Prizes and awards.

The DS5 Shell Metal Clip won the “Writing Instrument Product of the Year” Gold Award presented by the British Promotional Merchandise Association (BPMA). Shell Pens have a casing enriched with 30% recycled used seashells, while 50% of the remaining ABS plastic is recycled or regenerated as part of our own production processes.

The QS40 True Biotic won the iF Design Award, one of the world’s most prestigious awards for exceptional achievement in product design. The jury awarded the writing instrument for its outstanding design and the use of innovative, sustainable bio-based polymers (PHA).

The QS40 True Biotic won the “Pen & Stationery Product of the Year” Platinum Award presented by the British Promotional Merchandise Association (BPMA). The writing instruments are made from revolutionary biopolymers (PHA). PHA is biobased and biodegradable, ensuring the casing will biodegrade quickly and completely even in natural environments such as the oceans and the soil.

The QS40 is probably the only product to have won the Promotional Gift Award not once but twice: in 2020, for its spectacular material-saving design, and now in 2021, for its use of revolutionary biopolymers (PHA). These ensure that the casing will break down quickly and completely even in natural environments such as the oceans and the soil.

The Stone model series won the “Promotional Pen of the Year” Platinum Award presented by the British Promotional Merchandise Association (BPMA). The writing instruments are made from a mineral-enriched material that reduces plastic consumption by a sustainable 60% and increases value perception by adding an extra 50% in weight.

The QS40 Air was honoured with the Promotional Gift Award 2020, with the jury reserving particular praise for how it skilfully combines design with sustainability. Its perforated honeycomb structure allows the very stylish casing to shed 40% of its plastic. Of the plastic that is left, 30% comes from internal production waste.

The DNA Identity Pen won the Promotional Gift Award 2018. The model series wowed the jury with the many different ways it allowed a brand to be individually showcased.

The QS00 scooped a Gold PromoFritz Award in 2016 and was crowned the best promotional merchandise of the year. The writing instrument won over the jury with how it allows 3D patterns to be designed on the casing surface even before the injection moulding process has finished.

The Peak and Pattern Pens with their 3D casing surfaces won the prestigious Promotional Gift Award 2016, widely regarded as the “Oscar” of the industry. The jury were particularly impressed by the QS00, whose surface can be personalized with 3D patterns during the injection moulding process.

The DS9 was presented with the International Promotional Gift Award 2015. The jury praised its contemporary, clear-cut form and innovative colour palette.

Prodir’s “Purity” campaign picked up the Red Dot Award for communication design. The jury felt that the campaign demonstrated “high design quality, which represents aesthetics, innovation and conciseness in an exemplary fashion.”

The jury for the renowned IF Product Design Awards 2013 honoured the ES2 for its outstanding design. The award is widely viewed as one of the most important international accolades for good design.

2011’s Promotional Gift Award, the top European award for haptic advertising, went to the ES1.

In 2009, “pending” magazine was nominated for the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany, the country’s highest official award in the design industry.

The Econ Award is presented by the Econ publishing group in partnership with Handelsblatt and recognises successful corporate communications in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Praising the magazine, the organizers said: “Conveying quality awareness, expertise and care in a credible way without actually presenting a product requires expertise in dealing with content and topics as well as an excellent design and production process. In ‘pending’, Prodir consistently tackles this challenge head on in impressive fashion.”

2008’s Promotional Gift Award, the top European award for haptic advertising, went to the DS2.

Prodir’s “pending” customer magazine won the BCP Best of Corporate Publishing Award in the “Media, Culture and Entertainment” B2B category three times in a row – two golds and one silver.

Its minimalist design won the DS4 the Promotional Gift Award 2006, the most prestigious European accolade for promotional merchandise.

The organizer’s website stated: “We at the Good Design Award think of ‘design’ as a verb and define it as a continuous creative process which is never completed.” The DS5 was honoured with the Japanese Good Design Award in 2005.

“Innovative in form and function” – in 2003, these qualities secured the DS7 the Promotional Gift Award, Europe’s most important haptic advertising prize.