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What Are the Best Corporate Gifts to Present To Clients?

As a business owner or manager, you understand the importance of building strong and lasting relationships with your clients. One effective way to do so is by surprising your clients with corporate gifts that express appreciation and gratitude for their loyalty and support.

Why Corporate Awards are Important for Your Business

As a business owner or manager, you may be wondering why corporate awards are important. What can a trophy really do for the company as a whole? But if you’re trying to foster an environment of respect, recognition, and appreciation within your company, awarding your employees is a simple and easy practice that goes a long way.

History of Precious Metals in The Olympics

Precious metals have played an essential role in human society for centuries. These valuable metals, including gold, silver, and bronze, have been used for a variety of purposes, ranging from currency and jewelry to art and recognition.

Did You Know? Felt Edition

Stewardship is the careful and responsible managementof something entrusted to one's care. Since our founding in 2011, we have set out to build a business that acts as a good...

A Lasting Personal Milestone Gift

As you recognize the many amazing people in your life, don't forget to take a moment and appreciate yourself: how much you have grown, how far you have come, how you accomplished what you set out do do. How are you marking these personal milestones?

Personalized Customer Gifts

Are you looking for a meaningful way to recognize your clients and surprise them with a thoughtful and personalized customer gift? Let us help you delight your new and existing clients with memorable architect-designed and artisan-crafted trophies, plaques, and gifts.

Unique Corporate Sales Awards

Looking for creative ideas to redesign and reimagine your sales recognition program with unique and modern sales awards that help you reward and appreciate your top performers on brand and in style? Let us help you delight and motivate your sales team!

Creative Employee Recognition Awards

Are you looking for unique and modern employee recognition awards that help you appreciate your team on brand and in style? Let us help you delight and reward your staff with personalized and memorable architect-designed and artisan-crafted awards, plaques, and gifts that are worth giving and keeping.

Who Are You Grateful For?

WHO ARE YOU GRATEFUL FOR? Your partner, your clients, your team? As 2022 draws to a close, let’s take time to reflect on the blessings in our lives. Who made...

How To Brand Your Awards

Your organization’s brand is important. It communicates your vision, values, and purpose. Successful brands form strong connections with their clients, partners, as well as their teams -- leaving lasting positive impressions for years to come.

Farewell and Thank You, Mr. Gorbachev

Without Mr. Gorbachev my life would not be what it is today. Not even close.

I would not live the classic American Dream in the United States building my company Trophyology, I would not be able to travel the world, and I would not have the wonderful life I share...

SPOTLIGHT: Years of Service Awards

"Recognition is an important psychological need. Employees who know that they will receive recognition for acting on the brand promise will have a strong incentive to do so." –...

INTRODUCING: Trophyology's New Maker's Mark

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence." Ted Key For centuries artisans have autographed their work with a distinct mark. While...

A New Award Collection Inspired by Values

MEET GLACIO Values are at the heart of appreciation and recognition. With our newest award collection, we are exploring the ways in which thoughtful design and shape can embody the values that...

SPOTLIGHT: Locus Plaques

LOCUS PATENT PLAQUES Our client Locus Robotics recently came to us with a new project to honor the patent holders who have driven the innovation behind the company’s success. Locus...

Event Planning Advice from the Experts

What makes an event memorable and aligned with your company values and culture? We spoke to some of our favorites in the business here in our hometown of Austin, Texas for their advice when it comes to producing a fun and sophisticated professional event.

Custom Wooden Awards

Honoring sustainability. Our recent project with NextEra Energy celebrates an environmentally-conscious partnership with a unique material. The almond wood used to handcraft these custom awards was sourced directly from The Wonderful Company's own orchard where NextEra Energy was just contracte

SPOTLIGHT: Enigma Values Awards

Enigma Values Awards About the Awards One of Enigma’s company traditions is to give out Enigma Values Awards at their annual retreat. They hand out these peer-nominated awards to recognize...

Texas Society of Architects Honor Awards

The Texas Society of Architects Honor Award program recognizes exceptional members, firms, individuals, and organizations for outstanding achievements in support of the profession of architecture, the built environment, and quality...

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE: Rancho

Pursue excellence and success will follow. Booker T. Washington defined excellence as doing a common thing in an uncommon way.

Ebonized Awards

OUR EBONY WOOD FINISH Our Ebony wood is created by staining walnut for a bold black finish. The ebonized wood retains its natural character with grain patterns shining through. This...

SPOTLIGHT: Quarterly Awards for Arlo Technologies

Today we're taking a closer look at quarterly staff recognition awards we are creating for our client Arlo Technologies.

SPOTLIGHT: Immuta Sales Team Honorees

The Immuta team recently gathered for their bi-annual Sales meeting. This opportunity to build team and culture included honoring excellence on their sales team. Immuta's dedication to recognition is reflected in their...

