Custom Challenge Coins

2D Challenge Coins vs 3D Challenge Coins

November 25, 2018 By PNR Leave a Comment

Custom Challenge Coins Whats the real Difference?

Customers typically ask us what the difference is between 2d challenge coins and 3D challenge coins. we tend to understand this could be a bit confusing. Die struck custom challenge coins of each sort have raised and recessed areas. The distinction is that 2d challenge coins primarily have 2 levels of metal. The 3D challenge coins have a vast variety of levels. meaning we will spherical edges and make smooth gradations between the raised and recessed areas. within the photo higher than, all text and brand work on the right challenge coin is on an identical plane. The bottom coin (3D challenge coins option), has multiple planes and creates what we tend to check with as a 3D challenge coin mold. The 3D challenge coins Concept works nicely for buildings, statues, pictures of individuals, and alternative objects that are 3D in the world — that is to mention everything in real life!

So it might appear that 3D challenge coins would be the way to go, right? Not always. one of the reasons for a project to use to a second style would be for color. due to the method by that, we tend to produce the 3D challenge coins mold, it’s usually unfeasible for us to paint or fill any a part of the 3D image. The 3D portion of the challenge coins will have to stay within the finished metal kind of your selecting. we will simply add color to a second style, and that we offer to 7 colors free. We can, however, produce 3D pictures that have color fill around them on alternative elements of the coin’s surface. we love the creativeness and individuation that 3D challenge coins give, and love making an enduring product that shows your message and imagination in an exceedingly quality custom coin. we tend to manufacture each second and 3D challenge coins you’ll be proud to hold, distribute and show. allow us to apprehend if you have got any queries the least bit concerning the 3D method and what we will do for you!

Pitch and Rudder Services

If your interested in Rocking a One of a Kind Design, built from a Veteran Owned and Operated team we’ve have made it easier than ever to #gocustom with us! Click the Link, fill out the form and let’s Get started rocking something custom for you that sets you apart from the crowd. Take a look at our Services and let’s match a designer to your needs and knock your project out of the park!

Military Influencers Conference 2018

October 1, 2018 By PNR Leave a Comment

VETERAN BUSINESS OWNERS AND THEIR CHALLENGE COINS

Designing Challenge Coins is always a pleasure; however, when you get to develop something for your own community, a group of kickass veteran business owners it opens up so much more joy! To say that we were excited when Justin Szerletich of Szerds, reached out to Pitch and Rudder, to design the challenge coin is an understatement! We knew that this coin would be handed out to every veteran and spouse attending the convention and we wanted to make sure that it left a lasting impression. Making a Custom Challenge coins for Veteran Business Owners spanning all the different branches of service, it was important that we made it either very general or included all the different branches of service. Like with most designs and contracts that we work, we did both.

GETTING THE RIGHT FLOW

As we began the process of brainstorming, really hammering out what would be cost effective for the client and still make an immediate impact in the swag bags we came up a very clever idea that we had done in the past. QRC technology is not new by any means, but its normally found on coins. We recently had completed a coin for a Chiefs mess SRT-2 in which we had utilized a QRC code to link back from their coin to a secret Facebook group. The Coin was a huge hit, so on the table, we put Linking Conference Influencers presentations to the coins by a laser QRC. The initial design looked like this:

Now, this was with keeping all the branches of service on the coin. The square in the middle would have been raised up and held the QRC code for the presentations. As we continued to progress on the design we moved away from the QRC code but kept at this time the branches of service. Our second rendering looked like this:

We started working on a revolver feel on the back of the coin, we removed the flag background and put it into on the chambers and added the branched around. We removed the QRC code and inserted our logo, as a guide rod holder. At this point, we were contemplating, should we make the backspin like a regular revolver. We thought it would be a very cool feature of the coin, basically, you never know which chamber you’re going to get when you start messing with a bunch of kickass veteran business owners! We moved away from this design because we were asked to incorporate the sponsors of the event into the back of the coin and in a revolver setting we would not be able to do each one justice.

