Recreating Retro Typefaces for Logos in Illustrator
Learn to create your own typographic assets from retro source material. Software required: Adobe Illustrator CC.
What you'll learn
The ideal course for designers and artists who already have some basic knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, and want to create game or mapping assets using their imagination and retro public domain images from WWII era posters and logos. Viewers will gain insight on how to take a client's vision and execute it to it's completion and have a completed project under their belt. In this course, we cover how Adobe Illustrator can help you recreate vector headline art and, by the end, you'll be able to use these techniques on any similar logo project you have in mind for use in 3D mapping, 3D extrusion, websites, apps, or print. Software required: Adobe Illustrator CC.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Setting up the Main Illustrator File 1m
- Originating the Letter 'O' 4m
- Shaping the Letter 'E' 4m
- Producing the Letters 'I' and 'T' 2m
- Generating the Letter 'W' 3m
- Devising the Letter 'D' 5m
- Making the Letter 'A' 3m
- Bending the Letter 'N' 3m
- Creating the Letter 'C' 2m
- Drawing the Word Balloon 3m
- Summary 1m
- Robot Deployment Introduction 1m
- Setting up the File for Tracing 1m
- Creating the Arm and Wrist Decorative Disks 1m
- Tracing the Claw 2m
- Adding the Forearm with the Pen Tool 1m
- Drawing the Upper Arm 1m
- Building the Torso 1m
- Installing the Front Panel 3m
- Making a Face 2m
- Attaching the Head 1m
- Placing the Neck 1m
- Creating the Ear and the Antenna 2m
- Grouping the Robot Parts and Placing Them in Our Project 1m
- Building the Gradient Background and Footer Box in CMYK 2m
- Summary 1m
- Atomic Powered Introduction 1m
- Illustrator Prep 2m
- Set up the Guidelines 2m
- Unfurl the Banner 3m
- Bombs Away 2m
- Adding the Fins 2m
- Creating the Letters 'O' and 'C' 3m
- Building the Letter 'A' 6m
- Why We Autotraced the Logo 1m
- Producing the Letters 'I' and 'T' 4m
- Making the Letter 'M' 2m
- Tattooing the Robot 2m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Creating the File, Placing the JPG, Saving the File 1m
- Setting up the Guides 1m
- Straightening the Italics 1m
- Creating the Letter 'E' 3m
- Designing the Letter 'T' 1m
- Constructing the Letter 'U' 2m
- Forming the Letter 'R' 3m
- Producing the Letters 'D' and 'V' 4m
- Building the Letter 'B' 4m
- Forging the Letter 'O' 2m
- Set up the Letter 'S' 3m
- Creating the Word 'Robots' 3m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 0m
- Setting up the File and Guides 2m
- Establishing the Letter 'E' 1m
- Creating the Letters 'I', 'T', and 'H' 2m
- Doctoring the Letters 'N' and 'O' 2m
- Building the Letter 'R' 1m
- Optimizing the Letter 'O' into a 'C' 1m
- Turning the Letter 'T' into a 'L' 2m
- Forming the Letter 'A' 2m
- Capitalizing the Letters 'G' and 'N' 3m
- Producing Serifs 4m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Mario Macari has spent more than ten plus years as a coder specializing in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and other client and server side languages. He is also an award-winning artist and holds a BFA in Illustration. He has worked on projects for companies like Disney, Apple Computers, Microsoft and DC Comics. He currently teaches coding, design, UX/UI and Adobe products at two Southeastern Wisconsin colleges. Mario Macari has an "A+" rating with the Better Business Bureau.