3D Shiny Gold Finish Sandblast Enamelled Medal with Customized Ribbon
Elevate your institutional honors with our custom 3D medals featuring a premium shiny gold finish and sandblast texture. Perfect for military universities and high-level corporate recognition with intricate relief and soft enamel detail. Partner with us for professional-grade heraldic design and superior die-casting craftsmanship.
Features:
1. Strong 3D relief visual impact
2. Sandblasted surface treatment
3. Suitable for university graduation ceremonies, academic awards, and national defense commendations
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Short Intro
We create this custom 3D honour medal for university graduation ceremonies, academic commendation programmes, defence education institutions, and high-level organisational recognition events that need a medal with stronger authority and ceremonial identity. Instead of using a flat commercial-style medal, we build this design around a deeply embossed heraldic emblem, combining polished gold highlights with a sandblasted matte background to create a stronger sense of prestige and structure. With red, white, and black enamel details and a woven red-and-green ribbon, this medal feels formal, symbolic, and highly suitable for institutions that want a more distinguished commemorative award.
Medal Custom Attributes
Item | Details |
|---|---|
Event Type | Graduation ceremony, academic honour award, defence education commendation, institutional recognition event |
Audience | Graduates, faculty award recipients, institutional honourees, academic leaders, defence-related personnel |
Core Design Element | Heraldic emblem with crossed swords, torch, globe, and rice motifs |
Medal Structure | Single-sided 3D embossed medal with high-relief centre composition |
Material | Zinc alloy |
Plating Finish | Shiny gold with sandblasted matte contrast |
Colour Process | Soft enamel |
Ribbon Style | Red-and-green yarn-dyed ribbon with direct sewing attachment |
Optional Function | Institution name update, year revision, emblem replacement, wording change, back engraving |
MOQ Suggestion | MOQ: 100 pcs. To learn more about different quantity tiers, please contact our team for a detailed quotation. |
Best Order Window | 3–5 weeks before the ceremony date is recommended for design confirmation and production scheduling |
Recommended Packaging | Clear poly bag, velvet box, or acrylic presentation box |
These specifications align with the medal’s current structure, including zinc alloy, single-side 3D embossed style, shiny gold plating, enamel colouring, direct sewing ribbon loop type, and the listed packaging options.
Why This Medal Fits Graduation and Institutional Honors So Well
- We design this medal especially for graduation and institutional honour programmes because these events require more than visual decoration. They require symbolic clarity, structural dignity, and a medal format that reflects long-term achievement. The strong central emblem gives this design that kind of authority immediately, making it far more suitable for formal recognition than a generic commemorative medal.
- The torch, crossed swords, globe, and rice motifs work together to create a medal with both academic and institutional meaning. The torch represents knowledge and enlightenment, the swords express protection and strength, the globe reflects a wider strategic outlook, and the rice elements suggest achievement and prosperity. This makes the medal especially effective for universities, defence institutions, and formal award systems that want symbolism built directly into the design.
- The contrast between the polished gold relief and the sandblasted matte background gives the medal another important advantage. It creates a richer visual hierarchy, improves legibility, and helps the emblem stand out with greater depth. For ceremony use, this gives the medal a stronger premium presence on stage, in photographs, and in long-term display.
Production Details
- We produce this medal in zinc alloy through high-precision 3D die-casting so the crossed swords, torch, globe outlines, rice details, and outer lettering remain sharply layered and structurally clear. This process gives the medal a stronger embossed effect and allows the heraldic centre to carry much more visual weight than a flatter stamped design.
- We finish the medal with a dual-surface treatment. The raised emblem is polished in shiny gold, while the surrounding base is treated with fine sandblasting to create a more understated matte texture. This glossy-and-matte contrast is one of the main reasons the medal feels more sophisticated and more formal in hand. It also strengthens separation between the centre emblem and the outer areas of the design.
- For the colour accents, we use soft enamel in red, white, and black. The red and white fill the shield section, while black is used for selected globe details to improve contrast and keep the emblem more legible. We complete the medal with a yarn-dyed red-and-green ribbon attached through direct sewing, giving the full award a more stable drape and a more traditional institutional appearance.
What Can Be Customised for This Medal
We can customise this institutional honour medal in multiple ways according to your ceremony structure and branding needs, including:
- medal size and thickness
- central emblem, torch, sword, or globe layout
- institution name, year, and honour wording
- shiny gold, antique gold, silver, or other plated finishes
- enamel colour details
- ribbon colour, weave, and stripe layout
- back-side engraving or commemorative text
- packaging for ceremony presentation or archival storage
This flexibility makes the design suitable not only for one graduation project, but also for annual academic honours, defence institution awards, faculty recognition systems, and formal organisational commendation programmes.
MOQ & Bulk Order Guidance
We recommend this medal for both medium and large institutional orders, especially for organisers managing graduation ceremonies, faculty awards, long-term recognition systems, and recurring annual commendation events. In most cases, 100 pieces is a practical starting quantity, while larger quantities improve average unit cost and make programme-wide consistency easier to maintain.
For universities, institutions, procurement teams, and wholesale buyers, bulk production also makes it easier to keep the same medal structure while updating the year, emblem details, or ribbon colours from one ceremony cycle to the next. This helps maintain a consistent honour-programme identity while keeping production efficient and reliable.
Why Badge Artisans
We help universities, institutions, and wholesale buyers turn formal medal concepts into production-ready custom awards with stronger relief control and more dependable factory execution. From 3D die-cast mould development and sandblast-texture control to enamel application, ribbon coordination, and bulk order scheduling, we make institutional medal projects easier to approve and easier to manufacture at scale. We offer free medal design support, and in many cases we can provide a free artwork draft within 24 hours.