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Qatar National Day gifts, made to your design
Corporate gifts and awards for Qatar National Day, 18 December, designed for your company and made in Doha: ideas, finishes, and when to start.
On 18 December Qatar marks its National Day, and companies across the country celebrate it with their teams, their clients and their guests. A gift for the day says the most when it could only have come from you: your logo, your building or the country's colours, made into an object. That is what 3D printing is for, and the pieces are made here, in Doha.
Start from the date
National Day does not move, so the planning runs backwards from it. The design comes first and is agreed with you before anything is printed; then the pieces are printed, finished by hand and checked before they leave the studio. Every quote includes its timeline, so the first answer already tells you whether your date can be met.
Ideas that belong to the day
- Your logo as an object, in maroon and white or in your own colours
- A Doha landmark in miniature for a desk, like the Torch Tower model we printed
- A piece in the national colours for a lobby or a meeting room
- Awards for the people whose year it was
- Pieces for the day's event: a stand, a centrepiece, a corner for photographs
A landmark on a desk works because everyone in Qatar knows it at a glance. The Torch Tower model we printed stands 170 mm tall, in resin, so that its lattice crown keeps its fine detail; a building of your own, or your company's, can be made the same way.
Maroon, white and gold
Maroon and white are the colours of the day, and gold reads as celebration. Each piece is painted by hand in the studio's finishing hall, in the national colours, in your brand's own, or in a metallic gold like the high-gloss gold of our football trophy. The Hand of Justice we made shows what the national colours can carry: a hand reaching out of the map of Qatar, in maroon and white, holding a golden scale.
One piece or many
There is no mould, so the first piece costs about the same as the tenth, and a small run is practical: a gift for each guest, an award for each winner, a set for each branch. A single large piece for a lobby is printed in sections and joined so that the seams disappear.
Handed out, posted or kept
Think about where the gift goes after the day. A piece handed out at an event should be easy to carry; one that is posted should be compact and sturdy; one that stays on a desk or a shelf can be as detailed as you like. Tell us which, and the design is made for it.
Awards for the team
National Day is also when many companies thank their people. An award made to your design, in a shape that stands for what it is given for and with the name on its base, stays on a desk long after the day. Our note on corporate gifts and awards covers deciding the base, the text and the finish together.
When the day has an event
If your company marks the day with an event, the gifts can belong to it: the same design on the stand, on the centrepiece and on the gifts handed out at the door. Our note on printing for events covers planning those pieces together.
What to send us
- How many pieces, and whether any differ, such as names on awards
- The size, and whether they will be handed out, posted or displayed
- Your logo or artwork, as a file if you have one
- The finish: the national colours, your brand's, or gold
- The date they must be ready, before 18 December
Send it on WhatsApp or through the contact page, as you have it: a sketch, a photo or a few sentences is enough to begin, and every enquiry is answered the same working day. Our note on what to send for a quote goes through it in more detail.
After National Day
The same planning serves the year's other occasions, Ramadan and Eid among them: an idea, a design agreed, and a date worked back from. Whatever you have in mind, it starts the same way.
Follow the studio
The work in these notes, as it is made: pieces off the printers, systems going live.
