laser engraving

Lucent™ Acrylic Awards are defined by their luminous presence. Designed to interact beautifully with surrounding light, these translucent pieces amplify brilliance through subtle color and clarity. The result is an Acrylic Trophy that feels refined, elegant, and unmistakably modern.

The Composites™ Acrylic Award line stands out not only for its look, but also for how each piece is made. Like the cast acrylic embedments in our Array™ line, Composites™ trophies are created through a true casting process, not made from fabricated flat acrylic sheets.

Every ColorCast™ Acrylic Trophy is made in the USA from top-quality Lucite® acrylic by our skilled team. Each award is carefully machined, hand-polished, and assembled to ensure clarity, consistency, and lasting shine.

Today, we begin the series with one of our most versatile and eye-catching collections — the Aspect™ Acrylic Awards. Whether you’re recognizing leadership, service, or innovation, these designs transform success into lasting brilliance.

For over half a million years, humans have found engraving not only to be the best way of documenting history, but also an art form that has been used to decorate walls, gemstones, bones, weapons, jewelry, swords, and modern day recognition awards presented for high performance.

Acrylic engraving has been a popular form of decorating recognition awards since the early 90’s when laser engraving technology became accessible to the local trophy shop. In this article, we are going to discuss the chemical composition of cast acrylic or Lucite®, the difference between cast and extruded acrylic materials, and some of the common decoration methods that are used in the trophy and recognition industry.

Today, as technology has improved, the resources available to decorate and engrave awards has changed from a labor-intensive process to a fine-tuned process mastered by talented graphic artists capable of producing unique Computer Aided Designs (CAD).

Lasers (Light Amplified by Stimulated Emission of Radiation—LASER) revolutionized the trophy and awards industry starting in the late 1980’s when the cost of small laser engravers came down to a level that made sense for many trophy shops around the world.