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May 26, 2011 on 9:33 am
Bennett Awards recently designed and produced a new set of custom awards for “The Green Awards”, an environmental program sponsored by Green Giant. The Green Awards program seeks to recognize the pioneering leaders, communities, and everyday families who are innovating to make our world more sustainable. Many of the country’s leading environmental groups have joined together with Green Giant to support and advance this award program, including The Nature Conservancy, The Environmental Defense Fund, Rainforest Alliance, Surfrider Foundation, American Rivers, Defenders of Wildlife, Foundation Earth, and Bioneers among others. Earlier this year, pioneering leaders, communities and everyday families were asked to submit short videos and essays that described their green initiatives. Finalists in four categories were selected through a combination of consumer voting and a judging panel of environmental experts from The Green Awards board. Entries were judged on three criteria: 1) creativity and inspiration; 2) impact on the community and beyond; and 3) rationale for additional funding. The four recognition award categories were:
12 finalists – 3 in each category, where selected and flown to The Green Awards program, held May 13, 2011, in Los Angeles. The recognition awards ceremony was emceed by actress Amy Smart and HGTV star Carter Oosterhouse. The grand prize winners received a $25,000 cash prize, in addition to unique, custom awards designed by Bennett Awards. Bennett Awards created a unique custom trophy design based on a 3D representation of The Green Awards logo. These distinctive trophies feature a pewter leaf-shaped design that holds a green crystal globe. The pewter leaf image is finished in brushed pewter. The green globes feature clear surfaces for each of the continents, and opaque surfaces for the oceans. These unique awards are mounted on black marble bases that feature customized engravings with The Green Awards Logo, the Green Giant logo, the name of the award category, and the name of the award recipient. A closer look at these custom awards can be seen by clicking the following link: “The Green Awards”. The grand prize winners in each category were:
May 18, 2011 on 3:35 pm
For the third straight year, Serino Coyne, the nation’s premier live entertainment agency, selected a Bennett corporate awards design for an employee recognition award that is given out on an annual basis. The corporate award is called “The Ruth Award”, and is given each year to the employee who performs the best act at the company’s annual holiday party. This company award is named in honor of a former Associate Creative Director, who was with the company 17 years. Serino Coyne selected the unique Bennett corporate awards design “Aspire” for this company award. These unique awards are customized each year via engravings in their marble bases.
May 17, 2011 on 3:13 pm
For the second consecutive year, Bennett Awards is providing custom recognition awards for the Street League Skateboarding nationwide tour. Founded by professional skateboarder and entrepreneur Rob Dyrdek, and sponsored by DC Shoes and Monster Energy, Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional street skateboarding series worldwide. The 2011 Street League tour will feature 24 of the world’s top street skateboarders competing for a groundbreaking $1.6 million prize purse, along with custom trophies designed by Bennett Awards. The 2011 Street League series features events in 4 cities across the U.S.:
These competitions will be broadcast on ESPN and ESPN2. Bennett Awards collaborated with Street League Skateboarding to create a unique custom awards design based on a 3D representation of the Street League Skateboarding logo. This base custom awards design is used for two different flavors of recognition trophies. The first trophy design is for the winners of first three tour events. These unique trophies are cast in bronze, and feature a high polished bronze finish. These trophies are mounted on black-lacquer hardwood bases, and attached to the bases are metal plates engraved with the event name and Street League Skateboarding logo. The second trophy design is for the championship winner. This trophy is similar to the first, except the award features a nickel-plated finish, and is mounted on a stacked, two-tier base. These custom awards can be seen by clicking the following link: “Street League Skateboarding Custom Awards”.
May 12, 2011 on 3:49 pm
Bennett Awards has just added a new, high-end sculpture award to its collection of recognition awards. The ”Eclipse” sculpture awards are a unique recognition awards design that accentuates contrasting shapes and colors. The awards design is based on a curved crescent shape. One side of the sculpture award is convex, and features a high-polished bronze finish (see image above). The other side of the sculpture award is concave, and features a dark patina finish (see below). This unique recognition awards design is inspired by the notion of an outstanding achievement or milestone that “eclipses” any others. These unique awards, designed by artist Tom Bennett, stand 11” tall (including their marble bases. The Eclipse sculpture awards are created in bronze, and feature a combination high-polish and patina finish (as described above). Eclipse’s black marble base can be customized with an engraving of your choice for a small additional charge. A photo of these distinctive awards can be seen by clicking the following link: “Eclipse”.
