Over the course of a career, there are failures or projects that never took flight that you go through. There are a million reasons why a project fails. Budget issues, timing issues, and when using cutting edge tech, there are a series of experiments to do something that isn't main stream and sometimes they just get too expensive or need a lot of iterations.

This is one of my painful failures. Mr. Jenkins should have seen this vision and held it in his hand. Sadly he passed on leaving us his amazing writing (his daughter carries on the family wit and stinger).

Here is an early version of the award that I modeled. Along with the initial image of the design. I might finish this project and smelt one just to see what the final product would look like in hand.

https://skfb.ly/oSW6T

One of the organizations associated with the University of Texas' Sports & Media created a new sportswriting award in Dan Jenkins name, and to honor excellence in sportswriting. They engaged with me to create a medal or award that could be given out each year. The goal was to use 3D printing technology to speed up the process of creating a metal award.

My initial plan was to create the approved 3D design and model, print it on a filament extrusion printer, and then use that to create a mold for a metal pour. 7 years later this is a task that can be done at a high level of execution with a resin printer with some mold ready resin and a backyard forge with some sand and a propane torch.