create your own awards - 2025 inspiration

Is 2025 the year that you decide to refresh your award design to reward recipients with something truly unique and special?

Are you hunting for bespoke and luxury corporate gifts, tailored to your brand and organization, that will help to show genuine gratitude for employee dedication?

Perhaps you’re seeking a custom trophy and would like to create your own timeless awards that are symbolic of your event?

Or maybe you’re on the cusp of sealing that major deal that warrants a premium quality deal toy or financial tombstone to mark the big occasion?

At Watson Design, we’re specialists in the creation of unique, custom branded awards and trophies. Looking to the year ahead, we’ve put together a selection of recent ideas to help inspire your custom designs in 2025. 

stackable awards

Build, stack and interlock with this unique and intricate design idea. Stackable awards are a popular feature amongst our clients, allowing winners of multiple awards to stack their awards together like lego blocks. 

This style is perfect for long standing years of service awards, as recipients can add to their stack and develop an intimate desk display by growing their memento with every milestone they reach.

Here, the example for Coinbase features a custom C on the top side, and a precise cut of the same shape on the bottom, enabling the awards to interlock. The concept is simple - and we can replicate this process to suit your brand in a completely different style to ensure your awards are truly unique. 

trending colours

Decorate and design your custom awards with 2025’s trending colours. 

Pinterest’s Palette offers a custom colour set to inspire your creativity based on a deep data dive and user searches. Cherry red, butter yellow, indigo aura, dill green and alpine oat all made the cut -  and with our state-of-the-art UV printers - can be directly applied in photographic quality to your custom awards. 

Explore our exclusive pre-designed acrylic awards, that beautifully reflect light and look exquisite when customized and enhanced with a selection of vibrant colours.  

sustainable awards

As we start a new year, climate change is still a major topic of conversation and top of mind amongst consumers, employees and businesses. 

With the global opinion likely to continue to sway further in favor of the positive preservation of the planet, now is as good a time as any to employ greener business practices for a healthier natural world and future business prospects. 

Craft your awards from sustainable and recyclable materials to make your recognition environmentally friendly and green. We’re specialists in working with wood and metal to create luxury eco awards tailored specifically for your brand or event.

deal toys and financial tombstones

Don’t let the closing of important transactions go uncelebrated in 2025. 

Remember the occasion and the hard work involved in reaching success through a bespoke and modern deal toy or financial tombstone, developed in collaboration with the organizations involved. 

We can craft a modern piece of art that distinctly shows off your brand - acting as an elegant tangible reminder of the agreement and helping to provide reassurance and accreditation for future deals to be secured. 

3d printed trophy

Reimagine your recognition and magnify acknowledgement of success, dedication and hard work through a bespoke 3D printed trophy. 

Our modern production techniques, specialist machines and expert processes ensure that we can craft awards of the highest quality, including those involving advanced 3D printing. 

These examples showcase how we were able to employ 3D printing to develop molds or sculpt figures to provide a striking and exquisite final award.

Browse through our website for more custom award, trophy and gift inspiration. 

custom deal toys for maserati

Are you familiar with the world of Maserati Trofeo?

It’s a world where raw power meets Italian craftsmanship. Where art and engineering prowess combine to create a beautiful trio of fast, luxury cars. Think sexy, sporty, high-end machines with racing engines. 

This is the world that we were set the task of drawing inspiration from when crafting custom deal toys and awards to recognize the top selling Trofeo dealers in North America. 

As specialists at incorporating corporate branding into our designs, to elegantly reflect and exhibit an organization through a tangible work of art, we developed a concept with nods to both Maserati and the Trofeo fleet. 

Two layers of aluminum, powder coated in metallic silver and water jet cut into an exquisite shape embodying the design of the Trofeo collection acts as the primary material. Sandwiched between is solid surface, colored to match the Maserati brand red, with a matte anodized sheet of aluminum at the core.

The Maserati trident is a distinct and trademark aspect of the brand and an important feature to largely display on the awards. More matte anodized aluminum, this time cut into 11 different parts and assembled into the famous logo, is attached dominantly, soaring up the front side with emphatic effect.  

Deal toys are excellent ways to celebrate important transactions and partnerships, serving as a reminder of all the hard work involved. Our aim was to craft premium, unique recognition pieces that reflected the Maserati brand to embody the success of the Trofeo dealers and enhance business relations.