Gold Winner Desk Flag

Prestigious Gold Winner Desk Flag
The A' Design Award's Gold Winner Desk Flag is an esteemed and symbolic physical token of design recognition awarded explicitly to eligible Professional Edition laureates of the A' Design Award. Professional Edition laureates become eligible recipients of the A' Design Award's Gold Winner Desk Flag when the laureates attend the official A' Design Award Gala Night and Award Ceremony or when the laureates formally request their respective A' Design Award Winner Kits for delivery. Attendance to La Notte Premio A' - A' Design Award's iconic and prestigious Gala Night and Awards Ceremony is entirely free of charge for Professional Edition laureates, contingent upon timely confirmation of attendance. Furthermore, the A' Design Award Winner Kits, which include the A' Design Award's Gold Winner Desk Flag, are distributed completely free of charge to eligible laureates directly on stage during the prestigious ceremony. The A' Design Award's Gold Winner Desk Flag represents far more than a valuable award item. Specifically, our Gold Winner Desk Flag is a luxurious, meticulously crafted physical artifact that symbolizes and explicitly communicates your achievement of peer-reviewed design excellence. The A' Design Award Gold Winner Desk Flag has been designed in collaboration with the prestigious Italian design firm OMC² Design Studios, renowned for designs that stand for their details, craftsmanship, refinement and cultural sophistication. The solid metal construction of the Gold Winner Desk Flag signifies durability and permanence and the gold plating universally conveys the notion of your exceptional design accomplishment. We have especially made our Gold Winner Desk Flag very heavy, to showcase the weight of your good design. The diplomatic proportions and refined aesthetic design of the Gold Winner Desk Flag convey international legitimacy, refinement and exceptional quality, matching that of your good design. The A' Design Award provides the Gold Winner Desk Flag exclusively to all eligible laureates attending gala, completely free of charge, as a respectful gesture of honor and sincere recognition of your remarkable creativity, ethical integrity and positive contribution toward societal improvement via good design practices. Our Gold Desk Flag is a prestigious physical emblem, bestowed to you as a tribute, for your works which have been scientifically and meritocratically validated as outstanding by our globally respected A' Design Award jury. Receiving the Gold Winner Desk Flag greatly enhances the laureate’s professional identity, credibility and competitive differentiation, as a diplomatic passport in the republic of good design, announcing your citizenship among the world's design aristocracy while inviting others to experience your good design. The presence of the Gold Winner Desk Flag on your offices, in your showrooms, next to your products, immediately communicates to clients, partners, media and consumers that your work has achieved global recognition for its excellence. We have designed our Gold Winner Desk Flag as an impressive and luxurious confirmation of your design excellence, and we are pleased to gift eligible laureates our beautifully designed desk flag as an enduring, meaningful testament to your good designs. Just to be clear, the Gold Winner Desk Flag is given to all laureates (Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron), it does not say "Gold Winner", it is Gold Plated, as such the name.

Gold Winner Desk Flag Showcasing Your Excellence
A' Design Award's Gold Winner Desk Flag is a luxurious and meticulously crafted symbol awarded exclusively to our Professional Edition laureates, confirming their exceptional design achievement as validated by our international and expert grand jury panel. Our Gold Desk Flag is a powerful symbol of your good design recognition, signifying your work's verified excellence by our prestigious international jury of renowned architects, designers, and journalists. Receiving, displaying and showcasing our Gold Desk Flag instantly signals to your clients, customers, investors and the public that your design stands for innovation, design quality and societal impact, setting your work distinctly apart in the marketplace and aligning your brand with a powerful global movement committed to making the world better through exceptional products and projects that benefit and advance society. Your A' Design Award Gold Winner Desk Flag is essentially a premium business card that never leaves your showroom, retail and office spaces and serves as a powerful piece that instantly communicates design quality, reducing sales friction and justifying premium positioning.

• Instant Credibility Signal
  A' Design Award's Gold Winner Desk Flag serves as immediate third-party validation that communicates your design excellence without requiring explanation from you. According to the elaboration likelihood model in psychology, peripheral cues like prestigious symbols bypass analytical processing and create instant positive associations, allowing A' Design Award winners to establish credibility before verbal communication begins. Simply put, our gold winner desk flag communicates your excellence in design immediately, opening doors that might otherwise remain closed.
  
