Steps in Logo Design
Research
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Find out all you can about the company
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Check out the competition
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Collect images that relate to the company
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Find out who the company's audience is
Roughs
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Sketch
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Save all ideas
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Trace shapes
Revise
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Review research -- do certain roughs work better?
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Sketch some more
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Select a few ideas -- revise
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Select a couple of logo ideas -- polish
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Evaluate
Ready
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Get logo ready to show the client
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Produce a comp
Run
Guidelines
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specify when, where and how the logo can be used
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specify sizes in which the logo can reproduced (standard
sizes)
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give samples of logo in use -- business cards, stationery,
envelopes, et cetera
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specify formats in which the logo can and cannot be used