Art Play 5
Design Your Own Logo
Free Logo Maker is so much fun, I spent few hours playing with their Macromedia Flash pad, and had to be unglued from the computer screen by sheer force.
Go to the big orange button on the right of the linked page that says “Design it for Free”, it will open a Macromedia Flash pad where you should choose the “industry” for pre-designed graphic you can use to - finally! - create your trademark that was, if you want to be completely honest about it, deserved LONG TIME AGO.
From there on, you can follow the short instructions on the left, or go straight under the design area and dive into it: type the title of your site, company or your own name, all on a single line (like I did in the first example), or broken into two or three parts; pick the font you like (for each line of text) and play with the elements of your logo by creating different groupings, changing the size of each, angle (rotate) and colors.
If the image you chose has more then one element, you will be able to change the color of each. The trick in selecting different layers of one graphic is to click on it the second or third time -- the selection box will slightly change size, so you'll be able to juggle between layers.
...more like this, and less like Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa sipping a cappuccino.
As you know, the basic idea behind logo is that it should be fairly simple and easy to reproduce, while representing your particular brand or product through shape, color and style. I broke every one of the rules here because I just wanted to play, but if you want to be serious about things, don’t do as I did.
Instead, think of the look and feel that would blend with the design of your page and pick the color or two from those you are already using. For my blog the one with the candle on the above-right would make much more sense then Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa having a coffee.
But then again, you got to play sometime! (And pretend you’re a beautician or a hairdresser, or a... I don’t know, an all natural, no-genetically-engineered-produce farmer? The last one should cover it all.)