Sometimes a client supplies their logo as a lovely Adobe Illustrator file; all lovely vectors with the correct colours and font information intact. Sometimes it might be a huge Photoshop file with an intact alpha channel, or they might supply a whole bunch of different sizes, variants and file formats in a zip file...
But sometimes a client's only copy of their logo can be found on an old business card, or as a small gif or badly compressed jpg file on their existing website. Sometimes people are attached to their old logos and want to continue using them, but have no idea where the original version is or, indeed, if it still exists. I've lost count of the number of times this has happened over the years, and have become quite adept at faithfully recreating stuff in Adobe Illustrator/Xara.
Here are a few examples...
(It's a 17-frame animation, with each frame lasting 4 seconds...so just over a minute long!)
Sometimes a client supplies their logo as a lovely Adobe Illustrator file; all lovely vectors with the correct colours and font information intact. Sometimes it might be a huge Photoshop file with an intact alpha channel, or they might supply a whole bunch of different sizes, variants and file formats in a zip file...
But sometimes a client's only copy of their logo can be found on an old business card, or as a small gif or badly compressed jpg file on their existing website. Sometimes people are attached to their old logos and want to continue using them, but have no idea where the original version is or, indeed, if it still exists. I've lost count of the number of times this has happened over the years, and have become quite adept at faithfully recreating stuff in Adobe Illustrator/Xara.
Here are a few examples...
(It's a 17-frame animation, with each frame lasting 4 seconds...so just over a minute long!)
Sometimes a client supplies their logo as a lovely Adobe Illustrator file; all lovely vectors with the correct colours and font information intact. Sometimes it might be a huge Photoshop file with an intact alpha channel, or they might supply a whole bunch of different sizes, variants and file formats in a zip file...
But sometimes a client's only copy of their logo can be found on an old business card, or as a small gif or badly compressed jpg file on their existing website. Sometimes people are attached to their old logos and want to continue using them, but have no idea where the original version is or, indeed, if it still exists. I've lost count of the number of times this has happened over the years, and have become quite adept at faithfully recreating stuff in Adobe Illustrator/Xara.
Here are a few examples...
(It's a 17-frame animation, with each frame lasting 4 seconds...so just over a minute long!)