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SustainableIT · Pillar 02 · IMPACT Awards

Give a movement its moment.

An identity makes a mission visible. A moment makes it matter. The IMPACT Awards honor the technology leaders driving real environmental, social, and governance progress. I built the program from zero: the awards brand, the trophy, and the stage it is handed out on, across the US and Europe.

SustainableIT.org IMPACT Awards poster
A row of SustainableIT IMPACT Award trophies lit at the ceremony
One object, handed to the leaders redefining what technology is for.
IMPACT Awards · The trophy
01
The film

The night, in ninety seconds.

The awards gala and symposium bring technology and sustainability leaders into one room, from the inaugural class in the United States to the European stage in Hamburg.

The trophy
Designed to break the "typical award" mold.

Most awards end up in a cabinet. This one was made to be displayed like a work of art, designed and custom-made entirely in-house, so the honor stays in the room, in view, every day.

02
The idea

Nature and the manufactured, in one circle.

The trophy is the brand mark made physical. Two arcs fall into one another: the living world and the built one, held in a single ring. A dance, not a divide.

Trophy concept diagram: manufactured and nature arcs coexisting inside one circle

Concept  ·  Two arcs, one ring

Trophy materials: recycled synthetic hexagonal texture and natural wood
Trophy detail: metal chrome ring protecting the union of nature and manufactured

Materials & coexistence  ·  Recycled synthetic, natural wood, chrome ring

Trophy balance: the tilt symbolizes the balance between nature and manufactured
Trophy ergonomics: a flat, stable base

Balance & stability  ·  The tilt, and a flat base built to be displayed

Trophy anatomy: Scandinavian-influenced design, rotating top, heat-burned logo, brass winners plate

Anatomy  ·  Rotating top, heat-burned logo, brass winners plate

Finished IMPACT Award trophy at the 2024 European ceremony in Hamburg
03 · Render to reality

Off the page, onto the stage.

The pitch became a real object in real hands, custom-produced and engraved for every winner, at every event.

04
The winners

From Miami to Hamburg.

The inaugural class in the United States, and the European stage a year later. One program, one identity, two continents of leaders it now belongs to.

Inaugural IMPACT Award winners on stage in the United States

United States  ·  The inaugural class

IMPACT Award winners on stage in Hamburg, Europe
Guests on the IMPACT Awards red carpet with sponsor backdrop

Hamburg  ·  The European stage, and the night itself

SustainableIT.org announces winners of the inaugural IMPACT Awards
Outcome
Now is the time to celebrate the impact.

The IMPACT Awards became the program SustainableIT is known for, the moment that turned a young nonprofit into a name global technology leaders want to stand beside.

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