today you're going to learn how to set up a doobie illustrator for Luger
designs that utilize a grid and then I'm going to show you some tips and some
tricks for creating awesome logo designs in combination with grids sponsoring
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later in today's video and just how helpful milliner can be for your
creative design process so before we actually design our logos we of course
need a grid to work with today as you might have guessed we're working in
Adobe Illustrator and illustrator does have a great built in grid and we can
use this as a base for our designs you can make the grid visible by coming into
the view options and then selecting show grids however there are various
different settings that you need to be aware of when utilizing this grid now
firstly I find it useful to use pixels as their ruler measurements and you can
right click the rulers to change the measurements used it's also useful to
turn off this snap to pixel grid option as this can distort your selection and
navigation as I've shown in previous videos
now if we zoom into illustrator you're gonna notice that each large square on
my grid is equal to 50 pixels this is my personal preference and it does change
depending on the logo I'm designing but by defaults I think illustrator uses 72
pixels per square which I find just causes issues when calculating distances
now you can adjust these settings in the Preferences window here and I also have
each small square equal to 10 pixels within the larger 50 pixel square so
again this is entirely up to you and what you want to use for your setup now
another setting that you want to be aware of is the snap to grid function
this can be both very useful and also very annoying depending on your design
and what you're doing but if I turn it off and then I go to make a rectangle
you can see that the dimensions move freely around the are boards now with a
grid function activated my shape stick directly to each grid square on the line
so you just think about what you want to be using for your logo design and you
might want to switch this on and off throughout the entire project so now
you've set up your grid for a logo designing let's delve into some really
useful and handy tips when a grid is used from the very start of a logo
design project scaling and then modifying the logo becomes a lot easier
in the latter stages of the projects also a logo needs to stay consistent
even after years and years of changes so having things precise on a grid is
really useful the grid line is still helped to provide some consistency to
the logo design and as a quick example I've got a symbol here that I briefly
made up and you can see that it's two large squares thick which on my outboard
is 100 pixels
now if I open up the transform window I can type in 50% for the height and the
width of my logo and this will prove that one large square is half of my
design now this is how a grid is useful for scaling because you can judge and
calculate proportions for your designs based on the grid alone the next tip is
to try and use geometric shapes as much as possible on your grid and logo
designs I'm going to explain why soon but quickly to demonstrate I have the
ellipse tool selected here and if I hold down both the alt option and the shift
key and then click and drag I can generate a circle that snaps to each
grid line from the center I can then copy this we command or
control C and then paste it in place with command or control F it's then just
a matter of repeating the process to end up with three circles
I can then select all three circles and then duplicate them by holding down the
alt/option key and clicking and dragging the layout that you use for your shapes
will depend on the logo design of course but for some greater detail let's now
take the pencil and draw one single horizontal line
I can then duplicate it with the alt/option key and then press command or
control D to repeat the process and downwards so for the next step you can
either select everything and then use the divide function in the Pathfinder
window or you can use the shape builder tool located here by default the shape
builder tool is going to unite shapes together as you can see the plus icon
above your cursor so carefully click and drag over your selections uniting parts
that you want to use and I'm gonna make a very crude and a very random logo
symbol that probably is gonna look ugly but it's just a demonstration purpose
and then to remove excess shapes hold down the alt/option key and then drew
over those areas that you don't want to be used on your design you will then be
left with a solid shape for your lego mark now using geometric shapes isn't
just quicker than drawing things yourself but you're guaranteed a crisp
and a precise outcome so the next point is something I've spoken about my
channel before and that is not falling for mathematical systems one of the most
common systems is a golden ratio but perfect geometry doesn't always appeal
to the human eye and actually the golden ratio has been debunked many many times
the mathematics for it actually are impossible to recreate because a decimal
point is never ending and also the Apple logo has been
debunked because it doesn't even come that close to the golden ratio
mathematically speaking but the point here is that you shouldn't restrict your
creativity and the possibilities for your Lego by complying to a strict
mathematical system that has actually flawed anyway but yeah big thanks to
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streamlining your creative design process in a more efficient way today so
there was a look at how to set up a grid for your Lego designs and then to go
further there on some tips and some points that you want to keep in mind
when designing a logo with a great system do you use grids on your Lego
designs please do you let me know down below
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