So a lot of times when we are trying to come up with a logo for our brand, we really just need to get
something on the page and you don't have to try and redefine exactly what it is that you want.
You don't have to invent a new shape.
You don't have to come up with something that's never, never, never been used before.
And I want to show you this really cool.
It's a totally free resource.
It's called Flat Icon Dotcom.
It's this website here.
You can choose to log in and sign up and you get almost unlimited downloads on all the free ones you
can pay and get some of the better icons.
But you can just pop over to this website or not sign up or anything like that and just type in a few
keywords and get some really strong, usable icons to start incorporating into some of your logos.
I'm definitely sharing this resource because it can be super overwhelming to have to design a logo and
a lot of the hard work and the heavy lifting has already been done for you.
And I just want to show you how to access that.
So if you come to flight icon dot com, it's a website, you can just type in something that you you
have in mind.
Let's say we have let's say we have a flower company so we can type in flower hit return and all the
ones without the crown on them are free to use so long as you credit the person who has designed them.
If you ask if you are charging forward for this product.
So anything with the crown is only available to premium users.
Feel free to sign up if you like this website and show them your support.
But if you're just here for a couple of icons, you can scroll through here until you find something
that you like.
Let's take this Rose, for example, and you can download this icon to use as part of your logo and
jump straight in.
You can choose to download it as the PNG file or in SVG and SVG is going to be a vector format, which
means you can scale it up and down as much as you want without it getting blurry.
But for the exercise for today, we can just use PNG until you start locking stuff into place and you
need to be printing them on big banners and things.
We can just start with a PNG.
So download that you just hit PNG and it's going to say you can pay to get the rights for this use or
you can get a free download if you attribute the author.
So always make sure you give credit where credit is due.
This one here is by Dinosaur Labs, as you can see like that.
So if we're using that, that is who designed this logo.
You can come back up at any time, change your search.
Let's say now we're using maybe we're a pet grooming company so you can type in pet and see what pops
up and use any of the uses are free to use again so long as you credit who wrote them.
So there's a resource.
Let's jump over to Photoshop together.
Here it is as well.
And let's get started by using our.
So let's make a new document together, and we're going to create an icon logo that we can use on our
mock up template.
So let's go create new wait for this document thing to pop up here.
And I'm happy to go.
Let's do eight by.
Absolutely.
I like that let's do eight by five, gives us a lot of room to play around in and let's make sure that
we have 70 pixels per cent tomato.
Great, I hit enter and here is our canvas, you can zoom out if it's a little too in your face there.
OK, so in our project files.
So if we open up our Icon logo project files, you'll find that I've already put some images in here
for you.
So feel free to play around with these if you're just getting started.
But you can also use a website like Flett Icon to find something that's more particular to your niche.
So let's go ahead and bring in this like PMG icon.
Let's say we have a bike repair store.
So I'm going to through this icon, say, right up here up the top.
And without even touching this icon at all, I'm going to throw in a text layer and name our bicycle
store.
It's chosen to use a pretty bold text here, and that can be super powerful, if that's what you like,
but at any point, of course, we can come into our character's properties up the top here and choose
a different sized text.
And maybe we want it to be a little smaller and we want to be quite light and maybe we want our text
size and pressingly down arrow button.
If you want it to be quite small, we're going to do that and then increase the size between my letters,
because I think that always gives it a really clean, minimal look for that directly under.
And looking at this, that is a logo.
That is a brand.
That is a color scheme.
We have black and white here and we didn't do anything or we brought in was a free icon that we found
together.
And we added the name of our company and we have a logo.
If this was a business card, that would be strong, that would be acceptable.
It would be clean.
It'd be neat.
So there you go.
If we want to even go one step further, maybe I can try and match my text size to be the same size
as the line here and maybe add a little bit more cohesion.
So let me I'm going to say semi bold might be the way to go.
Oh, we could probably go up one more step.
Let's go to boat, that's better.
Now that I actually think looks a little more cohesive, I'm going to make this slightly smaller by
pressing command T and resizing my bike.
Probably at here.
If you open back up out project files, you'll see this Photoshop file here called zero zero one.
If you go ahead and open that I've given you a business card mock up template here.
So this is free for you to use.
I've created this so that you can use it and see what your designs look like, locked up onto a nice
business card.
And so I'm going to zoom out just a little bit and I'm going to come across here and actually make this
quite, quite big.
So highlight both of those layers come.
Let's stretch it so that we don't have any pixels running around here and messing up our look.
Let's go, OK, go to turn the background off.
I'm going to go file save as I'm going to call this bike.
Michelago.
Save it as a PG, remember, a PG keeps our background transparent and I'm going to hit, save and OK
if I come across to our business card template, if you drag in your logo that you've just made together.
So wherever you've saved that, go ahead and drop that in.
And it's looking pretty good right there.
So I'm going to just tilt that to match our shape of the card.
And there you go.
That is our bike business card that we made in probably two minutes together.
So join me in the next lesson and we'll do something a little more complicated.