McNeill King Advisory - an innovative business advisor needs a logo design

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This customer received 27 logo designs from 8 designers. They chose this logo design from Darkcross Design as the winning design.
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I have a consultancy/advisory business called "McNiell King Advisory". It consults to small medium enterprises (SMEs) advising them on business and financial processes to achieve profitability, sustainabily and growth (in fact the tagline for the business is "profitability, sustainabilty, growth").
I would like a logo that portrays professionalism, tech and business savey, and is contemporary and original.
Other design considerations:
- be in colour but reproduce well in black and white
- avoid overt references to graphs
- logo may be used with the company name both with and without the tag line.
-The business name is based on mine (middle and surname), however I'm not keen on the logo making reference to it (e.g. being based upon a crown)
Updates
Dear Designers,
Added Monday, February 20, 2012
Project Deadline Extended
Reason: Dear Designers,
There are a few designers who accepted the brief who have yet to submit their design. Because the deadline was a Sunday and at the weekend I have decided to give then an opportunity to submit their design by extending the deadline by two days.
To designers who have submitted a design, please note that this does not mean that I'm not satisfied with the designs I have received so far, a winner may well be selected from those I have received already.
To designers who accepted my brief but have not yet submitted, I'd encourage you to take this opportunity to be included in the competition.
Kind regards,
Andy
Added Monday, February 20, 2012
Industry/Entity Type
Financial
Logo Text
McNeill King Advisory
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Abstract Logo
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