Professional Logo Design - Adobe Illustrator cs6 (COLOR) Video Lecture | How to Design a Logo in Adobe Illustrator: For Beginners and Beyond

Lets first study this design closely. If we
see this logo , it is very clean . A leaf
like shape is created and repeatedly rotated
in an angle. Each having four different colors.
Their overlapping surfaces are shaded with
brighter colors with different shades. At
the end the drop shadow is applied to give
some depth of feel. To design this logo we
will through some very useful steps. We will
understand how we can create this leaf like
shape using simple tricks. We will go through
how to apply proper color on each pieces.
So lets begin with first step.
1. Draw a circle of radius 200 using ellipse
tools , to do that select the tools and left
click your mouse button. A pallet will appear
with the attributes Height and Width, fill
it with 200 value.
2. Now draw another circle in the same way,
but ensure that its radius is 100. i.e. half
of the bigger circle.
3. Place the smaller circle over the bigger
circle in such a way that , the lower vertex
of both the circle are overlapping. Now using
the line segment tool draw a horizontal and
vertical line crossing the center of the B-circle.
4. Copy the S-circle once. Now select both
the circle and choose the subtract option
in the pathfinder pallet. It will subtract
the S-circle from the B-circle.
5. Select the individual lines and go to BOJECT>PATH>DIVIDE
OBJECT BELOW. It will separate the shape into
four parts. Delete the three shapes except
one.
6. Now press CTRL+F to past the S-circle in
front. Edit the shape using the Remove point
tool and direct selection tool to form the
particular shape.
7. Now select the shape , go to Rotate tool
and place the anchor point to the center of
the circle.
With mouse R-click + Alt , drag the shape
to an angle. This will duplicate another shape.
To duplicate 3 more times click Ctrl+D.
(Now you can delete the circle)
8. To get each part separately , select all
the shapes and divide it. Window>Pathfinder>divide
Now delete all the unwanted parts .
9. Our next steps is
to
fill
the colors. For that
we have our color pallet. Use this to fill
up all
the colors.
10. Select all the shapes togather and group
it. We will add a drop shadow effect
by going to Effect>stylize>drop shadow and
giving some shadow.
11. Finally our text 'color' with font type
'Century Gothic'. These steps are very smooth
and very simple to create
this LOGO.