Trophies are getting more imaginative in design, as awards programmes increasingly ask leading architects and designers to create them. Here are seven that duly commend success, including a Brit Award by Zaha Hadid and the Atelier NL-designed Dezeen Awards.

Brit Awards 2017 trophy by Zaha Hadid
The Brit Awards became one of the first awards ceremonies to employ a high-profile designer to create its trophy, when it commissioned the late Zaha Hadid in late 2016.
Hadid created curved, white Britannia figures to be handed out the winning musicians. There were five different versions of the form, intended to "represent diversity" by being "different yet connected".
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Brit Awards 2018 trophy by Anish Kapoor
After Hadid, London-based artist Anish Kapoor was next up to design the Brits. His design comprised a transparent red perspex block with the Britannia figure – the female personification of Britain – forming its hollow centre.
The trophy was intended to challenge perspectives, through its reversal of positive and negative form.
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Brit Awards 2019 trophy by David Adjaye
David Adjaye was this week announced as the third designer commissioned by Jason Iley – Brits chairman and CEO of Sony Music – for the Brit Awards.
The architect swapped the traditional hourglass figure of B...