Corporate gifts, mementos and awards

The standard memento in Kerala is a piece of moulded acrylic with a printed sticker on the front, handed over on a stage and put in a cupboard the same evening. It costs very little and it reads as costing very little, which is an odd note to strike at the moment you are thanking somebody for thirty years of work.

These are cut from solid timber and engraved - the logo, the name, the citation and the date cut into the wood and filled, or pierced right through so the wall behind shows in the letters. A live-edge slab makes a memento that is obviously one specific piece of wood and not one of a mould. They sit on a desk afterwards instead of in a cupboard, which is the whole point of giving one.

Batches are where the machine earns its keep. Forty awards for an annual day come off one drawing with the same depth and the same margins, so the fortieth is the first. Send us the logo - a vector file is ideal, but we will redraw from a good image - along with the wording, the quantity and the date of the function, and we will tell you straight away whether the date is realistic.