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 an image I created for the last week's tutorial in which I showed how to create a embroidery effect using Illustrator and Photoshop. I really like the result and have been using this wallpaper since then.
For more information take a look at the tutorial: Embroidery Effect with Illustrator and Photoshop
The book suggestion of this week is very inspiring, especially for those out there fans of LPs. The book is called The Art of the LP: Classic Album Covers 1955-1995 and it has a great variety of cover design styles from punk rock to pop all divided by thematic chapters.
