Logos for the Design-Challenged, Part V -- A Bit(map) Part

Logos for the Design Challenged, Part V

Well, we're well into October already and I'm just getting this installment finished. Sheesh, it's hard to tell where the time has gone. I am pleased to say that I got to meet some of you at The CorelWORLD Conference earlier this month in San Diego. And as always, the session I conducted with the same name as this column, was my best attended and the most well received. So I know that I'm onto something here. I also want to thank those of you who have sent e-mail with your comments and questions. But enough small talk, I've got a column to write. This month we'll look at how DRAW 7 and 8's improved bitmap features can add instant pizzazz to your logo designs.

A Bit(map) Part

I like to point out that you don't have to be a designer, or artist, to create a logo, you just have to know where to look. If any of you were in San Diego this month and attended my Logos for the Design Challenged session at the CorelWORLD Conference, you'll remember these two happy and sad face symbols from the Wingdings symbol library, which I used to make a stylized comedy and tragedy mask. No drawing involved. Really! The symbols library is literally chock-a-block with nifty, pre-designed logos. Today, we'll look at a few of them, and how, with a little slight of mouse (Editor's Note: OR tablet), we can turn them into nifty-looking logos. Here's how I used the happy and sad faces to make a new version of the logo for the fictitious North Bay Theater Company.