made of three interlocking circles.
With my ellipse tool,
I'll click to create a circle at 250 points.
I'll duplicate this holding down Option or Alt
and the Shift key.
And then I'll duplicate it again.
It's this interlocking area
at the center of the three circles
that will serve as our guide.
I'll select these three circles,
press Cmd or Ctrl + 5 to convert them to guides.
I'll now create another circle,
and position this relative to the guides.
I'm going to create another duplicate.
This time I want the duplicate offset by a specific amount.
So, I'll come to the Object menu
and choose Transform Move.
I want to move it by 15 points horizontally
and zero vertically, making a copy.
Then, with the two selected,
I'll come to the Pathfinder and choose Minus Front.
Next, duplicate the crescent
by holding down Option or Alt + Shift,
and dragging away from it.
Press Cmd or Ctrl + D, one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven times, for a total of nine segments.
Select all of those, apply a Fill of None.
Come to the live paint bucket,
and click to make a live paint group.
Now we want, starting with black,
we want every other segment to be black.
And then I'm just going to switch to white
to fill in the remaining segments.
Now, switching back to my selection tool,
I'll duplicate that, come to my Reflect tool,
and reflect it across the vertical axis.
Now I'll nudge it into position
so that it aligns with the guides.
I'll create a third copy,
holding down the Option or Alt key,
dragging away from it,
and then rotate this through 90 degrees.
Position it according to the guides.
Now starting with this one that is selected,
I'll tap R for my rotate tool,
and rotate it through about 30 degrees,
and align it so that its right edge
aligns with the right edge of section number one.
I'll now come and choose section number two,
tap R for my rotate tool, and rotate it into place.
The problem we now have,
and I'll just turn off my guides to make it clearer,
I'll press cmd or ctrl + semicolon,
is the overlapping segments.
So I'm going to select the top portion
and send this to the back,
and then the bottom portion, and send that to the back.
What I'll do next is select the top portion,
make a copy of it on a separate layer
so that we obscure the parts of section number one
that we don't want to see,
and then we will use the shape builder
to trim the edge so that we don't see
the portions that overlap section number two.
So I'm actually going to select
section two and section three,
come and create a new layer,
and make copies of them to that layer.
Hold down Option or Alt,
and drag up copies to that new layer.
I'll now hide everything except what's on layer three.
Come to the object menu and expand.
And then to the object menu and ungroup.
Choose ungroup a couple of times,
until we've now broken this down into individual items.
I'll start by deleting
all but one of the segments of portion number two,
so that we're just left with that topmost segment.
That now needs to come to the front.
So select it, arrange, bring to front.
Now I'll select everything that's on this layer,
and come to the shape builder tool.
Holding down my option or alt key,
I'll click on the segments or swipe over the segments
that we want to subtract.
And there's one small one there that
you'll need to get in very close to be able to see.
Now I can zoom out,
come and turn my layers back on.
So, I still have an issue here,
but all I need to do now is,
I'll turn off layer three momentarily,
select the topmost section, send this to the back,
and then turn back on layer number three.
And there we have our finished
approximation of the Woolmark logo.