• US$160

• 110 designs

• 14 designers

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Logo Design Brief

We are bladesmiths and have started a new business. Bladesmithing is the art of making knives, swords, daggers and other blades using a forge, hammer, anvil, and other smithing tools. Our names are David Killingsworth and Tommy Killingsworth. We are custom knife makers.and our company name is Hammer Marked Knives. A logo or makers mark will identify our knives for many years to come. We need a logo that can be used mainly as our makers mark, but also on our business cards, stationery, invoices, packaging & shipping materials, and on occasion on a banner hanging on the front of our display table, behind us on the wall, or on the outside wall of our shop. As a makers mark the design needs to be small [no larger than 1/2 inch], with crisp lines, and easy to read. We will be placing it on the blade close to where the handle meets the blade. It also needs to enlarge well for the other uses described above. Many of our customers will be repeat customers and we want our logo to be well designed and easy to spot.

Target Market(s)

home kitchens, professional kitchens/chefs, hunters, sportsman, knife collectors, blue collar, farmers, ranchers, cowboys, motorcyclists, vintage car collectors, vintage knife collectors, historical re-enactment men and women, every day carry EDC

Industry/Entity Type

Business

Logo Text

David Killingsworth, Tommy Killingsworth, Robbie Killingsworth, HMK, Hammer Marked Knives

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Logo styles of interest

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Look and feel

Each slider illustrates characteristics of the customer's brand and the style your logo design should communicate.

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Requirements

Must have

• My project needs to be GRAYSCALE. I could not get the application to move the choice to GRAYSCALE.
• * HMK
• * Hammer Marked Knives
• * bowie knife shape AND chef's knife shape
• * TEXT WITH name (D Killingsworth) & (T Killingsworth) & (R Killingsworth)
• * small easy-to-read logo

Nice to have

• A CLEVER NEGATIVE SPACE DESIGN with:
• a KNIFE in the pictorial / combination logo; or a logo in the shape of a knife; or the logo included in a hammer mark (the mark a hammer makes when striking a piece of steel); or a retro design like the gas stations had in the 1940's and 1950's; or the initials HMK shaped like a knife; or with a knife in the center of the initials HMK;
• or the initial D in the center of HMK and the initial T in the center of the HMK; or a Celtic design; or a SHAPE YOU CAN DECIDE.
• NOTE: we favor grayscale / black and white designs

Should not have

• Should NOT have COLOR. We work with steel and need our design to work well with GRAYSCALE.
• We are not blacksmiths and DO NOT do horseshoeing
• SHOULD NOT HAVE: COWBOYS, COWBOY HATS, RUSTIC, ANVILS, HORSES