Barnard.co - Logo Design

Barnard.co - Logo Design James Barnard, award-winning freelance logo designer.

I have 10 years of experience designing logos, websites, videos, and more for global businesses, publishers, agencies and startups.

22/05/2026

Ai, not AI ✊

21/05/2026

Here’s how I graded this shot of in

1. Add a curves layer and drag from the middle to the bottom right, and then slide the top point over just a little. Don’t over do this.

2. Add a Hue/Saturation layer and nudge the saturation up a little.

3. To blend the highlights with the background, add a solid colour fill the same colour as the background.

4. In your blending options, in the ‘Underlying layer’, hold ALT/Opt on the left arrow and split it all the way across.

5. On this colour fill layer hit the mask and press CMD+I to invert it.

6. Use a soft brush at around 30% opacity to paint away any white highlights.

Be sure to check out my previous post about how I designed this logo, and follow me for more news about when you’ll be able to see me present this case study in full at a design conference later this year!

P.S. Check out humanswithhank.com to see the branding in real life!

It’s only fitting that I throw my hat in the ring, especially as we have their founder coming on my Designerrrs™ commu...
01/05/2026

It’s only fitting that I throw my hat in the ring, especially as we have their founder coming on my Designerrrs™ community as a guest speaker on 11 May!

Lovely to see so many logo designers showing up and sharing their work.

I love this job.

Sign up to Designerrrs™ at the link in my bio and you can watch my interview with Rich Baird live on 11 May.
now         

29/04/2026

Ever wondered what all those extra pathfinder buttons do in Adobe Illustrator? Well wonder no more!

If you found this video helpful then please consider following me or signing up to my Designerrrs™ Community powered by at the link in my bio. We have a great giveaway at the moment where all yearly subscribers get a free year of Adobe CC Pro!

23/04/2026

I’ve been using an action to fix this problem for years.

Up until now if you wanted to centre vertically AND horizontally to your artboard it was always two clicks!

Upgrade your Beta app of illustrator today and we now have a button that does it for us!

21/04/2026

Meet the man responsible for how the pen tool works

16/04/2026

How to make responsive buttons in Illustrator…

1. Select your text and go to Window - Appearance
�2. Add a new fill in your text colour

(Bonus tip, press the FX button and go to Path - Outline object. This centres your text in the button later.)

3. Duplicate this fill underneath and make this your button colour

4. With your second fill selected, press the FX button and go to Convert to Shape - Rounded Rectangle

5. Adjust your width, height and corner radius

Now your button will match your text length!

15/04/2026

Enclosed mode in Illustrator. What is it? How does it work?

When you want to grab a group of objects with your marquee (dragging and selecting with the selection tool [V]), it’ll select everything that’s in enclosed within the marquee…

…UNLESS you press [E] on your keyboard before deselecting.

Watch for the little bracket symbol next to your cursor 👉 ⟦ ⟧

Now only the objects that are ‘enclosed’ within your marquee will be selected. HUZZAH!

P.S. This is a snippet from today’s Adobe Live session. Head to the YouTube channel to watch me design a logo!

09/04/2026

🧐 How to get big handles in Illustrator

If you suffer from poor eyesight then this one is for you…

1. Go to ‘Settings - Selection and anchor display’

2. Crank the slider under Anchor Point ‘Size’ to the max

3. Change handle style to ‘Filled’ for better visibility

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