Seal of the Year
Our Seal is set in gold and diamonds, and for the year of your membership it is yours to carry on your website, your storefront, your campaign. Renewed each year, worn openly, extended to few.
MMXXVII · New York, New York
The Award
Black crystal, a frame of polished gold, and four words engraved at its foot. Crafted by Society Awards, the atelier behind some of the world’s most recognized honors, including the Golden Globe and the Emmy.
Today, a reputation
lives on every screen
The Diamond Award Club is an exclusive media membership club. We find excellence, honor it with an award of real distinction, and give it the media presence it deserves.
Diamonds Are Forever
We recognize achievement, document the story behind it, and introduce our Members to a circle of media, culture and opportunity that outlasts the evening it began.
Membership is extended, never requested. Each Member is presented with the Award, carries the Seal of the Year, and is seen through our lens the way they deserve to be remembered.
Philosophy
Excellence is entrusted,
not merely achieved
Those we honor do not receive an award. They join a circle.
What Membership Holds
By Commission
Photography · Film · Member’s Hour
Made for you, at your choosing
The Award opens the door
The Club is what is behind it
Work
One day, one house, every frame made by hand.
The photography, the film, the podcast.
Member’s Hour
Member’s Hour is the Diamond Award Club’s conversation series, hosted by Mr. Andy Alem and filmed where each Member builds their work. The story behind the name, told in their own voice. A seat is by invitation.
Members’ Evenings
America’s Tenor, and the voice of state occasions at the White House. He performs at the Club’s occasions, and at a Member’s evening on request.
Arranged privately through the Club
Origins
The Diamond Award Club grew from the Ten Tier Diamond Award. Surgeons, restaurateurs, builders and artists, each one recognized in their own space and each one still in the Register.
Class Carpet · Dr. Carlos Wesley · Aristocrat · Kashan · Honu
A Note from the Founder
I created the Club on a simple belief: genuine excellence deserves more than a moment of recognition. It deserves to be documented, shared, and remembered.
I came to this through science and medicine before I came to it through a lens, and both taught me the same things: precision, service, and the importance of presentation. Our Members are chosen for what they have built, what they have given, and the way they carry themselves.
The rest is better said in person.
Mr. Andy Alem
President