Custom Trophies [Modern Trophy Series] | Trophy Malaysia

TROPHY MALAYSIA | TROPHY SUPPLIER is the largest Custom Trophy Supplier in Malaysia.

When you customize your Trophies, it must be different, special, premium and unique.

At our Trophy Shop, you can custom to any size, color, finishing, shape, thickness to suit your event.

With over 50 years of experience, TROPHY MALAYSIA | TROPHY SUPPLIER is the brand to go to when customizing Trophies.

This article explores the role of a Trophy Supplier at Customizing Trophies at a Modern Trophy Series level.

The Role of a Trophy Supplier at Customizing Trophies

A Trophy Supplier need to guide you on a very step by step basis in customizing your trophies.

Generally, most people do not have an idea when it comes to customizing a trophy.

Essential Guide to follow for customizing a trophy

1) What is the event for?

For example, if your event is for your Company annual dinner, it must be a Customized Trophy that shapes your Company logo.
If the event is for cherishing your speakers, then the trophy should be more towards a microphone or a trophy design close to that.

2) When is the event?

If the event is in a weeks time, then ask your supplier for a fast customizing production method.
If you have ample time, you can make a mold for your customize trophy and go about having a very beautiful Custom piece.

3) Budget per unit and type of award

For high budget, you can go for mold and make up a few types of finishing on your customized trophy.
If your Company has a lower budget this year, due to other unforeseen expenses, you can opt for a presentable customized trophy but affordable such as a die-cut Acrylic Trophy.

What are Modern Custom Trophies made from?

1) Wood and Acrylic

A Custom Trophy can also be made from a fusion material such as wood mixed with Acrylic.

This Trophy is complex as we will create slots in the Wooden Trophy for the Acrylic to fit in. The Acrylic is attached with the Wooden part with our strong adhesive to ensure it stays in place.

Before these are done, both Acrylic and Wood will go through direct surface printing as per client’s logo.

2) Acrylic and Frosted Glass

We recently made this for one of our Trophy agents. Their end client wanted something special and customized to their Company Logo.

This method of creating this customized Trophy or Plaque has been perfected over the years of us customizing Trophies.

It is Acrylic spray, combined with frosted glass. Amazing aesthetics for any Custom Trophy in Malaysia.

3) Wood, Metal, and Acrylic

Another Fusion Custom Trophy can be achieve with Wood, Metal, and Acrylic.

The Customize Trophy using Acrylic Printing or design must be bigger than the piece. This is to ensure we get a corner print finishing after cutting.

Metal bending to create a custom Trophy takes time. If rushed, the shape will not hold in place.

This Trophy is quite fragile but you can see it is extremely unique, special, one-of-its-kind in the World of Trophies.

4) Mold and Non-Mold

These are Custom Plaques which is also widely use as a Custom Trophy.

We have two methods of making it. Mold method and without mold. The mold method will have a very high-quality Custom Trophy outcome. However, it will cost higher to produce.

The wordings can be surfaced laser or UV printed over.

5) Acrylic with Color

Custom Trophies can be made from Acrylic. This will give it flexibility to cut out any shape that would fit your Company brand and event.

Acrylics can come in many colors such as blue, white, black, and so on.

For example, you can do a very special star Trophy, custom to your Company’s logo.

The metal stand of your Trophy is bended to fit sort of like an arch to fit the custom Acrylic Trophy.

The Rise of creator Award Silver Plaques

Silver Plaques are was introduced to reward milestones and achievements. When Companies saw that Silver plaques could be customized to become a Trophy, everyone was very into the Modern Trophy Series.

Such silver plaques are carefully crafted with Company logos, adding on reflective glass and frosted effects.

The surface is sprayed several times with silver layers. Finally, the winners name is carefully UV printed over the surface.

What kind of events normally use a Custom Trophy?

Custom Trophy is deem to be luxurious or special to cater to Premium feel when giving out on stage.

However in recent times, there are more and more new Companies preferring to give out custom Trophies as it is getting more and more affordable to produce.

Technology has also played a role in getting cost lower with automated cutting systems and printers.

How to make a Customize Trophy?

There are a few methods to create a custom trophy.

We have the mold method which is expensive. The mold is created then custom trophies are made in bulk.

The die-cut method which is mainly used for acrylics, mixing around with colors and precision cutting.

Electroplating on your custom trophies with a layer of metal. This can be to get a golden shining finishing for your trophy, giving it a sparkle.

Fusion finishing which is combining a few methods of trophy finishing. This is not easy to get a consistent effect but if done right, the custom Trophy will look amazing.

Other methods of creating a custom trophy would be Material Fusion and Epoxy.

What kind of finishing for Custom Trophies?

Direct Printing can be on the surface or on another surface like a thin wood surface. The thin wood is sometimes layered, cut then print to achieve a better customize trophy effect.

Metal Plate is widely use in the customizing Trophy industry. Metal plate comes in generally golden, silver, bronze colors and can be easily bend to achieve customization results.

2D Inner Laser is often used on small crystal parts that is attached to another part of the custom trophy. 2D is fast and an easy process as a Trophy finishing.

3D Inner Laser is more complex as a 3D design would have to be design first before lasering into the trophy for custom effect. Most common type of file used are STL and OBJ. You can get your Trophy Supplier to design this or buy STL or OBJ files online.

For example, an obj file of a Petronas twin tower will let you zoom in and zoom out at 360 degrees of all sides of the drawn sculpture.

What other accessories used for Custom Trophy?

Often when customizing a Trophy, stars can elevate a design. Adding an epoxy star into a drilled star space or adding on a Metal Star piece can draw more attention to the trophy.

Metal Plate as mentioned earlier is used widely in customizing trophies and plaques. Combining different finishing on metal plate and then placing it on the trophy can do wonders. For example, a black UV print on a silver metal plate while leaving certain areas without any print will bring out silver effects.

After a Trophy is customized and finished, some corporates appreciates adding on Golden ornaments such as the KLCC tower and other traditional 3 dimensional ornaments.

Conclusion

Custom Trophies are getting more and more sought after today in the modern world.

By understanding how Trophy can be customize with different technology, finishing, material, and so on, we can achieve a better efficient way of creating Modern Trophies.