A Flat Design Treatment

As a personal exercise, I wanted to see if I could emulate the flat design look using 3d modeling and rendering software. I chose the already excellent logo of Domain7, the company I work for as a UX Designer. Everything was set up and rendered in Modo 501. Photoshop was used for some color tweaks and to extend the shadow.

The final render.

My Process

The first step was to create a model of the logo in 3d. Thankfully this was easy since Modo can import eps files from Adobe Illustrator. The above image shows what it looks like after it's been imported into the scene. Not a lot of depth but, not to worry we'll do that next.

Selecting the edge loop for each letter and extrude, easy peasy.

I'm glazing over a bit here, but next step is to apply materials to the logo and background then set up the camera and lighting.

There were a few test renders, but this more or less is how the final render turned out.

The great thing about doing this in with 3d software like Modo is that it's easy to add a bit of animation!

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