Call for Entries: A' Design Award & Competition

A' Design Award & Competition: International & Multidisciplinary Call for Entries

Organized since 2008,in over hundred award categories the A' Design Award & Competition is one of the world's leading international, annual, juried competitions for good design, architecture, and innovation, where designers, architects, innovators, and brands worldwide take part to attain national and international fame. The A' Design Award & Competition runs and manages esteemed platforms like World Design Rankings, World Design Ratings, designer.org, designers.org and over thousand publications in over hundred languages, attracting the attention of millions of design-oriented audiences, consumers and journalists worldwide to your good design.

The prestige of A' Design Award comes from its impartial and experienced grand jury panel, fair and meritocratic evaluation methodology, comprehensive and coveted design prize and massive international outreach. Our primary mission is to help create a better world with good design. To achieve this, we annually organize one of the world's largest design accolades, featuring a grand jury panel and a fair evaluation process, culminating in a significant design prize, to ultimately identify, recognize, honour, and promote exceptional designs worldwide.

The A' Design Award & Competition is a juried design competition where a world-class Grand Jury Panel consisting of a very great number of highly experienced design professionals, prominent academics, and influential media members, evaluates each entry individually and anonymously on pre-established criteria, following blind peer-review process to ensure absolutely impartial, fair, thorough and just assessment of each entry. The A' Design Award’s rigorous, meritocratic and impartial evaluation process ensures that only the most deserving designs receive recognition.

When you submit an entry to the A' Design Award & Competition, your work receives a complimentary and confidential preliminary review. This process provides valuable feedback on your design's quality and offers suggestions for improving your presentation. The primary goal of the preliminary review is to minimize presentation biases, ensuring that the evaluation of your work focuses solely on its design qualities. This meticulous approach guarantees that each submission is judged solely on its merits, fairly and equitably. The A' Design Award, with its extensive history and robust methodology, stands as an exceptionally prestigious accolade that celebrates and honours outstanding design across all industries.

One of the 88+ significant benefits included within the grand A' Design Prize is the perpetual, unlimited and worldwide license to use the esteemed "A' Design Award Winner Logo". The A' Design Award Winner Logo is an internationally recognized symbol of good design, a powerful marketing tool, allowing laureates to showcase their award-winning status to differentiate their products and projects in a competitive marketplace and to enhance their value, nudging clients, consumers and customers towards a positive decision as well as enticing journalists and media to feature your work.

In addition to the excellence in design certificate, eligible laureates further receive a wide array of benefits as part of the grand A' Design Prize, such as publication in the award-winner’s yearbook, participation in international design exhibitions organized in different countries and cities, the omega particle award trophy, press release preparation and distribution, as well as invitation to the exclusive La Notte Premio A' – The A' Design Award’s Gala-Night and Award Ceremony in Italy, where winners can network with other accomplished designers, industry leaders, and media representatives.

To ensure that the A' Design Award Laureates' achievement reaches the widest possible audience, the A' Design Prize offers winner project translation services into multiple languages, as well as press release preparation and distribution, in addition to newsroom building, media showcase presentations, content distribution, syndication, publication and feature opportunities via media partners. All these public relations services help winners effectively communicate their success to media outlets and potential clients, customers and consumers worldwide, increasing their international visibility and reach.

Submitting your work to the A' Design Award & Competition is a simple and straightforward process. The A' Design Award & Competition accepts entries from all design disciplines, including but not limited to product design, architecture, interior design, graphic design, fashion design, and digital design, from all countries, from all entities and organizations. Participation is open to designers, architects, engineers, innovators, design studies, architectural offices, research and development companies, product manufacturers, large corporations and brands from all countries, in all industries, for any kind of product, project or service that featured good design.

Entering your work to the A' Design Award & Competition is a simple and straightforward process that begins with a free preliminary review, which you receive once you upload your work. Creating and maintaining an account on the A' Design Award website is also free of charge, allowing you to easily manage your submissions and access valuable resources. After receiving your complimentary preliminary review, which provides expert feedback and suggestions for improving your presentation, you can choose to nominate your work for the A' Design Award at your sole discretion.

The A' Design Award & Competition features three primary nomination periods, each tailored to the diverse schedules and needs of participants. The early nomination period, from April 15 ^th to June 30 ^th , is ideal for designers who are prepared to submit their projects early. The regular nomination period extends from July 1 ^st to September 30 ^th , perfect for those ready to participate during these months. For participants who decide closer to the deadline, the late nomination period, from October 1 ^st to February 28 ^th , provides the final opportunity to submit their entries. Results are annually announced on May 1 ^st .

We strongly recommend nominating your work as early as possible to take full advantage of the free and highly valuable preliminary review process. By submitting your entry during the early nomination period, you will not only benefit from lower nomination fees but also have more time to incorporate the expert feedback provided by our preliminary jury. This valuable insight can help you optimize your presentation and improve your chances of achieving an outstanding result in the competition. Even if you nominate your work during late entry period, you will still have ample time to perfect your presentation. Entry instruction steps noted below.