a few characters, ideally not more than 5. It also stands or falls with the characters at hand e.g. if o’s and other circular shapes are involved, than it can get interesting to try this technique out…
43. Step-by-step logo
Designer/Author Chuck Green shows us the general process he takes when designing a logo.
44. Design a Logo in Illustrator
In this video tutorial I show you just how easy it is to design a great looking logo in Adobe Illustrator. As with any other software package, it’s all about getting to know the interface; and then from there it’s all about developing your design skills.
45. Create a Logo for Your Feature Posts
46. Beijing 2008 Logo Light Painting
This is not new, I have already shown this effect a few times but as last week I created a wallpaper for CSNGLOBAL, using an image of a guy painting their logo and I have received some emails asking me to write a tutorial, I decided to do that.
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Interesting post! I’ve always wanted a nice logo for my blog, but have not the slightest bit of creativity (or patience) required to produce one. You should make one for this blog!