Author: David Parry

DOC NYC ’24: Celebrated Annual Awards Focus on Documentary Films

October 28, 2024 by David Parry

Will Ferrell and Frida Kahlo, along with three Ukrainian artists, a one-handed Yankees pitcher, a group of disgrutled Amazon workers, South Korean fisherwomen, Congolese CIA operatives, Sudanese revolutionaries, and 1970's disco musicians, will all...

Unique Code Name-Inspired Deal Toys for Your Next Big Deal

October 23, 2024 by David Parry

Code names offer a rich, and too often neglected, source of deal toy ideas. Code names tend to provide ready-made design ideas because they also tend to be both colorful and evocative. The code names for high-profile deals have included, for...

Unique Crystal Awards: What Vendors Don’t Want You to Know

October 22, 2024 by David Parry

If you do a quick online search for "unique crystal awards", you'll make a surprising discovery. The search will turn up endless galleries featuring crystal designs. But very few of those designs would probably fit the definition of what you---and...

9 Creative Deal Toy Ideas to Celebrate Success

October 22, 2024 by David Parry

Coming up with creative deal toy ideas can be a chore for bankers Especially when they’re faced with the same predictable, stock design suggestions. Fortunately, there are a number of imaginative–though commonly overlooked— design...

End of Project Gift Ideas – Project Completion Awards

October 16, 2024 by David Parry

Most organizations appreciate the importance of recognizing individual achievement and accomplishment. However, many organizations fail to appreciate the necessity of recognizing that same effort and accomplishment when it comes to teams and groups,...

What’s the Average Turnaround Time for a Custom Deal Toy?

October 11, 2024 by David Parry

How long will it take to produce your custom deal toy? If you've been looking for a precise answer to this question online, you've probably been disappointed. You may already have seen estimates of anywhere from 1-6 weeks, which seems to provide an...

7 Often-Overlooked Standard Deal Toy Shapes

September 25, 2024 by David Parry

You probably don't spend a lot of time monitoring trends in deal toy design, specifically classic deal toy shapes. Certainly, no one's suggesting that you should be. You're much more likely to be attuned to even subtle changes in the world of...

The WhatsApp Deal Tombstone: How it Originated at a Food Stamps Office

September 23, 2024 by David Parry

In our 43-year history, The Corporate Presence has designed the deal tombstone for a number of landmark transactions. We've designed and produced the tombstones, for instance, for the initial public offerings of Apple, KKR, Twitter, Facebook,...

How to Make Tombstone Awards More Memorable

September 23, 2024 by David Parry

Here are a couple of creative sparks for distinctive tombstone award designs Tombstone awards tend to have their own built-in cachet and perceived value. Even the most conventional tombstones have tremendous significance for recipients---for the...