3 Most Important Certifications to become a Logo Designer!

If your aim is to become a designer then you ought to be sure about the requirements for becoming one. Though designing is a very vast field and consists of many variations such as of graphics, textile, animation etc; our blog is focused on logo designing. So I’d cover all the essential points related to that field.

Logo Designing

Logo designing is a broad field. A person cannot just wake up one day and end up being a designer. In fact, an individual needs to be educated properly about the work. He/she can get into many complications if the requirements are not met properly.  These individuals have to think about exceptional designs, catchy typefaces and a theme that matches the company’s profile.

Logo designers are good artists, have creative minds, good observation, artistic nature, powerful imagination, and the list goes on. These are some of the qualities of these designers but what about the education and certification? Having these born-with qualities will not enable them to be a perfectionist of the job. They need to acquire education and proper certification to work.

I’d leave the education part for my other post. For now, I’d pay attention to certification which is one crucial step for becoming a logo designer.

Why Have a Certification?

It’s because one must learn to use new methods and apply different ideas together of his/her knowledge in the designs on a constant pace.

Types of Certifications

Certifications are of many types. They are available widely to help designers choose the one that matches their requirements. I am going to talk about three best certifications which are very important for a person in logo design.

1. CIW web design Certification

This certification is for those who want to enhance their design skills as well as know how to create and make public websites. Different topics taught here are; essential features of web and logo designing, methods of publishing websites, important technologies of web, plug-ins for logos and databases etc. There are various software and technologies in which individuals are trained. For example:

• Microsoft design web tools

• Dreamweaver

• Adobe Flash

• CSS

• JavaScript

• Multimedia design tools

2. Adobe CS5 Certification

This software is the best for designers. It consists of such tools that are exclusively given for logo designers. Moreover, there are various editing methods and tips for images and pictures.

The software will help all those who want to enhance their design skills. The software is more of a motivation tool as individuals will get all the tools that are needed to design an unmatched logo. If you are a performance oriented person then rest assured, you are on the road to success.

The following things would be taught for this certification:

• Adobe CS5 Photoshop searching

• Design and creation of project

• Learning to change, add, select and work with layers

• Filtering effect

• Working with editing tools

• Learning vectors, masking techniques etc

• Choosing the right graphic format and filter

• Incorporation of software and Adobe CS5

3. 3ds Max Certification

If you go for Autodesk 3ds Max Certification then you would have to give an exam consisting of 30 questions. This is an associate’s exam which would judge your design skills and essential features and functions of the software. The thirty questions will either be multiple choice or matching questions. To successfully complete the certification you’d have to attain at least 70% marks. Your test duration would be one hour. There is another exam for Autodesk which is called the professional certification exam. This is for one and half hour consisting of twenty questions.

Those individuals who have a relevant 3ds Max using experience can easily pass the test. But the one with a minimum of 100 hours are found to be at more ease in giving the test.