Documentation Certificates

Formal Documentation of Your Creative Journey in Global Design Excellence

A' Design Award's Runner-up and Participant Certificates provide formal documentation for entrants whose work participated in our rigorous evaluation process but did not achieve winner status. Distinct from our Excellence in Design Certificates and the A' Design Award Recognition status provided to solely to eligible laureates, your Participant and Runner-up Certificates, serve as proof of your ethical and fair participation in the A' Design Award. The A' Design Award's Documentation Certificates highlight your journey through one of the design world's most meritocratic and globally respected evaluations, where your entries are judged by a grand jury panel of world-class academics, influential journalists, and prominent professionals worldwide, where your entries are voted meritocratically and ethically via blind-peer review process on pre-established criteria, thus symbolizing an important milestone and a demonstration of professional integrity.

Participation Certificate: Acknowledgment of Professional Courage

Receiving a Participation Certificate from the A' Design Award is akin to finishing a challenging marathon; an accomplishment that underscores your initiative, courage, will and determination. The Participation Certificate formally documents your successful engagement with the A' Design Award's meritocratic evaluation process; an achievement that distinguishes you from many whose submissions were disqualified, withdrawn or eliminated. Our Participant Certificate acknowledges that your work met ethical standards and demonstrated the spark of originality necessary for consideration by our international jury panel.

Your Participation Certificate serves as tangible evidence of your willingness to participate in professional evaluation, a quality increasingly valued by clients and employers. Your Participation Certificate demonstrates your commitment to growth, your engagement with the global design community, your willingness to subject your work to expert scrutiny and your ethical approach to creative development. Like completing a marathon, earning our participant certificate marks an accomplishment in itself, documenting your participation in a challenge many designers never dare to attempt.

Runner-up Certificate: Acknowledgment of Emerging Excellence

The Runner-up Certificate indicates that your design is aligned towards award criteria, meanwhile requiring incremental refinements, stronger presentation, and/or minor adjustments to reach an award-winning caliber. The Runner-up Certificate underscores your focus on creating meaningful, innovative works that can make the world a better place. The Runner-up distinction acknowledges the creative potential of your work and your capacity for future innovation in design and further serves as formal record of your ethical participation in our ethical blind peer-review process, where entries are judged by an international, expert jury panel of leading academics, world-class professionals and influential journalists.

For designers and brands, The Runner-up Certificate provides precise positioning within the competitive landscape, identifying exactly where your work stands relative to award-winning excellence. The Runner-up Certificate represents a meaningful credential that validates your positive trajectory and commitment to design that advances society. In a marketplace where trust and credibility are vital, the Runner-up status positions you distinctly above the standard participant level, emphasizing both your current achievements and potential for even greater acclaim. The Runner-up status shows you have untapped potential ready to release.

Design Prize

Discover the A' Design Prize

The A' Design Prize is a coveted, rich, and grand package of services, goods, and merchandise granted to eligible winners of the A' Design Award. The A' Design Prize celebrates and amplifies the success of those whose designs contribute to making the world a better place, ffering superior products and projects that benefit society. As part of our mission to promote good design and talented designers, Documentation Certificates (Participant and Runner-up) are provided to eligible participants. From a technical stand point, they are not part of the grand A' Design Prize provided to winners, but shows our acknowledgment of your effort. Our certificates validate your honorable place in the global design community, and they remind you of the broader value that each step in your creative journey holds.