Who can enter
Arizona small businesses, students enrolled in an Arizona design program or university, and individual Arizona designers are welcome. Entrants must be 18 or older.
There is no entry fee.
Open call for Arizona designers
Design the
Foundation's
New Mark.
The Integro Bank Foundation is looking for its logo, and would rather find it in Arizona than order it from a catalogue. Open to Arizona small businesses and Arizona design students, presented with Arizona Microcredit Initiative.
$1,500 First prize
- Prize
- $1,500
One winning designer - Who
- AZ small businesses
and design students - Entries
- Open Sep 21
Close Oct 10 - Winner
- Oct 24
At the pitch competition
Entering
What it takes.
What to submit
Submit one ZIP file containing the logo at full size, an SVG vector source file, and black-contrast and white-contrast versions. Include a half-page rationale and evidence of your working process.
Incomplete entries cannot be judged.
Human work only
This is a competition for human designers. Ordinary design software, spell-checkers, and reference searches are fine - the line is drawn at generating the mark or its elements. Every entry carries a signed statement of human authorship.
A false statement voids the entry and, if discovered later, the prize and any rights granted.
Process and dates
Four dates to know.
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01
Entries open
Sep 21
The call opens to Arizona small businesses, individual designers, and Arizona design students.
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02
Entries close
Oct 10
Submit one complete ZIP through the entry form.
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03
Finalists present
Oct 14
Finalists present their work to the Integro Bank Foundation board.
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04
Winner announced
Oct 24
The winner is announced at the West Valley Pitch Competition.
Entries are open.
Submit one ZIP file containing your full-size logo, SVG vector source, black and white contrast versions, half-page rationale, and evidence of your working process.
Deadline: October 10, 2026.
Google sign-in is required for the file upload. The Foundation board reviews every complete entry.
Judging
Five criteria,
weighted.
The Foundation board reviews every complete entry. Its decision is final, and the Foundation may decline to award if no entry meets the brief.
PendingJudging committee membership
Prize
$1,500.
$1,500 to the winning entrant, a press release announcing the winner and their business or school, and a CEO special feature profiling the winner by Integro Bank.
30%
Idea
Does the mark say something true about a foundation built on small business and employment?
25%
Craft
Drawing, spacing, and type. Built well enough to be a permanent asset.
20%
Durability
One color, small sizes, embroidery, engraving. Judged at thumbnail size first.
15%
Fit with the bank
Whichever relationship you proposed, is it argued convincingly and does it hold up?
10%
Completeness
All four items submitted, vector files usable, rationale clear.
Foundation board
The people judging.
Pending
Board member
Pending
Board member
Pending
Board member
Pending
Board member
Names, titles, and bios will be published once the Foundation supplies them.
Rules and rights
Read this part carefully.
- Your rights until you win. You keep every right in your entry unless you win.
- On acceptance. The winner assigns all copyright and trademark rights in the winning mark to the Integro Bank Foundation, signs a short assignment agreement, and delivers the source files. The Foundation may modify, refine, or extend the mark thereafter.
- Credit. The winner is credited as the designer wherever the Foundation reasonably can, and may show the work in a portfolio.
- Showcase. Entrants warrant original, human-authored, non-infringing work. Non-winning entries may appear in a public showcase with credit unless you opt out on the entry form.
- Taxes. The prize is income. The winner completes a Form W-9 before payment and is responsible for any tax owed.
Creative direction
The brief.
- Required name. The mark is for the Integro Bank Foundation, spelled in full and legible somewhere in the lockup. The circular arrow is taken by Integro360 - off limits.
- Direction. A black-and-gold wordmark, starting fresh. The leaf is not required, and any font or treatment may be used.
- Built on small business. The bank exists to help small business maximize growth and employment, and says it is built on integrity, clarity, learning, and growth. Design a mark that can stand next to those ideas.
- Answer the relationship. The mark can join the Integro family, share one device with the bank, or stand on its own. Any of the three can win - explain your choice in two or three sentences.
- Work in one color. Solid black on white and solid white on black, with nothing lost. A foundation mark gets embroidered, engraved, and printed in one ink.
- Survive a thumbnail. Most people will meet this mark as a browser tab icon or social avatar. Fine lines, thin type, and small detail disappear - test it small.
Integro gold
#C2A14D
Near black
#0B0B0C
White
#FFFFFF
Text grey
#4A4E57
Gold tint
#E0C87E · Supporting tint
Mid grey
#8E9298 · Rules, captions
Section band
#F2F2F0 · Section bands
Brand foundations
The brand in its own words.
Mission
To help small business maximize growth and employment.
The why
Employment lifts people up, transforms lives and impacts communities.
The how
We start with integrity to build trust. We evaluate risks by providing consultative advice.
Positioning line in market
Rise to the top, with rock-solid consultative banking.
Integrity
A foundation of trust. Called the bank's DNA.
Clarity
Helping owners see their world from a different viewpoint.
Learning
Analytics, data dashboards, performance metrics.
Growth
Coaching and consulting dedicated to small-business growth.
How the brand pictures itself
Photography is people-first and transactional: handshakes, small groups in offices, one smiling professional to camera. Neutral backgrounds, even lighting, images cut out or lightly masked. Icons are thin gold line drawings on white - growth arrows, trust, employment.
No documented photo direction, and stock-feeling imagery where real Arizona small-business owners would be stronger.
Website
Black header, white body, gold accents across the product areas and Integro360.
The only social channel linked from the site. Event promotion, CEO Club, and article shares dominate.
Events
Co-branded graphics. Co-branding rules are undefined.
Type and voice
How the brand talks.
Observed hierarchy, web
H1
Rise to the Top
H2
Core Values
H5 / eyebrow
Our Mission
Body
To help small business maximize growth and employment. Set in the same family, one weight lighter, with generous line height.
“Our focus on small business creates jobs, transforms lives, and builds strong communities.”
The sentence a new mark has to live up to. It serves as the brand's one-line summary in search results and link previews.
Entries are open.
Submit one ZIP file containing your full-size logo, SVG vector source, black and white contrast versions, half-page rationale, and evidence of your working process.
Deadline: October 10, 2026.
Google sign-in is required for the file upload. The Foundation board reviews every complete entry.
Presented by
Integro Bank Foundation with Arizona Microcredit Initiative.
About the Integro Bank Foundation