Logos are the considered an echo or soul of the very organization that they represent. That being said, businesses, corporations, national organizations, religious orders, educational institutions, and just about everyone else holds their particular logo in an almost "sacred" light. 

Your job is to recreate a collection of logos, in Adobe Illustrator, to the best of your ability. Maintaining the integrity of the logo is extremely important - every curve, gradient color change, overall look should be duplicated (not deviated from) in order to recreate it in the most professional manner.

This Multimedia project must be saved as a PDF, and saved in the appropriate location on the server, in order to be considered a "Completed Assignment"

1. Create a New Folder in the "Multimedia" folder and label it "Adobe Illustrator - Logo Recreation"
2. Download this source file to your "Logo Recreation" folder
3. Create a new Adobe Illustrator file (letter size)
   
   
   
   
4. Place (do not paste) the downloaded source file into your Illustrator document and lock the layer that it is on.
5. Create a new layer, and begin re-creating the 13 logos. Do not use fonts for text - all words/letters are to be recreated using the Pen Tool, Native Shapes, and/or Pathfinder.
6. When creating the Adobe Acrobat logo, be sure to use these settings for the gradient. Be sure to implement the same procedure for Dreamweaver (DW) and Photoshop (PS) logos using the appropriate colors.
   
   
7. While you are working on your assignment, be sure to save it as an Adobe Illustrator (AI) file as Multimedia Logo Recreation.ai.
8. When you have completed the assignment, then save it as an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file as Multimedia Logo Recreation Finished.pdf. This file is considered the completed project file.

In-Depth information on Adobe Illustrator Pen Tool Basics can be located here!

LAYERS MATTER (UNDER WINDOW)

Whie you are working on your Image Recreations, it is difficult to see how the different shapes are interacting. And, this is because you are viewing your work from a "Top Down" approach. What we also need is a "Side View" approach, where we can see the different items that make up a shape or an illustration. For example...let's talk Pancakes.

By viewing the Layers Panel (under Window), we can see the individual layers that make up a stack of pancakes. Without the Layer Panel enabled, all we can see are the pancakes from the top down which obscures a lot of information: important items like:

• How many pancakes are there?
• Are there any blueberry pancakes tucked in the middle somewhere?
• Is there enough syrup at the bottom of the plate that we can slop up with any remaining unsyruped pancake?
• And, the most important question of all: Why are these NOT chocolate chip pancakes?

From the top-down view, we do know there is at least one pancake but we cannot tell how many. Also, we cannot see whether one (or more?) have blueberries in them. We cannot tell whether there is a little syrup or a lot. Though, the only real answer to why these are NOT chocolate chip pancakes is because whoever made these obviously do not truly love pancakes. 

• Each logo should reflect the appropriate color scheme of the acquired source image.
• Each logo should appear "clean" (nice, orderly, refined curves, angles, and shapes)
• Each logo is to be created on it's own layer, and appropriately labeled.
• Use the Pen Tool, Path Finder, and native Illustrator Shapes in order to recreate these logos - NO IMAGE TRACE/LIVE TRACE IS TO BE USED. This is an evaluation of your actual Illustrator skills.
• When you are finished, be sure that there are two files present: the Adobe Illustrator file (AI) and the Adobe Portable Document Format file (PDF)
• Relevant Video Tutorials:
  • Pen Tool Adobe Illustrator PathFinder

Logos that are not saved as PDF will not be considered submitted and therefore will not be graded. Please refer to the grading policy)

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