CorelDraw Tutorial : Logo of Blackberry World

This is my second post about logo designing and in this post I am going to explain some remarkably simple tips by following which one can draw an awesome logo of a worldly famous organization named Blackberry World within a few minutes. For instance in the following image you can see a logo  that is made in CorelDraw X6 using Rectangle Tool, Ellipse Tool, Fill Tool, Text Tool and a very important shaping option named Trim.

Logo of Blackberry World made in CorelDraw X6

If you read the following step by step procedure with a good amount of concentration, you will be able to draw a perfect logo of Blackberry World within five minutes of so without getting involved in any big or small difficulty.

How to draw an awesome logo of Blackberry World using CorelDraw X6?

Having created a new document, first of all select the Ellipse Tool either  by clicking on it  in the Tool Box or by hitting F7 on the keyboard.

Ellipse 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 small shape of an ellipse at the bottom-right of it. Then put that plus sign shaped pointer of your mouse anywhere on the document and drag your mouse in any direction to draw a shape of an ellipse there. Then in order to convert that ellipse into a perfect circle, select it with the help of Pick Tool and set it’s width and height equals to 7.0 in the Property Bar and hit Enter. As soon as you will hit the Enter Key, selected object will assume the same width and height and will be transformed into a perfect circle. After that, select that circle with the help of Pick Tool and fill light grey color inside it by selecting the thumbnail representing light grey color in the Color Palette with left mouse click and then, select the same thumbnail again (this time with right mouse click) to fill the same color in the selected shape’s outline too.

Width, height and color for the selected shape

 After that, make a duplicate of that shape either by getting inside the Edit Menu and selecting the option Duplicate or by hitting CTRL + D on the keyboard. As soon as you will do so, another grey circle of the same width and height will be appeared on the document.

Duplicate shape appeared on the document

Select that duplicate circle with the help of Pick Tool and then click the small arrow that can be seen at the bottom right of the Fill Tool to open a menu containing Fill Tool's options. Out of those options,  the option which is supposed to be selected here is none other than Fountain Fill (option referred as Fountain Fill can also be selected by hitting F11 on the keyboard ).

Menu containing Fill Tool's options

As soon as you will select that option, a dialogue box called Fountain Fill will be appeared. In that dialogue box there will be seen a drop-down menu called Type containing different types of gradient  including, Linear, Radial, Conical and Square. Out of those types select none other than Linear , set the Angle of it equal to 0^o and Edge Pad equal to 0%. Further, in the same dialogue box there will be seen two radio buttons named Two Color and Custom under the head of Color Blend . By default, you will find the radio button named Two Color selected in that dialogue box with all it’s setting options visible beneath the two radio buttons when you will open it by selecting Fountain Fill out of the options given in the Fill Tool Menu.

Type, Angle, Edge pad and Color blend in the dialogue box called Fountain Fill

As here the radio button named Custom is supposed to be selected,  so select it by clicking on it. As soon as you will select that button, the setting options of Two Color will be replaced by the setting options of Custom including a Color Palette, a rectangular shape with two tiny squares at the top-right and top-left corners of it ,an inactive box named Position and a drop-down menu called Preset.

You will notice that the tiny square  at the top-left corner of rectangular shape will be black (or selected) by default indicating the selected left part of the shape. It means that any color can be filled in that part of the shape with a single left mouse click on any color given in the Color Palette.  As black color is supposed to be filled in that part of the shape, select the thumbnail representing black color in the color palette with left mouse click. As soon as you will do so, black color will be filled inside the left part of the shape.

Radio button  named Custom under the head of Color blend

Then, select the square at the top-right corner of the shape by clicking on it to have the right part of the shape selected, then fill black color in that part of the shape too by selecting the thumbnail representing black color in the Color Palette with left mouse click again.  As soon as you will do so black color will be filled inside the right part of the shape too, and the shape will become totally dark black.

Black color has been filled inside the right part of the shape

 After that put the pointer of your mouse anywhere on that dark black rectangle  and hit the left button of your mouse twice. As soon as you will do so, a slide will be appeared right above the totally black rectangular shape with a small black arrow pointing toward the selected part of the shape and the formerly inactive option called Position (showing the position of black arrow ) will be activated. Set the position of black arrow equal to 50 in the box called Position  and select the thumbnail representing white color in the Color Palette with  left mouse click to fill white color in the middle of the shape.

