Press release
1 March 2005

Winners at tomorrow’s premier Scottish business awards ceremony will be picking up something particularly special this year, thanks to the collaborative creativity of two Scottish design businesses.

Little Ironies, the Dundee-based metalwork design specialists, have joined forces with Fife-based sculptors SilverSculpture to create brand new trophies for the Scotland PLC Awards 2005 (due to be announced on Wednesday 2 March). The two businesses have been commissioned by the organisers of the Awards, Scottish Business Insider.

The trophies take the form of a stainless steel disc incised with the Scotland PLC awards logo, mounted on a Black American Walnut base, using a mild steel bracket indicative of a traditional Globe. The design symbolises the impact that successful Scottish PLCs are making in the wider global market.

For Joanne Moody of Little Ironies, the commission to create the trophies in collaboration with SilverSculpture’s Gordon Lochhead is a welcome endorsement of her creative credentials only two years after founding her business.

Little Ironies was developed in the Embreonix graduate incubator unit at Abertay University in Dundee, where Joanne spent a year studying a postgraduate certificate in entrepreneurship and setting up her business. She now runs Little Ironies from a permanent base in Broughty Ferry.

Joanne said: “My time spent at Abertay University enabled me to set down firm foundations for my business, which have proved invaluable. Over the last two years, Little Ironies’ portfolio has expanded to offer a diverse range of commissioned and limited edition works. We now attract orders from clients all across Scotland. This latest commission for the Scotland PLC Awards really is the ultimate accolade of our achievements so far.”

Gordon Lochhead has a longer track record, having established SilverScultpure in 1979, and moved to converted farm buildings near St Andrews in Fife in 1993.

Gordon said: “This trophy is another good example of how a collaboration between designers and a good client can really put sculpture to work, creating an iconic object which will act as an emblem for the prestigious Scottish PLC Awards in the future”

Little Ironies and Silversculpture have previously created trophies for the Scottish Sports Sponsorship Awards 2004, and the design has been re-ordered for this year’s awards.

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For more information and images contact:

Joanne Moody, Little Ironies
Tel: 01382 736830
Email: info@littleironies.co.uk
Website: http://www.littleironies.co.uk

Jackie Malloy - Insider events
Tel: 0131 535 5555
Email: jmalloy@insider.co.uk
Website: www.insider.co.uk/events

Kevin Coe - Prospect PR - Abertay University Dundee
T: 01382 561 571
M: 07808 713 395