- [Instructor] Here's an idea
for approaching a modular logo system.
A modular system might be useful
if you want to design a range of symbols
for different departments within a single organization.
So, I'm going to begin by drawing myself a framework.
This framework I will convert to a live paint group
and then apply paint to the segments differently
for each iteration of the framework.
Let's start out with an ellipse.
I want to make sure that this has no fill
and no stroke.
I'm going to switch to my outline view mode
so that I can be as precise as possible.
Now centered on this ellipse
I'm going to draw a square.
I'll select both.
Copy.
And then paste in front.
With that copy that is in front,
I'm going to scale it up.
Option or Alt and the Shift key.
Make sure that the circle actually touches the edge
of the rectangle.
Let's now repeat that, Command + C to copy,
Command + F to paste in front.
Scale it up again.
Command + C, Command + F.
One more time.
Now let's select everything.
Double click on the rotate tool
and we will rotate a copy
through 45 degrees.
Now choose the line tool.
Draw an intersecting line
from the center point holding down Option or Alt.
Double click on the rotate tool.
Rotate a copy of that line
through 45 degrees.
Repeat that transformation twice.
This is our framework.
Now it's going to be helpful
for me to see this framework as guides
because I need to start out with it
as having no fill and no stroke
but I want some visual guide
of where to go.
So, I'm going to switch back to my preview view mode
where everything now disappears.
We know it's there, we can swipe over it
and let me move it over to the corner first of all
'cause we're going to have several of these.
I'll copy it and then press Command or Control + five
to convert it to guides.
Now deselect it, assuming that my guides are turned on,
we will see the guide framework.
On top of this,
I'm going to paste the artwork.
I want to make sure that my guides
are currently not locked
because assuming that I'm happy with this framework,
I'm going to duplicate it
along with the artwork several times.
Now I want to come and lock the guides.
So, I'll start over here with my first version
and come and choose my live paint bucket.
I can now click and that artwork has been converted
to a live paint group.
I'm only going to use black.
Of course you can explore a whole wider range of options
if you introduce the second color
but for now I just want to keep it simple.
So, I'm going to decide which segments I want filled
and we see that in here waiting to be teased out,
we have squares, we have circles, we have triangles,
we have rings.
So, this
I might say is my first logo mark.
Let me just hide my guides,
Command or Control + semicolon.
And now we'll move on and we'll experiment further
with our second grid.
Select it.
Convert it to a live paint group.
So, maybe here I want to explore some
of the triangular options that we have.
And there potentially is my second logo mark.
Now you might be using this just as a way
to spark your creativity
and to give you ideas about how to tease out shapes
within shapes or you may actually want
to finalize this as the actual artwork
in which case you would need to come
to the Object menu and expand
and then to your Path Finder
where you can combine all of those intersecting shapes.
It's a lot of fun to try this.
Make yourself a grid,
the grid that I used is my no means definitive.
Find your own comfort level with the complexity
of the grid and then fill in the different segments
to tease out the shapes within.