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Campus programs

Oakland University.

Years of work for one campus — presentation trays, commemorative plaques and coasters by the hundred, cut and engraved in Detroit, thirty miles from campus.

A maple serving tray with black iron handles, engraved with the Oakland University seal.

The brief

Repeatable, and still made by hand.

Pieces for donor recognition, retirements, campus milestones and gift programs — the kind of order that has to look like a one-off and arrive like a production run.

Pieces
Serving trays, word plaques, engraved coasters
Woods
Hard maple and walnut
Marks
University seal, Golden Grizzlies, South Foundation Hall
Runs
Single commemoratives through to several hundred

The work

What was made.

  • A maple tray engraved with the Oakland University Golden Grizzly seal.
    Presentation tray, hard maple
  • A round engraved coaster reading Oakland University South Foundation Hall.
    South Foundation Hall coaster
  • The Oakland University South Foundation Hall coaster in daylight, the engraved wordmark and OU monogram clearly legible in the maple.
    The same coaster, in daylight
  • A maple word plaque listing Oakland University landmarks and traditions.
    Landmark plaque, maple
  • The same Oakland University word plaque cut in walnut.
    The same plaque, walnut
  • Close detail of the Oakland University seal engraved into figured maple.
    Seal detail, figured maple

Capacity

Built for the run.

A campus order is rarely one piece. These are the same designs going through the shop in quantity — cut, engraved, finished and boxed.

  • An Oakland University tray on the table saw during cutting.
    On the saw
  • Stacks of cut tray blanks with a finished engraved tray resting on top.
    Blanks, stacked
  • Hundreds of engraved coasters laid out across benches to finish.
    A run of coasters, finishing
  • Finished Oakland University coasters packed into a box.
    Packed
  • A finished engraved tray boxed and ready to ship.
    Boxed, ready to go

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