Whit fill in the middle of the shape

 After that, click OK to apply this setting on the selected circle on the document. As soon as you will click OK, the setting in the dialogue box called Fountain Fill will be applied on the selected circle.

Two circles on the document

After that, select both the circles on the document by hitting CTRL + A  and then, in order to put both the circles on the same place, get inside the Arrange Menu and select the option Align and Distribute. As soon as you will select that option , it’s side menu will be appeared containing a few more options including Align Centers Vertically  and Align Centers Horizontally .  Select Align Centers Vertically or hit C on the keyboard to align the centers of both the circles vertically on the document and then select Align Centers Horizontally or hit E on the keyboard to align the centers of both the circles horizontally on the document.

Side menu of the option Align and Distribute in the Arrange Menu

Having done so, you will have both the circles on the document nicely placed on the same spot and the grey circle totally hidden behind the black one.

Circle that has hidden the other circle on the document

After that, select Rectangle Tool out of the Tool Box by clicking on it or by hitting F6 on the keyboard.

Rectangle 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 small rectangular shape  at the bottom-right of it. Then, draw a large rectangle anywhere on the document  by dragging your mouse and keeping it’s left button pressed and with the help of Pick Tool put that newly made rectangle on the half upper part of the circle. Then, holding down the Shift Key on the keyboard, click the left button of your mouse on the rectangle and on the black and white shaded circle one by one to have both of these selected at the same time (don’t hit CTRL +A because we don’t want to select the hidden light grey circle). As soon as the rectangle and the black circle will be selected,  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, select Trim to have the half upper part of the black circle nicely trimmed off.

Shaping options in the Property Bar

 As soon as , you will select that option the half upper part of the black circle will be disappeared  and the formerly hidden half upper part of the grey circle will become clearly visible. Then select the 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. After that, select both the shapes (a full circle and a half circle) on the document by hitting CTRL + A and group them together either by getting inside the Arrange Menu and selecting the option Group, or by hitting CTRL + G on the keyboard.

Then, select the Ellipse Tool again out of the Tool Box and draw an ellipse shape again on the document by dragging your mouse and keeping the left button of it pressed as I have explained earlier. Having drawn the ellipse shape, select it with the help of Pick Tool and set it’s width and height equals 6.0 on the Property Bar and hit Enter. As soon as you will hit the Enter Key the selected shape will assume the same width and height.

Newly made circle 

Then once again select the option named Fountain Fill given in the menu of Fill Tool or hit F11 on the keyboard to open a dialogue box named Fountain Fill as I have explained earlier. Having opened that dialogue box, select Radial out of the options given in the drop-down menu called Type, set the value equal to 35 in the box called Edge pad, set the value equal to -45 in the box called Horizontal and set  the value equal to 35 in the box called Vertical. After that click OK to apply that setting on the newly drawn selected circle with 6.0 width and height.

Type, Center offset and Edge pad in the dialogue box called Fountain Fill

Then select all the shapes on the document including previously made group of two shapes and the newly drawn circle by hitting CTRL +A and then hit C and E respectively on the keyboard to place the central points of all the shapes on the document at the same  spot.

New mad circle placed on  the previously made group

After that,  select all the shapes on the page again by hitting CTRL +A. As soon as you will hit CTRL  + A, shaping options will again be appeared on the Property Bar. Out of those, select the option called Trim again to have the hidden part of the group behind the black circle nicely trimmed off.

Parts of two or more than two grouped shapes can also be trimmed 

Having trimmed the hidden part of the group, select that group with the help of Pick Tool and ungroup both the objects in that group by getting inside the Arrange Menu and selecting the option called Ungroup. 

Option called Ungroup in the Arrange Menu

Having ungrouped both the shapes, select Rectangle Tool out of the Tool Box and draw a small rectangle anywhere on the document  and to make it clearly visible, fill any bright color in it by selecting any thumbnail in the color palette with left mouse click . Then set the Angle of Rotation for that rectangle equal to 40^o by typing the value in the box and hitting the Enter Key on the keyboard as I have explained in the previous post CorelDraw Tutorial: Logo of Microsoft Windows XP . Then with the help of Pick Tool put that rectangle on the top right corner of the bottom most shape on the document so that it could hide some part of the shape. Then , make a duplicate of it either by getting inside the Edit Menu and selecting the option Duplicate or by hitting CTRL + D on the keyboard. Then select that duplicate shape with the help of Pick Tool and set the Angle of Rotation for that duplicate shape equal to 320^o in the Property Bar by typing the value in the relevant box and hitting the Enter Key. Having set the Angle of Rotation for the duplicate shape, put it on the top left corner of the bottom most shape on the document so that it could hide  some part of it.

