Logo contest: Seattle Metals

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What we do:

Seattle Metals is a sheet metal manufacturer in the greater Seattle area that supplies lumberyards, contractors, and builders.

Contest holder: vadnix

	499.00 contest prize amount
	224 submitted entries
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2nd place tip: $ 49.9 |

3rd place tip: $ 24.95

Company name: Seattle Metals

What we do:

Seattle Metals is a sheet metal manufacturer in the greater Seattle area that supplies lumberyards, contractors, and builders.

Our industry: Manufacturing & Wholesale

Top Three Things to Communicate through our Logo:

#1 - caring (building relationships)

#2 - honesty

#3 - quality

Our Target Market:

Ultimately the end user of our products is a construction company that has residential and commercial projects. Lumberyards, general contractors, and builders.

Age: 30-50s Sex: male Income: $40,000-70,000 Occupation: manager Industry: Construction and Building Interests: sports and beer? working with the hands Values: relationships, and quality.

Styles that we are interested in:

Characters

Emblems

Letterform Mark

Pictorial Mark

Wordmark

Values to communicate:

Feminine		Masculine
Young		Mature
Luxury		Economical
Modern		Classic
Playful		Serious
Loud		Quiet
Simple		Complex
Subtle		Obvious

Color preferences:

Requirement: Have a high understanding of color theory (complimentary, hue, saturation analogous, etc).

Choose your own colors, but not more then 2 for simplicity's sake (unless something is really good). Tips: Yellow and bright purple obviously not good colors for this logo.

Our Ideas and Additional Information:

Deliverables: also send project in Adobe Illustrator

Audience: I want the client to feel our care, honesty, and quality visually. Also, I want to this logo to be unique and stand out from other construction companies, and manufacturers of construction products.

Competition: http://wph.com http://www.pac-clad.com http://www.precisionmetalscorp.com http://www.soundbuildingsupply.com http://www.appletonsupply.com/# http://www.sheetmetalsupplyltd.com/?page_id=78

Future: The logo should endure for 5 years. Meaning it should incorporate our aspirations: 1. Product innovation 2. Grow to be the main metal supplier of washington state. 3. Have a work environment that employees like, have fun in, and trust.

Where we will use the Logo:

Billboards & Signs, Mugs, T-shirts, Print, Web

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#265 by nigz65

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#252 by studioM

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#196 by sundezzo

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#214 by studioM

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#248 by nigz65

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#99 by Keysoft

#122 by Applex

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#247 by nigz65

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vadnix United States Contest holder	October 28th, 2013, 5:12pm Post your questions. Let me know how I can help you!

vadnix United States Contest holder	October 31st, 2013, 6:43pm The primary thing that will break or make this logo is typography. I added a PDF document with pictures of our products. I want this logo to visualize remind the audience of our product...One idea to do that is by making the typeface thin, sans serif, sharp corners, and looking like sheet metal.

vadnix United States Contest holder	November 2nd, 2013, 11:38pm TYPOGRAPHY IS KING! All the typefaces here are not original or inspiring. Take a look at the products and audiences and take a few days to create one amazing logo. Give it to me in black/white and in color so I can see how it would look for fax machine message and observe how it works without color.

vadnix United States Contest holder	November 4th, 2013, 8:56pm I added another document with suggested typography for the logo based upon product specs. I quickly drew this, so Ignore blatant mistakes such as on the "M"

vadnix United States Contest holder	November 6th, 2013, 6:25pm WOW. We are getting some crazy good logos!! I didn't have time to rank them properly, and comment, but GREAT JOB!