Sound the fanfare, the logo is done!

Today is a good day

As I said in the previous post, I would create a new one on what I did for the text and background for the logo. My logo is complete, so that is one task out of the way.

First task, the backgrounds

The first thing I decided to tackle was the backgrounds as I thought trying to map the images onto the 3d cube was going to be difficult. It wasn't so much difficult as not possible from what I had learnt and researched. Creating a clipping mask based on the 3d cube only created a square clipping mask and not one that mapped the cube. The solution to this was simple, but a bit longer than what I had thought.

I hid all the layers of the artwork apart from the cube and created squares based on the sides of the cube. This involved using direct selection tool again and manipulating the squares to the shapes I wanted. I grouped the shapes together, put them on top of the picture and created a clipping mask which in turn created another problem. The clipping mask took the shape of the last item created in the layer.

So after a short amount of research, I found that I needed to create a compound path of the shapes first so that they were all one shape and then create a clipping mask. Voilà, it worked! All that was left to do is repeat the process for the other two logos and they were done.

Second task, company name

The company name was simple, the company name was called Olympus and all I wanted to do was put a clipping mask of some clouds with a few rays of sunshine. The extra thing I did was add a drop shadow and and adjust the x and y axis to position the shadow to the left and at the bottom slightly so the shadow would mirror the images.

And here is the final product:

My masterpiece

Overall I am happy with the finished product, I just wish my artistic skills and knowledge of illustrator was better, but you do what you can with the time you have.