Logo design competition - 50$ bounty!

[Bik_z19]

I'm looking for a low budget logo design for one of my clients. So I thought I'd open up a small competition here to give all designers a chance, and my client the best chance at a good logo. The bounty is set at 50 dollars, with its equivalent in BTC at the time off payout.

Small description of the business:
This is a service for people that are in debt, or close to getting there. Or people that are for some reason uncapable to tend to financial matters themselves. This business takes over the financial responsibility for a client and manages their payments, bills and contracts e.d.

The logo must consist of the following aspects/thematics:

• A boat, the Ark of Noah to be more precise. For the ones not familiar with the bible, check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark. The idea is that this Ark represents safety, new beginnings and protection.
• The letters ARK must be in the logo, not necessarily inside the boat. These letters are an abbreviation of the companies name.
• The company has the following 'subtitle' which is: Mentorschap & Beschermingsbewind.
  This can be seen as the 'slogan'
• Colors must be warm. So like brown, a dark shade of red etc.
• Fonts are free to pick, would prefer ones that are available on webpages as well.

The design can be very simplistic, a handmade drawing off an Ark would do. Just make it nice and tidy. I will need different sizes of the logo, vector drawing would be a bonus.
Winner will be decided with the client, on the 2nd of August. see update below

So please leave your entries in a reply to this thread. You will be notified through PM if you are the winner.

Thanks in advance for your contribution! And I'm always open for questions and suggestions.

Regards,

Bik

IMPORTANT UPDATE:Due to the fact that I cannot get the escrow in place before competition end, and the fact that a lot of people will only compete with a proper escrow in place, I will extend the competition until the 9th of August (1 week). This will be the first and last extension of the time span.

[Cloverdale]

It is best to escrow the prize to provide security to all the participants.
here is the list of trusted escrow here in forum https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=855778.0

[Angell]

Here is my entry.

http://imgur.com/a/nDUsU

EDIT: I can make small changes of the design, color, or everything you want.

[Bik_z19]

It is best to escrow the prize to provide security to all the participants.
here is the list of trusted escrow here in forum https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=855778.0

Thank you for the suggestion! Haven't used an escrow before, but I've sent a pm to an escrow from the list so I expect it to be available soon.

[poptok1]

Hi. First entry here. Let me know what do you think.

[Bik_z19]

Here is my entry.

http://imgur.com/a/nDUsU

EDIT: I can make small changes of the design, color, or everything you want.

Entry disregarded due to plagiarism, as pointed out by hermesesus (Big thanks to him/her!)
Original logo : https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ark/

[Bik_z19]

Hi. First entry here. Let me know what do you think.

I like it, thank you! It's a bit granular for my taste tho, could you sharpen it up a bit?

[poptok1]

Did some tweaking here and there, looks nice on darker backgrounds.
Transparency is still available, so are previous fonts.

[x4]

Hi. First entry here. Let me know what do you think.

I like it, thank you! It's a bit granular for my taste tho, could you sharpen it up a bit?

It looks nice, but wait bro there we're still many will entry in this competition I guess, so just wait for more nice logo. And the price is good. And good luck to those who will participate and congrats to the winner in advance. Lol

[hermesesus]

My entry
It is a vector drawing (svg)
Everything is customizable: size, colors, font...

[kulas]

Here's my entry:

it's similar to the first entry. they disregarded it due to plagiarism.

[Xenophoto]

Here's my entry:-snip-

it's similar to the first entry. they disregarded it due to plagiarism.

Oh, okay cool. I'm deleting it now. I just searched "noah's ark.png" and didn't know that there's another actual company named ARK. OP could disregard mine as well.

[TastyChillySauce00]

just curious the text on the logo is just "ARK" or have any additional?,it's seems a bit odd but yeah i'll put my effort into it,i just hope the contest will end on 2nd august at 23:00 PM so i can spare my time

[NicosKaralis]

This logo design copetition is interesting but in only one day it's to hot to do a good logo and we haven't got the site of your client (we have a little description but it's not very precise).
So I'm going to do something but certainly that will not be incredible.  

[poptok1]

New day new Ark 
This one is also easy to modify, if you prefer different colours etc.
I'm kinda surprised that so few entry's have been submitted so far.
 

[Bik_z19]

just curious the text on the logo is just "ARK" or have any additional?,it's seems a bit odd but yeah i'll put my effort into it,i just hope the contest will end on 2nd august at 23:00 PM so i can spare my time

The company does have some sort of a 'subtitle' which is: Mentorschap & Beschermingsbewind.

Good question, will add this to the information.

[Bik_z19]

IMPORTANT UPDATE:Due to the fact that I cannot get the escrow in place before competition end, and the fact that a lot of people will only compete with a proper escrow in place, I will extend the competition until the 9th of August (1 week). This will be the first and last extension of the time span.

[Bik_z19]

This logo design copetition is interesting but in only one day it's to hot to do a good logo and we haven't got the site of your client (we have a little description but it's not very precise).
So I'm going to do something but certainly that will not be incredible.  

I know, updated the timespan by a week. Clients site is not up, as the logo will be a major inspiration for it (colors, fonts etc.). The client also wants to use the logo on letterheads and mailings, so nothing is set yet

[candustore]

Flat, professional and simple logo 

https://i.imgur.com/ezjiGqQ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/k0sakby.jpg

[hermesesus]

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