May 11, 2011 on 2:42 pm
The Culinary Institute of America and FoodService Director recently commissioned a set of unique custom awards from Bennett Awards. These custom trophies were selected for a new recognition awards program sponsored – The Goldies. The Goldies are a national achievement awards program that recognizes the achievements of Gold Standards in non-commercial food service. The Goldies provide non-commercial food service operations with an opportunity to showcase exceptional programs within their operations that have achieved Gold Standard quality. Recognition trophies are awarded in five categories:
For The Goldies, Bennett Awards designed a simple but distinctive and unique custom award design that featured a “golden egg”. The eggs were produced in gold-plated pewter, and mounted on black marble base. The marble bases were engraved on two sides. One side features the logos of The Culinary Institute of America and FoodService Director, and the other side featured the name of the award. These custom awards can be seen in more detail by clicking the following link: “The Goldies Custom Awards”. These unique trophies were presented to recipients at the FoodService Directors Menu Directions Annual Conference, which was held February 27-March 1 in New Orleans.
May 6, 2011 on 3:34 pm
Bennett Awards created custom corporate awards for Twin-Star International, a worldwide leader in electric fireplaces, electric fireplace inserts, and electric fireplace logs. These custom corporate awards were commissioned by Twin-Star for use as their Vendor of the Year Awards. These corporate recognition awards are given annually to vendors who do exceptional work for Twin-Star. Bennett Awards worked closely with Twin-Star to create an innovative, unique custom award design that reflected the nature of their business. These unique achievement awards were based on a fireplace mantle replica and insert. Inside the insert, flames were created through the use of photo-sublimated plates. The fireplace mantle was handcrafted in wood, and was mounted on a black marble base engraved with the Twin-Star logotype, award name, recipient name, and year of presentation. These custom awards measure approximately 7” high by 7” wide. The 2010 recipients of these distinctive corporate awards were Migaire and Shine Mark, two factories located in China. These innovative awards can be seen in more detail by clicking the following link: “Twin-Star International Custom Corporate Awards”. Founded in 1996, Twin-Star International is an award-winning home furnishing manufacturer which strives to enrich and enhance lives by providing classic furniture designs crafted with old fashioned care and attention.
May 4, 2011 on 12:50 pm
Bennett Awards recently designed and produced multiple sets of custom awards for a prestigious championship barbecue competition. These custom awards were created for the “Get Your Pig On” Barbecue Competition, which was the Arizona state championship competition. Bennett Awards created unique awards for different categories of winners. At the core of all of these custom recognition awards were custom designed pewter medals that featured a raised relief of the Get Your Pig On logo. These custom designed medals measured 3.5” x 2”, and the raised surfaces were high-polished to help accentuate the images. These custom medals were then incorporated in a number of different unique awards. The Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion received custom trophies that featured pewter upright tongs holding the medals. The Grand Champion’s trophy was mounted on a two-tier base, while the Reserve Grand Champion’s trophy was mounted on a single-tier base. Both bases featured engraved plates with the name of the award. The overall 3rd, 4th and 5th place winners received wood desk plaques mounted with both the custom medal and engraved plates with the award name. These plaques measured 4” x 6” and were mounted on a 1” base. Winners of individual categories, such as Pork, Brisket, Ribs and Chicken, received the custom medals attached to a ribbon. The name of the award was engraved on the back of each award. Finally, event sponsors received engraved wall plaques that incorporated the custom medal. A closer look at these unique awards can be seen by clicking the following link: “Get Your Pig On BBQ Awards”. The Get Your Pig On Barbecue Competition was held December 2-3, 2010, in Scottsdale, Arizona, and attracted competitors from across the country.
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