• This topic is based around the home environment and houses.
• Some of the tasks will be based on an Estate Agent's office.
• An Estate Agent is a business that sells property.

How to Design a Logo for an Estate Agent's Business
Communicating with Text and Graphics

If you go in to an Estate Agent's office you will see lots of information leaflets giving information about properties that are for sale.

First you have to think up a name to call your Estate Agent's Business and then you are then going to design Logo to put on to a house for sale leaflet that you will design next.

Design a Logo - Instructions
 

A logo is a small graphic that a company uses on all of it's products and documents.
It may or maynot include text. I am sure that you could describe some well known ones...
 

Here is a step by step guide on how mak a logo using Serif Draw Plus.
 

Three Stages:

1 : Draw a shape for a Background

1. Load up Serif Draw Plus.  (Start menu / all programmes)
2. Click on Create a Drawing
3. Double click on A4 paper size
4. Draw a Rectangle with the Quick box tool
5. Use the node tool to change the Rectangle
6. Use the fill tool to fill the shape with colour
7. (Right hand button with fill tool to change fill and line colour)

2  : Put in the text
 

1. Click on the text tool
2. Click and drag for font size
3. Write the text that you want
4. Right hand button on text to change font, colour etc
5. Drag text on to the background shape

3  : Put in a small picture  (Optional)
 

1. Load Publisher and add an appropriate bit of clip art
2. Copy and paste that clip art on to your logo in Serif Draw
3. Drag all the pieces together to arrange your logo

Then you have to save only the logo you have made as a GIF file...

To do this:
 

• Use the pointer tool to select all the parts of your logo
• Select “group” from the arrange menu
• Click on File and then “export”
• Tick the transparency box
• Make sure that GIF is selected in the Format window
• Click Export
• Give your file a name
• Save it in "My Documents" in a folder for the Home Environment work

You are now ready to put your logo on to a leaflet giving information about a house that is for sale as well as any other documents that you will design for this company using Desk Top Publishing and Word Processing software...

Click on the next task from the menu page to find out how to do the House for Sale leaflet.

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