The James Beard Foundation is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating and supporting those who improve America’s food culture. Known as the “Oscars of the food world,” the James Beard Foundation Awards program honors culinary professionals each year.
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A prestigious name in hospitality whose organization’s mission is to celebrate, nurture, and honor chefs and other leaders making America’s food culture more delicious, diverse, and sustainable for everyone was seeking to modernize its recognition program.
Cristaux took a very untraditional approach to a very established program. Our core focus was on James Beard himself. We spent over 25 hours remodeling his face so that when we cast new molds the features will stand out that much more. Additionally, unlike how a traditional medallion functions which are typically attached by a metal ring to the ribbon, we engineered a way to solder a bar on the back making the design much cleaner. We then created custom velvet boxes for these medallions truly modernizing the overall medallion.