Coming up with creative deal toy ideas can be a chore for bankers Especially when they’re faced with the same predictable, stock suggestions. Fortunately, there are a number of imaginative–though commonly overlooked— design...
Coming up with creative deal toy ideas can be a chore for bankers Especially when they’re faced with the same predictable, stock suggestions. Fortunately, there are a number of imaginative–though commonly overlooked— design...
The Lucite embedment process, as you've probably heard, offers an ideal way to preserve, showcase, and honor prized items and objects. Unless you don't know what you're doing. Because it also offers a great way to singe, tinge, melt, mangle,...
This post is one in a series celebrating some of the deals and dealmakers in The Corporate Presence's 40-years of designing and providing deal toys and custom awards. Another recent post in this series focused on the late Bruce Wasserstein. Along...
Of all the deal toys The Corporate Presence has created for clients over its forty-year history, the design below might seem pretty unremarkable. After all, it's an ordinary rectangle. But it does have all the virtues of a classic deal toy...
Code names unleash all sorts of creative possibilities for finance tombstones. A code name explains, for instance, how a tropical drink invented and popularized in Cuba could provide the inspiration for a tombstone commemorating a private equity...
This post was originally written to commemorate the 40th anniversary of The Corporate Presence as a provider of deal toys and custom awards. It's also part of a series of posts celebrating some of the noteworthy deals---and personalities behind...
The phrase "investment banking tombstones" tends to conjure up some immediate associations: buttoned-up, drab, and probably most of all, boring. A lot of that's undoubtedly due to the word "tombstone". In just about any context, the word pretty...
You probably don't spend a lot of time monitoring trends in deal toy design, and no one's suggesting that you should be. You're much more likely to be attuned to even subtle changes in the world of fashion, or to the announced design tweaks to the...
Food and beverage tombstones tend to have a little more cachet than those in other sectors. What's so special about these financial transactions---and their tombstones? Maybe it's the fact that they usually involve common, everyday items. Add to...