Professional Logo Design - Adobe Illustrator CS6 (Pixel) Video Lecture | How to Design a Logo in Adobe Illustrator: For Beginners and Beyond

Let simplify this design first. If we see
this logo, its main attraction is letter P.
so to form this logo, the concept of pixels
is used. In digital imaging, a pixel, pel,
or picture element is a physical point in
a raster image,
Every image you see is made of pixels. It
is the sample of original image. Each pixel
are very small square shape consist of various
color. Thus this logo represent the visual
feature of pixal.
If we study this design, there are number
of square of different shades of color, whole
forming a rectangle. There are 5 by 8 division
of square placed horizontally and vertically.
the empty space representing letter 'P'
To create this :
1. To Draw a rectangle , first select the
Rectangle tool. Click the left mouse click
button. A pallet will appear, with attributes
height and width. fill the space with Width
and Height in the ratio 5 by 8.
2. To divide the rectangle into 5 by 8 division.
Select the rectangle and go to Object > path
> Split into grid. The option pallet will
appear. Fill the value with 5 columns and
8 rows. This will divide the rectangle into
multiple number of squares.
3. Now delete the squares to form an empty
shape of letter P. And delete few more squares
randomly from below.
4. If we see the logo carefully, the upper
right corner and the inner corner have rounded
edge. So select the rounded rectangle tool
and click the left mouse button. A pallet
box will aprear, fill the corner radius 20
points and ok.
5. Now place this rounded rectangle
over
the design in such a way that there top and
right edges overlapping the lower design.
Now select the rectangle and the top square
, with the shape builder tool divide the top
edge and delete the piece.
6. In the same way we will do for the inner
portion , scale down the rounded rectangle
to match the inner space.
Select
the rectangle and the squares and
with shape builder select
the empty space. This will fill the empty space.
7. Delete the rounded rectangle
8. Now from the color pallet, which we have
already prepared, select the appropriate color
an fill the square boxes.
9. Finally the we will finish the logo by
adding some drop shadow. In
this way we have prepare this
logo representing the feature of pixel.