Inspiration & ideas
- Leon van Vive
A bottle of wine, a nice hamper, a good pen: fine gestures, but a few months later they are usually gone. Some moments deserve something that stays. For a larger group of employees, clients or partners, that is one design, made specifically for your organisation and then produced as a series. These are seven moments where that works.
One design, in fifty, a hundred, two hundred and fifty or a thousand pieces: everyone receives the same story, and a story that belongs to your organisation alone.
Twenty-five, fifty or a hundred years in business happens only once. Instead of selecting an existing anniversary piece for every employee or client, you have one designed for this anniversary. The logo, a product, the building, the history or another recognisable element of the organisation can be worked into it. We produce that design as a series: fifty employees receive the same sculpture, and it can just as well be five hundred. The anniversary passes. The sculpture stays.
A remarkable achievement is rarely reached alone. A team that worked for years on one project, a milestone reached together, a group you want to thank for its effort. One specially designed sculpture then becomes the symbol of that shared achievement. Every recipient gets the same piece, and it becomes a mark of recognition: we were there, and we did this together.
Why should the most important prize in your organisation look like every other award? A logo, a product, a mascot or a wholly new design can be translated into an award of your own in three dimensions. If the same award is presented every year, every quarter or in several categories, series production is the obvious route: you develop the design once and have an award that stays bound to your organisation for years. An award people recognise at once as the one they want to win.
Suppose you want to give something to your hundred, two hundred and fifty or five hundred most important clients. You choose from a catalogue, or you have something made that no one else can get: a sculpture based on your product, service, history or brand story. In resin a design is also executed in full colour and finished by hand. The result is something at gift scale that carries more than your logo: it depicts your organisation.
A new name. A new logo. Two companies going forward together, or an entirely new positioning. These are moments that mark a new period. A specially designed sculpture can symbolise that change; produced as a series for employees, the board or key partners, everyone receives the same tangible sign of the new beginning. Not an existing object with the new logo on it, but an object about the change itself.
The millionth visitor. The hundredth branch. A revenue milestone, a large international project, a tender won, an important certification. Companies sometimes pause too little at what they achieve together. Precisely when many people contributed to such an achievement, a series fits: one large piece for the entrance and tens or hundreds of smaller ones for everyone who contributed. A business result becomes a tangible memory.
This may be the moment where custom work becomes most interesting. You are looking for fifty, a hundred, two hundred and fifty or more of the same thing. You can choose an existing product and have your logo printed on it. But at those numbers the possibility also arises to develop something entirely your own. With materials such as resin the groundwork (design, 3D development, prototype, moulds) spreads across ever more pieces, and from around fifty pieces a fully custom-designed sculpture becomes very affordable per piece.
And then the question changes. No longer "which product shall we pick?", but "if we may think of something ourselves, what would we want to make?"
We develop one sculpture specifically for your organisation and produce it in the edition that fits. In different materials, colours and finishes, and if you wish with a name or number per piece. Fifty, a hundred or five hundred pieces: the same story, for everyone who matters.
Do you have a moment that calls for an edition? Do not tell us which product you are looking for; tell us what you want to say. Then we work out together what can be made of it.
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How one sculpture, a small edition and a large edition relate to each other is explained under sculptures for an anniversary or milestone. Why resin suits a series in colour so well is in the story about resin.
Anniversary and milestone
An award does not have to be a cup, a trophy or an abstract object. Sometimes the design is already in the brand guidelines. That was the case for Conspect: its own mascot became the basis for a custom award, cast in resin, as an edition and with a gold-coloured finish. Recognisable to anyone who knows the company, and Conspect's alone.
When a dental practice turned 25, the staff wanted to surprise the management with a sculpture that matched their own field. They arrived with a clear brief: a large tooth at the centre, with one person chiselling and another flossing. The material was a deliberate choice too: ceramics is a material used within dentistry.
A sculpture does not have to be bronze, silver or a single colour. Sometimes the strength lies in colour, and in a lot of it. Resin gives us the freedom to combine almost any form with a colour palette entirely your own, from restrained brand colours to an outspoken full colour art object. And because it is cast, the same design can be made as an edition without ceasing to be handwork.
