Call for Entries and Submissions

Submit Your Best Designs to A' Design Award & Get International Recognition.

A' Design Award and Competition is looking for the best designs, design ideas, prototypes and finished products by talented designers, artists and architects to award them with the A' Design Award.

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Winner Designers of A'Design Award receive the following benefits and exposure:

1. Featured in the yearly ResultBook
Top designs are featured in this yearly book to increase the exposure of designs and products to a wider public. These yearly ResultBooks are delivered to a wide range of professionals, design oriented companies and press members.

2. Communicated to the Press
Extensive coverage in global media ensures that you are renowned worldwide. We provide free services to prepare your press releases to communicate to a worldwide audience furthermore we also help you to find services for custom press release preparation in addition to the ones we deliver.

3. Advertised to a Wide Range of Design Sensitive People
In addition to standard press and traditional media, A'Design Award & Competition advertises winners in online media and search engines as well to millions of people who are searching for design. We have a large dedicated budget to reach millions of people every year.

4. Introduced to Companies
Winning designs are introduced to relevant companies. Winners find the opportunity to meet with the industry and businesses. Some winners will have the opportunity to be supported and mentored by industry leaders and large players in the design field. Meeting with the companies usually lead to eventual realization of concept or idea-stage designs, or finding new distribution channels for existing products.

5. Certificate of Quality
The "A' Design Award Winner Certificate" is a proof of quality of design which you can use to highlight the qualifications of your designs. Winner Designers can download the "A' Design Award Winner Logo" and use this special logo with their product packaging or websites.

6. Trade Fairs, Conferences and Meetings
The A'Design Award will also present itself in design oriented trade-fairs around the world, winners will got chance to be promoted in these fairs, conferences, meetings and other design related events in order to create the sectorial hype.

7. Introduced to Design World
Winners are introduced to Curators, Architects, Designers, Companies, and other relevant people and institutions in the design world to get more out of the award. Special notifications are send to the Museum Directors, Academicians, Media Directors and DesignDepartments of Multi-National Companies.

8. A Reason to Contact Press
Winning the A'Design Award, is prestigious, it is a very solid reason to contact the press and have increased exposure of your designs and products around the world and we provide free PR and press-release services to winners.

9. Realization Possibilities
Winner designs are very likely to be realized by thousands of companies that are following the competition each year, the winners are communicated early so that they can make an early patent rights application right-away.

10. Increased Sales
Winning designs get enough exposure to increase the sales of products significantly, it is an investment that you can rely on throughout the life of the product. More fame means more business.

About the Award
The A'Design Award and Competition is for designers, innovators and companies that want to highlight themselves to attract the focus of media, publishers and buyers.

Competition
In a world where there are millions of products and designs launch each year, the award was born out of the desire to underline the best designs and well-designed products. The award-winning products and designs are highlighted to the international public in the A'Design Museum and Gallery in Italy and they are communicated to all relevant press across the world.

Winners' Services

Basic Services
From the basic services panel you can access tools such as the "Press Release Wizard", an automatically created press release that you can send to your relevant press contacts, "Labels" that you can use to indicate the quality of the design, plus documents on "Copyrighting and registering a product", "Making a patent application", "Advertising and communicating winner designs or products", "Reaching companies" etc.

Certificates and Badges
Winners have access to the "A'Design Award Badge" that you can use to communicate the quality of your product and designs, you can download all the necessary files for the badge in the winner services page. In addition to the badge, we have also created a widget that you can put into your webpages, when clicked the widget goes to a special page showing statistics of the competition and your winners certificate with the winning design. "Winner Certificate" is given to all the winners and they can also be accessed anytime after the competition. You can download and print additional certificates for internal and external communication in subsidiaries, shops and outlets.

Consultancy Services
Consultancy services for winners services include : "Preparing a custom press release", "Copyright and patent application consultancy", "Service for winners to sell their designs to companies", "Advertisement campaign consultancy", "Custom webpage design and promotion" etc. These services may require an additional fee, but there is always counterpart documents in the basic services panel so that you can do everything here by yourself.

Commercialisation Services
With your request, A'Design Competition will help you get in touch with business consultants, agencies & institutions supporting innovation, venture capitalists and angel investors, distributors and retailers of design, original design manufacturers and design oriented companies, brand owners and big companies, prototyping and model making companies, research and development organisations, end buyers and users of designs and products, engineering and precision engineering companies plus intellectual property lawyers. The contact information for these companies will also be available online.

Passive Services
Most of the services are indeed passive services, which means that you do not need to take action to activate; for example we send the press releases for all the winners without any additional costs. In addition the winners are published in our yearly ResultBook, on top of that, all the participants are given a free online portfolio sponsored by Salone del Designer where they can communicate their designs online. We send the ResultBooks to design-oriented companies to increase the potential for the companies to contact designers. Winners are also admitted to the Association of Designers free of charge. Some select designs might also be exhibited in our prototype museum and gallery. The A'Design Award will also present itself in design oriented trade-fairs around the world, winners will got chance to be promoted in these fairs.

