FACEIT, a leading platform for online game competitions, commissioned Bennett Awards to create new custom awards for an eSports competition they recently held at one of the industry’s largest video game conferences: the D.I.C.E Summit. Bennett Awards created a new custom award featuring a fabricated sculpture in the shape of a key element of the FACEIT logo. The sculpture was painted in FACEIT’s corporate colors, and then mounted on a unique handcrafted hard base custom-cut to match the design of the sculpture.

The Triangle chapter of the American Advertising Federation (Triangle AdFed) commissioned Bennett Awards to create a new custom award design for their 2016 American Advertising Awards (formerly called the ADDYs). The American Advertising Awards are the advertising industry’s largest competition. These custom awards featured unique 6” figurative sculptures that were cast in pewter, had a brushed pewter finish, and were mounted on 3” x 3” round black hardwood bases.

For the fifth consecutive year, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation presented custom sculpture awards created by Bennett Awards to the 2015 recipients of the 5th Annual Hiring Our Heroes Awards. The Hiring Our Heroes Awards recognize employers and individuals who have gone above and beyond to hire, retain, and honor our country’s military talent. In 2011, U.S. Chamber of Commerce commissioned Bennett Awards to create a new, unique custom award design for these awards. This design is a figurative bronze sculpture in the form of a combat serviceman on patrol.

Nickelodeon presented a group of deserving recipients – including pop icon Justin Bieber – with custom awards created by Bennett Awards for their 2015 Nickelodeon Halo Awards. Each year, the Nickelodeon HALO Awards honor real-life kids that are doing extraordinary things in their communities and "Helping and Leading Others" (HALO). For these awards, Bennett Award created a new custom award design in the shape of a baton. Each baton sculpture was fabricated out of aluminum, and featured an orange anodized finish with custom engraving. Justin Bieber’s HALO Hall of Fame Award was differentiated with a gold-plated finish.

For the 9th consecutive year, a group of the movie industry’s biggest stars were honored with Bennett Awards as part of the 22nd annual Elle Women in Hollywood Awards. The Women in Hollywood Awards recognize women for their outstanding achievements in film, spanning all aspects of the motion picture industry, including acting, directing, and producing. The eight recipients of these prestigious awards included actresses Kate Winslet, Amy Schumer, Dakota Johnson, Salma Hayek, Carey Mulligan, Alicia Vikander, Gena Rowlands and director Ana DuVernay. The awards are based on a custom sculpture design originally created by Bennett Awards in 2007, and Bennett Awards has produced the awards since then.

Bennett Awards created custom recognition awards for the $2M Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE, a global competition that challenged teams of engineers, scientists, and innovators from all over the world to create pH sensor technology to accurately and affordably measure the acidification of our oceans. XPRIZE is the leading organization solving the world’s Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, high-profile, incentivized prizes in five areas: Learning; Exploration; Energy & Environment; Global Development; and Life Sciences. Bennett Awards collaborated with XPRIZE to create a new, unique custom award that combined both metal and glass. 

Bennett Awards recently worked with Twilio, a cloud communications company based in San Francisco, to create new, custom employee recognition awards. These awards, called the 5th Year Twilioversary Awards, recognize employees who have been with the company for 5 years. For these awards, Bennett Awards worked with Twilio to create unique, miniature sculpture awards in the shape of Chuck Taylor Sneakers. These custom  sculptures featured bronze plating and the Twilio logo on the side of the shoes. This design was inspired by one of Twilio’s Leadership Principles: Wear the Customer’s Shoes.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) commissioned Bennett Awards to create new custom awards for their inaugural 2015 RWJF Sports Award. These recognition awards honor recipients for their innovative and influential approaches to using sports to build a Culture of Health in their communities. For this new award, Bennett Awards worked with RWJF to create a new, unique custom award design based on the RWJF logo – a 3D interpretation of the logo in the form of a sculpture. The sculpture awards were cast in bronze, and featured gold patina with high-polished edges.

Audi of America commissioned Bennett Awards to design and produce custom sculpture awards that are being used as grand opening gifts at new and remodeled Audi dealerships. There are two main components of these awards. The first, upper component is a custom pewter sculpture created in the shape of a circular, spiraling racetrack with three Audi cars (representing the past, present and future) circling it. The second component is a custom-created resin base with color-sublimated plaques.

For the 6th straight year, the Skateboarding Hall of Fame honored its annual class of inductees with custom recognition awards created by Bennett Awards. Bennett Awards created this custom trophy design in 2010. The unique design is based on a three-dimensional sculpture representation of the Skateboarding Hall of Fame logo, including a realistic skateboard atop the Skateboarding Hall of Fame logotype.