  
• Premium Positioning Tool
  Physical presence of A' Design Award's Desk Flag with luxury materials and Italian design elevates perception of your products and services. The principle of quality signaling in economics shows that visible markers of excellence help communicate value to customers who cannot easily assess product design quality before purchase, supporting A' Design Award laureates in their premium market positioning. In practical terms, when clients see A' Design Award's desk flag next to your work, the flag's obvious design quality and weight suggests your work shares those same high design standards, moreover, it clearly indicates your design award winner status, double reinforcing your design quality.
  
  
• Trust Acceleration Mechanism
  Visible peer-reviewed recognition through A' Design Award Winner Flag reduces perceived risk and speeds up decision-making processes for A' Design Award laureate's clients. The uncertainty reduction theory in communication studies shows that third-party validation decreases perceived risk in business relationships, helping A' Design Award winners shorten sales cycles through enhanced trust signals. Essentially, A' Design Award's Gold Winner Desk Flag helps clients feel confident about choosing A' Design Award laureates faster.
  
  
• Sales Conversion Catalyst
  Tangible proof of excellence displayed through our gold winner desk flag helps A' Design Award winners overcome purchase hesitation at critical decision moments. Behavioral economics research on loss aversion indicates that visible quality assurance reduces fear of making wrong decisions, empowering A' Design Award laureates to convert prospects who might otherwise delay purchases. In other words, A' Design Award Winner Flag helps turn maybes into yeses by making your design quality visible and tangible.
  
  
• Visual Differentiation Device
  Distinctive gold presence of A' Design Award's desk flag creates immediate separation from competitors in any business environment where A' Design Award laureates operate. The Von Restorff effect in psychology explains how distinctive visual elements are more memorable and influential in decision-making, giving A' Design Award winners automatic prominence in competitive situations. Simply stated, our gold winner desk flag makes A' Design Award laureates stand out and be remembered when clients compare options, combine it with our amazing Omega Particle Award Trophy, and you can impress clients and consumers easily.
  
  
• Strategic Conversation Starter
  Natural curiosity about our gold winner flag opens doors to meaningful business dialogues for A' Design Award winning brands and designers. Social psychology's mere exposure effect suggests that objects triggering positive conversations create favorable impressions that transfer to business relationships, helping A' Design Award laureates build rapport more effectively. Put simply, A' Design Award's Gold Winner Desk Flag gives laureates an easy, impressive way to start conversations that lead to business opportunities.
  
  
• Brand Perception Elevator
  Halo effect from prestigious A' Design Award's Gold Winner Desk Flag raises value perception of everything in proximity to A' Design Award laureate's offerings. The halo effect principle in cognitive psychology demonstrates how one positive attribute influences overall perception, allowing A' Design Award winners to enhance their entire portfolio through association with excellence. In everyday terms, A' Design Award's desk flag makes everything around it seem more valuable, helping laureates elevate their entire brand image.
  
  

