Logo Design: Visual Effects

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Free Online Course: Logo Design: Visual Effects provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Logo Design: Visual Effects is taught by Bill Gardner.

Overview
  • Learn about six different visual effects, from transparency to optical illusion, that you can use in your logo concepts to communicate the right message.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • What is LogoLounge?
    • Using the exercise files
    • Challenges
    1. Transparency: Flat
    • Transparency as a way of business
    • Layered: Exposing complexity
    • Clusters: Synergy in numbers
    • Shifted: Offsetting a single idea
    • The freedom of clarity
    2. Transparency: Dimensional
    • More than a flat concept
    • 3D: An illusion of form
    • Shapes: A transparent wrap
    • Crystals: Discovering treasure
    3. Three-Dimensional Shapes
    • Lifting a concept off the screen
    • Highlights: A tempting mirage
    • Shading: A thing of substance
    • Trompe l'oeil: Fooling the eye
    4. Treatment
    • Letting surface tell a story
    • Pattern: Applying personality
    • Handmade: A touch of humanity
    • Texture: Tactile messenger
    • Picture frames: Diverse personality
    • Challenge: Treatment
    • Solution: Treatment
    5. Shadows
    • Absence of light tells a story
    • Active: Dark stories in motion
    • Informative: Mysteries in the message
    • Reality: A true sense of place
    • Challenge: Shadow
    • Solution: Shadow
    6. Illusion
    • Optical illusion: Is it or isn't it?
    • Discovery: Making brand advocates
    • Spatial puzzles: An homage to M. C. Escher
    • Multiviews: Made you look twice
    • Hidden: In plain sight
    • Motion: A dizzying possibility
    Conclusion
    • Next steps