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Nela Dunato

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Nela Dunato is an artist, designer, writer, and educator. She’s been working as a graphic designer since 2005, and in 2013 she started her own design consultancy, with the focus of helping small consulting businesses and nonprofit organization in creating expressive brand identities.

She regularly teaches design, marketing, and creativity workshops. She’s been writing about design, branding, creativity and creative business for two decades.

10 symbolic & monogram logo sketches + final logo designs

Logo design sketch and final icon design for a fashion designer

I always start my logo design projects by sketching on paper. Here is a collection of my symbolic icons and monogram logo sketches that are the most similar to the final logos. Some are very rough while others are polished, but they all contain symbolism and mark a pivotal moment in a logo project's progress. After I see a concept that works on paper, I'm ready to redraw and refine it in digital d

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