follow along in Adobe Illustrator and create three minimal logo designs in
just under 10 minutes with Satori graphics making today's video possible
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need to locate the polygon tool and then click the artboard and hold down the
click and then drag at the same time use the up and down arrows on your keyboard
until you have six sides on your shape and then hold down shift to fix that
shape in position and then let go
we can then rotate the hexagon by 30 degrees for the start of our logo design
now press P for the pen tool and draw a vertical line from the very bottom to
the very top of the shape and then hold down the alt/option key and then click
interact to duplicate that line to the exact edge like so you do need to be
precise about this here so make sure to pay attention to your line then
duplicate two more lines anywhere in the middle click all of the four lines by
holding down shift and then put an equal distance between the lines for heading
into the align window select all of the four lines an impress command or ctrl C
to copy them and then command or ctrl F to place them in place now we take the
selection by 60 degrees a position the lines perfectly as you can see that I'm
doing here so finally let's go back to the original lines select them all and
then create another duplication but this time were taken by 300 degrees
you now need to press a for the direct selection tool and then make sure all of
the lines near the edge of the hexagon and make sure they do follow the same
path as they originally did so now it's just the case of pressing C for the
scissors tool and then clicking on the lines where we want to make a cut and
then remove this specific areas now this can be a little confusing at first
we'll follow what I'm doing where I'm cutting to finish up with a really neat
and a minimal local design I remember there are two more ladies in today's
video after this one I'm actually curious to know which of the logo
designs you think are most attractive in today's tutorial so just use a scissors
tool to click the lines and to make a cut out and then remove the parts that
we don't need and finally use a direct selection tool to click and drag the
excess lines the hang over the edge of the hexagons this is gonna finish the
first neat and minimal logo design
for the second Lego design in today's video press M for the rectangle tool and
then hold down shift to create a perfect square
use the alt/option key to duplicate this square into the top left corner and
having the smart guides activated is really going to help let you know when
you actually meet this position and you can press command or control you to
toggle between the smart guides being on or off now press R for the rotate tool
and bring the icon down into the exact center of your design in the original
square click once hold down the option key and click again we want to copy this
shape where 90 degrees then press command or control D to repeat the
process two more times now copy the original square with command or ctrl C
and then paste a duplication the command ctrl F hold down both shift amniote
option key at the same time to precise the square upwards like so we're now
going to make use of the shape builder tool which you can find here but first
you need to select all of the shapes on your design and then select the shape
builder tool if you hold down the alt/option key you will notice the minus
icon appear and this is what we want to use to click and remove the exterior of
the minimal Lego itself
so finally copy and duplicate the original square block you done
previously but imitated by 45 degrees
duplicate the new square and scale it down by holding shift and the adoption
key at the same time so that's the second the geometric minimal Lego design
and we're going to review them all they're very in the video but first
let's complete the third design the third design is going to utilize color
and gradients so it's a little less mini more in nature but it's still somewhat
so press L for the ellipse tour and then hold down shift to create a perfect
circle copy the circle and then paste a duplication with command or control F
now resize the circle down somewhere as you can see on my screen here and then
copy the innermost circle and paste another duplication then resize it by
holding down just shift so it's exactly to the right edge of the original circle
and the smart guides would inform you when you reach that position select all
of the circles and then align them horizontally
grab the shape builder tool and use the - function to remove the innermost
section and then just simply click the other two shapes with a plus icon you
should be left with just two shapes now to which we can press shift an X to
toggle The Strokes on the fill now I'm using illustrator CC so I'm going to
apply and make use of the new freeform gradient tool but if you don't have CC
you can use a stand-in gradient or you can make use of masks I actually have a
tutorial link to Sicard in the top right corner showing you how to use masks in
such a design but a trick is to create shadow in your design adding to the
final logo design effect so as I finish up my gradient I want to quickly let you
know that I'm making a second YouTube channel just as I kind of back up in
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below and subscribe to my second channel so we've finished the three logo designs
and I've added some text and three circles below in each design though
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