Last week I posted an article showing some great logos using 3D effects and colorful gradients. There are quite a few ways to do create those effects in Illustrator, however for most of them you will have to use the Pathfinder tools. Because of that I will show you an example based on a few logos from that list.
References
When I was looking for references for a logo design project that I'm still working on, I selected some awesome logos. Below you can see some of them. You can visit the sites of these logos at:
The wallpaper of this week is from Christopher Haines and Rik Oostenbroek. Chris is a graphic designer from Perth Australia and have already interviewed Chris here on Abduzeedo. Rik is a young and very talented digital artist and graphic design from the Netherlands and of course we interviewed him as well over here ;). They created this amazing image and sent to us for the Wallpaper of the Week.
The book suggestion of this week is Illusive 2: Contemporary Illustration and Its Context. This book is really inspiring, there were some amazing illustrations and you can spend ours checking them out. Another amazing thing about this book is that you can always go back and there will always be something new.