This is my third post about logo designing and the logo I have selected to draw today is of Douglas County Bank (a bank that is offering banking and trust services to Northeastern Kansas USA). In the following image you can see a logo of Douglas County Bank that I have just made using CorelDraw X6. Though the logo in this image may seem very simple and apparently made up of a few equal sized triangular shapes placed together, but when it comes to draw it by hand or by the use of CorelDraw, it might not be proved as much simple as it looks.
When I made my first attempt to draw this logo using triangles, I couldn't succeed and it took almost three hours to discover a proper method through which one can draw it without wasting much time or without getting bored. Here in this post I have decided to share the same method I have just discovered about the designing of Douglas County Bank's logo by the use of Polygon Tool, Rectangle Tool,Outline Pen Tool, Text Tool, Mirror Vertically, Mirror Horizontally and a very useful shaping option named Trim given in CorelDraw X6.
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| Name, Preset destination, Size, Color mode and Resolution for the document |
Having created a new document, first of all, select
Polygon Tool either by clicking on it
in the Tool Box or by hitting
Y on
the keyboard.
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| Polygon Tool in the menu |
As soon as you will select
that tool, pointer of your mouse will assume the shape of a plus (+) sign with
a tiny five-cornered shape at the bottom-right of it, and the properties of the
selected tool including
Points or sides
and
Outline width will be appeared on the Property Bar.Set the
value equal to
6 in the box referred
as
Points or sides and select
0.5 out of the values given in the drop-down menu named
Outline width for the polygon. Then, put the pointer of your mouse anywhere on the document and draw a six cornered shape by dragging your mouse in any direction and keeping it’s left button pressed. Then with the help of
Pick Tool select that shape and set its width equal to
6.1 and its height equal to
6.7 in the Property Bar by typing the values in the relevant boxes and hitting the
Enter Key. As soon as you will hit the
Enter Key on the keyboard, the selected six sided shape will assume the same width and height.
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| Width, Height, Sides and Outline width for the polygon |
After that, make a
duplicate of that recently made shape either by getting inside the
Edit Menu
and selecting the option
Duplicate or by hitting
CTRL + D on the keyboard.
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| Option named Duplicate in the menu named Edit |
As
soon as you will do so, another six-cornered shape with equal width and height
will be appeared on the document. Then, with the help of
Pick Tool, select that
duplicate shape and set it’s width equal to
4.1 and its height equal to
4.7 in the Property Bar by typing the
values in the relevant boxes and hitting the
Enter Key. As soon as you will do
so, duplicate shape will assume the same width and height.
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| Two six sided shapes with different size |
Then select both the
shapes on the document by hitting
CTRL +
A on the keyboard and align their centers horizontally, by hitting
E on the keyboard and vertically, by
hitting
C on the keyboard. As soon
as you will hit these two keys, both the shapes on the document will be set on
the same spot.
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| Two shapes neatly placed on the same spot |
Then once again select both the shapes by hitting
CTRL +A or by getting inside the
Edit Menu and selecting the option
named
Objects that is supposed to be
found in the
Edit Menu’s option
Select
All’s side menu. As soon as you will
select both the shapes, shaping options (including
Weld, Trim, Intersect, Simplify, Front minus back, Back minus front and
Create boundary) will be appeared on
the Property Bar. Out of those shaping options, the option that is supposed to
be selected here is
none other than
Trim. So select the option
Trim so that the part of the first
shape that is hidden behind the duplicate shape could be trimmed off. As soon
as you will select that option, the hidden part of the first shape will be
trimmed off nicely.
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| Shaping options for the two selected shapes |
Then, select the duplicate shape with the help of
Pick Tool
and delete it either by getting inside the
Edit
Menu and selecting the option
Delete
or by hitting the
Delete Key on
the keyboard. As soon as you will do so, duplicate shape will be deleted and
there will be left nothing but a ring shaped part of the first shape with empty
central area.
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| Ring shaped part of the first shape with empty central area |
After that select that ring shaped remaining part of the first
shape with the help of
Pick Tool and
fill dark maroon color inside it. As in the default CMYK Color Palette, that
shade is not supposed to be found so in order to fill that color inside the
selected shape, get inside the
Window
Menu and select the option
Dockers. As soon as you will select that option, it’s large side menu will be appeared containing more than twenty five options. Out of those options select none other than
Color.
