How to make this texture in vector?

Good afternoon everyone,

I have a question regarding the logo that I have recently worked on. Made quite a simple logo originally for my client who consider their company as "premium, luxury and so on" service. The logo:


However some time after the logo been finished they sent me the version that was changed by their local designer and asked me to make this logo in vector. And this is what I need to work with now. I don`t want to argue proving that it just doesn`t look good, I just need to make it work. So question: how to make this texture and the imitation of gold in Illustrator?So far they just applied the textures in PS. Thank you in advance.

First off personally I wouldn't be changing it without it being a new contract seeing as the original had been finished and signed off. So that's the first thing you should be considering as it sounds like you're 'doing it for free' in your post and you should be being paid if it's 'extra work' outside the original contract.

As to how to do it, you'll need to wait on the illustrator guys for that because that's not my area of expertise I'm afraid.

Levi said:

First off personally I wouldn't be changing it without it being a new contract seeing as the original had been finished and signed off. So that's the first thing you should be considering as it sounds like you're 'doing it for free' in your post and you should be being paid if it's 'extra work' outside the original contract.

As to how to do it, you'll need to wait on the illustrator guys for that because that's not my area of expertise I'm afraid.

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Hi Levi, thanks for the answer. I have been paid for this job already and the work been signed off. Later on when I started to work on business cards they told me they have changed the logo which was a surprise to me.

It looks as though it has had an image applied to it.

you could draw a vector square repeat it and colour each one a slight variant of the gold tone, then rotate the image place behind the logo and use Pathfinder tool leave just the mosaic you want.

that would be as close as you could get. You can not get the variant in each tile to look like the logo currently.

Could be a lot of work to do this manually. Why do they need it in vector format? If they wanted this look exactly, may have to stay as psd unless their prepared for a simplified version of it?

That effect likely won't translate to a useable vector format. If they want an editable/scalable version, then a PSD with the effect applied to a vector smart object is the best option. Just scale it up to the size they want and export it.

Personally think yours looks WAY better.

As I usually say, there are many ways to o the same thing in Illustrator.

If I were to do that then I'd draw a grid of squares in the way that best works for you.
Set yourself a colour palette of gold shades.
Then, set the tiles to live paint and use the paint bucket tool to drop in the different shades and make sure you expand it afterwards to get out of live paint mode
You could stop there but of you want to make it less flat the you could get a free vector, grunge texture to get that gold glinty, irregular look.
You could drop it over the tiles and either set it to a dark or light and alter the opacity or make it a shade of gold and try using multiply. Experiment.
You'd just need a copy of all the squares and make sure they're unified (do the same with the texture) and either use the pathfinder to clip the texture
or make a clipping mask.
Once you have a lovely gold, tiled background you can then just use the logo to make another clipping mask so that the texture is inside the logo.

Hope that makes sense.

Oh, this may take a little time and experimentation.
You need to charge a bit extra.

Hello everyone and big thanks for all your answers!
I did suggest to use this option, because I agree that they don`t necessary need this logo in vector.

Paul Murray said:

That effect likely won't translate to a useable vector format. If they want an editable/scalable version, then a PSD with the effect applied to a vector smart object is the best option. Just scale it up to the size they want and export it.

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Will see what else will come in the mind of the client.

I wouldn't even try and recreate that in Ai, it would take far too long to get even close. If it has to be reproduced
then I would do it by hand or in Photoshop and then Live Trace it if necessary, or just use the original stock image they've
used there.

To my mind it will look ok for the emblem but definitely not for the lettering, the angles don't even match.
The lettering should be a solid colour.

While you could certainly do something approximating what they want as said its going to be time consuming to do. Also when reduced any smaller than this its going to look kind of messy.

Sounds like they possibly don't understand the work involved.

Agree with all the above. Hope it works out with them.