Logo Design Fundamentals: An Introduction & Workbook for Beginners Including Logo Design Principles, Tips, Ideas, Branding, Practice Projects and ... Fundamentals, Tutorials, Lessons & More)

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Logo Design Fundamentals: An Introduction & Workbook for Beginners Including Logo Design Principles, Tips, Ideas, Branding, Practice Projects and ... Fundamentals, Tutorials, Lessons & More) : Miller, Kris Taft: desertcart.co.uk: Books Review: Great resource for beginners! I bought this book for my daughter, who has expressed an interest in logo design and ended up reading it cover to cover. It covers everything, from the principles of logo design, to tips and tricks and even enough instruction to get you started on several design software programs. It’s succinctly written and easy to understand. Such a great find. Review: I read this fat pamphlet immediately after reading another work by this author: "Graphic Design Fundamentals". The good: There is very little overlap between that booklet and this one. The bad: There's a lot of bad. This booklet feels messy and poorly organized, with some redundant / repetitive sections. I wish "Graphic Design Fundamentals" and "Logo Design Fundamentals" were combined into one booklet. Just like its predecessor ("Graphic Design Fundamentals"), only ~half of this pamphlet contains real content. The rest is a fat appendix with brainstorming guides, Adobe Illustrator screenshots, etc. However, "Logo Design Concepts" is even worse: it only has 40 pages of "real" content (20% less than its predecessor). Yet somehow, it still costs the same amount of money. I am baffled that a book on logo design doesn't mention the word "Favicon" even once (unless I missed it). I don't think it even mentions "app icon". It does talk about scale, but those chapters / sections (yes there are at least two) don't mention the tiniest of tiny uses of logos. The "Creating a Style Guide" chapter feels super short. If you shoved a style guide under my nose and told me to describe the contents with text, I'd probably write roughly what this author wrote. Even though I have zero experience creating a Style Guide. The example Style Guide image shown was very rudimentary, too. So that chapter was borderline useless. If my review hasn't scared you off and you are deciding between "Graphic Design Fundamentals" and "Logo Design Fundamentals", I'd go for the first one, and learn the logo stuff via YouTube and blog posts. Or maybe buy a book by someone else. Just know that neither work by this author is worth $25. I am sad that I paid $25 for this pamphlet. This is only worth $5, maybe $7.