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Process of logo designing and how to avoid issues

In today’s fast-paced market every entity we eat MNC company or small startup need to brand themselves very carefully. The world has changed, branding is more important than ever. Logo is considered to be the face of brand. A carefully crafted logo can help brand in lot many ways likewise loosely designed logo can hurt brand deeply.

Logo designing is the hardest and the most creative part of graphic designing market. Different designer follow different processes of logo designing. What stating here is the process I follow on receipt of logo designing project. This process maybe the same one you follow or different approach that you like. You can always comment and share experience.

Before starting let be clear that logo designing is an art therefore eA designer look at things differently.

Process of logo designing

Information gathering

This is the most important part of logo designing. Collect the information of organization, their likes, dislikes, do’s and don’t, and the future objectives.

Research

Based on the information collected from client do some research on competitor, audience, future scope and usage of the logo. Logo design for android application may differ from logo design for clothing company

Mood board creation

Logo designing require lots of inspiration and ideas mood board creation is considered to be one of the best way of collecting inspiration and ideas. Sometimes you need to walk out look around and get inspired from things that you see.

Brainstorming

Brainstorming helps you get closer to the idea of logo. Note down all the ideas or words related to logo requirement. the more you brainstorm with different words logo plan will get clearer with each you add India brainstorming process. My design ideas are clear with this step.

Choice of colour

Colour impact a lot carefully choose colour and design the logo make sure to follow the value system of your client and the audience.

Drawing

Draw logo on paper, make sure you have enough inspirations on paper before starting on computer. Drawing on paper will help you understand what to be design and what not to be design. When you are done designing on paper use tracing paper to improvise and rectify the logo.

Start on Computer

Take the final design scan it and use the soft copy in computer. There are many software which will help you  design your logo but remember the inspiration and the idea will remain with you. Software are just tools to help you craft what you have. Some of the popular software are adobe Illustrator, corelDRAW and affinity designer. Used software whichever you are familiar with.

3 Sample

Make sure you send at least 3 samples to your client so that he has choices to make. When you send one design the client has only 2 answers that is yes or no. But when you send 3 samples the client we have to make a choice out of this 3.

Review and modify

Design from client and take the feedback sportively implement it and follow up till its done.

Types of files to send

Always give your client vector as well as image files including pDF, ePS, jPG, svg and pNG. Black and white version along with colour vision is always better.

This is the process that I follow, you may follow a different process. Let me know your experience and anything that you need me to improve on thank you.

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Tools for Good Designer

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To be a good designer no doubt creativity is a primary requirement but apart from this creative skills you will require additional tools to portrait your creative concepts in better way.

Following are the Tools require for smooth Graphic Designer career:

  • A Good Computer:

With the technological revolution the computer and their respective peripherals have become less costly. Many computer companies has introduced different models for respective user segments. A computer design for students may not work effectively for a businessman, likewise the needs and requirements of designer is unique. As a designer you can get assembled computer in market starting from 35000/- .

Below are the minimum requirement that you need to consider while planning a purchase.

  1. 8 Gb RAM Minimum
  2. 1 Gb Graphic Card
  3. Minimum Intel Core i3 processor
  4. 15.6” HD screen
  • Creative software:

This is true that creative work doesn’t depend on any particular software. You can design a good poster even with pen and paper.

Below mentioned software will help you to speed up your work flow and help you to make your design process less time consuming. There are many creative software available that i personally suggest to try all of those which are mentioned below as some are free some are trail based and some are licensed at very less cost.

  1. Adobe Illustrator: Vector Based Software (industrial standard and most recommended)
  2. Adobe Photoshop: Raster Based Software
  3. Serif Affinity Express: Vector Graphics Software at almost negligible cost & very good software.
  4. CorelDraw: Vector Based Software
  5. Inkscape: Vector Based Software
  • Tablet to draw things better:

A graphic tab (also known as a digitizer, drawing tablet, drawing pad, digital drawing tablet, pen tablet, or digital art board) is a computer input device that enables a user to hand-draw images, animations and graphics, with a special pen-like stylus, similar to the way a person draws images with a pencil and paper.

These tablets may also be used to capture data or handwritten signatures. It can also be used to trace an image from a piece of paper which is taped or otherwise secured to the tablet surface. Capturing data in this way, by tracing or entering the corners of linear poly-lines or shapes, is called digitizing.

