Yes, the logo was originally made in Illustrator, and opened in Cinema 4D.
There is a great free plugin for C4D that can open native Adobe Illustrator CS6 (and lower) files and extrude, bevel and assign materials (based on layers in AI). It's called CV-Artsmart, it's from Cineversity.
See the tutorial here:
http://vimeo.com/55587287