How to Use your A' Design Award Gold Winner Desk Flag?
The key to maximizing your Gold Winner Desk Flag's impact is strategic subtlety, you should position it where the flag will be naturally discovered rather than aggressively displayed. In client meetings, place it at a 45-degree angle on your desk or credenza where it enters peripheral vision but doesn't dominate the conversation. At trade shows, elevate it slightly behind your hero product at eye level, creating a visual hierarchy that draws attention to your work first, then rewards deeper inspection with our gold winner flag, which function as a credibility marker. In showrooms and reception areas, position A' Design Award's gold flag near your best A' Design Award winner work with proper lighting, the gold finish catches light beautifully and draws the eye naturally. For photography and video calls, place it in the background's "power third", visible but not central, allowing viewers to discover it themselves, which creates a stronger impression than pointing it out, you can also subtly place it out of focus, in a way it is still understandable but not so direct. Let your visitors notice and inquire about your flag rather than introducing it yourself verbally first, the organic discovery of the gold winner flag by your visitors creates an authentic conversations about your design excellence. A' Design Award's Gold Winner Desk Flag works best as a silent ambassador that speaks volumes through its mere presence, transforming spaces into galleries of credibility. The goal is to let your beautifully crafted winner symbol quietly affirm what your work already demonstrates, that you operate at the highest levels of design excellence. Understanding where and how to strategically place the A' Design Award Gold Winner Desk Flag begins by recognizing the three core stages of your customer's journey: (1) Discovery & Attraction, (2) Consideration & Evaluation and (3) Transaction & Decision. In the Discovery & Attraction phase, potential clients, customers, or partners initially encounter your brand, products, or designs, and your A' Design Award Gold Winner Flag serves as an eye-catching, elegant visual cue that communicates immediate credibility, enticing curiosity and attracting deeper interest. During the Consideration & Evaluation phase, as customers engage more directly, examining, testing, or evaluating your offerings, our desk flag acts as a subtle yet persuasive reinforcement of your peer-reviewed excellence, enhancing confidence and trust during deeper interactions, consultations and presentations. Finally, at the decisive Transaction & Decision phase, A' Design Award's winner flag when strategically placed at critical decision points such as contract signing tables, payment counters or quotation desks, offers visual confirmation of your distinguished status, reducing perceived risk and reaffirming clients’ decisions to commit confidently to your award-winning quality and innovation. Given all these, the A' Design Award Gold Winner Desk Flag should be thoughtfully and strategically displayed at customer journey touchpoints that amplify its symbolic authority and subtly underscore your brand's excellence without feeling intrusive. During the Discovery & Attraction phase, place the flag prominently yet tastefully in store windows, gallery fronts, retail and premium mall displays, elevated on acrylic or elegant pedestals beside hero products, seasonal launches or iconic designs, positioned at natural eye-level (around 140-160cm), angled approximately 15° - 45° to engage passers-by. As customers enter the Consideration & Evaluation stage, seamlessly integrate our winner flag into interactive and consultation spaces, including product testing stations, sample display cases, consultation desks, fitting room shelves and architects’ material libraries or design studios’ project presentation rooms, ensuring it is always near your latest or best-quality offerings (we remind you that you should be using it only with A' Design Award winner works), reinforcing credibility in moments of active evaluation. At the critical Transaction & Decision-making points, position the flag centrally yet unobtrusively, on payment counters, contract signing or quotation desks and order customization stations, visually reassuring customers of the design quality, legitimacy and recognized superiority of their choice. For Practical Staff Placement, the flag should adorn high-traffic customer areas such as reception counters, elevator lobbies, waiting area tables, and main entrance vestibules, consistently positioned within clear sightlines of staff or surveillance for security and set with ideal lighting to highlight its gold finish without glare. In professional service environments, architectural studios, creative agency war rooms, executive briefing centers, photography studios and creative consultation spaces, please display the flag prominently yet subtly as a sophisticated cue, typically on central tables, credenzas or shelves at seated eye-level, carefully angled toward primary viewing positions. A' Design Award's Gold Winner Flag serves you greatly in temporary event contexts such as trade shows, pop-ups, trunk shows, press events and livestream settings, integrated into counters, display tables or visible background shelving. Ensure adherence to best practices: position the flag consistently around eye level, angled gently towards natural traffic flow, securely placed approximately 15 to 30 cm behind showcased products without obstructing views, rotating its location monthly to avoid habituation and always grouping it elegantly with framed certificates or the hardcover award yearbook to form an impactful credibility trinity. With the desk flag, your goal is organic discovery, make sure to position the flag so that observant customers naturally notice and appreciate it, prompting valuable conversations about your design excellence, thus subtly elevating brand perception and confidence without overtly pushing the message. If you need more flags for your locations, you can request more of them to be delivered to you, the delivery options will be available in your control panel and shipments and deliveries section.

