How To Draw Maverick Logo

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Colin McGuire

Country Living contributing editor and graphic designer David Butler creates signature business note cards and stationery. Try it yourself: Gather a few easy-to-find materials, follow some simple steps, add a little imagination, and you can make your own personal logo at home.

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Signature Stationery

Scraps of Paper

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Scraps of Paper

Feel free to experiment with materials as you create your one-of-a-kind logo. Mix a variety of typefaces and images for a truly personal design. Keep your palette simple: one to three colors at the most to maintain a cohesive final effect.

Use anything from old coupons, receipts, tickets, and maps to pages from magazines and clip-art books as the foundation to finding the right fonts and images for your logo. You can also pick up materials at flea markets, tag sales, or crafts stores.

Crafting Tools

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Crafting Tools

Gather an X-acto knife or scissors, straight-edge ruler, erasers, rubber cement or double-sided tape, a clean cutting surface and white paper, and photo blue pencils that won't show when photocopied. When not in use, store all your tools in the same place.

Variety of Designs

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Variety of Designs

"Experiment with more than a few different ideas," advises David. Make various-sized copies of the fonts and images you choose. Then try numerous combinations until you discover a design you like. Use a coat of rubber cement to secure type temporarily.

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Logo Cards

Once you've decided on a final design, paste your logo down on clean paper. This becomes a template that you can reproduce. David suggests using a copier, perhaps at a nearby Kinko's, or scanning your logo into the computer. You can then use a program such as PhotoShop to manipulate it.

Creative Labels

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Creative Labels

Your final logo can be used to dress up your business or personal stationery and envelopes, press-kit covers, product labels, note cards, or party invitations. Some logos can be reproduced on a rubber stamp. Check with your local stationery store or Kinko's. For more on David Butler's logos, visit artofthemidwest.com.