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A' Design Community Awards
A' Design Community Awards is a special recognition by the international design community to recognize good design and innovation excellence worldwide. A’ Design Community Awards are granted annually to World’s leading designers, artists, architects, governments and design oriented businesses who advance the state of art in arts, architecture, design and technology. Design Community Award nominations are suggested by A’ Design Award laureates; award-winning designers, leading artists, world renowned architects, top engineers and leading innovators, following good design and good innovation criteria to identify original and innovative works that create outstanding value for advancement of culture, society, technology or design. A' Design Community Nomination is free of charge and there are no costs to winners or award recipients.

Nomination and Awarding Procedure
Design Community Award nomination procedure is as follows; (1) A’ Design Award annually asks laureates to nominate good designs and innovative works originating from their own countries. Nominations are made via Design Community Awards Nomination page. (2) Invitees i.e. nominated designers, brands and institutions are asked to login to or create a free account at A’ Design Award to upload their invited works. (3) A’ Design Award preliminarily jury panel reviews uploaded works via complimentary design score service, (4) Entries that are given preliminary score of 9 or 10 are allowed to use Community Design Award Winner Logo and also have given further opportunity to take part in the complete A' Design Prize; i.e. A' Design Award grants complimentary nomination tickets to the very best entries that recieve a preliminary score of 9 or 10 after upload. (5) Award-winning works are selected by A’ Design Award’s grand jury panel composed of World’s leading designers, prominent architects, influential press members and experienced design professionals following a blind peer-review process. (6) Awarded entities are granted the A’ Design Prize and invited to Italy to join the gala-night to network with other laureates as well as to collect their trophies, yearbooks and certificates.

Why Nominate a Work for A' Design Community Awards?
(1) Promote and push your country in World Design Rankings, by providing an opportunity from excellent designers, artists, architects and brands from your country to be honored by A' Design Award an A' Design Award's Design Community Awards. (2) Play an active, pioneer role in the design community of your country by helping your fellow designers and peers get the international recognition and spotlight they truly deserve. (3) Help A' Design Award in its mission to make the World a better place by suggesting us good designs to advertise, promote and ultimately inspire generations to come.

A' Design Community Awards Entry and Nomination Costs and Requirements
Design community award nominations and nominating a design work for design community award consideration is completely free of charge. A' Design Awards' award-winning designers (A' Design Award current and past laureates) are highly recommended and kindly invited to nominate best design works and innovations from their own countries for A' Design Community Awards consideration. Nominations can only be made by past and current A' Design Award winners, as well as A' Design Award current jury members. Invited works must be designed, realized or released to market (whichever fits for you) within the last three (3) years, older works are not accepted.

Did You Get Invited or Nominated for A' Design Community Awards?
If you were invited for the A' Design Community Awards do please (1) create a free account or login to your existing account (2) upload your design and wait for preliminary score (3) after uploading your work, if your design obtains a preliminary score of 9 or 10, please contact our support to obtain a complimentary nomination ticket and further instructions. (4) It is good to note that the preliminary design score is provided free of charge, preliminary design score is obligation free and the preliminary design score is completely confidential, your preliminary score will only be viewable by yourself, after once you obtain your preliminary design score, if your score is 9 or 10, you are asked to contact our support to request (A) A' Design Community Awards Winner Logo and (B) a complimentary A' Design Award Nomination Ticket, the nomination tickets are relevant to obtain further benefits i.e. you use the nomination tickets to proceed further with your nomination to obtain the full A' Design Prize. Pro-ticket will be given if you got a preliminary score of 10, and Digi-ticket will be given if you got a preliminary score of 9. Differences of Pro and Digi tickets are explained here. Other preliminary scores (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8) are not given any tickets but you are not only free to go, but suggested to move forward with nomination to A' Design Award yourself if you receive a preliminary score of 6, 7 or 8, and if you receive a score of 9 or 10, we are going to provide you with the tickets, meaning we will sponsor your entry if you got a score of 9 or 10 under the A' Design Community Awards programme. (5) If you have further questions, please contact us.

A' Design Community Awards Mission
The ultimate aim of the design community award initiative is to spur innovation by honoring and recognizing good design work worldwide, as well as to connect good designers and innovative businesses with other award-winning creators, innovative companies and superior designers from across the globe. We hope and believe that this rare and valuable networking and idea exchange possibilities, combined with the international recognition would create an excellent opportunity and incentivize original design thinking globally. Having your work invited for the A' Design Community Award is an achievement in itself, and invited entities are able to use the exclusive Design Community Award Winner Logo and seal to communicate their excellence provided they obtain a preliminary score of 9 or 10 after uploading their work (i.e. Design Community Award Winner seal is valid only for projects that are (A) Nominated by A' Design Award laureates and jurors, (B) given a Preliminary Score of 9 or 10). The A' Design Community Award Winner seal is available in white logo on transparent background, black logo on transparent background, as well as gold colour logo on transparent background to ensure they could be implemented in varied mediums to help you communicate your design excellence. To obtain the final A’ Design Prize, get their work exhibited in Italy, for PR and publicity services, interviews, electronic press kit preparation, and to be able to use the coveted A’ Design Award Winner logo and to take part in gala-nights, invitees are kindly asked to complete the procedure by having their designs uploaded, preliminary scored and nominated with the provided complimentary nomination ticket, which is granted to all invited entries that receive a preliminary score of 9 or 10. Our ultimate aim with this programme is to highlight original design work from across the globe, to recognize excellent works of design and to help public discover and enjoy good design.



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A' Design Community Awards for Press Members
If you are a press member please have a look at past laureates at World’s Best Designers website. You will also want to explore our Press Portal and get access to thousands of grand designs from across the globe.

Nominate Others for A' Design Community Awards
If you are an A’ Design Award laureate, visit Design Community Awards Nomination page to invite and nominate outstanding designs and original innovations that create value. Nominating a design for Design Community Award is completely free of charge.


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