Inside the Design Process

If you're hoping to take on professional logo design projects, you'll need to develop a design process with latitude for creativity and room for multiple rounds of interaction with and feedback from the client.

Remember, you're designing a logo or visual identity that meets the needs of a company and its customers—not to suit your own creative whims! You must be prepared to set up plenty of client meetings, ask lots of intelligent questions, and steel yourself for a few twists and turns as you present your work at each stage along the way.

This section has some thoughts on the logo designer's approach to projects. The design process is typically structured in three steps, for sanity's sake. I'll also offer some insights ...

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