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Logo Design Brief

We need a logo for a fictitious company based in Charleston, SC, called Grolier Recovery Services. It is a cover organization in a thriller series written by Brad Taylor. We feel the image should portray the archaeological aspect as well as the special operations aspect of the company. The image I've attached is one we created, but it's not very original. The punisher skull may have trademark issues even though we've edited it some. We like the idea of the 'O' in Grolier being some sort of skull image that would eventually come to be known as the company...where we could just use it without the name and it would be synonymous with Grolier Recovery Services. The crossed arrows behind the skull are from Special Forces and we want to incorporate those.

The following is a description of Grolier from one of Brad's books:
"Our company was called Grolier Recover Services, and as far as the overt US Government knew, it was an above-board business that specialized in facilitating archeological work around the world. Unfortunately, that wasn’t true.

Our company was a little unique in that we didn’t do the digging for the artifacts, we basically sold the shovels. In the world of archeological relics, it turns out that the majority of the digs around the earth were in areas that were less than hospitable, with most being in regions wracked by strife. So, if you wanted to go dig up some bones somewhere, you needed someone to facilitate it, which is where we came in.

Jennifer used her degree in anthropology to convince them we understood what they wanted to do, and I used my degree in killing bad guys to keep them safe. We facilitated such things as government permits in the country in question, logistics for the dig, and then provided security on site. Which is where my guns came in to play.

The truth of the matter was our business was all a sham. We actually did real archeological facilitation, to a certain extent, but only to give us cover for what we really did – putting some national security threat’s head on a spike.

Since much of the unrecovered archeological stuff around the world was in what could charitably be called ungoverned space, meaning that it held a lot of bad guys, we leveraged my company to eliminate national security threats. Grolier allowed us to penetrate as eggheads instead of commandos wearing camo swooping in on helicopters, giving the United States plausible deniability for any fallout. "

Industry/Entity Type

Fictitious. Special operations.

Logo Text

Grolier Recovery Services

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Look and feel

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Requirements

Must have

• Crossed arrows.

Nice to have

• Skull, but we're open to other ideas.

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