Logo Development: Identity Delivery
1h 17mIntermediate2024-02-06
Authors

Bill Gardner
President of Gardner Design, Founder of LogoLounge.com
Course details
In part three of the three-part Logo Development series Bill Gardner takes you through the final stage of identity design, where visual brands can be made or lost: delivery. Logos aren’t designed in a vacuum, and in this course, learn how to consider other elements such as context, fonts, colors, materials, textures, pattern, illustrations, photography style, visual vocabulary, and more. Bill explains why you must consider all applications and situations in which that logo will exist–the visual brand–in order to successfully deliver a design. Brand cues provide context for the consumer to educate, inform, build allegiance, and even sway decisions. Learn how to break down these elements with examples crafted by identity design leaders, and how they create the richest, most creative, and valued brand systems.
Skills covered
Brand DesignLogo DesignGraphic DesignDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
Introduction
- Logos don t live in a vacuum
After the Logo and Before the Brand
- Consistency and assumptions
- Brand DNA
Color
- What color is your brand
- Variants and gradients
- Not just the color of the logo
Fonts
- More than a wordmark
- The typographic family
- Creating a font hierarchy
Pattern
- Building a pattern from logos
- Selecting a field to support a brand
Textures and Materials
- Textures
- Materials and environments
Images
- Photography
- Illustrations
- Animation
Conclusion
- Next steps