How to Create Award Medals for Winners to Wear with Pride

Imagine receiving a plain award without any text, custom design, or details. It would probably feel like it was some

kind of afterthought. Now — consider receiving an award that is highly-customized for you and your achievement

with quality enamel, raised details, and unique shape — chances are you would feel honored and appreciated.

Custom award medals can only be award-worthy themselves if they are designed in a way that showcases personalization and one-of-a-kind attributes, fitting your special occasion and created with you, your stakeholders, teammates, athletes, or other awardees in mind.

How to Create Custom Award Medals？

If you’ve ever created custom award medals for your eStore, company team, athletic group, organization members, or honorary leaders, then you know you need an easy-to-follow process that allows you to customize the medals as you need them. Here’s a step-by-step look at what this looks like when you use a reputable design and manufacturing partner:

1. Select your preferred size, typically 1 inch to 5 inches

2. Determine whether you want a one-sided or two-sided medal

3. Choose your MOQs for the number of recipients you’ll be rewarding

4. Select a style:

• Soft enamel will show all the details and the valleys of your medal

• Hard enamel will feature a flat, smooth surface with a classic “gleam”

• Die struck is the traditional metal type that appears like a raised coin

• Off-set printing will give photo-rich detail for any image or artwork you’d like to use

5. Choose your material color and finish, including shiny gold, shiny silver, antique gold, and others.

6. Select the number of additional colors you want your medals to feature

7. Choose your ribbon width from .75 to 1.5 inches or anything in between

8. Determine your best ribbon length and loop type — either round or wide

9. Choose engraving and packaging such as poly plastic bags, velvet bags, or boxes

10. Upload your desired image or artwork to be transferred to your medals

11. Once your sample award medal is prepared it will be shared with you for your approval

12. Receive your shipment. You should soon have your award medals shipped to you at no charge for standard shipping

It’s that easy! Now that you know how to create custom medals or challenge coins, you can consider some of the ways you can use custom medals or feature them in your eStore or company store.