Looking to make your hydration stations stand out? Murdock can create customized bottle fillers, water coolers, and drinking fountains with custom Pantone® colors, company or school logos, and mascot graphics. The result is more than a place to get water—it’s a branded feature that enhances your facility’s unique aesthetic, reinforces your organization’s identity, and creates a more engaging environment.
Custom Color Matching & Logo Options
Murdock offers two customization options for many of its hydration stations: custom Pantone® color matching, and custom logo integration.
Murdock can powder coat many drinking fountains, water coolers, and bottle filling stations in any Pantone® color. Whether your goal is to blend the unit into its surroundings, or make it a standout feature, custom color matching allows your hydration stations to complement your facility's branding and design.
Murdock also has the capability to integrate powder coated logos and decals onto most of their units. Adding a custom logo or mascot to the drinking fountains, water coolers, and bottle fillers throughout your facility or school can be an effective part of your branding strategy.
| Standard Hydration Station | Customized Hydration Station |
|---|---|
| Blends into the background | Reinforces your organization's identity |
| Standard manufacturer finish | Matched to your brand colors |
| Functional drinking water source | Functional amenity and branding opportunity |
| Difficult to distinguish from other units | Creates recognizable landmarks for visitors |
| Generic appearance | Customized with logos, mascots, or graphics |
| Same look as most facilities | Unique to your campus or facility |
Who Can Benefit From Customized Bottle Filling Stations?
Schools and Universities
Using school colors and mascot graphics on bottle filling stations helps foster school spirit and strengthen campus identity. This is especially true when installed in high-traffic sports-specific areas such as gymnasiums, swimming pools, stadiums, concessions areas, and concourses. When students, staff, and alumni feel connected to their school, it can positively influence engagement, culture, and community support. Branded bottle fillers are also easy to spot, making them useful as navigation points around campus.
Hospitals
Customized hydration stations can help healthcare systems create a consistent, welcoming environment by incorporating system branding, facility colors, or wayfinding elements throughout patient care areas, waiting rooms, and public spaces.
Corporate Campuses
Companies can use custom bottle fillers with their brand colors and logos to reinforce workplace identity, create a cohesive office environment, and showcase attention to detail for employees and visitors.
Municipalities
Parks, recreation centers, and public facilities can use branded hydration stations to reflect community identity, promote local programs, and create recognizable amenities that enhance public spaces.
Sports Venues
Stadiums, arenas, and athletic facilities can incorporate team colors, logos, and mascots into hydration stations to strengthen fan engagement, and create a more immersive game-day experience.
Sponsorships
Another unique opportunity is using branded drinking fountains to highlight sponsorships, recognize donors, or showcase partnerships throughout your facility. This can be used by a wide variety of facility types.
How Can Custom Bottle Fillers Support Wayfinding?
One unique way large facilities can make dual use of customized drinking fountains is by using them to support wayfinding. Customized bottle filling stations can serve as visual landmarks that help visitors navigate large facilities. By incorporating recognizable colors, logos, mascots, or other branding elements, hydration stations can provide visual cues that help people identify where they are and where they need to go.
For example, a university could use different color schemes or branding elements throughout campus to help distinguish buildings or departments. A blue bottle filler could help identify a science building, while a green unit could reinforce an environmental studies area. A custom unit can also become an easy-to-reference landmark: “Meet at the Panther bottle filler outside the gymnasium.”
Example Branded Bottle Filler Mock-Ups from Murdock
Seeing examples is often the easiest way to visualize what's possible. Below are several concept mock-ups Murdock created for different organizations to demonstrate various logo placements, color combinations, and branding approaches.
Duquesne University
Murdock created these concept mock-ups for Duquesne University to compare two logo options alongside both single-color and two-tone finishes. Exploring multiple branding approaches helps organizations visualize how different design elements work together before selecting a final look.
Penn State University
These concept renderings compare Penn State's traditional blue logo with a reverse white logo while exploring several blue-and-white color combinations. Reviewing multiple concepts helps organizations evaluate logo visibility, color contrast, and overall branding before production.
University of Pittsburgh
For the University of Pittsburgh, Murdock developed concepts featuring two logo variations as well as both fully color-matched and stainless steel/color combination finishes. The examples demonstrate how mixing stainless steel with custom colors can create a distinctive appearance while maintaining the durability and timeless look of stainless steel.
Did you know? Custom designs can also incorporate cutout graphics or accents that expose the stainless steel beneath the powder-coated finish for added visual contrast.
Sheetz
Sheetz explored two different bi-level water cooler styles to compare branding on both standard stainless steel units and custom color-matched models. These concepts illustrate how the same logo can achieve a very different visual impact depending on the finish and product style selected.
Ready to create custom bottle filling stations for your facility?
Equiparts can help you select the right Murdock drinking fountain, bottle filler, or water cooler, and coordinate custom colors, logos, and artwork. Contact our team to discuss your project, or request a digital mock-up.
Murdock Custom Bottle Filling Stations FAQs
Q: Can outdoor drinking fountains be customized?
A: Yes. Many outdoor drinking fountains can be customized with colors and logos, making them a great choice for parks, golf courses, sports fields, campuses, and other outdoor facilities.
Q: Is creating branded mock-ups free?
A: Yes. Complimentary custom mock-ups are available to help you visualize your design before ordering. Contact your Equiparts sales representative or email info@equipartsdrinkingfountains.com with "Custom Murdock Drinking Fountains" in the subject line to get started.
To create your mock-up, please provide:
- Your logo in EPS format
- Your preferred Pantone color(s), if applicable
Q: Which models can be customized?
A: Nearly all Murdock drinking fountains, bottle filling stations, and water coolers can be customized with your branding and color selections.
Q: Where can logos be placed?
A: Logo placement depends on the model, but logos can typically be added to bottle filler panels, front aprons, and other visible surfaces. We'll recommend the best placement based on the unit you select.
Q: Is there a minimum order requirement for custom units?
A: No. There is no minimum order quantity required for custom Murdock units.
Q: Can every bottle filling station have different artwork?
A: Yes. Each unit can feature different artwork or branding if desired.
Q: Does ordering multiple custom units with the same artwork reduce the price?
A: No. Customization pricing is generally the same regardless of quantity.
Q: How long does it take to receive custom mock-ups?
A: Most custom mock-ups are completed within approximately one week after receiving your artwork and project details.
Q: Do custom bottle filling stations cost more?
A: Yes, custom options add to the cost of the unit, but customization pricing is generally standardized regardless of the specific logo or color selected.
Q: How are custom colors applied?
A: Custom colors are applied using a durable powder coating process. Murdock offers a wide selection of standard colors and can also match virtually any Pantone color to coordinate with your school's, company's, or organization's branding.