20 Amazing Logo Design Tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator

We all know that having a great logo is good for branding. It says something about the company - and with advertising and promotions, people will come to identify the logo with the business.

But, designing one isn’t always an easy process. Logo design requires careful planning, and attention to simplicity, color, fonts, audience and flexibility. 

What better way to learn about designing a logo with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator than to try some of these detailed tutorials for designing one.

1. Retro Logo

    

   
   Detailed instructions for making a retro styled logo in Photoshop. Read more at Avivadirectory.com.

 

2. Vintage Barber logo

    

   
   Process describing how to create a logo for a fictional barber shop. Read the entire Illustrator tutorial at Spoon Graphics blog.

 

3. Retro Textured Seal Logo

    

   
   Learn how to make a retro seal logo using Adobe Illustrator. See the entire tutorial at: Tutsplus.com.

 

4. Create a Crazy Cool Logo

    

   
    
   Design a cool crazy logo using Illustrator. Find this logo tutorial at abduzeedo.com

 

5. Vintage Logo Design

    

   
   
   Spoon Graphics again brings us another awesome tutorial. This one is for creating an aged vintage logo using Adobe Illustrator.

 

6. Design an Umbrella Corporation Logo

    

   
   If you are a fan of Capcom’s survivor horror video game series Resident Evil, you will enjoy recreating the Umbrella Corporation’s logo. Read the entire walkthrough, step by step, at Adobe Tutorialz.

 

7. Coffee House Logo

    

   
   How to create a coffee house logo using Adobe Illustrator. Read the tutorial at tutsplus.com.

 

8. Create an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment

    

   
    
   This is an Illustrator tutorial for creating an environmentally friendly logo, with soil and leaves. Find the tutorial at Vectortuts.

 

9. How to Create a Ribbon Logo Graphic

    

   
   Spoon Graphics shows us step by step how to make a ribbon styled graphic using Adobe Illustrator.

 

10. Designing a Euro 2008 Logo

     

    
    Photoshop tutorial for creating a cool logo of Euro 2008, which can be viewed at Eyes on Tutorials.

 

11. Make a Nike Fire Logo

     

    
    
    
    Create an amazing Nike fire logo, using Photoshop. Find the full tutorial at abduzeedo.com.

 

12. Cubist Raven logo design

     

    
    Learn how to create a raven logo in the cubist style, in Illustrator, courtesy of Spoon Graphics blog.

 

13. Design Process of Brainstorm #9

     

    
    abduzeedo.com gives a thorough walkthrough of the design process for their ingenious Brainstorm logo.

 

14. Logo Design Process for Vivid Ways

     

    
     
    Design process and walkthrough of the Vivid Ways logo, in Adobe Illustrator. Find the walkthrough at Spoon Graphics blog.

 

15. Trendy Retro Type

     

    
    Get full instructions for creating a trendy retro type, using Illustrator. Follow the tutorial at tutsplus.com.

 

16. Design Process of Web Mynds

     

    
    David Pache takes us through his design process for Web Mynds. He uses Photoshop and the walkthrough can be found at Web Designer Wall.

 

17. Making an Amazing Wordpress Logo

     

    
     
    Tutorial for creating a logo just like the one Wordpress uses. Find this Adobe Photoshop tutorial at 3nhanced.com.

 

18. Logo Reflection in Vector

     

    
    How to do Web 2.0 logo reflection in vector format, using Illustrator. Since it is in vector format, the logo can easily be scaled larger. The full tutorial can be followed at bittbox.com.

 

19. Make a Flash Logo

     

    
    Learn to make a logo just like Macromedia Flash using Adobe Photoshop at Adobe Tutorialz.

 

20. Grunge Background Music Logo

     

    
    Walkthrough of how to make a grungy music themed logo using Photoshop. Read the tutorial at tutsplus.com.

 

Tell us what you think

 

We hope you enjoyed this list of logo design tutorials. Are there any you have tried? If you have written your own logo design walkthrough, you are welcome to share a link to it in the comments.

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