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One of the best ways to learn is by practicing and trying to recreate styles and effects that you like. They have been doing this here on Abduzeedo since the beginning, always adapting a small bit to add our own matchless flavor. The aim is to learn the details behind a style or composition so they can apply a quantity of that to our future work. I have been seeing a few logos using this style so what we'll show you today is how to generate a logo, Abduzeedo appeared natural, using Illustrator and then Photoshop.
So, for this tutorial I will show you how to generate a simple vector mark using Illustrator and then we'll add some effects in Photoshop.

STEP 1

Open Illustrator and with the Line Segment tool generate a vertical line. Copy and paste in place and rotate it 90º. Copy the two lines, group them and rotate 90º again.

STEP 2

Select the lines and rotate 33º

STEP 3

Duplicate and rotate the segments until you have something like the picture below.

STEP 4

Select some segmentes and then start resizing them so you have different sizes for the lines The first set will be the bigger and from there you make them a bit smaller.

STEP 5

Add your logo in the middle using a big white stroke. Also increase the stroke size of the lines to 8pt.

STEP 6

Selet the symbol and copy it. Go to Object>Expand. Make positive that the stroke is now a fill path. Then go to Window>Pathfinder and Unite the symbols. Select all lines and the symbol and in Pathfinder select Outline. The idea is to delete the area where the symbol and the lines overlap. Paste the symbol again.

STEP 7 

Create a circle & aline in the midst of your logo. They will use that for reference for your text.

STEP 8

Add your text and then repeat the same thing as the step 9 to make the gap on the area tha the text will be visible.

STEP 9

Create a black background and then place the logo in the middle with white colors.

STEP 10

In Photoshop now, first use a brush to generate the grungy effect.

STEP 11

Make sure you have a black backgroud & your logo over it. Merge the two layers & then go to Filter>Filter Gallery>Brush Strokes>Spatter. Use 1 for the Spray Radius & 12 for Smoothness. The idea of this step is to make the for less uniform.

 

CONCLUSION

Now add your background and your picture is done. I hope you enjoy this tiny case study/tutorial and have a great holidays. The background picture is titled Background of snow flurry falling at night with motion blur by Elena Elisseeva, courtesy for Shutterstock.