Create An Art Deco Logo Design with Inkscape

[Music] this is nick with logosbynic.com and in this tutorial i'll be demonstrating how you can create this vintage style logo design using inkscape in order to follow along with this tutorial though you will need to download and install the font that i used for the word design here it's called festival bedai i'll have a link in the description of the video so go ahead and download and install that font before launching inkscape and then we'll be good to go before we get started though if you'd like to learn more about how inkscape works be sure to check out my inkscape master class it's a collection of over 60 videos where i go through every single tool and feature in inkscape and i explain what it is and i demonstrate how it works i'll have some information about that in the description of the video if you want to check that out so we'll go ahead and get started here in inkscape the first thing i want to do is just set up the document i want to come up here to where it says view make sure you have custom selected let's go to zoom let's zoom in at one to one and then i'm going to turn off snapping up here in the top left corner and then i'm going to open up the um the document properties menu to get rid of this page border and change the unit of measurement here so i'll go to file document properties and it should open up over here on the side display units i'm going to change that to pixels and i'm going to turn off the visibility of the page border which is over here so now we can close out of document properties let's open up the fill and stroke menu which is over here the edit objects colors gradients and stroke menu if you click on that or a keyboard shortcut you can just press ctrl shift and f and that'll open it as well so the first thing i'm going to do is create the text so let's grab the text tool which is if i could find it it should be over here i'm used to using these keyboard shortcuts so i sometimes get lost over here in the sidebar so let me just type in design as i did for the thumbnail here if you notice i have the word design as the primary text i'm going to change the font of that i'm going to go to text text and font and i'm going to look for the font that i installed called festival badaya click apply and there you go there you have the text now we can close out of the text menu i'm going to grab the select tool and i'm going to scale this up and i'm just going to hold ctrl while i do that to make sure it locks the proportions like that and now what i want to do is convert this to a path and ungroup it so i'll go to path object to path and then go to object and we're looking for ungroup and i'm going to bring down the opacity of this roughly in half now you have to have the fill and stroke menu open in order to do this so make sure you have that opened i'm going to bring down the opacity roughly in half and now i want to move these letters a little closer together so i'm going to hold ctrl i'm going to zoom in by holding ctrl and rolling up the mouse wheel click off of the graphic to deselect everything and i'm going to take this letter d and i'm just going to move this closer but i'm going to hold ctrl while i do that to lock it onto the horizontal axis like that and then i'm going to hold shift and click on the letter e so i have both of these letters selected hold ctrl move this closer now i understand that the letter s here is overlapping with the letters but that's okay in fact that's kind of the point of the design i'm going to be incorporating that into the design here as you can see so i'm going to hold shift click on the letter s so we have all three of these letters selected and to move your view around like this to move the page you can just press down the mouse wheel and move the mouse let me move these over while holding control to lock the proportions and then just do the same thing for the rest of the word just go ahead and bring these letters in like that and now i will press one on the keyboard to zoom back out to 100 so now what i'm going to do is i'm going to create this shape in the background here this emblem so let me go back into inkscape and i'm going to grab the squares and rectangles tool which is over here and i'm going to click and drag like this to create a nice vertical rectangle going through the word like that you want to make sure you have sharp corners up here if your if your corners are rounded just go ahead and click this corner button up here to make the corners sharp and now i will grab these circles and ellipses tool and i will click and drag to create any lips going through that rectangle kind of like that now if you notice what i'm doing here i'm going to take the intersecting area between those two shapes in order to create this shape right here so to do that first let me make sure i have them aligned i'm going to grab the select tool i'm going to hold shift and click on the rectangle so i have them both selected and then i'll open up the align and distribute menu which is over here or you can press ctrl shift and a and i want to have the relative set to last selected and i'm going to center it up on the vertical axis and then i'll go to path intersection and there we go now we have that shape now don't worry about this shape being too big or too small we're going to change that later on so i'm going to place this right about here in fact what i want to do is i want to click and drag over the text right here to select the text items click and drag over just the text not the whole shape just the text itself and go to object group and then i want to click and drag over everything just to make sure i have this aligned vertically i'm going to click on uh center on vertical axis right there and then click off to deselect everything now what i could do is i could take this i'm going to hold ctrl and shift and either scale it up or scale it down whatever you want to do whatever whatever you need to do to make it fit the design better i like how this looks right about here i'm going to grab the edit paths by nodes tool i'm going to click and drag over these top nodes right here and then just bring them down by holding ctrl and just click and dragging them down like that there we go now let's go back to the select tool let's make this thing into an outline rather than a solid fill so let's remove the fill color by clicking on this little red x down here in the bottom left corner and then give this a black stroke by holding shift and clicking on the color black over there now the thickness of this will vary uh you can change that by coming over here to the fill and stroke menu i'm going to tap i'm going to click on stroke style and i want this to be about 15 looks pretty good now whatever it is that