Logo Wanted: Strategy Consulting for IT Companies

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Logo Design Brief
We're looking for a logo design for a new company based in the DC metro area called - The Communications Assurance Group LLC. We're branding it as "the CAG". We provide strategy consulting to US companies from Fortune 500 to small tech companies led by experienced entrepreneurs. We help these companies identify new markets to enter, provide guidance on how best to enter these markets, then help them execute the plan and measure success. Our customers are CEOs and Presidents of multi-million dollar businesses. Needless to say we are the silent professionals who work behind the scenes, yet get the job done.
The feelings we would like the logo to inspire are:
1. emerging technology
2. building & expanding business
3. trust
The colors that we prefer in order are
1. Hunter Green (potentially gold accent)
2. Navy
Colors we don't like: purple, pink, neon anything
We plan to use the logo for business cards, stationary, collateral, advertisements, and potentially a polo shirt for everyone in the Company.
Updates
Thanks again for all the great submissions. I wanted to give more clarity on the colors that we prefer since submissions have been all over the map.
Added Monday, August 27, 2012
Hello:
First, I would like to announce that this is now a GUARANTEED project! So we look forward to working with one of you going forward for all of our graphics needs. This is one of many projects we will do for the CAG.
Added Monday, August 27, 2012
one more thing, please submit all designs on a solid white background. Our first use of the logo will be stationary & business cards. If you would like to add what the business card would look like, then please place it on the same page.
Added Monday, August 27, 2012
Project Deadline Extended
Reason: Due to the U.S. Labor Day Holiday, I am extending the deadline to the next business day (Tuesday, September 4, 2012)
Added Thursday, August 30, 2012
We're in the home stretch. Only 24 hours remaining before we make the final selection of our new logo.
Added Monday, September 03, 2012
Target Market(s)
Our clients are CEOs & Presidents of multi-million dollar companies. They rely upon our expertise to make major decisions for their Companies.
Industry/Entity Type
Building
Logo Text
CAG (most predominant), The Communications Assurance Group
Logo styles of interest
Emblem Logo
Logo enclosed in a shape



Pictorial/Combination Logo
A real-world object (optional text)



Wordmark Logo
Word or name based logo (text only)


Lettermark Logo
Acronym or letter based logo (text only)



Look and feel
Each slider illustrates characteristics of the customer's brand and the style your logo design should communicate.
Elegant
Bold
Playful
Serious
Traditional
Modern
Personable
Professional
Feminine
Masculine
Colorful
Conservative
Economical
Upmarket
Requirements
Must have
- 3 letters: CAG
Nice to have
- potentially a braid or celtic knot design to show working in harmony with the client, potentially a elegant monogram design with the 3 letters, potentially figure looking out from a high vantage point
Should not have
- please no sprouting trees, leaves, golden eggs, chess pieces,puzzle pieces,globes,maps,dice
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