A Beginner’s Guide to Designing Awards and Medals

While organizing the award ceremony, the host giving out the awards knows that the highlight of the event would be the design and style of the medals and awards that are being awarded. When the awards ceremony is completed and the deserving people get their laurels, the memories of the day may fade but the engravings on the medals and awards stay for ever reminding the person of the achievements. That is why it is essential that the awards be exclusively personalized and designed keeping in mind the occasion.

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Any Award Should Necessarily Contain these Details:

1. Who will be receiving the award or medal?
2. Why is the person being honored with the award or medal?
3. When was the award or medal presented to the person?
4. Name of the organization presenting the award or medal?
5. Logo of the organization awarding it and the name of the award.

Once all these details are on the awards and medals, these can act as the best encouragements for hard working and skilled people. Ideally, medals and awards should communicate total quality, depict the expertise of the receiver, accurately reflect, and even enhance the unique image and personality of the organization presenting the awards and medals and thereby act as the highlight of the evening. In an effort to help you make the best possible decision regarding your achievement medals and awards, here are a few tips for deciding the color considerations for personalized awards and medals.

Each color in the medals and awards conveys a different type of message. When you award laurels to deserving candidates, you should be confident that the award or medal is an accurate representation of the achievement as well as your brand, organization, event, and recipients.

Here is What Each Colour Represents:

• Red: This color is mainly preferred as it brings texts and logos to the foreground and makes them stand out. Red is also a color of expressing emotions as well as catch someone’s attention. Red is mainly used to indicate courage and strength in awards. A whole trophy or medal painted in bronze color and the top part with the logo is colored in red makes a good corporate award. This makes the trophy attractive as well as makes the company logo and name stand out clearly.
• Yellow: Yellow is joy, happiness, energy, and intellect. As yellow is a bright color, it mainly expresses the joyous nature of the award. It is effective for attracting attention. Also. if the color is shiny yellow or gold yellow, it comes off as a rich style of awarding. Bright yellow color and its shades are used in awards and medals related to food and desserts as well. For example, for an award of the best chef, an award or medal of yellow color is very apt.
• Green: Green is a symbol of prosperity, stability, and endurance. You can also use the color to depict talent and growth. Green is also associated with safety sometimes. Green color and its shades are used when the presenter of the awards and medals wants to convey appreciation for stability and hard work. So, it would be an apt color for presenting silver or golden jubilee trophies.
• Blue: Blue is again associated with stability and consistency. It also conveys a feeling of depth and serenity along with loyalty, trust, wisdom, intelligence, confidence, and faith. It is linked to intellect. With so many varying shades of blue, one can experiment with the looks of the awards and medals greatly.

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These are what the 4 basic colors mean. One can use a combination of more than one colors to make the medals and awards look pleasing and attractive. Design it in such a way that it would catch the eye easily.

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