Rectangles on the right place

Then,  select both the newly  made bright colored rectangles and the bottom most shape with the help of Pick Tool by clicking on each shape one by one and keeping the Shift Key on the keyboard pressed. As soon as you will have all the three shapes on the document selected, shaping options will again be appeared on the Property Bar. Out of those options select the option called Trim again to have the hidden part of the bottom most shape (behind the two bright colored rectangles) nicely trimmed off.

Corners of  bottom most shape ready to be trimmed

As soon as you will select the option Trim, parts of the bottom most shape hidden behind the two rectangles will be trimmed off. Then select and delete both the rectangles one by one by selecting the option Delete given in the Edit Menu or by hitting delete on the key board.

Corners of the bottom most shape after the deletion of rectangls

 Then select the black circle with the help of Pick Tool  and set the width of it’s outline equal to 10.0 pt in the Property Bar.

Option referred as Outline width in the Property Bar

 After that, select all the shapes on  the document by hitting CTRL + A and grouped them together by hitting CTRL + G.  Then , select Rectangle Tool out of the Tool Box and draw a rectangular shape anywhere on the document by dragging your mouse and keeping it’s left button pressed. Then select that rectangle with the help of Pick Tool and set it’s width equal to 1.4, it’s height equal to and 1.2 and the Radius of the top-right and bottom-right corners of the same shape equal to 40.0 by typing the values in the relevant boxes in the Property Bar and hitting the Enter Key on the keyboard.

Width, height and Corner Radius for the selected shape

 After that, make six duplicates of that shape by hitting CTRL + D six times on the keyboard. Then place those duplicates beside each other with the help of Pick Tool according to the picture below.

Right place for each shape

After that, select all these shapes by clicking on each one by one and  holding down the Shift key on the keyboard and group them together either by hitting CTRL + G on the keyboard or by getting inside the Arrange Menu and selecting the option Group.  Having made a group of all the shapes put the pointer of your mouse on that group and hit the left button of it twice. As soon as you will do so, that group will be encircled by a few small black double sided arrows. Then put the pointer of your mouse right beneath the arrow that can be seen at the bottom of the group.

Double sided black arrows around the group

 As soon as you will put the pointer right beneath that arrow, the pointer itself will be turned into a double sided arrow. Then drag your mouse horizontally toward the left side keeping the left button of it pressed to render that group a slightly diagonal look.

Grouped shapes after the horizontal mouse drag toward the left side.

 Then, fill light grey color inside the selected  by selecting the thumbnail representing light grey color in the Color Palette with left mouse click.

Grey fill in all the shapes of the selected group

 After that , select both the groups on the document by hitting CTRL + A and then align the centers of both the groups vertically and horizontally by hitting C and E  respectively on the keyboard .

Two groups with horizontally and vertically aligned centers

 After that, select the Text Tool out of the Tool Box by clicking on it or by hitting F8 on the keyboard.

Text Tool in the Tool Box

 As soon as you will select that tool, 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 at the right side of the logo and type the phrase ‘Blackberry World’ there. Then select that phrase with the help of Pick Tool to have it’s properties in the Property Bar to be altered .Having selected the recently typed text, out of the options given in the drop-down menu called Font-List  select Arial as Typeface for the selected text and out of the options given in the drop down-menu called Font-Size , select 150 pt. Then with the help of Pick Tool, put that selected text at the right side of the logo.

Font Size and Font List in the Property Bar

 Then select all the objects including the  logo and the text by hitting CTRL + A and  grouped them together by hitting CTRL + G. Then, the logo of Blackberry World will be ready to be saved, so save it in CDR format either by getting inside the File Menu and selecting the option Save or by hitting CTRL +S . If you want to save the same image in any format other than  CDR, so again get inside the File Menu and select the option Export or hit CTRL + E on the keyboard. Having saved the logo in your required format, you can use it anywhere you like by putting any suitable background behind it.

I hope  you will find this post helpful so have fun with logo designing in CorelDrarw X6, but in case of any question, suggestion or complain, kindly don’t forget to subscribe your comment.