CUSTOM AWARDS

Awards That Speak Your Brand’s Language

We craft one-of-a-kind custom awards and trophies tailored to your exact needs. The possibilities are endless, as we excel in innovative designs that not only captivate but also align perfectly with your branding and vision. Check out the examples below to see how we bring creativity and precision to every award we create!

Featured Custom Awards: A Closer Look

Creating a Custom Award is Easy As 1-2-3-4

  • Step 1

    You Have An Idea!

    It can range from a detailed 3D model to a rough sketch to just a text description.

  • Step 2

    We Refine the Design.

    A feedback/revision loop ensures the design is exactly what you want.

  • Step 3

    We Create a Model.

    This may be a detailed 3D file for fabricated awards, or a sculpted model for cast awards.

  • Step 4

    Award Production!

    Once the model is approved, we produce and personalize your awards.

Types of Custom Awards

We can create custom awards in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and materials, including sculpture awards, fabricated awards, medallions, crystal awards, plaques, etc. Each of these award types offers the opportunity to make a lasting, positive impression on your event, presentation, and recipient. However, they each present a different “award profile” in terms of design possibilities, required lead times, and price points. These alternative types of custom awards are outlined below.

Creation & Production Options

  • Cast Sculpture Awards

    Sculpture awards are the most classic form of custom award that we produce. The possible shapes and sizes for these awards are almost limitless – we have produced sculptures as small as a few inches high, all the way through monumental sculptures that are over 30 feet tall. Almost all of our sculpture awards are cast using either bronze or pewter, and can feature a variety of color, texture, and plating options.

  • Fabricated Awards

    We can fabricate custom awards using a variety of materials, including metal, wood, glass, plastic, etc. Unlike sculpture awards, which are cast, fabricated awards are hand-produced one award at a time. Fabricated awards generally have a shorter lead time than sculpture awards, as they do not require a model, mold, or the casting process.

Design Inspiration Options

  • Logo Awards

    Logos are the foundation of an organization’s brand identity. Awards based on these logos can help reinforce and extend this brand identity by expressing it in engaging, memorable three-dimensional form – one that will be prominently displayed over the years for many audiences to see. Logo awards also provide the dual benefit of both recognition and brand building - a great bang for the buck. We can create your custom logo awards in a plethora of materials, sizes, and price points.

  • Mascot Awards

    An organization’s mascot can serve as a great design inspiration for unique, creative custom awards. Mascot awards help communicate the personality and brand attributes associated with the mascot in a memorable, functional form - one that provides a dual benefit of both recognition and brand building. We have a long history of creating custom awards based on organizational mascots, and can use a variety of design styles, materials, shapes and sizes to bring your organization’s mascot to life.

  • Figurative Sculpture Awards

    Custom figurative awards are awards based on realistic, real-world images of an actual object. These differ from impressionistic awards, which represent an object without exactly replicating it, and abstract awards, which convey a concept or feeling without representing an actual object. Most of our figurative awards are based on human figures, either in bust or full-figure forms. We also create figurative awards based on other organic (e.g., plants and animals) and inorganic objects.

  • Interactive & Kinetic Awards

    Interactive and kinetic awards have a design element incorporating movement. These custom awards that have a user-operated moveable component as a central element of the award design. This unique element adds an interactive component to the award, which helps engage the recipient and audience, and amplifies the “wow factor” of the design.

  • Financial Tombstones

    Financial tombstones and deal toys are a great way to memorialize a “deal well done”, and recognize the many players whose hard work, sweat and sacrifice helped make the transaction a reality. We can create custom tombstones that reflect the unique attributes of your deal, including the industry involved, specific company attributes or icons, or any other unique symbolism related to that specific transaction.

  • Safety Awards

    Our safety awards are based on a set of predesigned sculptures that can be customized for your organization. We offer two different sculpture designs: hard hats and safety cones. These are available in different size options and can be mounted on different types of bases (sizes and materials). For customization, your organization’s logo can be sculpted into the front of the hard hat or cone. Custom medallions can also be created and affixed to the award or its base.

Material & Form Factor Options

  • Handcrafted Wood Awards

    Wood can be used to create custom awards in a variety of shapes, sizes, grains, colors and stains. The shape of these wood sculptures can range from simple wood pillars through complex designs handcrafted by skilled wood artisans. Surfaces of the wood sculptures can be laser engraved with custom symbols, logos and text. Wood awards can also be adorned with other award elements, such as custom medallions or engraved metal bands, to create stunning multi-material awards.

  • Machined Metal Awards

    Custom machined metal awards offer a variety of dimensions that can be customized for awards, including their shape, size, color and finish. Finish options include painting, powder-coating, plating, and anodization. Machined metal awards are a strong option for custom award designs that require precise geometric dimensions and uniformity across multiple award sculptures.