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| Window Menu containing various options |
As soon as you
will select that option, a window named
Color Docker will be appeared on the
right side of CorelDraw window beside the Color Palette. In that window
there will be seen a drop-down menu called
Color
model and a
Color Picker like the one we have seen and used in Photoshop
. Out of
the options given in that drop-down menu called
Color model, select
CMYK. As soon as you will select that
option, four boxes representing
Cyan (C),
Magenta (M),
Yellow (Y) and Black (K)
will be appeared in the same window. Type
26 in the box representing
Cyan (C),
100 in the box representing
Magenta (M),
63 in the box representing
Yellow (Y)
and
18 in the box representing
Black (K).
Having set the components of all four colors, hit the button named
Fill that can be seen beneath the
Color Picker. A soon as you will hit that button required shade will be
filled inside the selected shape.
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| Color Docker window |
After that, select
Rectangle Tool either by clicking
on it in the Tool Box or by hitting
F6 on the keyboard.
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| Rectangle Tool in the menu |
As soon as, you will
select that too,l pointer of your mouse will assume the shape of a plus ( + )
sign with a small rectangular shape at the bottom right of it. Then, put that
plus sign shaped pointer of your mouse anywhere on the document and draw a
large rectangular shape there by dragging your mouse in any direction and
keeping it’s left button pressed. Then
fill any color in that rectangular shape to make it clearly visible by
selecting any thumbnail representing any bright color in the Color Palette with
left mouse click. After that, with the help of
Pick Tool put that newly made rectangle on the lower part of the
maroon shape so that it could hide the whole shape save from the upper
triangular part of the shape according to the picture below.
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| Right way to place rectangle on the six cornered shape |
After that, select
both the shapes on the document by hitting
CTRL
+ A. As soon as you will do so, shaping
options will again be appeared on the Property Bar. Out of those options select
Trim again to have the hidden part of the maroon shape nicely trimmed off. As soon as
you will select that option, hidden part of the maroon shape will be trimmed
off or deleted.
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| Trimming of the lower part of the shape. |
Then, with the help of
Pick
Tool put that bright colored rectangle on the right side of the maroon
shape so that it could hide the unnecessary part of the triangular shape. Then
select both the shapes on the document again by hitting
CTRL + A to have the shaping options again on the Property Bar according to the
picture below.
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| Unnecessary right part of the shape is about to be trimmed |
Out of those shaping options, select the option
Trim again to
trim the unnecessary right part of the shape. As soon as you will select the option
Trim, unnecessary part of the shape hidden behind the rectangle will be deleted
or vanished . Then with the help of
Pick
Tool put that bright colored rectangle on the unnecessary left part of the
shape so that it could hide it, and again select both the shapes on the document
by hitting
CTRL +A to have the
shaping options including
Trim once
more on the Property Bar according to the picture below.
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| Unnecessary left part of the shape is about to be trimmed |
Then, select the option
Trim once more to have the unnecessary left part of the shape nicely trimmed
off. Having done so, select that large bright colored rectangle with the help of
Pick Tool and delete
it either by getting inside the
Edit Menu and
selecting the option
Delete or by
hitting the key named
Delete on the
keyboard. Having deleted the rectangle you will have nothing on the document
but an L shaped part of the maroon shape.
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| Remaining part of the sex cornered shape on the document |
Then, select that shape with the help
of
Pick Tool and make a duplicate of it either by hitting
CTRL + D on the keyboard or by getting inside the
Edit Menu and selecting the option
Duplicate given in the menu. As soon as you will select the option
Duplicate or hit
CTRL + D, a
duplicate maroon colored shape will be appeared on the document. Select that
maroon colored duplicate shape with the help of
Pick Tool and set the
Angle
of rotation for it equal to
300o
by typing the value in the relevant box given in the Property Bar and
hitting the
Enter Key. As soon as
you will hit the
Enter Key, the
selected shape will be rotated on the same angle.
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| Duplicate shape rotated on the angle of 300 degree |
After that, with the help of
Pick Tool put that duplicate shape with
300o
Angle of rotation beside the
first shape according to the picture below.
