Here, we are going to see how to create a logo for an educational institute / college / university. They use sheild as main part of the logo and some of their services will be represented by adding small icons inside. For examble they are teaching mechanaical engineering related courses.
Softwares used: I used Adobe Flash here. Adobe Illustrator also helpful while designing vector logos.
you can get lot of reference images from internet for Book, ribbon, shield, winners cup, pulse wheel and graduation cap icon. There are lot of shield models are available. we have to choose the one for your logo. i am impressed with Liverpool logo sheild model and tried to modify it.
I added below the step by step method. you can get an idea of adding lighting and glowing effect in different places. here i created two different options. first sample is in silver effect and the second one for golden effect in which i used "Advanced" effect and adjusted the colour by chaning R G B to gold.
I added below the step by step method.
Find some references images from the internet and trace it by Flash. I added below the step by step method.
I added below the step by step method.
I added below the step by step method.
I have placed the icons inside the shield . I separated the ribbon into two pieces and placed the ribbon corners into backside of the shield. and added shadow of ribbon on the sheild. added necessary light effects for the sheild and ribbon.
These below images i used for designing this logo. Ribbon samples and sheild samples will be useful for you. so that i am adding them here. Please add your comments below and share it with your friends.