How to Create the Olympic Logo Using CorelDRAW

The Olympic logo was designed by Pierre de Coubertin. He used the five colors to represent the five continent competing at the Olympics at that time: Africa, Asia, America, Australia, and Europe. He used the colors blue, yellow, black, green and red. His choice of colors are symbolic, they showed the whole colors in the flags of the participating countries.

In this tutorial, I will use CorelDRAW X7 to recreate this logo.

Step One

Create a new document on CorelDRAW using Ctrl + N

Step Two

Draw a perfect circle. To do this, select the Ellipse Tool from the tool panel and hold Ctrl key on your keyboard. Drag with the Ellipse tool on the document to draw the circle.

Select the circle with the Pick tool. Use Crtl + C to copy the circle. Use Ctrl + V to paste.Repeat the pasting till you copy the circle five times. Move the circles to form the shape of the logo. Hold Ctrl while dragging the circle to constrain the proportion

Step Three

With one circle selected, Go to Outline Pen (F12) and change the width to 10 points

• Note: The Outline Pen Tool does not show in default CorelDRAW X7 screen, you have to bring it out. To do this, go to the Quick Customise, just below the last tool in CorelDRAW toolbox and click it. You will see the Outline Flyout options, tick the box

Select the rest of the circles by holding the Shift key while clicking on each one of them. With all of them selected, go to Edit > Copy Property From. Tick Outline Pen box and click OK. Click on the circle with the stroke to transfer the stroke to the rest of the circles

Select all the circles, go to Object > Convert Outline to Object

Step Four

Select each object one after the other and add the color from the original Olympic logo. You can sample the colors from the original Olympic logo by first importing the logo into CorelDRAW. Then, use Color Eyedropper tool to sample and add the colors to the color palette.

Step Five

Select one circle and go to Outline Pen. In the dialog box, change the width to 10. Click OK. Choose Behind fill and click OK.

Copy this stroke to the rest of the circles by selecting all of them and using Edit > Copy Property From as done earlier

Select all the shapes by using CTRL + A. Go to Outline Color and choose a white color by using the slider to move to the white color in the color palette

Step Six

Select each circle one by one and use Ctrl + Shift +  Q to convert them to object.

Step Seven

Use the Freehand tool to draw a shape around the point of intersection of the circle. Go to Shaping option and choose Intersect. Tick both the boxes of Leave original source object and Leave original target object. Click Intersect With. Go to the circle and drag around the area to apply the intersection. 

Step Eight

Repeat this step on the other points of intersection of the circles.