Logo Designing from Basic Geometric Shapes.

As we have already read about the importance of geometric shapes on any kind of designing and how lots of top brand companies use these shapes on their logos on our previous post, I have here put some basic geometrical shapes and its meaning which can be very helpful to designers specially whose first language is not English.

We already know how to draw polygons and simple designs such as square, rectangle, triangle, trapezoid etc.

trapezoid 

Quadrilateral with two sides (bases) that are parallel. It is isosceles when it has two sides that are equal and not parallel, and rectangle when two of its sides form a right angle.

rectangle 

Quadrilateral whose opposite sides are equal in length; the sides meet at right angles.

square 

Equilateral rectangle with four right angles.

rhombus 

Equilateral parallelogram.

triangle 

Three-sided polygon; triangles are scalene (no side is equal to any other) isosceles (two sides equal) or equilateral (all sides equal).

Following are more simple geometrical shapes we can use daily for designing purpose and every designer should have knowledge of these as these are basic points in designing.

regular heptagon 

Polygon with seven (hepta = seven) sides and equal angles.

regular pentagon 

Polygon with five (penta = five) sides and equal angles.

quadrilateral 

Any plane figure with four sides and four angles.

regular hexagon 

Polygon with six (hexa = six) sides and equal angles.

parallelogram 

Trapezoid whose opposite sides are parallel and of equal length; the sides do not meet at right angles.

Regular Octagons 

regular hendecagon 

Polygon with 11 (hendeca = eleven) sides and equal angles.

regular dodecagon 

Polygon with 12 (dodeca = twelve) sides and equal angles.

regular decagon 

Polygon with 10 (deca = ten) sides and equal angles.

regular nonagon 

Polygon with nine (nona = nine) sides and equal angles.

regular octagon 

Polygon with eight (octo = eight) sides and equal angles.

All the previous mentioned shapes can be transformed to become lively shapes which we use in different objects in our everyday lives. These are often 3D forms in our designing software. 

More advanced form of geometrical shapes.

helix 

Volume or solid of spiral shape that turns at a constant angle.

cylinder 

Volume or solid generated by the rotation of a straight line (generatrix) moving along a curved line (directrix).

regular octahedron 

Volume or solid with eight triangular sides of equal area; it has six vertices and 12 edges.

parallelepiped 

Volume or solid with six sides (parallelograms) that are parallel in pairs.

cube 

Volume or solid with six square sides of equal area and six equal edges; it has eight vertices.

pyramid 

Volume or solid generated by straight lines (edges) connecting the angles of a polygon (base) to the vertex and whose sides form triangles.

cone 

Volume or solid generated by the rotation of a straight line (generatrix) along a circular line (directrix) from a fixed point (vertex).

torus 

Volume or solid generated by the rotation of a circle at an equal distance from its center of rotation.

sphere 

Volume with all the points on its surface the same distance from its center; the solid thus delimited is a round ball.

hemisphere 

Half sphere cut along its diameter.