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An explosive award for an explosive event: StreetGasm 2000.
Over the years the StreetGasm 2000 event has become one of Europe’s leading, and definitely most epic, road going adventures. StreetGasm 2000 offers its participants a unique experience… Continue reading “An explosive award for an explosive event: StreetGasm 2000. “
Straight from the horse’s mouth: The Knokke Hippique Awards!
Knokke-Hippique is a 5-star event, which means as much as the highest level of world sport, the Champions League for horses. The participants of the competition are equally famous with family names such Jobs, Gates and Bloomberg entering this year’s edition.
The first part of this event took place from 6 to 9 July. The next event which is called “The Summer Circuit” takes place from 12 to 23 July.
The making of.
The 3D trophy factory team is now in it’s 3rd year as exclusive award partner for Knokke Hippique. The award itself is inspired by a classic sea-side and beach theme, in true style of our Belgian Coast. The 2 main colors blue and white are in line with the event’s house style, resulting in a simple yet elegant design.
Also this year, we’ve created multiple designs for the entire course of the event. For the Knokke Hippique Jumping previous weekend, we’ve made the awards with a 3D printed lighthouse on top. The foot is oak and hand finished with white paint in our design studio.
For the Summer’s Circuit we have a variety of different sizes, with a 3D printed beach chair as the centre piece. The foot is also in oak and hand painted by our talented team.
To accommodate all those international top-class horses and riders, there is an area of over 30 hectares with two huge competition fields in Knokke , where competitions will take place during the day and in the evening. Next to the event there will also be lifestyle shows, live performances and restaurants present.
Knokke Hippique is a summer’s highlight for the equestrian world but also for our team; the awards remain to be one of our personal favorite designs.
We’ve created the biggest 3D printed trophy EVER for Gaming giant Konami!
Konami is one of the most well known and well respected video game developers worldwide. The multinational contacted us earlier this year for a project of a size we’ve never seen for before.
The company needed our help for an award that celebrated the winner of the PES league. For all you non-gamers out there: PES is an abbreviation for the critically acclaimed Pro Evolution Soccer.
The football video game is now in its 16th installment and continues to draw legions of devoted fans. For those seeking an even greater challenge Konami organizes the PES League World Finals, held this year in Cardiff. The best players in each country go through to a regional final in Barcelona or Liverpool. The winners there go on to the final and on June 4th only one can be crowned World PES Champion. Not coincidently, the final is played in the same weekend as the Champion’s league final.
The team made a 75 CM by 20 CM award customized to Konami’s design, making it the world’s largest 3D printed award to date.
Rather than order directly through the website as many of 3D Trophy Factory’s customers do this required a bespoke approach by the team.
This time care had to be taken to design this special trophy so it would print perfectly the first time. The trophy was first 3D printed and then had to be post processed by hand. Support structures had to be removed and the trophy was then hand painted.
The 3D print itself is made from a light curing resin called a photopolymer. Stereolithography works through lasers moving through a vat of this resin hardening it one layer at a time. The award has a smooth finishing, with a transparent resin on top of the massive 3d printed trophy. The logo is also 3D printed and the stickers are attached manually. With an award of this size, manual labour is a defining factor to reach this level of finishing.
Hopefully yesterday’s winner has a enough shelve space to store away this giant. We surely wish him a well deserved congratulations and hopes he enjoys his one-of-a-kind design!
The VRT awards diversity in Flemish Television and Radio.
For the 5th year in a row, the VRT (the Flemish state channel), presented the diversity trophies . Continue reading “The VRT awards diversity in Flemish Television and Radio.”
There’s a first for everything: take a look at our Trump hair award!
A few months ago we received a very unusual request: “Could you please make us an award in the shape of Trump-hair that is wobbling around on a moving spiral?”
I’m guessing that at this point everybody must have heard about Donald Trump. Without getting too political, let’s just say he’s famous because he’s the president-elect of the united states. What else is he famous for: his all natural(?) weaves; canary-blond and full of secrets. It’s safe to say that our design team was pretty exited when we read the e-mail.
This was definitely one of the most fun challenges for the team. After some sketching and research we finally had our model ready. Then there awaited us another challenge: finding the spiral that would fit the 3D printed hair without moving too much so the award would break or bend over.
When we finally puzzled everything together and we were super proud of the result! What do you think?
We’ve made the award for Belgian TV show M/V van het jaar (translation: Man/Woman of the year). This quiz featured Belgium’s biggest names in entertainment and television. The winner was Belgian director and presenter Erik Van Looy. Well done and good luck with your fabulous award!
