How to Make Your Own Band Logo
Designing a band logo that stands out and makes your group memorable in the music world is an important step for any band starting out. Think about some band logos and how you identify the logo with the band on first glance. An effective band logo should contain a good balance of artistic elements that highlight an image you want to convey about your band for the life of its career.
Other People Are Reading
Instructions
-
-
1
Consider the elements you want the band's logo to contain. A logo can be just the name of the band, or it might be the name of the band and an image. The logo can be just an image, but unless you design one image that unmistakably tells people who you are, image-only logos can be a risk. Get together as a band and exchange ideas, then rough sketch your ideas on paper with a pencil until you have something all of you can agree on. Keep in mind the name of your band and the image you want to convey to the audience. Try to imagine the logo on CD covers, the front of the bass drum, and on merchandise.
-
2
Turn your rough sketch into a finished piece of art. Use markers, ink, or paint to do a logo draft that you can scan into your computer. If someone in the band is capable of drawing, let him do it. If not, you may need to hire an outside source to help you bring the band's vision to life in a finished form. This full-color finished artwork should be ready to go, or needing nothing more than a few touch-ups on the computer.
-
-
3
Scan your band logo into the computer, and open it in your favorite graphics program. If you don't have graphics software, GIMP is available free of charge and has a lot of artistic effects to help refine your logo (see Resources). If the artwork is perfect the way it is, your logo is finished. If not, you can use the artistic effect tools in GIMP to manipulate color or reshape your logo. GIMP allows users to apply special texture effects that can help a band logo look cool. Take advantage of graphics technology on your computer to get the look you're after.
-
4
Save your logo in a lossless image format such as TIFF or GIF. Also, you'll want to save a high-quality JPEG version as well. These image formats are the ones you'll need when band merchandise goes to a printer.
-
1