Proof of Creation
"Proof of Creation" is a paper document that explains your design (title, description and images), and duly signed by the designer and two witnesses, that you deposit at a third-party (A' Design Award) to help you prove that you are the creator of a design. It serves as evidence that you created a design at a particular date. For further information please check A' Award Website. Please note that "Proof of Creation" Certificate is not a Patent or Design Rights registration.

For more Information
Please checkout: http://www.adesignaward.com

Categories
The main competitions are organized in the following categories:

01. FURNITURE DESIGN
02. PACKAGING DESIGN
03. ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING DESIGN
04. FASHION AND JEWELERY DESIGN
05. LIGHTING DESIGN
06. TOY DESIGN
07. DIGITAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES DESIGN
08. INTERIOR DESIGN
09. VEHICLE DESIGN
10. INTERFACE DESIGN
11. HOME APPLIANCES DESIGN
12. GRAPHICS AND ADVERTISING DESIGN
13. COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND 3D MODEL DESIGN
14. PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTO MANIPULATION DESIGN
15. ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL DESIGN
16. MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC DESIGN
17. MOVIE AND ANIMATION DESIGN
18. FOOD AND CULINARY DESIGN
19. MATERIALS, COMPONENTS AND TEXTURE DESIGN
20. SOCIAL DESIGN
21. IDEA DESIGN
22. ARTS, CRAFTS AND READY-MADE DESIGN
23. META / STRATEGIC DESIGN
24. UNEXPECTED DESIGN
25. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES DESIGN
26. ADVANCED DESIGN AND DESIGN RESEARCH
27. YOUNG DESIGN
28. HEAVY MACHINERY DESIGN
29. PERFORMING ARTS, STYLE AND SCENERY DESIGN
30. MUSIC, AUDIO AND SOUND DESIGN
31. WRITING, LITERATURE AND CONTENT DESIGN
32. EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN
33. DILIGENCE AND INTELLIGENCE IN DESIGN
34. ACTOR, TALENT AND MODEL DESIGN
35. HOSPITALITY, RECREATION, TRAVEL AND TOURISM DESIGN
36. FUTURISTIC DESIGN
37. SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES DESIGN
38. NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS DESIGN
39. AWARDS, PRIZE AND COMPETITIONS DESIGN
40. EVENT AND HAPPENING DESIGN

Learn more at: http://www.aprimeaward.com

Mission
The mission of the A' Award and Competition is to provide a fair, ethical and competitive platform for companies, designers and innovators from all fields with different experience levels, different disciplines and market focus to compete on, while providing them a global audience to showcase their success and talents to. The A' Award and Competition aims to act as blender; to bring together designers, companies and the press.

Vision
Highlight, Advertise & Advocate good design, designers and design oriented companies. To channel the attention of press, interactive medias, design critics, distributers and buyers to the award winner.

Publicity
With its database of tens of thousands of press contacts, the competition aims to highlight existing products and designs which were developed with a good taste of design, our aim is to increase the publicity of good products and good designs, to provide designers and companies a solid excuse to shout-out that they have a good product, good design. A'Design Award is a great opportunity for designers to have a jump in their careers as the A' Design Award offers winners extensive marketing services to make use of the success of winning the award. The winning designs are also presented for a year at the A'Award museum and gallery in Italy. Winners of the Award will have extensive press appearings and this is free; A'Design Competition does not ask any further money from the winners and aggressively pursues media opportunities for the winning designs for free.

Unique Aspects
The A' Design Award and Competition offers an unique system for designers to sell their winning ideas to sponsor companies, likewise the companies can bid for the competing design ideas and make offers to buy the designs. The system also provides an online exhibition system and creates free profile pages for designers, innovators and companies, this system is always on and whether you win or not, you will have full access to the system. This is an interactive system where you can write your biography or corporate profile, create an extensive online portfolio by adding additional designs and exhibit new designs or products.

Results
The results are always published first to the designers, there will be a period given to both companies and the designers to get production rights and patents globally, a four month period to file for protection. Designers also receive help and support from the A ‘Design Award for filing and application to protect their designs. The winning designs will be exhibited in our Gallery and Museum in Italy. The winners can use the A' Design Award can use badges and stickers free of charge to further underline that their products and designs have been evaluated by a respectful organization and that their products have been marked as great designs.

Organizer
The competitions are organized in association with the Salone del Designer, Association of Design, Advanced Design Conference, Designer Press, Museum of Design, OMC Design Studios, Design Faculty, Design PR Wire, Design Mediators, Good Design Mark, Design Mega Store, Creative Challange and Design League.

Patrons
A' Design Award has earned the patronage of the following institutions: Como Cultural Department, The Bureau of European Design Associations.