A' Design Award Gold Winner Desk Flag: What is it and why is it so important?
We created the Gold Desk Flag for our love and affection for good design, for believing its capacity to make the world a better place. When we started the A' Design Awards in 2008, our aim was simple: Create a true recognition for good design, to help spread good design practices and principles as well as to award superior products, projects and designs that benefit and advance society, and reward their magnificent creators, with a grand prize that is designed to advertise their products, motivate, inspire and drive the winner brands, architects and designers towards a positive cycle where each year they create even better products and projects that contribute to wellbeing of our environment, as well as to educate the public, via direct and indirect advertising the good designs, so there is more demand for good design that is safer, healthier, ergonomic, sustainable, functional, efficient, economic and valuable, in the end, creating a better world. It is just that simple. We knew that promoting good design would start a chain of reactions that would help create a better world, and that we have to promote good design in the best way possible, so we have created the A' Design Prize. Today, the A' Design Prize features over 188+ benefits including but not limited to public relations, press and media relations, marketing, advertising, prestige creation, branding, publicity services, publication services, press release preparation and distribution, media and editorial placements and content syndication, multilingual design news, newsroom, media room, electronic press kit preparation, events organization such as gala nights, exhibitions, as well as physical deliverables like hardcover yearbook of best designs, printed and framed excellence in design certificates, special omega particle awards trophy for winner designers, in addition to a bunch of gits and merchandise included within the Winner Kits that are distributed during La Notte Premio A' – A' Design Award’s iconic gala night and awards ceremony on stage. Indeed the A' Design Prize is so big, we have created a book, which is a benefit of the prize, as well as a digital tool, that helps you understand and exploit it: A' Design Award’s Winner’s Manual and the Laureate’s Journey help you use the A' Design Prize, to gain competitive market advantage, fame, prestige, publicity and communication benefits to signal your excellence to help impress clients, consumers, customers, partners, investors, media and journalists worldwide. Majority of the benefits and services included within the greater A' Design Prize is business oriented, with the most relevant and valuable benefit for laureate brands is the A' Design Award’s perpetual, worldwide, unlimited license for A' Design Award Winner Logo usage. These are all given completely free of charge to A' Design Award Professional Edition laureates, there are no “winner fees” – that is, participants who join and nominate aa work to A' Design Award via our Professional Edition pathway, does not have to pay any fees when they win the award, this is indeed relevant because other awards charge significant amounts from their winners after results are announced in form of “yearbook contribution fees” (A' Design Award does not charge any such fees), “gala night table booking fees” (A' Design Award provides a free Exclusive Invitation to Professional Laureates to join the iconic La Notte Premio A' free of charge, as long as participation is conformed timely), “winner package fees” (A' Design Award provides all Professional Edition winners attending our iconic gala night and award ceremony their winner kits on stage for free and moreover, A' Design Award’s winner kits include, free of charge, printed and framed certificates, hardcover yearbook publications, trophy, and merchandise as gifts), also of course A' Design Award’s first phase is free (Free Preliminary Review, where you can learn if your design is good), and there are no multiple entry fees like submission fee (A' Design Award’s submission (uploading design) is free and you get a free preliminary review as an added service), there is no extra “jury review fee” (some awards charge first a submission fee, then jury review fee, then another winner contribution fee), we note these because many designers due to information asymmetry check the price of A' Design Award Professional Edition Nomination Tickets, which you could think as all inclusive five star service, and compare it to slave camps (note how we cannot even compare to bed and breakfasts, because some awards outright also take away your intellectual properties, make you pay a lot of money, and you get nothing). Of course, such slave camps and honey traps (some other awards) will charge you low entry fees since in the end they will milk you for everything you got (make you pay low entry fee, then a review fee, then a winner package fee), and that’s why we have created a No Further Fees Policy and explain this to the public. However, in this age and time people want to snap a finger and know everything, and our good will of creating an extremely big prize for good design, providing immense amounts of advertising value, a significant ROI, was still being compared on the basis of entry fees, so we had also released three more nomination pathways. First, we had introduced Digital Edition, which is also a highly commendable entry method, and we recommend it if you are not able to attend our gala, don’t need physical exhibitions or hardcover yearbooks or physical trophies, but still want to have all publicity benefits, advertising, promotion and logo usage. Still, once we created the Digital Edition entry, even more cheaper awards appeared like mushrooms that ask a little, and give nothing. Therefore, we caved in, and created two entry methods: Vision Edition, for those that simply want to benchmark their design with a true award jury, and Classic Edition for those who wishes to pay less entry fees in return for a legal promise to pay