LogoEase is a free online drag-and-drop logo creation tool that allows registered users to create business or professional logos for publishing. The steps to creating a logo are easy, the interface is fairly intuitive and the site's author claims that it is geared towards users with no design experience and those with experience.
The use of the site is completely free. There is a link for accepting donations, and the parent site ad offers professional logo design services for a fee.
This tool will come in handy for teaching basic logo design to first year students in my lab classroom. The interface and the ease of use will give them confidence to experiment with different font choices, placement of elements, design motifs and color without the pains of learning Adobe Illustrator initially. The tool also creates a download file of the saved logo design in popular file formats for print and electronic media: .jpg, .tif, .eps., and .png.
The site maintains a caveat; the logo users develop through this tool may or may not be eligible for copyright/trademark protection. I expect this is due to the clip-art type images and fonts that the site allows its users to choose from - the resulting logo is simply a compilation of their image and font selections.
I would use this tool as an introduction to logo development with plans for incorporating Illustrator and creating a logo as professionals do later in the unit. After all, a large part of my job as a career-technical instructor is to teach industry-standard software and equipment. I would also explain the copyright and trademark warning as a lesson on intellectual property rights/digital millennium act and have a discussion in class or on the Blackboard discussion thread.
As for the FSO ETC Course, I can use LogoEase to quickly create a logo to use for my final video project title or I could have used it for other projects in the course prior to this assignment such as my blog post images.
Communicating through visual media is a prominent part of reaching today's digital native learner. Using motifs, typography and imagery enhances the appeal of everyday lessons. One could use LogoEase to quickly create logos or visual elements for presentations, web sites, podcast intros and a number of other communicative media.
References:
http://www.logoease.com/News.aspx?id=56
The use of the site is completely free. There is a link for accepting donations, and the parent site ad offers professional logo design services for a fee.
This tool will come in handy for teaching basic logo design to first year students in my lab classroom. The interface and the ease of use will give them confidence to experiment with different font choices, placement of elements, design motifs and color without the pains of learning Adobe Illustrator initially. The tool also creates a download file of the saved logo design in popular file formats for print and electronic media: .jpg, .tif, .eps., and .png.
The site maintains a caveat; the logo users develop through this tool may or may not be eligible for copyright/trademark protection. I expect this is due to the clip-art type images and fonts that the site allows its users to choose from - the resulting logo is simply a compilation of their image and font selections.
I would use this tool as an introduction to logo development with plans for incorporating Illustrator and creating a logo as professionals do later in the unit. After all, a large part of my job as a career-technical instructor is to teach industry-standard software and equipment. I would also explain the copyright and trademark warning as a lesson on intellectual property rights/digital millennium act and have a discussion in class or on the Blackboard discussion thread.
As for the FSO ETC Course, I can use LogoEase to quickly create a logo to use for my final video project title or I could have used it for other projects in the course prior to this assignment such as my blog post images.
Communicating through visual media is a prominent part of reaching today's digital native learner. Using motifs, typography and imagery enhances the appeal of everyday lessons. One could use LogoEase to quickly create logos or visual elements for presentations, web sites, podcast intros and a number of other communicative media.
References:
http://www.logoease.com/News.aspx?id=56
1 comments:
- Mr. Rainey said...
@Donita
Donita what a great web tool to find. I can only imagine this was alreay in your portfolio of goodies! This is an excellent tool to help students understand graphic design basics and layout. I enjoyed playing around with the features today and had a blast with the tools. i look forward to using this in my graphics lesson with my students.
Later Mel!- October 18, 2009 6:57 PM
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