Typographic logo for serious but edgy financial advisory firm

Maxbley needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.

A winner was selected from 257 designs submitted by 81 freelance designers.

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Entries from this contest

by hendra kurmiawan

by Zeal

by diedtryin

by vitamin

by diedtryin

by Still lll

One of the designers who made it happen

Winner - karik

He gave his designs at the last moment. I chose him for the second round because something about his design spoke to me. Out of 150+ designs for my contest, his was really the best. I am really excited to have this logo.

- DrGalpern

How Maxbley started their logo design journey

Company name

FutureFinance

Overview

I'm a former venture capitalist based in London, with family ties to Latin America. Now I'm starting a consultancy with my wife to do creative financial advisory projects in Europe and South America.

What does that mean?
- advising European Internet and software companies on how to get acquired for big bucks
- managing crowd-funding platforms for non-profit projects
- putting together unusual, difficult development projects, eg to fund the establishment of a solar power plant in the salt deserts of Bolivia
- helping European investors identify the best Latin American funds to invest in; helping Latin American funds tap US and European investors.

We're highly professional but fun. We intend to provide both plain-vanilla financial advisory as well as creative financing solutions.

Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

The target audiences are:
- technology industry entrepreneurs
- fund managers, investors
- development banks (eg World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, African Development Bank)

Requirements

This means we need a serious, professional, cool, stable, dependable looking brand, ideally with a slight creative edge.

We are looking for a logo to use on our business cards, letterhead and website.

I like clever typography, plays with letters, and a modern, clean, crisp look. Here are some examples of logos we like:
http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/50624
http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/122471
http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/122514
http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/122498
http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/122174

Our name could be FutureFinance or Future Finance. We are likely to use the domains futurefinance.at and futurefinance.org for non-profit work.

I like blues and grays, also green, but am open to ideas. No cartoons, clip art or cheesy images. I think this is primarily a typographic logo, but I'm open to conservative ideas of graphics.

We will need the best Web format and the best print format for business cards, stationary, etc. I guess that means: .ai (CMYK), .jpg and layered .psd (RGB).