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While some companies that you may go to work for have their own “corporate branding” already established, many small businesses will need to create their identity for print and online marketing materials.

This article includes some of the top resources for logo design that I have found over the last month on Twitter and while visiting some of my favorite design blogs. It’s a collection of collections. I have also included some general tutorials and resources that I think that you will find useful for learning and using Photoshop and Illustrator. I will update this post as I find new resources.

Desizn Tech has compiled a list of 40 Logo Design Tutorials. This list includes tutorials for Illustrator, Photoshop, Gimp, Pixelmator & CorelDraw. Some of the tutorials outline the detailed design process from sketch, to computer, to print.

Smashing Magazine has 60+ Beautiful Logo Design Tutorials And Resources. Not all of the tutorials are specific to logo creation, but the techniques used in the tutorials are quite useful for creating logos. These tutorials focus on Illustrator, Photoshop, and Corel. You will also find logo design articles and additional resources at Smashing Magazine. There are two related articles at Smashing – Drawing Inspiration From Creative Logos and Beautiful And Creative Logo Designs For Your Inspiration.

I would also recommend checking out the Adobe Fireworks Tutorials and Downloads – Best of post while you are at Smashing Magazine. Fireworks is a great program for creating Website mockups and logos. Some students have expressed to me that Fireworks easier to master than some of the other illustration programs.

Six Revisions has two articles that you should find very useful. 70 Excellent Logo Design Tutorials and Resources has a lot of resources about the design process, from conception to final product, in addition to logo design galleries, design articles, showcases, books, and blogs and Web sites on logos. The second article, 15 Excellent Logo Design Tutorials Using Illustrator has 15 amazing tutorials for creating logo in Adobe Illustrator.

80+ Logo Designers Huge Essential Toolbox. This massive resource from tripwire magazine includes tutorials, inspiration galleries, and trends.

What Makes a Great Logo Design? is a great article at Logo Critiques. Be sure to check out the other available articles.

Logo Design Love has a collection of 81 of the best logo design resources. This resource includes where to find excellent typefaces, the history of logo design, logo design trends (Just Creative Designs has Logo Design Trends 2009), logo design articles, books, portfolios, awards, blogs, Illustrator tutorials, showcases, and style guides and manuals.

TutWow has posted 12 Incredibly Useful Logo Inspiration Sites.

You can find 25 Best Logo Design Tutorials using Photoshop at TechTreak.

While mentioned in several of the above posts, Just Creative Design has a wonderful article on The Logo Design Process of TOP Logo Designers. There are a lot of articles on Just Creative about the logo design process.

I love the post 25 Awesome Illustrator Cartoon Tutorials at Minervity. No, these are not logo tutorials, but so many logos are created in Illustrator and use a very similar process, I thought that these would be a fun way for you to sharpen your Illustrator skills.

Blog Spoon Graphics has a great collection of 40 Tutorials for Creating Highly Detailed Icon Designs. You will find both Illustrator and Photoshop tutorials in this post.

Photoshop brushes can help immensely with creating graphical elements. izzataziz a design blog has compiled 3000++ Photoshop Brush Designer Should Have.

Can’t forget Illustrator Brushes! You’ll find 45 Excellent Sets of Adobe Illustrator Brushes at Designm.ag

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Check out 80 Best-Of Adobe Illustrator Tutorials, Brushes, .EPSs and Resources at Noupe. These Illustrator resources should be very helpful.

New addition 5/12/09 – 45 logos that utilize negative space effectively at Velvet Ant.

New addition 5/12/09 – 60+ Hand Based Logo Designs at Logo Designer Blog.

New addition 5/12/09 – 5 vital logo design tips

New addition 5/12/09 – 11 Steps of a Successful Logo Design Process

New addition 5/26/09 – 40 Logo Design Tutorials – Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials at Psdtuts+

New addition 5/27/09 – Current Logo Trends (2009)

New addition 5/27/09 – Ten logo design tips from the field

New addition 6/3/09 – Insider Logo Design Tips

New addition 6/6/09 – Top 10 Sources of Logo Design Inspiration

New addition 6/7/09 – 10 Great Tips To Help You Kick Start Your Logo Design

New addition 6/7/09 – 50 Captivating & well-formed Logo Design

New addition 6/8/09 – 50 Captivating & well-formed Logo Design

New addition 6/9/09 – How to Make an Eye-Catching Logo

New addition 6/10/09 – Lust for Logos — 15 Sites to Visit for Logo Inspiration

New addition 6/21/09 – Color Psychology in Logo Design

New addition 6/25/09 – 10 Common Mistakes In Logo Design

New addition 6/29/09 – 12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo

New addition 7/01/09 – 25 Distinctive and Famous Logo Photoshop Tutorials

New addition 7/02/09 – 20 Questions To Ask Clients Prior To Designing A Logo

New addition 7/02/09 – The Rebranding of a Company – A Case Study

New addition 7/06/09 – 80 Creative and Well-designed Logos

New addition 7/08/09 – 45+ Beautiful Logo Design Tutorials and Resources for Designers

New addition 7/08/09 – Good Logos Are Flexible: Tips to make sure yours is

New addition 7/13/09 – The Logos of Logo Designers

New addition 7/15/09 – Henri Ehrhart logo design process

New addition 7/27/09 – LOGOS, Logos, logos!

New addition 7/28/09 – What makes a good logo?

New addition 7/28/09 – A Special Need logo design process

New addition 8/16/09 – 30 Creative Illustrator Logo Design Tecniques and Tutorials

New addition 8/17/09 – 27 Useful Logo Design Tutorials and Tips

New addition 8/18/09 – Illustrator type technique using shapes

New addition 8/26/09 – Vital Tips For Effective Logo Design

New addition 9/1/09 – Logo Design RoundUp Part 11 – How Designers Promote & Brand Themselves

New addition 9/1/09 – 90+ Exceptionally useful Logo Tutorials, Tips and Resources

New addition 9/17/09 – Zee Logo in Illustrator

New addition 9/21/09 – An Interview with Graphic Designer, Brian Hoff

New addition 9/21/09 – 30 Professional Logo Design Processes Revealed

New addition 10/2/09 – Crucial Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo

New addition 10/6/09 – Identity design process for a personal rebranding

New addition 10/13/09 – 6 Characteristics of Great Logo Design

New addition 10/19/09 – 57 Creatively Designed Examples Of Typography In Logo Design

New addition 11/24/09 – Tutorial: How To Create An Iconic Logo Design

New addition 11/25/09 – Logo Design Tips: Letterspacing Techniques for Different Typefaces

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