Logo design is no different from any other design. Anybody can design a logo. It's easy. All you need to know is how to communicate. Learning to draw is the least of your problems.
I don't think there is a 'best' resource for anything, especially on the web which is an evolving medium. But here's one of my favourites:
I snipped this from the editorial of my latest "Before and After" magazine ( http://www.bamagazine.com). I subscribe to the magazine and get their monthly PDF updates. I like it because it's simple yet insightful. It helps you focus on why you're doing a design, who you're doing it for, not how to do it, and that is where most people get defeated. The Why should always come before the How. In this thread the Why has been completely forgotten in favour of the How in spite of some people's protestations to the contrary. Xara Xtreme and its plethora of tools will never design a logo for you. In fact it is clear that half of the time it can actually get in the way. Just because you can does not mean you should.Do you travel? Before you start a trip, you have to know one essential:
Where you're going.
The first step of a project is to ask, What do I want to achieve with this work? Not what you want it to look like, but what you want to achieve communication-wise.
"We want to show how cool our new product is" is not a statement of purpose.
"The wrong start will mire you in a complex, tangled project that will rarely come out right", John McWade, BAMagazine.
If someone tried to make me dig my own grave I would say No.
They're going to kill me anyway and I'd love to die the way I lived:
Avoiding Manual Labour.
ankhor, you'll be amazed to find out some things you thought were made by professionals are not that complicated, and you can overcome them in no-time. I've recently learned that "public relation companies" usualy just hire kids that will sit on a phone and nag the journalists to write an article about you. So no need paying those companies... grab a phone, take a phone book... and start calling all the reporters. Eventualy one of them will make a commercial article about your place.
Last edited by Availor; 10 October 2006 at 04:51 PM.
Hahahahaha the uncensored Big Frank... oh dear you got the attitude LOL
Big Frank...After checking the Google search you suggested, I found what may be the perfect logo. It is simple, yet conveys exactly what the site is all about:
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