Engineering trophy for DSO National Laboratories

An appreciation trophy from DSO National Laboratories' EN Division: ENGINEERING in blue, six abbreviations in white and a gold plate thanking the division's head.

Client: DSO National Laboratories
Service: Custom Trophies & Awards
Presented to: Dr Tan Guan Leng, SD(EN), 2015 to 2023

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What we brought

What we can do
Lettering that reads in layers
ENGINEERING stands tall in blue, while six white abbreviations sit at different depths and overlap from the side.
How we look after you
You see every angle before we print
Renders from five angles showed the layout, colours and plate wording before anything was printed.
What you get
A thank-you from the whole division
The plate thanks Dr Tan for his leadership and guidance, from the whole EN Division.

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The finished piece
The finished trophy from the front.
The abbreviations overlap from the side.
Six abbreviations at different depths.
The plate's wording, lettered in black.
Design and prototyping · Revision 0RenderRevision 0, with orange lettering.
Design and prototyping · Revision 1RenderBlue lettering on a raised back.
Design and prototyping · Revision 2RenderThe approved layout, as printed.
ProductionThe printed parts in three colours.

The build

How we built it

5 steps, from the brief to the finished piece. Pick a step to jump to it.

The brief

Step 1 of 5

Use: Appreciation award from the EN Division

At Additive Inn, our 3D printing studio in Singapore, we made an engineering trophy for DSO National Laboratories. Its EN Division wanted to thank Dr Tan Guan Leng for his leadership from 2015 to 2023, with the division's own abbreviations on the trophy.

Design and prototyping

Step 2 of 5

We modelled the trophy in 3D and showed each revision from five angles. Revision 0 had ENGINEERING standing in orange in front of the abbreviations, loosely scattered on a flat deck, with the plate wording on the curved front.

Revision 0

Revision 0, with orange lettering.

Render
Revision 1

ENGINEERING turned blue and moved onto a raised back, the abbreviations sat in neat rows and the plate wording changed.

Render
Revision 2

We clustered the abbreviations so they overlap at different depths, the layout we printed.

Render

Production

Step 3 of 5

We 3D printed the parts in three colours: the base in black, ENGINEERING in blue and the abbreviations in white, each abbreviation as one piece with its letters joined at the foot.

Close-up of the printed parts in place: blue ENGINEERING letters along the black raised back and white abbreviations on the black deck — The printed parts in three colours.

Build and assembly

Step 4 of 5

ENGINEERING went into a slot along the raised back. The abbreviations were set across the deck at different depths, and the brushed gold plate, lettered in black, was fitted to the curved front.

The final build

Step 5 of 5

From the front, ENGINEERING reads clearly over the six abbreviations; from the side, the abbreviations overlap in layers above the plate.

The finished trophy from the front: ENGINEERING in blue, the white abbreviations on the black deck and the gold plate below — The finished trophy from the front.

Finish close-ups

The six abbreviations, each printed as one piece, and the plate's wording up close.

Close-up of the white abbreviations PWR, EL, EM, MTL, RF and QA standing on the black deck, overlapping at different depths — Six abbreviations at different depths.

Close-up of the brushed gold plate: To Dr Tan Guan Leng, SD(EN) (2015 to 2023), In appreciation for your leadership and guidance, From EN Division — The plate's wording, lettered in black.

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Engineering trophy for DSO National Laboratories

What we brought

Lettering that reads in layers

You see every angle before we print

A thank-you from the whole division

Gallery