Software developers need logo for new product

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Logo Design Brief

We are a small software development company looking for a logo to represent our new product, called ‘BootHawk’.

BootHawk is a PC boot and user logon analysis and reporting tool targeted at companies with a significant numbers of PCs to manage. Our software runs silently in the background, watching the machine boot and user logon process; the machine boot and our software watching it (like a bird of prey) is what lead to the name ‘BootHawk’. BootHawk can help IT departments fix slow boot and logon problem, thereby significantly increasing their company’s productivity.

We are very open-minded to creative ideas and are unsure how the logo can be best represented i.e. just clever use of graphics, a nicely rendered version of the hawk head image that we are currently using with some text or something completely different that uses stylised text and a hawk attribute in some way. We do NOT want to use an eagle image; most hawks have a shorter and more curved beak e.g. Harris hawk. The text needs to make it clear, in some way, that BootHawk represents Boot and Hawk as separate words; perhaps a clever use of case and/or colours?

At present our thought is to have some kind of hawk icon and the product name with the contrasting font +/- colour. Having a discrete hawk icon would allow us to brand future products we develop with the same icon; however, we are definitely open to any other creative approach.

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We have not seen any designs yet which have used a hawk's talons in any way (grappling the text perhaps?); perhaps this is worth pursuing as a creative idea?
Added Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Project Deadline Extended
Reason: We have some great designs now with some late submissions that we need to allow time to be tweaked before we make our final decision.
Added Monday, September 17, 2012

Project Deadline Extended
Reason: To allow final tweaking by some of our final contenders.
Added Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Project Deadline Extended
Reason: Still tweaking with our final contenders.
Added Thursday, September 20, 2012

Target Market(s)

IT managers and technical professionals

Industry/Entity Type

Software

Logo Text

BootHawk


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Requirements
Must have
  • The word 'BootHawk'
Should not have
  • Any graphic that is clearly identifiable as being any bird other than a hawk.
Payments
1st place
£200
2nd place
£100
Total
£300

Project Deadline
21 Sep 2012 11:32:19 UTC
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