Design Inspiration – Scandinavian Design
In our series on on what inspires us, we take a look at Scandinavian design.
A minimalist, contemporary and elegant style that keeps clean lines but plays around with different textures and materials to give the design more depth and interest.
Scandinavian design is characterized by the use of cool and light colors, the implementation of geometric patterns and the combination of natural materials with new high-tech resources.
The geometric theme is not only very popular in interior design but also jewelers get inspired by this style. Traditional materials such as wood and precious metals are used to create modern and sleek designs. Triangles, oak and light pastel colors make for a contemporary and elegant look.
We love this style so much because it allows us to play around with the latest techniques and materials such as 3D printing which allows us to create intricate geometric designs. In combination with more traditional materials like wood our awards and trophies get a warm look and feel!
The Scandinavian design was the primary inspiration for our most popular award design, the 3D text totem. The 3D printed text and oak foot form an harmonious award that can be fully customized to refer to the winner who will receive it.
If you like our text totems and you are looking for a unique award, you can create these text totems yourself in our webshop. Please click here… 
As you can see there are many possiblities within this design style and we hope you got inspired as well.
Do you have an important event coming? Do you need a unique design for your award or trophy? Please contact our designers and they’ll get sketching!
A company totem for Greatist
Greatist is company committed to helping you find the best way to a healthy and happy life.
For their offices they wanted a totem that represented their positive spirit and outlook on life and that would serve as a reminder to everyone to hold on to that healthy attitude and have fun while doing so.
The 3D Factory Designers created a totem that was based on the Greatist’s 5 icons. A Thumbs Up, a leaf, a doughnut, a cattle bell and an avocado. 
From the input above our designers created a really cool and whimsical totem that incorporated all elements.
The final result is a 3D printed totem that was spray painted gold (for that glamorous look) and is perched on an oak foot that was laser engraved with the Greatist logo.
This was a really fun collaboration and it looks like friends at Greatist are really happy with their new company totem as well.
Are you looking for an inspirational 3D totem that represents your company vision and philosophy? Contact our 3D Trophy Factory designers and we’ll create a unique design for you!
Or have a look at our portfolio here!
The 10 most beautiful 3D award designs
Here’s a list of fully 3D printed awards that inspire us.
1. Design Management Europe Awards
Design Management Europe Awards, designed and produced by Cardiff product design and research centre, PDR.
2. Reboot Develop 2015 Awards
Reboot Develop 2015, the “Biggest game developers and industry professionals conference in south east Europe”, which took place in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Design by Zagreb-based MOGLO.
3. Johny Walker Keep Walking Award
Designed by theMakerBot Studio design team for the annual TechCrunch Disrupt.
4. Formula One and Moto GP Trophy
Design by Antonio Pio Saracino for Eni. 
5. Flanders Classsic Cycling Race Gent-Wevelgem
Award for Flanders classic cycling race Gent-Wevelgem, designed by Nick Ervinck.
6. The Oscars
3D printed Oscars, produced by Polich Tallix fine art foundry. Original design by MGM art director Cedric Gibbons.
7. International Prize For Emerging Artists In Digital Art
3D printed award for “International Prize For Emerging Artists In Digital Art”, the prestigious French Prix Cube 2013 awards designed by Hugo Arcier.
Photo by: Christophe Luxereau
8. Architizer A+Awards Trophy
Designed by Snarkitecture. 
9. Essenscia Award
This is the Essenscia Innovation Award 2012. Twikit (3D Trophy Factory) designed this custom trophy for Essenscia. The body is 3D printed in polyamide, sandblasted and sprayed in satin white. The base is polished plexi.
10. Designer of the year award (I.Materialise)
3D printed award designed by 3D Trophy Factory.
For more award designs please check out our portfolio here.
Meet the star of the 3D Trophy Factory family
Hi,
I am the 3D text totem! I am the all-time classic of the 3D trophy factory and was their first creation.
I am very popular as a give-away award for big international events and conferences.
Why?
I am fully 3D, so people are really surprised when they get me 🙂
I am fully customizable from top to bottom – your message appears in 3D and I can be engraved with logo’s on my base.
I can be created with a 3D trophy factory configurator, in an amount from 1 to 5000.
I am small, so I fit in the suitcase of your speakers, attendees or members.
They will never forget me in their hotel room.
Curious? You can create me here or contact my father for special version.
I hope to hear from you soon!