Mastering Logo Design: Gridding with the Golden Ratio Skillshare Original

Learn the secrets to creating a perfect logo using this class by George Bokhua. The legendary graphic designer and teacher of more than 25,000 Skillshare students, George Bokhua.

George will share his secrets for creating complex logos that last. The Golden Ratio, also known as the Golden Spiral and Golden Section, is a proportion that is known to be especially pleasing to the eyes. George uses it to grid his logos and creates an impression of perfection with every mark he makes. This 45-minute class will teach you how to grid your work using the Golden Spiral.

Key lessons include:

• Understanding the Golden Ratio and when to use it
• Adobe Illustrator: Gridding a complex logo
• Incorporating Golden Ratios to create natural marks
• Techniques for fine-tuning to ensure perfection

This class is ideal for illustrators and designers who want to improve their logo design skills. This technique allows you to grid logos of any complexity. You can create the lasting, beautiful work you have always envisioned.

What You Will Learn

• Introduction. Introduction. George Bokhua will show you how the golden spiral can help organize your logo and make multiple shapes into one cohesive form.
• Understanding the golden section. The golden section has been used historically in architecture (think the Parthenon) and in nature (think owls). George will demonstrate examples of his logo design work using the golden ratio and prepare you to take on his assignment.
  
• Choosing the right reference image. It is important to choose the right reference image when designing an animal logo. This article will show you how to choose a reference image based on an animal's silhouette.
  
• Sketching. This course will teach you how to take an image and reduce it into its most basic, geometric parts. You'll use a pencil and tracing papers to trace over your reference and look for ways to simplify it into simpler shapes such as squares and circles. It must be the same animal that you started with. Learn how to convert your drawn image into Adobe Illustrator files using anchor points.
  
• How to create a golden section. Learn how to create a spiral in Adobe Illustrator.
  
• Use golden sections to grid your design in Adobe Illustrator. You will learn how to identify points in your design that lend themselves to the golden spiral or other geometric shapes. Also, when it is time to stop gridding.
  
• Creating custom shapes. This tutorial will show you how to adjust and realign the shapes in your grid to correct minor inconsistencies. Your initial Illustrator sketch of your animal is more important than its grid, so don’t let the grid override the design!
  
• Create grid shapes. Once you have created the basic shape of your logo you can add grid elements to it. Learn how a grid can affect both the outline and internal elements of a logo and how to connect the dots so that all the grid lines create a cohesive image that represents your chosen animal.
  
• Fine-tune the logo. Learn how to use Illustrator tools such as anchor points to smoothen out wavy lines and make your logo look like your animal reference. George will encourage you not to look at your grid, but to pay attention to the negative space.
• Conclusion. The hardest thing about designing a brand logo using the golden section of the logo is the first time. Practice makes perfect.

Join George's basic gridding class Logo Design with Grids - Timeless Style with Simple Shapes to learn how to design with grids.

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