FAQ Entry #9

This is a respond to a previously asked question about the A' Design Award and Competition. The full list of frequently asked questions can be accessed here.

#9: Do I need to be a designer, or a design graduate to join the A' Design Award and Competition?

The competitions are open to anyone. (Except to the competition organizers, jury and their relatives as stated in the eligability pages to learn more about eligibility and ineligibility click here.)

Keywords: designer, design graduate, requirements, eligibility, competition eligibility

The following questions could be related:

• #8: Do I need to have an affiliation with a design company, design organization or design related institution to join the A' Design Competition?
• #22: I study/work in a non-design field which means I have no professional experience as a designer, can I Join the competition?
• #23: Do I need to get formal design education or to be a student in a design institution to join the competition?
• #47: Is this an unlimited design competition or will I receive any requirements to follow or do I have to conform to any rules?
• #52: Can I join this competition?
• #67: I did not graduate from a design school or school of art. Can I still apply with my designs or illustrations?
• #74: What are the eligibility age for custom design competitions?
• #79: How many files should we send for a single work, and what is the required format?
• #82: Is there an age limit on the competitions?
• #85: I have a patented structural system for furniture, am I eligible for the furniture design competition?
• #107: I would like to apply to the Interior Design competion, and would like to know what type of building will I be designing, the total area, the restrictions, and the requirements.
• #116: I would like to submit to Interior Design Category, how should I prepare presentation? Which kind of Images should I upload?
• #134: I am interested in joining the Design competition, but I do not have the copyrights or patents regarding my idea/design. I would like to know if I am eligible without them. If I apply without a patent, what could ensure that my idea/design is secure, how can I protect my design/idea.
• #149: How can I learn if my design is applicable, or if my entry be counted or if my design is eligible for winning the award?
• #177: We have our products ready for manufacturing but they are not yet manufactured, would our products still be considered for this years competition?
• #194: Can any one person enter the competion, or do I have to be part of a company?
• #197: My Name is not showing up in the Designer Profile pages at A' Design Award? What am I doing wrong?
• #198: I just wanted to ask you wheter it's wise for me to publish my web page in my profile, since all of my designs I nominated here are present in my web page.
• #199: I have an approved patent for my design, can I still join the design competition?
• #209: Can you tell me if submissions need to have been created in the last year or if they can have been created at any time?
• #216: What is Salone del Designer?
• #251: I would like to know if there is only specific projects that can be submitted for car design award - for example specific range of car design - for automotive design sector - or any type of car design can be submitted to the car design award?
• #261: Can freelance designers also participate in the design competition?
• #262: Can five (5) designers that worked on one project enter this one composition for your design contest?
• #275: After design award results announcement, could we fill in design and designer interviews and also upload further images for PR campaign or should we fill in those parts before the deadline?
• #295: Is it possible to enter the design competition with a design which I entered to another competition before?
• #309: Will the intellectual property rights of the designer be protected as a result of the submission of the design?
• #311: Are we obliged to credit the photogaphers by providing the names for the image credits section?
• #321: We would like to upload few of our projects to the Design Awards. But the thing is that one of them was sent to different architectural competition. Can we use the same project to participate in your competition? Please let us know if it's not against your policies, so we can go ahead and upload our concepts to your website.
• #323: I am planning to submit one of my design to the awards. Would it be possible for me to submit the exact same product to another competition?
• #324: What projects are eligible for the architecture categories: completed and conceptual, or just completed?
• #334: What is the public release date of the product in order to apply for the design award?
• #337: Is there any limitation about number of people in a design team?
• #338: Is there any limitations for participating in different fields or design award categories?
• #355: I do not know in which space I shall put my logo to go together with my design award entry?
• #373: Is there a criteria for product design where it must be in distributed and available for retail through any specific timeline?
• #379: Could you please inform me that how many different projects can I submit in the same year? Additionally, can I submit a project which won a different Design Award prize?
• #380: I'd like to submit my work for a competition, but I'm not sure if it's eligible. It's a logo that got rejected by the client, therefore not realized. Is that work eligible for a competition or not?
• #382: I an planning to attend the competition, but still I have a doubt. Do I have to send to A'Design Award & Competition the real product, or just the images and texts?
• #390: Is it necessary that the design must be published in same year of award entry?
• #393: Is there any condition about availability of the product on the market, e.g. products have to be on the market till the end of this year?
• #394: Can I submit my old works or can our company can submit old products?
• #407: Is it required for submission that the product is new design? For example can I submit a product I designed several years ago?
• #408: Is there a specific requirement for when the submitted project was completed? (How recently completed can a project be? Also, how old can a project be to qualify?)
• #411: Should we need Client approval when we are going to apply for the design award?
• #417: In the "personal profile" page, there are several fields to be completed, will this information appear in the publications or only in the website?
• #418: I would like to apply for a project which is already online on my personal website. Is that against the terms and conditions?
• #427: After being awarded the prestigious A' Design Award with my project this year, I have been approached by someone from another international competition with an invitation to participate with the same project in their competition free of charge, Am I allowed to do that? Do the regulations of the A' Design Award allow me to send in the project to another competition?
• #434: I am a new designer, working alone at home. May I participate to the Design Competition? I do not own a Company.
• #438: How the criteria for classification and position of each design ranking is defined? Only the points of the award are considered?
• #439: What is the difference between DAC - Design Classifications and World Design Rankings?
• #443: Hi, I would like to know if United States citizens are eligible to participate in this design award? Would the fees be the same?
• #447: Client Logo is optional in the guideline but it seems it it is required in the online submission form.
• #449: Do I need to upload Design Interview and Designer Interview when making a submission? Do these refer to designer profile?
• #458: I am an extremely talented minor, I am not yet able to vote in my country, can I join the design competition?
• #461: I wonder, if I could submit my work just as the design, is it possible? I mean can I just send only the sketch, rendering, concept but not the actual product for ward consideration?
• #468: How do I earn DDP points?
• #477: The status says REJECTED for my entry but I have paid for this entry to be nominated. What does that mean when my entry is REJECTED?
• #495: We do not have a Logo, what do we put to the Logo section of the entry? Can we just leave it blank?
• #524: How long will the results of the A' Design Award be kept confidential?
• #525: What is the Design+Encyclopedia?
• #526: How do I get listed in World Design Ratings?
• #527: What is an S-Rank Designer in the context of World Design Ratings?
• #528: What is an A-Rank Designer in the context of World Design Ratings?
• #529: What is World Design Ratings?

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