The Brief

Legal industry conferences run on tote bags and stress balls. The client wanted the opposite: a small number of objects with real material value, made for the specific people they wanted at their dinner table, not the whole exhibit hall. The brief asked for something attendees would still own a year later.

The Challenge

Event giveaways fail through volume. A thousand cheap objects lose to fifty real ones. The work was to design artifacts worth keeping, produce them to deadline against a conference date that could not move, and concentrate the budget on the recipients who mattered rather than spreading it thin.

The DLISH Solution

Two artifacts. Custom-minted silver coins, struck for the event, with weight that announces itself in the hand. And branded poker sets, built as a genuine game-night object rather than a logo vehicle. Both were designed to live on a desk or a shelf after the conference ended, which is where the client's name would keep working long after the booth came down.

Logistics and Compliance

Minting runs on fixed production windows, so the coin was locked first and the delivery calendar built backward from the conference date. Values per recipient were documented for gift-policy compliance, a live consideration when recipients include attorneys bound by firm gift rules.

The Result

The artifacts outlasted the event by design. Attendees kept them, displayed them, and mentioned them back to the client, which is the only metric of event gifting that matters.