today two different geometric logo designs that you can make with the blend
tool that are guaranteed to spark your interest and your inspiration to the
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do love the blend tool illustrator and here are two simple ways to make two
neat geometric logo designs so firstly let's make sure we have just a stroke
selected in the color palettes and then choose a fairly small stroke weights you
then need to locate the polygon tool here once selected hold down shift and
then click and drag to create a polygon shape and whilst you have the shift held
down press the up and down arrows on your keyboard until you have six sides
on your shape now throughout today's blend - logo design tutorial make sure
that you have the scale stroke settings activated in the Preferences window this
is gonna help every shape that you make have the same stroke weight scaled up or
down copy your hexagon with command or ctrl C and then paste a duplicate with
command or control F hold down shift and the alt/option key at the same time and
then click and drag to scale up the new hexagon like I'm doing here and I retain
the new shape of 45 degrees and I think it's a really cool effect to have the
two Mexicans nearly touching like I have on my screen now but of course you can
experiment with different shapes for your logo design and today's tutorial is
to spark your inspiration
when ready lucky the blend tool here an Inc little both shapes directly over the
stroke lines now hold down the alt/option key and then click again you
can now select the specify steps option and experiment with different amounts of
steps with the preview box checked next for this first geometric logo let's
expand the shape here and then open up the Pathfinder window there is a new
little trick that's going to allow you to edit the stroke weight if you so wish
so once you've expanded your design you can then use the exclude option in the
Pathfinder window which is now going to allow you to edit the stroke weight if
you're not satisfied with your logo design finally we can then outline the
stroke in the top drop-down menu and add a color or a gradient to the design of
course you can experiment with different kinds of gradients that you want to
apply on your design pressing G for the gradient tool allows you to control the
direction of the gradient across the entire design now we're going to move on
to the second geometric logo design that you can make using a blend tool
for this Lego select the star tool then click on the artboard just once we want
to use four points on our star and you want to make the top radius around three
or four times larger than the bottom one once created you should have a shape
similar to mine here like we did before in the first geometric Lego copy with
command or control C and then paste a duplicate with command or control F
precise the duplicate by holding down shift and the option key at the same
time make sure to set your stroke weight relevant to your design and then grab
the blend tool what you did before again we're going to use a specified steps
function experiment different amount steps and see what your blend function
can produce
now I really like the second logo but they're both pretty cool in them right
so now go ahead and expand your design and add your color or your gradient from
here I suggest that you build up your designs using multiple different shapes
or just play around with the blend tool in this technique it could be used to
make some very very interesting geometric logos or minimal logo designs
I've had lots of fun making a video in designing geometric logo designs using a
blend tool you can make these for fun or even implement them into your workflow
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