  • Printer

You invest a huge amount of effort, time and resources in getting your designs right. So the last thing you want is for them to come back from the printers looking like a blurry, incoherent mess.

The best inkjet, laser and all-in-one printers for creative, but if you’ve spent your career to date focused on digital-only design, you may be unsure about what to do when sending a design to print. So in this post we round up five fundamental things you need to know, with some links for extra reading to expand your knowledge further.

  • Additional Things:

Drawing book:

Drawing with pencils has become a bit of a lost art in recent times, but it’s more alive and vibrant than ever. Her exercises encourage readers to try their hand at drawing and creating in colored pencil, even suggesting hard or soft tips for different effects.

Internet:

It’s time to stop accusing the Internet of being an obstacle to creativity. Used properly, it can massively enhance your creativity in all areas of work and life. Here we’ll show you how to make that happen.

In an essay series on Creator Culture, Guardian columnist Damien Walters wrote,

“It is our longing to create that is our deepest drive, and the one that makes us the most human. We ignore it at our own cost”.

Tracing Papers:

Not everyone has the money to get a light box and not everyone is a student with access to a light box. That’s why the world invented tracing paper. I do as many revisions on tracing paper as I need to get something I’m happy with.



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10 things to consider while buying School ERP

Whenever we purchase software be it for our single PC that is for personal use or for the enterprise there are certain common and some unique aspects of solution need to be identify



In case of a school ERP is also a software phenomena is applicable let’s see 10 things we need to consider while buying an school ERP for our organisation

1.Features

2. Future scope

3. Usability

4. Support after sale and bags

5. Customisation

6. Price

7. Running cost of infrastructure

8. Integrated system

9. Device friendly

10.Online

Let’s elaborate this point in detail below

1. Features

Any software has a core propose all created to solve specific problem likewise school ERP  need to solve some of the core  issues/ problem for which it is actually created for some of the must have

Features of school ERP are

a. Admission management

b. Library management

c. Faculty and staff management

d. Erpenses management

e. Fees management

f. Attendance management

g. Creation of reports

h. Transparent management

2. Future scope of school ERP



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Product brought today may not be valuable all applicable tomorrow therefore while considering School ERP we need to check for its future scope that is should be easy to modify or in other words the vender  should be able to modify/implement The violation with the latest technology and with the present applicable futures

This point also includes the consideration of new futures which may come handy in future

3. Usability

Some of the great software failed is due to their non user friendly Interface UI come a long way with the technology explosion around us. UI is now considered to the one of most important part of any software make sure when you purchase the school ERP before finalising have a demo for it and ask the vendor after test runs

4. After sales and AMC

Vender assessment is another important aspect we need to consider while choosing our school ERP. Lookout for there AMC constraints carefully and make sure you get maximum from it. After completion of implementation process there will be issues yet there will always be one or another problems that may not be time to software a  hardware new software update or security date or any other unplanned issue may occurs make sure your vender is able to help you out during such circumstances and do it as soon as possible.

5. Customisation

All organisation work differently at least there value system and processor differ in some way  make sure you get your school ERP customized to your need so that your existing process matches with it

6. Price

Cost of school ERP around in  are very high as they are robust systems many features when you plan to buy one make sure you get best out of it optimum price

7. Running cost

The AMC contract and  the server cost are the two major which covers most of the running cost of your school ERP you can buy a server for 10000/pm or a server for 1000/pm it depends on your organisation in the school ERP software requirement. Always try to recommended minimum hosting option to cover-up some of the usability of a software in future.

8. Integrated system



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Value Chain and marketing advertisement  accounting etc are all different systems when selecting your school ERP make sure seat covers all the system integratively  and provide better reporting accordingly

9. Device friendly

Sometime you may be travelling and you may require to login and check internet check things in school ERP not have laptop/computer with you so you use your phone and doing  you are unable to use things properly so this scenario is likely to avoid such painful experiments make sure your vendor give you mobile friendly solution in other technical terms responsive application

10. Online

This point doesn’t require explanation. To make it clear through your school ERP should be an online application to a certain area and may not be accessible. Again it depends if you want to restrict it to a certain area only that is within your organisation that you can

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