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| Right place for both the shapes |
Then, select that duplicate shape
with the help of
Pick Tool and make
a duplicate of it too, either by hitting
CTRL +
D on the keyboard or by getting inside the
Edit Menu and selecting the option
Duplicate. As soon as you will do so, a duplicate of the second
shape will be appeared on the document. Select that duplicate shape with the
help of
Pick Tool to have it’s
properties activated in the Property Bar. Then, in order to have that recently
emerged third shape on the document flipped from top to bottom, select
Mirror Vertically by clicking on it in
the Property Bar.
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| Third shape ready to be mirrored vertically |
As soon as you will do so, the third shape will turn upside
down. Then, with the help of
Pick Tool
put that upturned duplicate of the second shape beside the two shapes according
to the picture below.
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| Three shapes on the right places |
Then, select all the shapes on the document by hitting
CTRL + A on the keyboard and group them
together either by getting inside the
Edit Menu and selecting the option
Group
or by hitting
CTRL + G on the keyboard.
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| Option referred as Group in the Arrange Menu |
After making a group of all the shapes,
select that group with the help of
Pick Tool and make a duplicate of it either
by hitting
CTRL + D on the keyboard
or by selecting the option called
Duplicate
given in the
Edit Menu. As soon as you will do so, a duplicate group
of three shapes will be appeared on the document.
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| Two groups on the document |
Then, select that duplicate group
with the help of
Pick Tool and flip
it from top to bottom by selecting
Mirror
Vertically on the Property Bar.
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| Duplicate group after being mirrored vertically |
Then, flip the same group from left to right
by selecting
Mirror Horizontally on
the Property Bar.
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| Duplicate group after being mirrored vertically and horizontally |
After that, with the help of
Pick Tool place that horizontally
and vertically mirrored group right beneath the first group according to the
picture below.
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| Two groups on the right place |
After that select both the groups on the document by hitting
CTRL + A and group them together by
hitting
CTRL + G. After that,
click the small arrow that can be seen at the bottom right of the tool
named
Outline Pen in the Tool Box to
open a menu containing different outline styles. Out of those
styles, select
10 pt for the selected
group and then in order to fill white
color in the outlines of the shapes in the selected group , select the thumbnail representing white
color in the Color Palette with right mouse click.
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| Outline width and Color for all the shapes in the selected group |
After that, select
Text Tool
either by clicking on it in the Tool Box or by hitting
F8 on the keyboard.
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| Text Tool in the Tool Box |
As
soon as you will do so, pointer of your mouse will assume the shape of a plus (
+ ) sign with letter
A at the
bottom-right of it. Then put that plus sign shaped pointer of your mouse right
beside the recently made logo and type the phrase
“Douglas County Bank” there (press
Enter after each word in the phrase). Then select that recently typed text with
the help of
Pick Tool to have it’s
properties in the Property Bar. Out of those properties, select
Arial as typeface for the selected text
out of the options given in the drop-down menu called
Font List and select
72 pt
out of the options given in the drop-down menu called
Font Size.
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| Recently typed text on the document and it's properties in the Property Bar |
After that, select the
Text Tool again either by hitting
F8 on the keyboard or by clicking on it in the Tool Box and type the phrase
“Member
FDIC” right beneath the first phrase. Then select that recently typed phrase
with the help of
Pick Tool and again select the option
Arial out of the various options given in the drop-down menu called
Font List and
set
Font Size for the
selected text equal to
40 pt by
typing the value in the relevant box and hitting the
Enter Key. As soon as you will hit the
Enter Key, selected text will assume the same size.
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| Two phrases on the document having different Font Sizes by same typeface |
Then, select all
the objects including the logo and the text on the document by hitting
CTRL + A and
group them together by hitting
CTRL + G.
Then get inside the
File
Menu and select the option
Save
or hit
CTRL + S to save the image in
CDR format or in order to save the same image in any format other than CDR, select
the option
Export given in the
File Menu or hit
CTRL + E on the keyboard. Having saved the logo in your required format you can use it anywhere you like by
putting different backgrounds behind it according to your choice.
I hope you will find this post helpful and interesting. If
so, kindly let me aware of that, by sharing your opinions and thoughts about
the post in the form of your valued comments.
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