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title: "Ohana Development Aluminium Badge Printing | Sun Studio Dubai"
description: "How Sun Studio printed 5,000 aluminium VIP access badges in gold on navy for the Manchester City Yas Residences launch on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi."
url: https://www.sunstudio.ae/portfolio/ohana-development-aluminium-badge-printing/
type: project
site: Sun Studio Dubai
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# UV Printed Aluminium VIP Badges for Ohana Development

Ohana Development launched Manchester City Yas Residences, a waterfront community on the Yas Canal at Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, built under Ohana’s global partnership with Manchester City. Every guest at the launch needed a credential to get in.

Sun Studio printed the badges: 5,000 aluminium VIP passes in gold on navy, worn by every attendee on the night.

![Printed aluminium VIP access badge in gold on navy for the Manchester City Yas Residences launch](https://www.sunstudio.ae/cases/ohana-badge.jpg)

## Project snapshot

- **Client:** Ohana Development
- **Location:** Yas Island, Abu Dhabi
- **Material:** Aluminium
- **Printing service:** Metal & aluminium printing
- **Application:** VIP access badges for a development launch
- **Quantity:** 5,000 pieces
- **Finish:** Gold on navy

## The brief

Two brands had to share a badge the size of a playing card, and neither tolerates approximate colour. A football club crest and a developer wordmark each carry exact brand values.

![Printed aluminium VIP badges laid out in rows on the flatbed press beside a colour test strip](https://www.sunstudio.ae/cases/ohana-press.jpg)

## Our approach

The badges were printed direct onto aluminium rather than printed to paper and mounted, so the metal itself carries the artwork and the edge of the badge is the edge of the material.

Colour was held to a single standard across the full run, so the last badge off the bed matches the first.

## Production detail

Metallic gold on deep navy is the hardest pairing to hold steady. Gold shifts depending on what sits beneath it, and on brushed aluminium the substrate itself changes how the colour reads. Across 5,000 pieces any drift becomes visible in the worst possible way: a room full of guests wearing two slightly different badges.

## The result

5,000 badges to a single colour standard, worn by every guest at the launch of a Manchester City-branded development on Yas Island.

**5,000**Badges

**Service used**

- [Metal & Aluminium Printing](https://www.sunstudio.ae/services/metal-aluminium-printing-dubai/)

**Read next**

- [Badge and Name Plate Printing in Dubai](https://www.sunstudio.ae/insights/badge-and-name-plate-printing-dubai/)

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