FINAL DESIGN

Once we went back to the drawing board for the third time developing the final product wasn’t that hard. We set out all the sponsors vectored logos on a sheet and arranged them as a team. Looking at the logos how they fit together like a puzzle and using the branding manual, the final design kind of developed itself. Now came the coloring aspect. We wanted to make sure that everything was as seamless as possible, we offered 18 color combinations for the final product. To include these:

Once, we had all the images build up and the designs settled on; we created 3 samples in silver. White, Black, and Navy Blue.

Conference Leadership decided to go with the white coins and we pushed headstrong into production. Giving us our final product as:

Collaboration with other Veteran Business Owners are awesome, they help everyone build better networking infostructures and communities. We really enjoyed working with Justin at Szerds and are looking forward to many more events. Justin’s company tailors executive gifts for events and companies looking to find veteran made merchandise that has been vetted for quality. His catalog has 33 vendors, covering a gambit of swag from tier one merch to tier three, he can meet any and all your needs! On top of Szerds, he is a Biztalk radio host in the San Diego area, Justin has his hands in everything, so if you need it chances are he can find it. The 2018 Military Influencers Conference Custom Challenge coin is available for sale in our shop and can be purchased with the optional gift box or in the standard PVC sleeve. If you’re interested in Purchasing a Coin please follow the link here.

VETERAN BUSINESS OWNERS #GOCUSTOM

Making Custom Challenge Coins is always awesome, it truly is a labor of love! Working with Veteran Business Owners makes it even better, sitting down and video conferencing as we go over your design ideas, importing you into our Project management software so you can track your custom coins progress is inspiring! We work every day to make it easier for you to #GOCUSTOM, Click the link on the bottom of the page, tell us what you’re looking for and upload a few images! Let us work our magic and bring your imagination to life, or scratch something on a barroom napkin, send us a snapshot of it and see how badass our designers really are! One of the coolest coins we’ve designed so far came to us on a napkin from a husband making something special for his retiring wife. Whatever the case, just know we make it easy to #GOCUSTOM!

Space Force One

September 3, 2018 By PNR Leave a Comment

Our Collaboration With Salty Soldier

The project was pretty straight forward, take the Space Force t-shirt designs from the The Salty Soldier and turn it into a truly tricked out Space Force Challenge Coin. Anyone worth their salt in this game, understands the dynamic difference between designing something for a Custom Shirt and designing something for a Custom Challenge Coin. Understanding the fundamental design differences is why at Pitch and Rudder we have a department dedicated to designing just Custom Shirts. From the gate on this project we wanted to make sure we were looking at all the right angles; therefore we brought both our Custom T-shirt Department and Challenge Coin team on Zoom to hash out the details.

The Original Design

The shirt was designed for Direct to Garment, meaning the Salty Soldier didn’t have worry too about 1/2 tones or color restrictions as you would with Screen Printing. The gradients for the metal where rich and clean! The Vector files for the front, just required the 3D aspect to be assigned and the face to be polished up for metal work. All in all a 25 min Zoom conference was all it took to streamline the front for production!

Space Force Challenge Coin Design

With the front sorted out the Challenge Coin team took to designing the back. We employ five designers here at Pitch and Rudder and this project as a battle to see who could complete it first. Normally, we will just assign a designer and move on; however, every designer we have on the books wanted a crack at designing the back of this coin! When the dust settled, we decided to use pieces from each of the designers input in making the back of coin, it was just too cool of a project not to be apart of!

Space Force One

When all the pieces came together the coin came out amazing! We added those little touches that really set off the piece and as one of the first Space Force challenge coins to market, it hit all the right marks. It was creative, well thought out and not rushed. The Glitter on the back of the coin mixed in with the black paint really puts the image of space to mind while the two alien space crafts round out the mission! Say what you will about making a fifth branch of the service, but Space Force is funded and there’s probably a reason why…. But I wouldn’t worry too much, our forces are going to be HUGE!

Now our Trump Coins are expected to arrive in the next 2 weeks, we have them listed in the store for pre-sale Here If your interested! I have to say it was a blast working with James and Forrest at The Salty Soldier, I don’t expect this to be our last collaboration!

If your looking to Go Custom, Hit the link on the bottom and lets make our next post about your Rock Star project!