Logo Design Resources

Design Software

• Adobe Illustrator – Industry standard tool for logo design (Monthly subscription).
• Astute Graphics – Time saving tools for Adobe Illustrator.
• Logo Package – An extension for Adobe Illustrator to quickly export & package logo files.
• Affinity Designer – An excellent alternative to the Adobe Software (One off cost).
• Inkscape – A free alternative to illustrator.
• Procreate – A digital illustration app for iPad.
• Adobe Sketch – Expressive drawing and painting app for iPad.
• AstroPad – Turn your iPad into a professional graphics tablet.

Training & Education

• Logo Geek Community
• The Futur Courses
• Logo Core
• SkillShare
• Lynda Learning
• Creative Live
• Udemy

Fictional Project Briefs

• Daily Logo Challenge
• LogoCore Logo Challenge
• Briefbox

Competitions & Awards

• Logo Wave
• IVIA (International Visual Identity Awards)
  [Use promo code LOGOGEEK for 10% off]
• Logo Lounge
• Transform Awards
• How Logo Design Awards
• Best Brand Awards
• Contest Watchers

Logo Design Blogs / News

• Logo Design Love
• BP&O (Branding, Packaging & Opinion)
• The Branding Source
• Creative Bloq (branding section)
• Brandnew (A division of UnderConsideration)
• Design Week (branding section)
• Design Taxi (branding section)
• Logo Designer
• The Logo Smith
• Identity Designed
• Logo Lounge
• World Brand Design Society
• Logo Geek (my blog if you’ve not seen it)

Branding Mockups

• Smart Mockups
• Creative Market
• Place It
• Pixeden
• Design Cuts
• Graphic Burger
• Graphic River
• Freebiesbug
• Pixel Buddha
• PSDDD
• Live Surface (An illustrator plugin)
• Freepik
• Yellow Images
• MockupFree

Fonts

• Adobe Fonts
• My Fonts
• FontShop
• Type Network
• YouWorkForThem
• Font Squirrel – Free Fonts for Commercial Use
• Design Cuts
• Creative Market
• FreeTypography
• Google Fonts
• Typecast
• FontFont
• t26
• House Industries
• Emigre
• WhatTheFont – A useful tool to help you identify fonts.
• FontBase – A free font management tool

Branding Guidelines

View a dropbox of collected examples

Logo Design Galleries

• Logo Pond
• Logo Lounge
• Logo Moose
• Logo Gala

Podcasts & Podcasting Tools

• Logo Geek Podcast
• Sean Wes – Business Advice
• Design Matters
• Resourceful Designer
• Honest Designers
• Smart Passive Income – Lots of online marketing & business advice from Pat Flynn
• Ask Pat – More great advice from Pat Flynn
• Headliner – Social Video for Audio Creators

Portfolio & Web Design

• WordPress – An open source content management system. This is a nice step-by-step guide to get everything set up.
• Elementor – The best WordPress Page Builder.
• WP Engine – WordPress Hosting.
• ThemeForest – For high quality WordPress themes.
• SquareSpace
• Behance
• Dribbble

Contracts, Quotes & Documentation

• AIGA Standard Form of Agreement for Design Services
• Contract Killer, Open-Source Contract
• Proposal and Invoice Template from The Logo Smith
• Contract Mint – Freelance Contract Templates

Useful tools

• Freshbooks –  The #1 invoicing software for small business owners
• Gridzzly – Create grids to print
• Toggl – Time Tracker
• Google Calendar
• Pocket
• Typeform
• si.gnatu.re – Create Email Signatures