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Custom Award Spotlight: AAFA American Image Awards

2015-05-11

AAFA American Image Awards trophy, a marble base with a black chrome globe, 6 abstact figures emerging from the top

Updated 8/25/2025

Collaborating with famous artists to create fine art is always an electrifying experience. And working with renowned artist Ruben Toledo to design and develop a new statuette for the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) American Image Awards, was nothing less than exhilarating.

Each year, the AAFA hosts the American Image Awards to honor the leaders and innovators in the apparel and footwear industry. When The Bromley Group, a NYC based communications agency, and the AAFA came to us with the idea to have the iconic Ruben Toledo design the statuette for 2015, we were thrilled.

Custom Trophy Spotlight: The Golden Salt Award

2015-05-01

T-Mobile Golden Salt Award for the Best Break-up presented at the MTV Movie Awards

Updated 6/26/2025. Image of the T-Mobile Golden Salt Best Break-up trophy for the MTV Movie Awards. The trophy is a pink salt shaker with a golden cap and white logo.

At the 2015 MTV Movie Awards, a special award was added to the mix, the T-Mobile Award for Best Break-Up. As an extension of T-Mobile’s “Break-Up Letter” marketing campaign, the award was created to recognize the best break-up in a movie from the past year.

Behind the Design: David Yurman’s Custom Trophy for ACM’s 50th Anniversary

2015-04-28

Academy of Country Music 50th Anniversary Milestone Award by David Yurman.

Updated 8/18/2025

Sometimes we tell our clients, “We’re more than an awards company.” Here’s an example of what we mean:

Custom Trophy Spotlight: Dick Clark Lifetime Achievement Award

2015-03-23

Kari Clark accepting the Broadcasters Foundation of America Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of her husband, Dick Clark.

Updated 6/26/2025

The Broadcasters Foundation of America is a non-profit organization created to help radio and television broadcasters in times of need. Whether it be a case of critical illness, death of a spouse or serious misfortune, for over 65 years the foundation has identified those in need and provided an anonymous financial safety net. Broadcasters helping broadcasters or those that have made the broadcasting industry what it is today.

Recognition has a Return on Your Investment

2015-03-09

Modern Obelisk award in solid Aluminum from our Exclusives Collection. Award is superimposed over image of stone obelisks.

Happy employees are productive ones.

If you read our last blog on the value of recognition, you may recall that almost 2/3^rd of employees leave their jobs because they feel underappreciated, that managers do not recognize their positive contributions.

There is a logical assumption that any company which invests in recognition, that introduces years’ service awards, sales or safety or any of many other business reasons to reward excellent performance, will retain best employees and see superior business performance. But is this just an assumption? Is all this the speculations of a HR manager, or is there quantitative support that links recognition programs to company performance?

Custom Award Spotlight: The Super Clio

2015-03-02

Super Clio award, an expertly crafted, two foot tall version of the iconic Clio trophy

Updated 6/02/2025

The Clio Awards is one of the most recognized creative competitions in the world, honoring the talent and agencies behind the most exceptional advertising and creative.

The Super Bowl is the biggest advertising event of the year, drawing in hundreds of millions of viewers and advertising’s most award-winning creative.

Custom Trophy Spotlight: The American Chemical Society Golden Column

2015-02-24

American Chemical Society Award which features the organization

Updated 6/24/2025

In 2014, the American Chemical Society (ACS) commissioned Society Awards to create a custom award to honor hardworking individuals taking ACS courses. The award needed to embody the ACS's prestige and purpose, and Society Awards is the only luxury awards company able to achieve that.

Custom Trophy Spotlight: SSPI Hall of Fame Stellar Award

2015-02-06

Arianespace Stellar Award, a high-end metal form modeled after the Ariane 5 Rocket and plated in 24k gold

Updated 6/24/2025

Arianespace, founded in 1980 as the world’s first commercial satellite launch company, commissioned Society Awards to create and manufacture golden rocket awards for the Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) Hall of Fame.

Custom Trophy Spotlight: NFL Players Association Collegiate Bowl Trophy

2015-01-30

Mike Martz, Coach of the NFLPA Nationals team, holding up the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl Trophy in triumph

Updated 6/24/2025

The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) is the labor organization representing professional football players in the NFL. From 2012 to 2023, the NFLPA hosted a post season game for NFL draft-eligible players, known as the Collegiate Bowl, at the StubHub Center in California. Players are given the opportunity for draft into the NFL, while the winning team and MVP of the bowl game are each awarded a trophy.

Custom Corporate & Employee Awards for Viacom

2015-01-13

3 employee awards created for Viacom on white background

Updated 6/23/2025

Viacommunity is an internal department of entertainment leader Viacom who hosts such prestigious award ceremonies as MTV, CMT and BET. Its mission is simple and noteworthy: to better the communities in which Viacom serves and make a positive social impact on the people and areas in which its employees work and live. Real, lasting, far-reaching differences in the areas of education, health, environment and citizenship. The organization asked Society Awards to design and manufacture awards for their philanthropic and community outreach programs, Get Schooled and their own internal Spirit Awards.