winner’s fees. The Classic Edition has allowed us to gain an opportunity to explain to prospective entrants who were just checking the nomination fees and leaving, without not understanding what the A' Design Prize entails, by means of further intrigue and involvement: Why is it so cheap compared to Vision Edition, Digital Edition or Professional Edition. We explain this to you to have a basis of understanding of what was happening in the design industry, also noting the fact that while these awards who charge winner’s fees were charging such fees, most of them were just for money grabbing and did not even follow any decent voting strategy. For example, when you join the A' Design Award, you get a free preliminary score – this is a confidential score that tells how good your design is, and there is a distinct score that informs you on the technical compliance and completeness of your presentation. This is super important because at this point, without paying any fees whatsoever, A' Design Award informs you if the design is good or not, to the best extent of our review process which can be useful for making a better-informed decision to join or not. Then the preliminary review process also pushes you to be compliant with our presentation guidelines, this is also very important because with years of experience, with our scientific research we had discovered that the presentations have a great weight on impressing jury, as such we have devised a genius method to remove the bias; if we make all presentations perfect, if we can push the presentation of all designs equally good, the bias would disappear or reduce significantly, because when all presentations are good jury does not focus on the presentation but rather the intrinsic design qualities when judging your designs, and moreover because of the way we designed the process, when you join A' Design Award, your submission if awarded is press-ready; because our presentation guidelines are such that we require you to submit a series of high-quality images that we can immediately send to journalists to publish, this is of course a bad business decision that benefits you; simply put, the fact we ask every entrant to provide high-quality visuals, texts, and standardized submission creates a big value for you when your entry is voted and send to press, it makes your work easy to publish, but for other side, it creates an immense friction, most people give up and go and submit to awards where they can just copy paste a URL of the work in social media for example, so again, we are penalized here due to the fact that our goodwill to create a good service, where your work could be truly assessed by the jury, where if winner, could easily be sent to journalists, and for which we can prepare press articles, press releases, electronic press kits, online profile pages and provide you with hundreds of publicity, promotion and advertising services is damaging us; because people say “it is difficult” and it is, but it should be, because in the end our aim is to create true value for you, and to do that, we must first have a lot of information about your project, in a structured way so that when presented to jury it is understood easily, and then we want to use these structured data, such as your images, texts, visuals, documents to create media ready articles, press releases and publicity around your work, providing you significant value for publicity, visibility and communication. We need you to understand this as well before we could even discuss the Gold Flags. You must understand, against our own financial interest (remember how people were checking just price and making decision without even understanding what they get), we have created the A' Design Award’s Professional Edition entry pathway to help create value to you. We have also designed the A' Design Award’s evaluation mechanism, against our own financial interest to serve you (remember how people get frustrated because they just want to pay and buy award but we don’t do that). When you win the A' Design Award, you win because your entry is anonymously voted by an extremely large jury panel of world-class designers and star architects, influential journalists and design professionals, following a blind peer-review process where your entries are voted on pre-established evaluation criteria, where before voting all submissions pass a free preliminary round and after voting, all votes are standardized and normalized using statistic techniques so that we can truly sort the designs and award those that are truly meritocratic. Indeed, we also employ mechanisms like license and declarations to filter out also designers’ whose works may have conflicting intellectual properties, which in the end also serve you because then you become part of a competition that is clearer, where there are less problems, and your association is positive. Now, given all the background information we had noted so far, we can finally truly discuss the Gold Flags. Because a flag is only as meaningful as what it represents and with the A' Design Award’s Winner Flag, it communicates your absolute excellence that has been verified by A' Design Award’s grand jury panel of world experts, who had voted on your entries in a very fair, very scientific and very ethical process. You are given the highly valuable A' Design Award Winner Flag because your work truly matters, and has been meritocratically selected as good design. You get our Winner Flag, because we are proud of you, and we want to help you communicate your excellence instantly to prospective clients, customers, consumers, partners, investors, journalists and media members with a globally recognizable, much respected and valuable, seal of design excellence, the A' Design Award Winner Logo. When we give you the Desk Flag with our Logo on it, it is not an item, not a product, but a great honor being bestowed upon you, because when we say we, it is the Grand Jury Panel of A' Design Award, who is giving you this honors; your recognition comes from a very scientific, meritocratic and