Custom 4′ dia. plaque with 18″ dia. changeable center insert, cast bronze with patina finish. PROJECT: Decorah Impact Crater. LOCATION: Van Peenen Park, Decorah, IA.

United States Air Force medallion embed, cast bronze with antique patina finish. SPECIFIER: Illinois Department of Transportation. PROJECT: VA Memorial at Westminster Overpass at I-57. LOCATION: Marion, IL.

United States Army medallion embed, cast bronze with antique patina finish. SPECIFIER: Illinois Department of Transportation. PROJECT: VA Memorial at Westminster Overpass at I-57. LOCATION: Marion, IL.

United States Coast Guard medallion embed, cast bronze with antique patina finish. SPECIFIER: Illinois Department of Transportation. PROJECT: VA Memorial at Westminster Overpass at I-57. LOCATION: Marion, IL.

United States Marine Corps medallion embed, cast bronze with antique patina finish. SPECIFIER: Illinois Department of Transportation. PROJECT: VA Memorial at Westminster Overpass at I-57. LOCATION: Marion, IL.

United States Navy medallion embed, cast bronze with antique patina finish. SPECIFIER: Illinois Department of Transportation. PROJECT: VA Memorial at Westminster Overpass at I-57. LOCATION: Marion, IL.

Custom 24″ dia. medallion with Lavish Roots catering logo, cast iron with baked-on-oil finish. Plaque shown prior to installation. LOCATION: Burien, WA.

Raw cast iron plaque designed with a two-piece pattern. The bottom features our Oblio design, while the text on the upper portion can be changed relatively easily and cost-effectively. This allowed multiple custom plaques to be created for this flood protection project. PROJECT: Calabazas Creek. LOCATION: West Valley Watershed, Santa Clara County, CA

A custom plaque featuring fish swimming atop our trademark Oblio design. Raw cast iron. PROJECT: Calabazas Creek. LOCATION: West Valley Watershed, Santa Clara County, CA

Custom plaque with brick surround, designed for the entryway of a luxury condominium complex. Cast nickel bronze with patina. DESIGN: Foreseer Design, Seattle. PROJECT: Alloy at Assembly Row. LOCATION: Somerville, MA

Raw cast iron plaque customized with the logo for AlphaLoop, an 8-mile multi-use path in Alpharetta, GA. Shown prior to installation.

Custom 18″ dia. medallion, raw cast silicon bronze. DESIGN: Melillo • Bauer • Carman | Landscape Architects. INSTALL: Twin Resources. PROJECT: Morris Square.  LOCATION: Jersey City, NJ.

Custom 4′ dia. “Montaje” plaque, cast bronze, patina finish with highlights. Shown prior to installation. DESIGN: Foreseer. PROJECT: Assembly Row. LOCATION: Sommerville, MA.

Custom 4′ dia. “Montaje” plaque, cast bronze, patina finish with highlights. Shown 13 months after installation. DESIGN: Foreseer. PROJECT: Assembly Row. LOCATION: Sommerville, MA.

Custom 4′ dia. plaque with separate 6′ dia. outer text ring, cast iron with baked-on oil finish. DESIGN: Foreseer. PROJECT: Assembly Row / Assembly Line Park. LOCATION: Sommerville, MA.

Custom “You Are Here” plaque collection, cast bronze with patina finish and highlights. DESIGN: Foreseer. PROJECT: Assembly Row. LOCATION: Sommerville, MA.

Custom “You Are Here” Plaque, cast bronze with patina finish and highlights. Shown prior to installation. DESIGN: Foreseer. PROJECT: Assembly Row. LOCATION: Sommerville, MA.

Custom “You Are Here” Plaque, cast bronze with patina finish and highlights. Shown one year after installation. DESIGN: Foreseer. PROJECT: Assembly Row. LOCATION: Sommerville, MA.

Custom 4′ dia. plaque, cast bronze with patina and highlights. Shown prior to installation. DESIGN: Foreseer. PROJECT: Pike & Rose. LOCATION: North Bethesda, MD.

Custom 4′ dia. plaque, cast bronze with patina and highlights. Shown five months after installation. DESIGN: Foreseer. PROJECT: Pike & Rose. LOCATION: North Bethesda, MD.

Custom 4′ dia. plaque, raw cast bronze, shown prior to installation. DESIGN: Foreseer. PROJECT: Pike & Rose. LOCATION: North Bethesda, MD.

Custom 4′ dia. plaque, raw cast bronze. Shown seven months after installation. DESIGN: Foreseer. PROJECT: Pike & Rose. LOCATION: North Bethesda, MD.

Custom 6′ dia. Texas A&M University System plaque; cast iron with baked-on-oil finish. PHOTO CREDIT / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: Pacheco Koch. LOCATION: Austin, TX.

Custom 12″ dia. plaque, installed in the center of a 4′ dia. Kelp tree grate; cast iron with baked-on-oil finish. DESIGN: HBB Seattle. PROJECT: Pebble Beach Park / sŋaʔŋáʔant cáwŋən ʔəssaqɬúŋt. LOCATION: Port Angeles, WA.

Custom 24″ dia. plaque; cast iron with baked-on oil finish. Shown prior to installation. PROJECT: Stockman Bank. LOCATION: Missoula, MT.

Custom, raw cast iron plaques developed for a park in Bridgetown, Barbados, using original coins provided by the local museum. Each coin was digitally scanned and enlarged to 10″, 12″, and 18″, resulting in castings that faithfully reproduce the original details at an architectural scale.

Custom, raw cast iron plaques developed for a park in Bridgetown, Barbados, using original coins provided by the local museum. Each coin was digitally scanned and enlarged to 10″, 12″, and 18″, resulting in castings that faithfully reproduce the original details at an architectural scale.

Newly cast, raw bronze plaques.  PROJECT: Bremen Park. LOCATION: Boston, MA.(See following photo to view plaques 7 years after installation.)

Here is a close-up shot of one of the custom cast bronze plaques in the previous photo, shown seven years after installation. PROJECT: Bremen Park. LOCATION: Boston, MA.

Custom cast bronze plaque incorporating our classic Interlaken pattern. PROJECT: Convention Street Park. LOCATION: New Orleans, LA.

Custom 4′ dia. medallion, cast iron with baked-on oil finish. LOCATION: Oakland, CA

This is one of a series of custom plaques done for the Rosie the Riveter Memorial in Richmond, CA. Raw cast iron, shown prior to installation. DESIGN: Mayer Reed Architects

This is one of a series of custom plaques done for the Rosie the Riveter Memorial in Richmond, CA. Raw cast iron, shown right after installation. Designed: Mayer Reed Architects

This is one of a series of custom plaques done for the Rosie the Riveter Memorial in Richmond, CA. Raw cast iron, shown 14 months after installation. Designed: Mayer Reed Architects

Iron Age’s first custom plaque project. 24″ dia., raw cast iron, shown just prior to installation. DESIGN: Walker Macy. PROJECT: The Strand. LOCATION: Portland, OR.

We took a photo of the same 24″ dia. cast iron plaque two days later, showing the beginning stage of the natural oxidation process. DESIGN: Walker Macy. PROJECT: The Strand. LOCATION: Portland, OR.

Here is the same 24″ dia. cast iron plaque, shown 4 months after installation. DESIGN: Walker Macy. PROJECT: The Strand. LOCATION: Portland, OR.

Here is the same raw cast iron, 24″ dia. plaque, shown 11 years after installation. DESIGN: Walker Macy. PROJECT: The Strand. LOCATION: Portland, OR.