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Corporate Awards
Monday, April 27th, 2009Acrylic Floating Plaques
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009- An elegant choice in Corporate Awards -
One of the featured products for this year is the Acrylic Floating Plaque. It features a classy combination of 1/4” thick acrylic, suspended above a beautiful piano finish plaque in your choice of black or rosewood. The rosewood piano finish plaque comes with gold hardware and the black piano finish with silver accessories.
The plaque is made so that it can stand on a desk or shelf with the use of gold or silver pegs attached to the lower back of the plaque. If you prefer, the plaque has keyhole slots so that it will hang either horizontally or vertically on the wall.
Acrylic Floating Plaque (Black)This Corporate award comes in 2 sizes: 8”x10” or 9”x12” and is priced competitively at $75. and $79. respectively, for either black or rosewood piano finish. The price includes the engraving and 1 logo.
The floating plaque is a very rich looking award, unique and beautiful.
A continual change
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009Corporate Engraving and Awards
Engraving and corporate awards have changed considerably since 1992, when I first got into the awards industry. The use of the laser engraver has made production faster and given engravers the ability to do more detailed graphics and logos. In earlier times plain gold brass was used, then came black brass, and now we see many colors and marbled colors on plates. Many have their own graphic designs silk-screened into them. Plaques themselves have taken on a greater variety as noted by rosewood and black piano finish, and high gloss walnut.
Acrylic awards have become increasingly popular and have also gone from clear and jade to full color with green, blue, and red marbled backgrounds, or colored accents radiating from the bases. There are more acrylic pieces that are free standing, or have posts or frames into which they fit. Some have insets in the base for easier attachment.
Glass pieces are also popular, but this is one product that the laser has yet to conquer. Most glass pieces need to be sandblasted in order to achieve a high quality of engraving. They are still much more time consuming to create, but the finished product is very high end.
An item that has not changed much is the perpetual – the plaque with all those little plates on it – except that the plates are not black brass instead of gold brass. It is a wonderful idea to have a permanent recording of accomplishments displayed on the office wall, to honor those who have achieved.
Corporate Awards and gifts will continue to change with new technology and customer preferences. It will be exciting to watch.