aristocratic achievement where your work has been selected among tens of thousands of designs as an excellent work, endowed with good design qualities, with a capacity to make the world a better place. You are awarded because your good design makes a difference. You are awarded because we know by promoting good designs like yours, we can increase the public awareness and demand for good design and help create a better world. You are not given or sold a flag, you are bestowed one of the greatest honors in design, architecture and innovation industry, where the master designers, most experienced architects, outstanding innovators, all come together and support you, bestowing you the award. So, know you also know the immense weight of the Desk Flag, not in grams, but in anima. So, A' Design Award’s Desk Flag is such an important object, like a medal of honor, bestowed upon you, and the weight of it comes from the intrinsic design, vision and mission of A' Design Award, how your work is respected, awarded and honored, and how your work was recognized by our grand jury. Given such an impressive symbol, we couldn’t just give you any desk flag, we had to commission a statement piece. Our Gold Desk Flags costs as much as the trophies themselves and even higher than some of our trophies, they are designed by legendary OMC² Design Studios in Italy, incorporating all the refined Italian aesthetics and taste, but also a diplomatic heritage. We have asked OMC² Design Studios Italy to design the flags to be better than any desk flag you see in multinational meetings of world leaders, we have created a desk flag, that even the world leaders themselves are not used to have, with a solid metal body, bold yet subtly refined lines and a magnificent golden presence, A' Design Award’s Desk Flags do not just communicate the grandeur of your achievement but also the elegance and refined aesthetics of your good design in a way that matches the qualities of your good design. We created a desk flag that is heavy, durable, and extremely visually pleasing and appealing, and it comes in its own packaging, it is expensive to produce, hard to transport, and costly for us, but when you put it on a table, next to your design, it helps your design shine by being an amazing friend that instantly communicates the winner status of your good design to your audiences. Place our heavy metal, gold-plated desk flag in your shops, stores, retail locations, displays, tradeshows and see how they instantly pull clients, consumers, customers and instantly differentiate and communicate the excellence of your products, projects and services as good design. This only works because the gold flag we created for you is good in itself for its quality, build and aesthetics as well as the fact that the anima, the soul it integrates is good; it shows your absolute excellence in design, your jury-vetted good design characteristics and quality. A' Design Award’s gold desk flag is like a charm, a precious object, that matches the preciousness of your design for its design quality. We have created this object by pouring our soul into it, to try to match your magnificent designs, and we are proud of it, and the best part is, when you join the A' Design Award’s Gala Night and Award Ceremony (for which all Professional Edition Laureates gain a free exclusive invitation), you get your Winners’ Kit in stage (the winner kit is provided free of charge to you at stage as a Professional Edition laureate), and within your magnificent A' Design Award Winner Kit, in addition to the highly valuable hardcover book of best designs, printed and framed certificate of your excellence, your award trophy, your gifts, you will find our Gold Desk Flag, being there, waiting for you to unpack and unleash its powers, to bring you not only fame, prestige and publicity, but also good luck with its auspicious soul that represents and communicates your designs’ excellence. When we give you this Gold Desk Flag, we are giving you respect, and honor, as we are saying to your clients, customers, consumers, investors, partners, team members, journalists and media, that your design was selected for its meritocratic characteristics, for its good design, and for its capacity to become part of a big movement to help make the world a better place with good design. We are honored to give you this outstanding Gold Desk Flag, among hundreds of other benefits, and remember this is only one of the 188+ benefits included within the greater A' Design Prize, this is a physical token of your success, an avatar of your excellence, that is ready to communicate your success. A' Design Award’s Gold Desk Flags are a potent symbolic amplifier of your design ingenuity, perceived design quality and provide competitive differentiation which can nudge preferences towards your winner products and projects as our flags serve as immediate visual confirmation of your design excellence, drives interest and bolsters your marketing efforts through storytelling opportunities (gives you an opportunity to explain and introduce you are a winner, helping make further product differentiation). A' Design Award’s Gold Flag is therefore deeply symbolic, prestigious and emotionally resonant embodiment of your exceptional design recognition, and we have designed and produced it as a luxury statement piece to symbolize the ethical integrity, rigorous meritocratic validation and a profound commitment to improving society through good design. Your Gold Desk Flag, gifted to you, for your good design, tells the authentic story of your excellence in design and innovation, your prestige as a laureate and the societal value your brand creates with its good designs, setting your brand distinctly apart with tangible and luxurious yet also elegant and honorable confirmation of your design’s superiority and its necessary place in our world.

A' Design Award & Competition helps you communicate your design excellence instantly with gold winner flags that you can showcase next to your award-winner products and projects to convey their superior design.