North Dakota Community Foundation -

Logo design
  • Contest Prize Amount: $300.00
  • Removed Entries: 112
  • Contest Ends In: Completed

The Contest Brief

Contest Holder Name: jneufeld 

Company Name: North Dakota Community Foundation

Company Slogan: 

What We Do: The NDCF serves the whole state of North Dakota. We work with various communities across the state to bring grant money to communities that have needs. The NDCF serves mostly rural communities but also serves a few larger urban areas. Our focus is on raising money, investing it, and granting earnings back out to worthwhile charitable causes. The Foundation gives money to various projects as needs arise. We have always run an effective organization and provide efficient charitable asset management. We pride ourselves on being effective and efficiently doing a high quality responsible job of taking care of gifts that have been left to us to manage . We want to portray a sense of stability and strength while also portraying our generosity and the good we do for the citizens of the state of North Dakota. We also pride ourselves on being from North Dakota and helping North Dakotans. Our website is www.NDCF.net Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/NDCommunityFoundation

Industry Type: Community and Foundations

Top Three Things to Communicate Through Our Logo Design:

#1 North Dakota Strong

#2 Longevity/Permanent/Forever

#3 Generosity/Giving/Caring

Our Target Audience:

North Dakota Residents, former North Dakota residents, donors, grantees, regional private foundations, retired people, both men and women, rural people, wealthy, older 50+, caring people, and philanthropists or charitable people.

We like these colors:

Open to concepts if something just works. But have thought to stick to a Green as the main color but include complimentary colors such as Blue & Yellow. Please avoid trees.

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

Styles 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

Abstract Mark

An abstract symbol or shape representing the character of your business

Web 2.0

Internet trends including bold vibrant colors, 3D graphics, shadows, gradients, rounded corners etc.

Our design will be used on:

Web, Print, Signage and Billboards, Television, Imprinted Promotional Products

Contest Entries

  • Client Rank: #2
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    Submission #179 By  reivan
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    Submission #175 By  cholid
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    Submission #178 By  lisanatalie
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    Submission #72 By  nemesandras
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    Submission #43 By  zedlexis
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1375203891NDCF.png
    Submission #61 By  Iconic Designs
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1375307113North Dakota Community Foundation.jpg
    Submission #118 By  reivan
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    Submission #113 By  reivan
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1375305625North Dakota Community Foundation.jpg
    Submission #114 By  reivan
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    Submission #128 By  mshblajar
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    Submission #141 By  lisanatalie
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    Submission #59 By  S&A
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    Submission #60 By  mshblajar
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    Submission #67 By  reivan
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    Submission #76 By  mshblajar
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    Submission #79 By  mshblajar
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    Submission #29 By  S&A
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    Submission #34 By  S&A
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    Submission #92 By  denniscaps3270 (A.T.)
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    Submission #35 By  reivan
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    Submission #103 By  S&A
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    Submission #104 By  Iconic Designs
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    Submission #6 By  reivan
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    Submission #8 By  reivan
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    Submission #189 By  reivan
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    Submission #111 By  Isa
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    Submission #190 By  reivan
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    Submission #115 By  cholid
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    Submission #117 By  cholid
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    Submission #119 By  reivan
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    Submission #121 By  zedlexis
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    Submission #130 By  mshblajar
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    Submission #44 By  zedlexis
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    https://www.logocontest.com/public/logoimage/1375338434North Dakota Community Foundation 010.png
    Submission #133 By  S&A
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    Submission #45 By  sella
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    Submission #134 By  S&A
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    Submission #46 By  nemesandras
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    Submission #49 By  nemesandras
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    Submission #135 By  S&A
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    Submission #180 By  reivan
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    Submission #84 By  mshblajar
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    Submission #26 By  sella
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    Submission #5 By  zedlexis
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    Submission #89 By  Royal Unicorn
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    Submission #1 By  shimmer

Contest Comments

jneufeld

 United States

Buyer

Joined: Jul 24, 2013

Posted On: Jul 31, 2013

Love all the different looks we're seeing. Our target audience is an older more conservative, primarily rural group. We want to make sure that our logo appeals to them and can be identified with. It also needs to convey professionalism and trust.

jneufeld

 United States

Buyer

Joined: Jul 24, 2013

Posted On: Jul 31, 2013

We continue to see good submissions. We do want to see the word Community emphasized more in some of the designs as many emphasize North Dakota and leave Community small and difficult to read. When our logo is used, we want people to know that we are the community foundation.

jneufeld

 United States

Buyer

Joined: Jul 24, 2013

Posted On: Jul 30, 2013

Thank you - we like the different looks we are getting and some concepts that are really making us think about what we want! A few comments: We don't have to use NDCF in our logo, even though it is our website name, so don't feel that you have to incorporate that. We really like the green, orange, blue color combos we are seeing and also the three-dimensional, gradient looks are attractive. North Dakota is known for its big skies, mostly flat horizons (rolling hills), and prairie sunrises and sunsets. Most of the component community foundations that we manage are rural towns and North Dakota is a primarily agricultural state. Hope this helps!

jneufeld

 United States

Buyer

Joined: Jul 24, 2013

Posted On: Jul 29, 2013

Some good ones so far. A few comments on what we’ve seen so far. We would like to see the word “Community” given a little more focus as we are a community foundation. North Dakota is not known for its mountains. We want to find something that is not the generic foundation/non-profit logo. I know that we said North Dakota, but since this is an open contest, we were concerned that people wouldn’t get North Dakota. We want to emphasize North Dakota identity but also bring out the Community of what we do. We are looking for something that is updated but that won’t go out of style.

jneufeld

 United States

Buyer

Joined: Jul 24, 2013

Posted On: Jul 29, 2013

We are excited to see entries coming it. Please keep giving us your ideas!

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Posted On: Jul 24, 2013

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