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Bennett Custom Awards
Bennett Awards has over 40 years experience creating unique custom awards and trophies that are designed specific to your requirements. We have created custom awards for a world-class set of for-profit and non-profit clients around the world, including Google, Nike, Facebook, Sony, Ford, BMW, Honda, Intel, Mars, NASA, Volkswagen, Johnson & Johnson, Netflix, Make A Wish, Audi, the U.S. Olympic Team, and many others.
Custom awards are a great way to uniquely communicate and reinforce your organization’s brand and event positioning (see our article “Unique Awards for Building Brands"). The types of custom awards we can create are almost endless – we pride ourselves on creating innovative, “out of the box” designs that make an immediate impact and leave a lasting impression, but still adhere to the specific design, branding and messaging requirements of our clients.
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.
Custom Award Examples
Shown below is a representative sample of the custom awards and trophies that we have created. Clicking on any of the images below for more information. Click the yellow button below to see an expanded list of the custom awards and trophies we have created.
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. Learn more...
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. Learn more...
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more...
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. Learn more...
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more...
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. Learn more...
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
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. Learn more…
Award Personalization
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.
Let’s Get Started!
As always, we would be happy to take a look at your custom award objectives and recommend the best design approach for your needs.