you make the thickness of your stroke be make sure you make a mental note of what that is because we're going to we're going to need that number in just a minute so 15 is for this first one right here now we'll go to path stroke to path path uh break apart and then go to path difference oops that was a mistake let me undo that edit undo difference and then click off of it to deselect everything and then take this larger shape right here send that to the back by pressing this button over here that says lower selection to the bottom and then hold shift and click on the smaller shape right there and go to path difference so that you end up with this shape right here that is a path and not a stroke now let's duplicate this let's press ctrl d on the keyboard to make a duplicate copy of this go to path uh break apart and we'll go to path union and now what i'm going to do is i'm going to make this red and i'm going to give this a red outline by holding shift and clicking on the color red like that and i'm going to make this outline a little bigger i'm going to make this maybe 10. this is going to represent the space between the two borders here if you notice we made this first border already now we're going to make this second border this red object is going to represent the space between those two borders so let me go back in there and finish this up let me change this make this a little bigger you hold the plus icon to make that bigger like that that's looking pretty good now when you're doing this i probably should have noted over here where it says join make sure you have a square join you don't want a rounded join like that you want it to be nice and square so you get those square corners maybe i'll make that a little bit bigger and i'll do this again i'll go to path stroke to path path break apart if i can find it there it is go to object ungroup and then go to path union now we're going to do this one more time i'm going to add a smaller stroke over here now this stroke right here was 15 pixels i'm going to make this one a little bit smaller so i'm going to hold shift and click on the color black to give that an outline let's click the red x to get rid of the red fill and i'm going to make this something smaller than 15. maybe something like 10. that right there looks pretty good now again we want to make sure we have squared a square join a squared cap like that and i'd say that's looking pretty good right here now again you want to make a mental note of this so for this one i used 15 for this one i used 10. let's go to path stroke to path and there we go now we can click off of that to deselect everything so let's start working on these little um horizontal bars going across the design right here we'll do that next to do that what i'm going to do is i'm going to grab the squares and rectangles tool i'm going to click and drag to create a rectangle going through the design right here and i want to get rid of that outline i'm going to hold shift and click on the red x and i'm just going to give that a black fill by clicking on black right there and this is where we're going to have to remember this number that we used we want to make the height of this the same thickness of this border right here so that it's consistent all the way through the design so let me grab the select tool let me change the height of this well first let me change the pixels let me change this to pixels change the height of this to 15. there we go move this over here a little closer to the word maybe make this a little wider you can go ahead and adjust the size of this as needed and then i just want to make sure that this is aligned on the vertical axis here so i'm going to hold shift click on the emblem behind it come back up here to the line distribute menu and make sure you have it centered on the vertical axis like that and now click off of the deselect everything and what i'm going to do now is i'm going to take this shape right here and duplicate that by pressing ctrl d hold ctrl move this up like this and again we're holding ctrl and clicking and dragging to lock it onto the axis like that so it doesn't go off off center and i want to make the height of this the same as the thickness of this border so i used 10 pixels for that one so i'll make this one 10 pixels high and there you go now i'm just going to zoom in let me just zoom in a little bit whoops and i just want to make sure that the spacing between these two lines is about equal to the spacing between those two lines if you want you can be meticulous with this and measurement measure it if you want i'm just gonna i'm just gonna leave it right about there i think that looks close enough and then i want to take this and just move this in a little bit take this arrow move that in take that arrow move that in like that and then hold shift click on the original design behind it and then just make sure you have that centered like that now we can click off of the graphic to deselect everything let me press one on the keyboard to zoom back out to 100 and now i'm going to click and drag over just those two rectangles right there that we just created and i want to duplicate them i'll press ctrl d hold ctrl move these ones down here and i just want to flip them vertically i could you can click on this button up here that says flip selected objects vertically what i like to do is just press the letter v on the keyboard much easier and once you've done that you can click off of that okay so if you notice what we have here we have the structure of the design in place now we just have to go through and uh fix some of the spacing issues or uh finish up what we were doing here as far as the spacing goes let me click on the word right here and then ungroup those letters i'll go to object ungroup because we previously had those letters grouped together let me click off that to deselect everything and now i want to delete out the area of the emblem in the background where these words are so let me zoom in a little bit let me grab the squares and rectangles tool i'm going to create a rectangle going over the word like that i'm going to make this red so i can see it against everything else and if you notice over here i have the rectangle let me grab the select tool i have the rectangle going through this bar right here at the at the top and i have it going through this bar oops i have it going through this bar down here at the bottom and now what i want to do is duplicate that by pressing ctrl d hold shift click on this shape go to path difference then take this red shape hold shift click on this object out here and go to path difference let me try that again path difference there we go and now i just want to delete out the areas of this bar up here so let me grab the rectangles and