Welcome to Life Unscripted tutorials. I'm
Tricia Parker.  Sometimes when designing
complex shapes there is a need to
equally distribute a shape around a
circle. Repeating a shape along a path
can come in handy whether trying to
create a logo or trying to create a
clock. This tutorial will teach you how
to create evenly spaced properly aligned
shapes around an object using
Illustrator CCs Rotate and Duplicate
methods. First we will create the clock. I
have put a reference clock to the side
to look at as we build our own clock. Let
me delete this one begin by grabbing the
shape tool in the tool bar.
Hold the shift while dragging the
ellipse tool to get a proportion circle.
The circle appeared with a black fill
and no stroke and I want to reverse that
so I will toggle fill and stroke colors. Going back to the shape tool hold down
the ellipse tool to get the flyout and
choose the rectangle tool. Create a small
rectangle to the side of the circle for
the hour tick marks. Again we will toggle
the fill and stroke colors tried to tick
mark to the 12 position on the
clock. Don't worry about it being
centered perfectly as we were about to
do that using the Selection tool. Sselect
both the circle and the tick mark in the
Align palette. Choose center. Now we will
use Illustrator's Rotate tool to create
the remainder of the tick marks for the
clock. Click on the rectangle tool and
press R on the keyboard for rotate. A
teal target will show up on the
rectangle. This is how the Rotate tool
will determine where to center the
object from. Hold down the ALT key on the keyboard and drag the teal circle to the
middle of the main circle. When you hit
the center, a pink "center" word will show
up. Drop the teal target mark there the
Rotate menu should appear when the mark
is dropped but if it does not click the
target while holding ALT. Illustrator has
a great feature built into this tool. Instead of trying to figure out what
degree to set the marks at, allow
Illustrate to do the math for you. In the
Angle box, type 360/12 and hit
the Copy button not the okay. The Rotate
box disappears and you should now have
two tick marks on the screen. Allow
Illustrator to continue working for you. 
Click CTRL or (CMD on the Mac) + D to
continue the marks around the circle. Now add the our numerals, we are going to
align the numbers around the clock by
choosing R on the keyboard while holding
the ALT key again. We will put 360/12 for the angle. Hit copy
then CTRL or CMD
and D to complete the process. The
numbers are in the correct spots but at
various angles. To fix this, click on each
number individually, go to the Transform
panel for each one and change the
Transform Angle to zero. This is edited
to speed up that process. Now using the
Type tool,  fix numbers to the
correct number for each tick mark
and there you have a perfectly
proportioned vector clock. I will put
this to the side so now we can create a
professional looking logo.
Let's create a logo for a Cupcakery.  I'm
not sure if I just made up that word but
I love it. Examining the reference logo
in the corner, as I bring it over and
enlarge it, you can see it's made up of
many individual triangles around the
outside. I'm going to delete this so we
could create our own. Again begin by
creating your base ellipse. We will again
swap the fill and stroke colors on this
logo. Going to the Shape flyout menu and
choosing the Star tool, we will create
the triangle. If you need to change the
number of sides on the triangle, click
the up and down arrows on your keyboard
as you are creating the initial triangle.
When you have the necessary amount of
sides hold the SHIFT key to align the
triangle to the horizontal plane. Drag
the triangle to approximately the top
center of the circle and again toggle
the fill and stroke on the shape. Now use
the handles to size appropriately. Select
both objects and from the Align palette
choose center. Now to rotate and
duplicate after selecting the Triangle
by itself, click R on the keyboard to
activate the Rotate tool and drag the
teal target mark to the center of the
circle. This time, we want lots of
triangles around the circle so I will
put in 360/60 as a math. You
could play around with a number that
works for you. Click Copy. The Rotate menu
disappears and click CTRL or CMD + D
on the keyboard to complete the circle.
Now to design the logo. We will start
with the word "Yummy". Using the type tool
type Yummy.
Select the entire word and then change
the font to P22 Carinthia (a purchased
font) using the Selection tool. Grab the
handles on the word to size to your
liking. Now we will type "The Frosted
&". Grab the type tool again and
type The Frosted &.
 
The font to Avant-Garde (another purchased font). Open the character palette and
change the spacing between the letters
in the kerning fields 200. Use the
Selection tool again to place a text in
the desired area. Copy and paste the text
below Yummy to type the word Cupcakery.
Using the Selection tool and handles, 
size and place appropriately.
The last thing we will do is go to the
Symbols pallet and grab a pre-made
confection art put on the logo.
As easy as that, we have a professional
vector-based logo using Adobe
Illustrator. We were able to easily
create evenly distributed properly
rotated objects around a circle using
the repeat and duplicate tools. Thank you
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