Brand Design Rankings Inclusion

Brand Design Rankings
Brand Design Rankings were established to promote good brands that make our planet a better place to live for all beings; we believe recognizing outstanding brands for their innovations in architecture, arts, science, design and technology motivates the teams behind these brands to create newer, superior and original products, projects and experiences that advance and benefit our society.

Meritocratic and Fair Evaluation
Unlike many other awards, ratings and rankings for brands which are decided behind closed doors, the Brand Design Rankings process and methodology is very clear and transparent. Brand Design Rankings are meritocratic achievements where the rankings are decided based on the number of award-winning works in the juried A' Design Awards in a given year, where entries are voted on pre-established evaluation criteria following blind peer-review process with a grand jury panel of experienced design professionals, influential journalists as well as prominent academics and scholars.

A' Design Award is one of the World’s largest design accolades where participants from almost all countries join annually to obtain national and international fame. A' Design Awards sponsor and manages the Brand Design Rankings to honor excellent brands for their good design. There are two types of achievements recognized within the scope of the Brand Design Rankings; Global Achievements and Industry Achievements.

Global Rankings (in Top 100)	Global Rankings (Ranked 101+)

Global Achievement encapsulates all brands, in all industries, in all countries. Having a higher ranking in Global Achievement tier demonstrates the will and strength to innovative, improve and advance; these brands are world leaders for innovation, technology, arts, science, design and creativity.

Industry Rankings (in Top 100)	Industry Rankings (Ranked 101+)

Industry Achievements covers all brands, in all countries for a given industry. Having a higher ranking in an Industry Achievement indicates that the brand is a leader, a first-place contestant, a high-ranking competitor in that given industry.

Consumer worldwide are invited to explore high-ranking brands and their original creations at the Brand Design Rankings website at branddesignrankings.com today. Journalists, press members, and media are invited to feature high-ranking brands that create value to our society by means of good design.

Brand Design Rankings help our planet by identifying brands, companies, corporations, and enterprises who create original and good designs, superior products and advanced projects that make our lives happier, fulfilling and easier.

Brand Design Rankings help consumers find and discover good brands, companies, corporations and enterprises who invest in good design practices and principles to deliver outstanding products, projects and experiences that contribute to wellbeing of our society, our environment and users.

Brand Design Rankings Scoring Algorithm
Brand Design Rankings are meritocratic and are calculated this way: Phase (1) Each A' Design Award achievement tier is given a special value X, let X be 88.18163074 for Platinum A' Design Award, 55.90169944 for Gold A' Design Award, 32 for Silver A' Design Award, 15.58845727 for Bronze A' Design Award, 5.656854249 for Iron A' Design Award. Phase (2) Brand Design Rankings are affected more by more recent achievements, as such newly won awards contribute a higher score with an exponential falloff curve with the following properties; the year in which you are awarded grants you a multiplier Y, let Y be 181.019336 for this year, 129.6418142 for previous year, 88.18163074 for three years ago, 55.90169944 for four years ago, 32 for five years ago, 15.58845727 for six years ago, 5.656854249 for seven years ago, and 1 for eight or more years ago. Phase (3) For each Brand, for each year, the final Brand Design Rankings value is calculated by multiplying the number of awards with their multiplier X, with the yearly multiplier Y, and then the final Brand Design Rankings score is calculated by summing up rankings score of each years, and finally the brands are sorted based on their calculated score for Global Brand Design Rankings, and for each industry, the listed brands are sorted for their score in that given industry; in this way the industry rating is expected to be lower or higher based on concentration of the brand as it would take into consideration of awards won only in that particular industry. The core value of the award status comes from A' Design Award, which is awarded yearly, and likewise in a very methodological manner, following blind peer-review process where a very big jury panel votes entries on pre-established evaluation criteria, furthermore A' Design Awards follows presentation standardization as well as score standardization to ensure there are no yearly or category specific deviations. This information is provided to you as part of our transparency policy however we reserve the rights to our inter-temporal ranking and sorting algorithms.

Get Listed at Brand Design Rankings
A' Design Award and Competition issues Brand Design Ranking infographics, certificate and declarations to eligible winners of the A' Design Awards, completely free of charge. Brands who wish to get ranked in the Brand Design Rankings are invited to nominate their works for A' Design Awards consideration which in turn provides an opportunity to get included in the next edition of the rankings.