  • Acrylic Awards

    Acrylic awards provide an economical approach to custom awards, yet still offer a number of dimensions that can be completely customized for your needs. These personalization options include custom shapes, multiple engraving approaches, integration of an almost endless variety of colors, and the ability to embed physical objects into the acrylic that are relevant to the award. Acrylic can also be combined with other materials, such as wood or metals, to create unique multi-material awards.

  • Crystal Awards

    Crystal awards provide some of the lowest total costs (including up-front costs) and shortest lead-times of any of our custom award options. These crystal awards traditionally take the form of a geometric block of crystal (with either standard or custom shapes) with customized engraving. Customized engravings can either be 2D or 3D, and can be etched on the surface of the award, or laser-engraved inside the block of crystal.

  • Custom Cups

    Cups are one of the most recognizable and iconic forms of recognition awards. They are strongly associated with victories in competitions. We can create fully custom cups, designed unique to your specifications (including shape, size, decorative details, etc.), or we also offer pre-designed cups that can be customized specifically for your needs.

  • Custom Medallions

    Medallions are one of our most cost-effective custom recognition options from a per-unit price perspective. We can create medallions in a variety of sizes and shapes. These medallions also feature customized 3D reliefs on their front and back surfaces with images and text created per your specifications. In addition, we offer a number of different display vehicles for these medallions, including ribbons, bases, plaques, and cups.

  • Custom Plaques

    We can also create unique custom recognition awards using plaques. These plaques can be customized across a number of different dimensions, including their materials, shapes, colors, and sizes. In addition, we can combine them with other award components, such as medallions and display bases. Finally, we can combine them with a sculpture award to create a perpetual sculpture award plaque.

Custom Awards By Industry Focus

  • Soccer Awards

    We have a long and successful history of working with soccer organizations to product extraordinary awards that reflect and enhance the excitement, prestige and gravitas of the soccer event or organization.

  • Technology Awards

    We create innovative and ground-breaking designs that match these same qualities inherent in technology firms. However, we take great care that this innovation does not come at the expense of schedule and quality.

  • E-Sports Awards

    We have worked with many eSports events, and this market is a great fit for our capabilities and design orientation. Much like the industry they are associated with, eSports events gravitate towards awards that are unique and innovative, and push the design envelope beyond the traditional boundaries of what has been done in the past.

  • Sports Awards

    We consistently strive to create unique custom awards for your sports organization that are differentiated from anything else on the market. These awards are immediately recognizable as sports awards, but also reflect the unique attributes and personality of your organization or event’s brand.

  • Food & Beverage Awards

    We have extensive experience working with clients in the food and beverage industry. Our clients list includes industry leaders such as McDonalds, Pepsi, General Mills and Kraft, but we’ve have also worked with small family-owned businesses (like ours). We give every client – big or small – our undivided attention, and help them create awards their recipients will treasure for a lifetime.

  • Healthcare Awards

    We are honored to have created many awards – both custom and predesigned - for ‘healthcare heroes’ in a variety of organizations, including hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, wellness organizations, and medical associations. These organizations are looking for distinctive awards that represent the critical role their recipients play in making our world a better, safer place.

  • Education Awards

    We’ve worked with educational institutions of all shapes and sizes – including university, high schools, school districts, and associations – to product custom awards that help further their mission and leave a lasting impression on their recipients and constituencies.at represent the critical role their recipients play in making our world a better, safer place.

Special Custom Award & Sculpture Approaches

  • Awardology: Sustainable, Customizable Awards

    Awardology is our collection of modern, sustainable, customizable awards for the new generation. Inspired by the latest design trends, these eco-friendly awards are based on modern minimalist shapes. Through the latest technology and customization methods, each award can be completely personalized from a material, color and branding perspective.

  • Value Awards

    When you have a tighter budget that doesn’t enable creating a custom award from the ground up, we offer a variety of options for economical awards that can be customized or personalized with a relatively short turn-around time. These span a variety of materials, shapes, and sizes, and all can be created unique to your event, organization or recipient.

  • Monumental & Public Sculpture

    We have the know-how, capabilities, and artistic acumen to create monumental sculptures and public art in a variety of sizes and styles, including abstract designs, impressionistic forms, and realistic figures. We can create a new custom design for a large monumental sculpture, or enlarge (scale up) a design that already exists in smaller form.

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Award Personalization

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Most of the custom awards we create support some level of personalization, such as the recipient’s name, award name, presenting organization or date of presentation. Depending on the award design, this may be a combination of text and images (such as logos). Many of the custom awards we create can be mounted on bases with personalized engraving (see buttons below). Custom awards that do not include a base as part of their design may be able to incorporate personalization as part of the award itself. Once we understand your personalization needs, we will work with you to create a custom award design that supports these requirements.