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How To Design Your Own Dog Walker Logo<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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My current dog walker logo without text<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Let me start off by saying that you shouldn\u2019t spend a lot of time designing your dog walker logo. People are looking for someone to walk their dog, not for graphic design services.<\/p>\n

I feel the same way about your website design. How often do people leave a website because of the design? Now, this is coming from a guy who needs to do some work on his website. Right now, writing articles is a higher priority than having a flashy web design, although I will be making improvements.<\/p>\n

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The one graphic design that you should spend a lot of time on is for your business cards. In my opinion, business cards are far more important than your website design or your dog walker logo. If you are interested in how to design your business cards, then check out my article Dog Walking Business Cards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Currently, I follow 10 or so pet service bloggers and I visit all my competitor’s sites. And you should see some of their logos and web pages. They definitely wouldn\u2019t win any graphic design awards. However, you have come here to learn how to design your own dog walker logo so let\u2019s get to it.<\/p>\n

My current logo is the image at the top of this post. I will show you how I \u201cdecided\u201d on the design and how and where I designed it. But first, let’s take a look at some less than desirable logos of mine. It\u2019s as important to know what not to do as what you should do.<\/p>\n

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My first logo design<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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My pet sitter and dog walker logo design from 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Wow! How creative and original – my company name surrounded by dog paw prints. Impressive, huh? See, this is proof that your dog walker logo is not the main way you get clients. I created this design almost ten years ago. And since then, I have had over 300 dog walking, pet sitting and boarding clients. I only recently changed my logo to what it is now.<\/p>\n

I know this is an article about dog walking logos, but when I started out I offered pet sitting as well. That\u2019s why I chose \u201cPet Service\u201d as part of my business name. As I mentioned in my first article on How To Start a Dog Walking Business<\/u><\/a>, most dog walking companies offer additional pet services as do I.<\/p>\n

At the time I created it, I had both Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. If you are not familiar with Illustrator, it is one of the premier graphic design programs. It is also really confusing to use. I couldn\u2019t figure it out. So I used Photoshop to design my logo. They have text functions plus some simple graphics. That\u2019s where I got the dog paw prints. Don\u2019t use Photoshop to design your dog walker logo. I\u2019ll show you a much better free website.<\/p>\n

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Some recent dog walker logo designs<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\n

So I\u2019ve mentioned using Canva <\/u><\/a>for designing graphics in a few of my articles. They do have a premium version but I have used the free version for everything I\u2019ve needed so far. I might look into the paid version if I start doing more graphics.<\/p>\n

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Triangle dog walker logo with dog and cat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Since I offer dog walking, pet sitting and boarding I got the idea of using a triangle. My first version had FPS in the center (for Fairmount Pet Service) with a cat and dog silhouette. I put the services along the sides of the triangle on the outside as you see. The version here is with all the elements light gray. I was thinking that the gray would make it blend in with the page. The text, triangle, and pet graphics are all available for free from Canva.<\/p>\n

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My second attempt at my pet sitter and dog walker logo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My next version was all black and white and I removed the dog and cat silhouettes. I also shortened the text to just Walking, Sitting and Boarding. And the final version I have here is one where I changed the text to white and the background to gray. I kind of like this one but neither of them are that good.<\/p>\n

I decided to just get back to writing and work on it at a later time.<\/p>\n

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My current Pet Sitter and Dog Walker Logo<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\n

I found some videos on YouTube that mentioned a site called LogoMaker.com<\/u><\/a>. The videos I watched mentioned that you can design your logo for free – it\u2019s not free anymore. Though I did get the design for my final logo from using their sample logo creation tool.<\/p>\n

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Logomaker.com<\/b><\/strong><\/h3>\n

What I did was follow all the prompts starting with the Make a Logo button on the home page. It takes you through 4 steps.<\/p>\n

Step 1: I selected Animals and Pets for the type or subject. Then I entered my company name, the tagline of Dog Walking and Pet Sitting\u201d. Finally, I clicked on Make a Logo.<\/p>\n

Step 2: Choose a Logo Style – you can select up to 3 of 4 options. I selected Initial, Icon, and Badge.<\/p>\n

Step 3: Choose Font Style – another 3 of 4 options. I chose Sans Serif, Serif, and Script.<\/p>\n

Step 4: Choose Logo Layouts – once again you have three chose and I chose Icon Above, Icon Curved and Icon Left.<\/p>\n

You are then shown 24 logos and it has 10 pages of them, but there are repeats from page to page. What I did was use Microsoft\u2019s Snipping Tool to grab a screenshot of the first four pages. There were a few on each page that I like, but one stood out. There was a silhouette of a dog and cat inside a crescent moon. Loved it.<\/p>\n

What I did next was crop out one logo from the four pages using Photoshop. If you don\u2019t have Photoshop, no problem. This step isn\u2019t necessary. What I wanted to do was isolate my favorites, sit at\u00a0a distance and just look at them from a graphic design perspective. Even though there were other ones I liked, the crescent moon logo won.<\/p>\n

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How I Created My Current Logo<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\n

So it shouldn\u2019t be a surprise that I used Canva for the final design. Here is what I did:<\/p>\n