When the world's largest telecommunications company wanted purple marble awards, we told them that such a raw material does not exist in the universe. They asked if we could simulate it. Sure! We shipped 14,000 of them, including a four-foot edition of the award and special housing for it that allowed the large award to be shipped repeatedly to over a dozen centers in a year.
One of the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturers wanted to "sample" their latest chip to design engineers and the press, so we developed a chocolate "sampler" box, complete with chocolate semiconductors inside. The response was 2.5 times better than any other similar direct mail effort the corporation had made previously.
Sometimes it's hard enough to get a printer to accurately lay down a PMS color on white paper. Imagine the challenge of printing 14 spot colors on a khaki-colored fabric that was then sewn into a three-ring binder. None of the colors were PMS equivalents; all had to be custom mixed. And with over 20,000 quantity, the ink was mixed repeatedly throughout the project. All the colors matched within the run.
Created as a door opener for financial advisors in a very competitive market, we produced a custom bottle of wine that was filled about 2/3 to the top (with the blessing of both state and federal officials), complete with custom label and a hang tag that offered the advice that the wine was best enjoyed by April 15, and packaged in a custom fire-branded pine box.
We've made a square baseball for a project with the theme of a whole new ballgame; a chocolate tush with appetite-suppressing glasses for promotion of NBC's "The Biggest Loser;" an engraved ice cream-defrosting scooper for a media event/ice cream social for reporters to get the latest "scoop," a custom-faced clock for a Level 10 employee program--there were only 10 numbers on the clock, and all of them were the number 10, a t-shirt for VW's EuroVan where the amber fog lights used specially blended inks to look like the lights were on, and much more.