Our Most-Loved Awards

Our clients have great taste These are the awards our clients are loving most right now. Which one is your favorite? Gracilia Gracilia can be styled and personalized in...

Scenes from the Studio

Our in-house artisans hand-craft each award with care. A glimpse into this process is captured below in our Scenes from the Studio series. Download Catalog ...

SPOTLIGHT: Precision Pipeline Honorees

PRECISION PIPELINE HEROES On July 1, 2021, three Precision Pipeline, LLC, (PPL) employees (ditch foreman, Chad “Hank” Jensen; his straw, Cole Cathey; and oiler, Jacquelyn Tofsly) were heading home on...

Benefits of a Green Work Space

Did you know that adding plants to your work space can increase productivity by 15 percent? We believe in curating spaces that nurture well-being and gratitude, which is why you...

Up-Cycle Our Recycled Felt

Creative ways to reuse our recycled felt Did you know that all Trophyology awards are wrapped in handmade felt sleeves that are inspired by traditional Japanese Furoshiki wraps? Our wraps...

A New Unboxing Experience

Delivering Excellence At Trophyology, we always aim to deliver excellence and this includes a lovely unboxing experience. From the first impression to every moment of the unwrapping process...

Behind Our New Blue

Introducing Indigo Not only does our latest collection, Gracilia, add a new iconic shape, it also introduces an elegant color scheme to our offerings. Our indigo wood stain is a...

A New Collection Inspired by High Fashion

Introducing Gracilia Honoring your best in style with a new collection inspired by high fashion We’ve long admired high fashion for its innovation, timeless beauty, and high level of craftsmanship....

Why Wood?

Why Wood is Our Primary Material HISTORICAL + INTIMATE Woodworking has been a defining human activity through all ages of development. “It is the one material,” Roland Ennos writes in...

Meet Our Artisans

We’ve been proud to collaborate with 4th Edition Design since 2020. When we discovered 4th Edition, we knew our shared values for excellence would support a productive partnership.

SPOTLIGHT: Aspen Heights Team Recognition Awards

Spotlight: Aspen Heights Honorees We are shining the spotlight on our client Aspen Heights and their recent employee recognition award winners. The eleven honorees highlighted here are recognized for achievement...

Inspiring Examples of Client Award Suites

Recognition suites from Trophyology clients Much like building a project, sales, or inter-office sports team, assembling an award suite to recognize different achievements, accolades, or acknowledgements pairs overall vision...

How to Curate an Award Suite

Whether you're looking to add a new tier to your award program or bring variety and creativity to your recognition, we want to inspire you with a few...

Graduation Gift Guide

It’s May, which means graduation! Do you have a soon-to-be alumnus or alumna in your life? Trophyology offers a variety of recognition pieces that make excellent graduation gifts. Each object...

Mother's Day Gift Idea

When we set out to redefine recognition, we wanted to not only elevate the design of recognition objects, but also expand the reasons for honoring in style. A...

Celebrating 10 Years of Trophyology

Ten years ago this month, founder Eva Schöne pursued her vision for a modern award and recognition design firm that would redefine expectations for honoring achievement. Since Trophyology's inception in 2011, Trophyology...

We are Committed to Sustainability

Our sustainable materials and practices Highlighting some of our main sustainability efforts. Materials and Production Practices HardwoodsTrophyology wooden awards are handcrafted exclusively from North American hardwoods. We also utilize urban-harvested...

Introducing the Trophyology Showroom

We are thrilled to announce that our new location is open to the public! We invite you to explore our awardcollections and business gifts in a bright and airy showroom. Our friendly team is available...

SPOTLIGHT: Geometria Awards for the American Chamber of Commerce in Canada

Today we're focusing the spotlight on personalized awards we created for the American Chamber of Commerce in Canada.

SPOTLIGHT: Customized Geometria Cubus Awards for Herman Miller

Today we're focusing the spotlight on a customized version of our Geometria Cubus award we created for Herman Miller.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE: Denis Waitley

"The real risk is doing nothing."

- Denis Waitley

SPOTLIGHT: #MetropolisLikes Custom Awards

Today, we're placing the spotlight on a custom award design for #MetropolisLikes.

SPOTLIGHT: Custom Corporate Gifts for Hanger, Inc.

Today we're focusing the spotlight on a custom corporate gift design created for client Hanger Inc.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE: Thích Nhất Hạnh

"The lotus cannot be there without the mud. Likewise, happiness can not be there without suffering. Looking deeply into our suffering, we gain an understanding of it, which gives happiness a chance to blossom. Thus, the lotus does not have to reject the mud, and the beauty of the lotus actually gives value to the mud."

- Thích Nhất Hạnh

BEHIND THE SCENES: Pattern Language of Cubus Awards

Pattern language - what is it and how does it inspire our awards?

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE: Joseph Campbell

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."

- Joseph Campbell

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE: Booker T. Washington

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

- Booker T. Washington