Breakwater Finance - Logo design

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  • Contest Prize Amount: $250.00
  • Submitted Entries: 163
  • Contest Ends In: Completed
  • Participating Designers: 18
  • Contest Views: 1961
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The Contest Brief

Contest Holder Name:  pauldman4

Company Name: Breakwater Finance

Company Slogan: 

Description and What We Do: Breakwater finance is a professional service firm that specializes in working with entrepreneurial companies. Generally these companies are in the process of raising investment capital and considering becoming publicly traded. We offer services of contract CFO, general consulting to lead them through process of becoming public and serve on boards as an adviser to companies going through that process. We choose name Breakwater as we see our role as "protecting" the company from the distraction and stress of becoming or maintaining public status so they are able to continue to focus on their core business much a breakwater protects the harbor so commerce can commence.

Industry Type: Accounting and Finance

Top Three Things To Communicate Through Our Logo Design:

#1 Professionalism

#2 Experienced

#3 Integrity

Our Target Audience:

Primarily male business owners from age 30-50 yrs old, that are managers of growing companies that are concerned about the complexity and time required to complete public company initiative or other fund raising efforts. They are college graduates that have had success in the corporate world and are use to earning a 6 figure salary and now are taking a big risk to make it big. The secondary target audience is broker dealers that are working with clients. These are predominantly men in there 40s or 50s that are promoter types. Most have a fairly high income level and want to refer their clients to people that are competent and will do what they say they can do while demonstrating strong problem solving ability to get their clients taken care of.

We Like These Colors:

green and navy blue Forest green with brown Navy blue with light gray

Design Preference Sliders:
Masculine 
 Feminine
Subdued 
 Bright
Playful 
 Serious
Simple 
 Complex
Classic 
 Modern
Common 
 Exotic
Quiet 
 Loud
Economical 
 Expensive
Grey Black White 
 Colorful
Elegant 
 Sporty
Young 
 Mature

Design Styles We Would Like To See:

Wordmark

A Wordmark consists of the company name in a stylized type or font.

Pictorial Mark

An image or shape that is easy to recognize to represent your business

Shield or Emblem Mark

Name of business inside a shape or picture element

Our Design Will Be Used On:

Web, Print, Imprinted Promotional Products

Contest Attachments:

Contest Entries

  • Client Rank: # 1
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1423200656Breakwater Finance 019.png Submission #151
    By  my twist
  • Client Rank: # 2
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/142324870015.png Submission #162
    By  alpino
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1423147569_2.jpg
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1423147569_2.jpg
    Submission #147
    By  elfalab
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14229977362.jpg
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14229977362.jpg
    Submission #121
    By  elfalab
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14229987343.jpg
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14229987343.jpg
    Submission #122
    By  elfalab
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14229990714.jpg
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14229990714.jpg
    Submission #123
    By  elfalab
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14230032405.jpg
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14230032405.jpg
    Submission #124
    By  elfalab
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14230034186.jpg
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14230034186.jpg
    Submission #125
    By  elfalab
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422463608breakwater.png
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422463608breakwater.png
    Submission #22
    By  tato
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422777326breakwater2.png
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422777326breakwater2.png
    Submission #75
    By  everettwalsh27
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422463694breakwater.png
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422463694breakwater.png
    Submission #23
    By  tato
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422777345breakwater3.png
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422777345breakwater3.png
    Submission #76
    By  everettwalsh27
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422463805breakwater.png
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422463805breakwater.png
    Submission #24
    By  tato
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1423174951111.jpg
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1423174951111.jpg
    Submission #148
    By  elfalab
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14228367451.jpg
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14228367451.jpg
    Submission #79
    By  elfalab
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422859528breakwater4.png
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422859528breakwater4.png
    Submission #88
    By  everettwalsh27
  • Client Rank: # Eliminated
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422859545breakwater5.png
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422859545breakwater5.png
    Submission #89
    By  everettwalsh27
  • Client Rank: # Eliminated
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422859562breakwater6.png
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422859562breakwater6.png
    Submission #90
    By  everettwalsh27
  • Client Rank: # Eliminated
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1423224264100.jpg
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1423224264100.jpg
    Submission #159
    By  elfalab
  • Client Rank: # Eliminated
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1423224434100-grigio-chiaro.jpg
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1423224434100-grigio-chiaro.jpg
    Submission #160
    By  elfalab
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422951476breakwater7.png
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1422951476breakwater7.png
    Submission #105
    By  everettwalsh27
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14230987658.jpg
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14230987658.jpg
    Submission #134
    By  elfalab
  • Client Rank: # Eliminated
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14230990989.jpg
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/14230990989.jpg
    Submission #135
    By  elfalab
  • Client Rank: # Eliminated
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/142309928419.jpg
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/142309928419.jpg
    Submission #136
    By  elfalab
  • Client Rank: # Eliminated
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/142309943820.jpg
    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/142309943820.jpg
    Submission #137
    By  elfalab

Contest Comments

pauldman4
 United States
Buyer

Joined: Aug 13, 2014

Posted On: Feb 02, 2015

Great job everyone! There are multiple designs on here that we all really like. Now the tough part of narrowing it down to one. If anyone has any last minute submissions, we have determined that we like textured fill, more than solid and we like more of a vertical layout.

pauldman4
 United States
Buyer

Joined: Aug 13, 2014

Posted On: Jan 30, 2015

All,

Thanks for your work on this project. There is a lot I see that is very intriguing. A couple of points that we have determined.

We like having a symbol integrated into the logo design.
Prefer something that is not a letter.
We like the two tone.

If you wanted to do something with the Logo that just uses the word "breakwater" and not finance, that might give you a bit more creative space, as we can just add "finance" to the business card elsewhere.

pauldman4
 United States
Buyer

Joined: Aug 13, 2014

Posted On: Jan 28, 2015

Conceptually, one idea I have seen in the photos I uploaded is the concept of calm water behind the breakwater and rough water on the other side. Best examples are the two photos on the bottom row, the picture on the far left and the once 3rd from the left.

Also, the links below reflect two color patterns that I like:

http://www.andrewgarrett.com/

http://www.79capital.com//

Thanks for your work.

pauldman4
 United States
Buyer

Joined: Aug 13, 2014

Posted On: Jan 26, 2015

I would like the color to be something classy like a dark blue and gray or a dark green and tan.

Somehow, I would like the logo to integrate elements from the pictures loaded above. I would like the logo to represent the concept of sheltering/protecting as you can see in the pictures that are blocking the waves. I like the calm pictures as they represent the peace behind the breakwater.

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Posted On: Dec 31, 2014

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