Steps To Desing A Logo

7 Steps to designing a Project (logo)
One of the most important aspects of advertising your company is the company logo that you use. The main purpose of a company logo is to communicate to theviewer what your company is about and what do you deal with.  
Step 1: The Brief
Once your client has decided to offer you work, the next step is to sit down with your client and collect all the initialrequirements of the company.
It is very important to gather proper information regarding the client’s requirements so that you can design the ideal logo which satisfies your client.
This initialinformation regarding the project can be collected through a personal interview, or through a questionnaire designed by you or asking the client to send a project brief with all their requirements inthe form of a RFP (Request for Proposal). The most preferred way is through a personalised interview as this way the client is able to explain in a proper personal manner what exactly he wants.
 Step2: Research
After the initial meeting with the client regarding the product comes the gathering of information about the product or the company that the logo you are designing is going to endorse. Ifyou are dealing with a company, then find out what do they specialise in and what their potential customers would be looking for in their logo which would immediately help in making the viewerrealise what the company deals with.  

Step 3: Visual Research
This deals with the actual research into the style of logo that you are looking to design. This is where the actual designing part starts.You research on the various logo designs around you to decide what pattern of style, shape, and attitude you are going to follow while designing the logo.
 
Step 4: Sketching & ConceptualisingThis is where you start making rough sketches of your design. It is the phase where for the first time you have to work using your creativity. During this phase the designer draws the skeleton of...