Design, material R&D, and production of over 300 bespoke awards for a national creative industry awards programme, led end-to-end from digital concept through to finished objects at scale.
The Creative Circle is one of the UK's longest-running creative industry awards organisations. While working at Plunge Creations, the brief landed to design and produce a new series of awards, objects that needed to be visually distinctive, consistent across a large run, and durable enough to represent the programme credibly on agency shelves and in studios across the country.
The design and production process was led entirely in-house, working with the wider Plunge team to hit the timeline. The recipients of these awards are some of the most recognisable names in UK advertising and design. The object had to be worthy of the room it would end up in.
Four design directions developed and presented digitally for client approval before any fabrication began.
Multiple design directions were developed in CAD and presented digitally for client review. Once a direction was selected, the mould-making process began: mould boxes were designed in CAD, 3D printed, and used to produce resin masters. Those masters were then replicated across 20 production-ready silicone moulds.
3D printed master prior to silicone mould production.
The material specification required a dedicated R&D phase. The awards were cast in eco-resin Jesmonite, which demanded careful work on curing ratios, structural reinforcement, pigmentation behaviour, and surface consistency across a long production run. Getting the marbled visual effect to remain readable and repeatable — without becoming mechanical or identical — was a particular challenge that required iteration and restraint.
Scaling the output meant coordinating production across the team within Plunge, establishing clear protocols and quality benchmarks that could be held consistently under time pressure.
Production run laid out for inspection.
Multiple colourways across the run.
Over 300 awards were delivered to brief, on time, and consistent in finish across the full run. The project demonstrated that a small team can manage design-through-production workflows at a scale more often associated with larger manufacturing operations, provided the systems thinking is in place from the start.
Those awards now sit on shelves and in meeting rooms at agencies including BBH, Uncommon Creative Studio, Mother, and Wieden+Kennedy London.
Awards evening — the finished object in the room.
BBH collecting on stage.
Product development and manufacturing management at scale for a recognised national awards programme — leading the full process from digital concept and material R&D through to quality-controlled production under real deadline pressure.
From R&D through to consistent batch output, Rumblforge can manage the full process.
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