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Paper Dart Innovation Award Badge

An innovation award badge for staff and teams whose ideas made a real difference, styled as a violet GRANTED stamp around an ink paper dart drawing.

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Updated 31 October 2026 · Designed by the Hyperstack studio

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Drawn to read at small sizes

A badge is mostly seen small. These are its real sizes on screen.

Paper Dart Innovation Award Badge at 120 px

On a profile

120 px

Paper Dart Innovation Award Badge at 64 px

In a list of badges

64 px

Paper Dart Innovation Award Badge at 40 px

In an email signature

40 px

What is on it

A badge people are proud to show

You write once

The same for everyone. Keep the template’s words or change them.

Badge words
Innovation Award

Filled in for each person

Hyperstack fills these from your list when you send.

  • The recipient’s name and the award, in the badge’s verified record
  • The issue date and a credential ID
  • A link anyone can click to verify it

Specifications

Sizes, fonts and colours

Sizes

Badge
470 × 470 px, round · Reads at 120 px on a profile

Fonts

IBM Plex Mono
Text, Labels

Google Fonts, free for commercial use.

Colours

  • Paper#fcfbf7
  • Ink#1d1b22
  • Accent#5b2d86
  • Second accent#ebe5f2
  • Muted text#5f5b68

Change any colour in the studio.

Design notes

The badge reduces the set's idea to a rubber stamp: a violet double ring with INNOVATION AWARD curved along the top and NO. 1 along the bottom, a paper dart drawn in black ink line at the centre, and GRANTED struck across a bar beneath it. Its few fixed words stay readable at profile size, so a winner can show it on LinkedIn, in an email signature or on a credential page.

About

Innovation Award Badge Template, Patent-Style Stamp

Innovation awards exist because the best ideas in an organisation rarely come from a job description. Someone spots a slow process and redesigns it, a lab team finds a cheaper material, a hackathon group ships a feature that customers adopt. Companies, universities and professional associations recognise that work with an award for innovation, often at an annual awards evening, an innovation programme's demo day or a quarterly all-hands.

Wording on the template“For an original idea, put into practice, that changed how the work is done: a better process, real savings and a hard problem solved in a way no one had tried before.”
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Words that go with it

The email and the post, written for you

Email to send with it

Subject: name, your idea won the Innovation Award

Hi name,

Congratulations. The judges picked your idea for this year's Innovation Award. What started as a suggestion is now part of how we work, and the difference it has made is clear to everyone who uses it.

Your award certificate is ready. Open it to see it, download a copy to print, or share it on LinkedIn so your network can see what you built.

Thank you for asking how things could work better, and for doing something about it.

Hyperstack fills in each person’s name and link when it sends.

Post for the recipient to share

Proud to share that my idea won our company's Innovation Award this year. It started as a small fix to a process that frustrated our whole team, and it is now how we work every day. Thank you to the colleagues who tested it, argued with it and made it better. #Innovation #InnovationAward #ContinuousImprovement

Recipients share it with one click from their credential page, with the badge attached.

Certificate or badge?

Send both. They do different jobs.

Certificate

  • A full record: name, statement, skills, dates and signatures
  • Printed and framed, or kept as a PDF
  • Opens to a page anyone can verify
See the matching certificate →

Digital badge

  • A small image people put on LinkedIn and in email signatures
  • Carries the verified details inside it (Open Badges 2.0)
  • One click shows who earned it and who issued it

How to send it

From template to everyone’s inbox

  1. 01

    Make it yours

    Open the template, add your logo and change any colour or word.

  2. 02

    Add your people

    Upload a spreadsheet, or connect your LMS, HR tool or form.

  3. 03

    Send it

    Each person gets an email and their own credential page, in one go.

  4. 04

    They share it

    Recipients add it to LinkedIn; anyone can verify it from the QR code.

The badge is a round image on a 470 × 470 px board, drawn to stay readable at 120 px, the size of a profile picture.

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