We invite all talents, designers, artists and architects to join and nominate their designs for A' Design Award - http://www.adesignaward.com

Winners' Packages Include

Winners receive the following:

• Extensive PR Campaign
• Award Trophy
• Winners' Certificate
• Winners Badges 
• Competition Logo 
• Participants' Certificate
• Competition Statistics
• Score Sheet
• Yearbook Publication
• The Annual Yearbook
• Physical Exhibition of Selected Projects
• Feedback Notes by the Jury
• Winner Services
• Participation in Distinguished Designer Program
• Inclusion in the Designer Rankings
• Proof of Creation Certificate

Runner-ups (Non-Winner) receive the following:

• The Annual Yearbook
• Yearbook Publication 
• Participants' Certificate
• Feedback Notes by the Jury 
• Competition Statistics
• Score Sheet
• Runner-Up Certificate
• Inclusion in the Designer Rankings
• Participation in Distinguished Designer Program
• Proof of Creation Certificate

Participants (Non-Winner) receive the following:

• Participants' Certificate
• Competition Statistics
• Score Sheet 
• Feedback Notes by the Jury
• Proof of Creation Certificate
• Participation in Distinguished Designer Program

Those who only submit a design receive the following:

• Preliminary check and feedback

Proof of Creation

"Proof of Creation" is a paper document that explains your design (title, description and images), and duly signed by the designer and two witnesses, that you deposit at a third-party (A' Design Award) to help you prove that you are the creator of a design. It serves as evidence that you created a design at a particular date. This service is provided free to A' Design Award Participants.

LEARN MORE: http://www.adesignaward.com/proof-of-creation.php

Suggest A Talent

Do you know a talented designer, a creative architect, or an independent artist that could be the next winner of A' Design Award? Suggest him/her and if she/he is becomes the winner of A' Design Award, you will win one of the official t-shirts from the Museum of Design or A'Design Award and Competition. Please check award levels to see who is considered a winner. By suggesting a talent, you will also got 1 in 40 chance to win a single-use free coupon that could be used to waive the processing fees for any main competition category. TIP: You can win more than once, but please be advised that only one T-shirt will be send for each winning designer suggestion: if a winner name is suggested by more than one person, only the first person who suggested the winner will be awarded. It is better to suggest unique talents that are less known to others to increase your chances. You can suggest as many designers you know to win multiple t-shirts.

LEARN MORE: http://adesignaward.com/suggest-a-talent.php

Design Ambassador Program

The A’ Design Award and Competitions’ Design Ambassador Program was introduced so that the talented design and arts students could get a chance to join the A’ Design Award and Competition for free. The Ambassador program is only for talented students who already have an Approved design, eligible for winning the award and appearing on the annual results book. Who is Eligible? All the students aged between 18 and 35, enrolled in the design or art faculties of a higher education or universities can apply to enroll in the Design Ambassador Program of A’ Design Award and Competition. Graduates and professionals are not eligible. Only one student from each design or arts department is accepted. You can check here if there already exists a student from your university. To be eligible, you need to upload a design, and it will be checked for approval, if your design passes the preliminary tests and reviews that checks essential design quality, visualization & presentation characteristics, and category compliance of your design, you will be regarded as eligible.

LEARN MORE: http://adesignaward.com/design-ambassador-program.php

Distinguished Designer Program

To Honor the Winning Designers, A’ Design Award and Competitions have come up with the Distinguished Designer Program, which is a tiered program that bestows unique benefits at each level. The Distinguished Designer Program was designed to create a further organic link between the winners and the organization itself. Participation in the program is free and is life-long.  You need to be a either a jury member or winner of A’ Design Award and Competitions in order to be a part of the program. This paper is our initial draft of the program and we aim to add further benefits, membership levels, and new ways to earn and use points in the future. By receiving this paper, you are cordially invited to the program. Your existing winnings and previous participations will also be converted into points.

LEARN MORE: http://www.adesignaward.com/distinguished-designer-program.php

Designer Rankings

Top Designers and Design Studios who are previously winner of A' Design Award are listed at designerrankings.com, reserve your place in the rankings.

LEARN MORE: http://www.designerrankings.com/

Gala-Night and Exhibition Gallery

View photos from previous years' Award Gala-Night and Winner Designs' Exhibition at A' Design Award Photo Gallery. Higher-Resolution Images are available for press members.

LEARN MORE: http://www.adesignaward.com/gallery.php

A' Award Trophy

A' Award Trophy is unique and is made of 3D Printed Metal as it is not possible to realize with any other manufacturing technique.

Awarded Designs

Winning Designs are not only exhibited at Mood, Salone del Mobile but also a range of websites such as the bestdesigners.org, awardeddesigns.com, thebestdesignaward.com, theawardwinner.com and others to provide further visibility and impact for the winning designs. See our winners.

LEARN MORE: http://awardeddesigns.com/

PR Services

Winners of A' Design Award recieve 500 € worth of free PR Services by Design PR Wire, including press release creation, distribution, and reaching out to editors for the awarded designs.

LEARN MORE: http://www.designprwire.com/

Design Mediation & Sales

Winners of A' Design Award are provided free design mediation services for Design Mediators to help realization of conceptual stage designs. Design Mediators help for contacts preparation, pricing suggestions etc. Salone del Designer is an online marketplace to sell the winning designs.

LEARN MORE: http://www.designmediators.com/ and http://www.salonedeldesigner.com//