span class="large"Illustrated here is a photographic essay of the production of a series of bespoke cast glass awards for AkzoNobel, International Paint Ltd./spanbr/br/br/span class="large"strongThe final award maybe seen /stronga href="http://www.chrisblade.com/akzonobelaward2010"; target="_blank"stronghere/strong/a/spanbr/br/br/span class="large"The award was designed amp; project managed bya href="http://www.chrisblade.com/"; target="_blank"Christopher Blade/a Head of Commissioning amp; The Studio at The a href="http://www.nationalglasscentre.com/"; target="_blank"National Glass Centre/a, University of Sunderland. It was designed specifically in response to the brief which was to celebrate individual teams achievements whilst empasise the wholistic and all ebracing nature of Health amp; Safety throughout the many facets of the company./spanbr/span class="large"The awards were modelled and cast by glass artist amp; National Glass Centre tenant a href="http://www.katyafilmus.com/"; target="_blank"Katya Izabal Filmus/a/spanbr/br/span class="large"More information about the specialist manufacture of awards may be found a href="http://www.chrisblade.com/glassmakingresources"; target="_blank"here/a:/span