squares tool again create a rectangle going through here like this grab the select tool hold shift click on that object to go to path difference we'll do that one more time come down here to this one so that it looks the same on the bottom as it does on the top hold shift click on that go to path i don't know why that's not working half the time but there we go now it's working okay so um oh you know what i made a mistake here let me just edit that i should have moved that in a little more there we go okay now to do that if you need to do what i just did there you just grab the nodes tool click and drag over those two nodes you can just move them in and out like that you can hold ctrl to lock it onto the horizontal axis there we go all right so now let's take care of the lettering in here if you notice i have the letter s overlapping everything in its way let's go ahead and create that right now so let me grab the letter s right here let me create a duplicate of that by pressing ctrl d and i'm going to make this green and i'm going to give this a green stroke so i'm going to hold shift and press on green again and i'm going to come over here to the fill and stroke menu stroke style and i'm just going to increase the size of this until it's as big as i need it to be okay so i want this to be big enough that it's going through that it's covering the tip of the letter e here like that but at the same time i don't want it clipping off the top of the e right here but that's okay i'll fix that in just a minute okay so that right there is a pretty good size i'm going to go to path stroke to path object ungroup and then path union and now what i will do is i will i'm going to cut out this little area right here that i don't want let me grab the pen tool which is um over here the bezier pen you just press b on the keyboard and i want to make sure i have the proper mode selected which is create regular bezier path and i'm going to draw a shape going through this intersecting area right here go back to the select tool hold shift click on that green letter and go to path difference and there we go now what i will do is i will take this green letter press ctrl d to duplicate it hold shift click on the letter e right here and go to path oops path difference do the same thing over here duplicate it again ctrl d hold shift click on the letter i path difference and then one more time take this letter s hold shift click on this bar right here go to path difference okay so now let's clean up this these little extra objects in here that we don't want with this object right here selected go to path break apart and then we'll have everything broken up into individual pieces i'm going to hold shift and click on this piece to deselect it then hold shift click on this piece to deselect it and then the only thing left selected will be the objects we don't want and then you can just press delete on the keyboard to get rid of it and for this letter e right here i want to get rid of this area i'm just going to for this i'm just going to grab the nodes tool i'm going to go in there and select those nodes and then press delete on the keyboard to get rid of that same thing over here when i get rid of this little letter the tip of this little letter i press delete there we go we grab the select tool let me press one on the keyboard to zoom out to a hundred percent now i can click and drag over everything come over here to the fill and stroke tab the fill menu and bring the opacity all the way up to a hundred percent and as you can see the logo is starting to come together it's looking pretty good what i'm going to do now is i'm going to add some text in here i'm going to add some more text let me grab the text tool let me click right there and i'm just going to write all caps vintage logo so it's vintage logo design let me change the text of that we'll go to text text and font and for this i'm going to use montserrat like a bolder a bolder heavier weight font you can use whatever font you'd like for this any kind of sans font should work it doesn't have to be montserrat close out of that there we go and move this back in a little bit let me grab the select tool i'm just going to put this over here towards the center maybe i'll scale this down oops maybe i'll scale this down a little bit maybe i'll put some spacing between those letters let me go back to the text tool click on the text and let me just change the spacing to like maybe 10. see how that looks that's too much maybe seven okay good enough now we'll grab the select tool hold shift click on the logo there and just center it up on the vertical axis like that and for this for this part you could put whatever you want up here uh for this thumbnail design i put the inkscape logo up here just to show you that this was an inkscape tutorial but i'm just gonna for this for this demonstration i'll just put some stars in here so let me grab the stars and polygons tool from the settings up here you want to make sure you have star selected instead of polygon five corners spoke ratio of 0.375 and then zeros for both rounded and randomized now you can just go ahead and create a star like that hold ctrl and bring your cursor up straight up like that to create a star like that now let me get rid of the the green stroke around there by holding shift and clicking on the red x let me make this black grab the select tool hold ctrl and shift and scale that down like that and put that right about there and then i want to make a duplicate of that i'm going to press ctrl d then hold ctrl and move this over here like that maybe i'll make this one a little smaller bring that down a little bit ctrl d make a duplicate of that hold ctrl move that over like that and then select all three of those stars and make sure that they're spaced apart evenly come over here to the align and distribute menu and we're looking for a distribute right here and then over here where it says make horizontal gaps between objects equal click on that and now you can just group that all together by going to object group and then you could press you could hold shift on the keyboard and click on the object right there and just make sure you have that centered up like that now i'm going to go in here and adjust the spacing a little bit so it looks a little more consistent maybe even make this a little bigger press one of the keyboard to zoom back out to 100 and as you can see we are done so that is how you can go about creating that vintage style logo design using inkscape if you have any questions just leave a comment below and as always thanks for watching [Music]

Channel: Logos By Nick

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Length: 18min 33sec (1113 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 09 2021