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This page explains how to get involved with organization of our International Design Exhibitions. |
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What is it? We have organized international design exhibitions many times already and hosting institutions and locations till today have been; governments, national museums, trenched and established art galleries, design-oriented large brands, trade shows, ministry of arts, ministry of culture, ministry of economics, government-level economic development initiatives, culture department of cities, cities themselves, design faculties, architecture faculties and universities themselves. If you know anybody that is working in at least one of the following; government, universities, ministries, city management, trade shows, big manufacturing companies, brands and large enterprises; such as majors, politicians, ministers, high-level bureaucrats, CEOs and managers, you can help us organize the A’ Design Award Exhibition in your City and Country. Indeed, it is actually very easy to do this as we will support you all the way. Organizing an international A' Design Award exhibition offers a wide array of benefits for brands, designers, architects, innovators, hosts, venues, cities, governments, trade shows, universities, museums, educational institutions, and cultural organizations, providing a powerful platform for growth, recognition, prestige, media coverage, collaboration, and innovation in the design world. By helping us organize an international design exhibition in your city and country, you will be able enjoy special direct and indirect benefits as we note below in addition to the Large-Scale Design Exhibition Benefits. What do you get? Your Special Benefits. Helping us organize the A’ Design Award exhibition have the following externalities and indirect benefits: You position yourself as a leading figure in design in your City and Country as organizer of a prestigious design exhibition. For academics, this exhibition organization is curation and helps and contributes to your academic advancement. For all others, the exhibition organization helps you connect with local press and media in an organic way, giving you opportunity to pitch and promote your works; you will have access to potential new press contacts as shared by hosting institutions and you will have opportunity to meet new design oriented audiences. Furthermore, using the tickets you can submit many more works, or you can give tickets to your network as you see fit. Levels of Support are as follows: Level 1: Space Allocation Only. Level 2: Space Allocation, Poster Printing and Support in Exhibition Set-up. Level 3: Space Allocation, Poster Printing and Support in Exhibition Set-up. Sponsorship and or support for logistics such as transportation of works or hosting A’ Design Award Delegation by providing accommodation and by covering travel expenses. Level 4: Space Allocation, Poster Printing and Support in Exhibition Set-up. Sponsorship and support for logistics. Hosting A’ Design Award Delegation, covering accommodation and travel expenses. Level 5. Everything in Level 4, plus providing a special significant additional budget to promote and publicize the event in local media as well as in international media. How do you do it? But we know you can do a better job by having a lunch or dinner, or even in an elevator pitch, or simply by making an appointment and meeting the right people at their office. All you need to do is to let the relevant people know that (1) A’ Design Award, one of the World’s largest and most influential design accolade is interested in organizing an exhibition in their venue. (2) This exhibition would create socio-economic and cultural value for hosting institution as well as positively contribute to brand value and global recognition. (3) You have the contacts, and all you need is to sort out some little details such as amount of space allocated, timelines, and level of cooperation they desire. That’s it. They will most likely ask for a formal presentation, which we will help you by providing with you an official presentation letter template, as well as whatever you need such as books, merchandise etc for your next meeting. Furthermore, the Letter of Intent could be useful for you as it lists value propositions for venues who allocate us space. If you do not know anyone but feel you could reach the people by contacting them via regular mail, post or electronic mail, we got you covered as well. We have prepared an official presentation template that you can download, modify and use for your pitch. We are also ready to send you additional yearbooks, merchandise and content that you can use to pitch and impress the authorities and relevant people, you can contact our support and ask for such documents delivered to you. Finding contacts, in case you do not have them ready, is also very easy for you; all you need to do is to check websites of ; governments, national museums, trenched and established art galleries, design-oriented large brands, design related trade shows, ministry of arts, ministry of culture, ministry of economics, government-level economic development initiatives, culture department of cities, cities themselves, design faculties, architecture faculties and universities themselves in your own language; it is easier for you to find these local contacts and get in touch with them. Proceeding Further
How To Organize an International Design Exhibition Organizing a good design exhibition in your country or city is easy. A’ Design Award will be providing you with everything you need; that is visuals, communication materials, publicity templates digital presentations and exhibition posters for your international design exhibitions. We will help you with a blend of strategic planning, logistical coordination, and creative execution. By establishing clear objectives and selecting a resonant theme, the foundation is laid for an impactful event. Utilizing resources like those provided by A’ Design Award, such as visuals, communication materials, and digital presentations, can significantly streamline the organization process. When selecting a venue, it’s important to consider accessibility and functionality, ensuring that it supports the scale of the exhibition, whether displaying thousands of works or a select few. Size of the exhibition venue is not important, we can provide you with tens of thousands of works as well as a few hundred designs, to meet your needs. A’ Design Award facilitates this by offering digital files of design exhibition posters, allowing for flexibility in the display—posters can be printed locally to save on transport costs or displayed digitally to highlight works not physically present. This adaptability in showcasing works caters to a variety of venue sizes and participant needs. Securing funding and sponsorship is crucial. With A’ Design Award’s support, organizers can leverage pre-curated content, showcasing award-winning designs from various categories, we will help you with providing letters and support material. We will also help with curating the exhibition, and indeed a curated selection enriches the exhibition’s content and enhances its appeal to sponsors and attendees alike. The practical aspects of setting up the exhibition are also supported by A’ Design Award, which provides guidelines on poster sizes, printing specifications, and even the setup of digital displays for a dynamic viewing experience. The logistical details of organizing the exhibition are equally vital. For example, A’ Design Award will provide support for image adjustments or batch processing to streamline the preparation of exhibition materials. Additionally, considerations for the physical setup—such as using appropriate background colors and materials for mounting, or choosing the right size and type of frames—play a significant role in the aesthetic and functional success of the event and again at this step A' Design Award will help you by providing you with exhibitino posters ready to print. First, we would send you the design exhibition poster images as digital files. It is almost always to print the posters at their destination city as transportation of posters could easily cost more than printing costs. The design exhibition poster image files are usually 72 DPI PNG files without compression, while 72 DPI may initially seem low, but the pixel size is very high, and thus this will not create issues in printing; you may scratch to print in size keeping proportions, in general the poster files are 50 cm x 70 cm size (when Image Resolution is set to 150 DPI – Dots per Inch). We recommend you to first print 50 cm x 70 cm size version of a single poster to see how it is; you may scale them down proportionately if it is absolutely required. While you may scale them to min A3+ size but we do not recommend scaling down as the posters should preferably be 50 cm x 70 cm in size. This size is good for viewing from 1 meters. The design exhibition posters will have a digital passepartout (black borders) and you may decide to remove the black borders if you wish to save toner or if you would like to keep the presentation cleaner. You may also consider extending the passepartout if you wish to ensure borderless printing or if you have to cut the prints afterwards. Before printing, you can ask us to make any such modifications to posters and we will process the images for you. Once you have the first print and like how it feels, we recommend you to calculate how many posters you would need; in general, you may want to have two rows of posters to have higher density. We could help you with poster placement and exhibition design if you need. You can hang the posters to the wall, to the ceiling, to wooden panels as you see fit. Hanging posters could take significant time, and would require at least two persons working in tandem, a third person is recommended to check if posters are on level, for a single team. In general, having two teams is recommended. If you print posters on PVC foamboards, you do not need a frame, however if you print posters on paper, we recommend having 50 x 70 cm frames. If you have wooden exhibitors or display totems, available, you should let us know, we would be pleased to send or bring some physical items in addition to design posters to your international design exhibition but we would need to plan this in advance. If you can have a digital display that is 65” or bigger in size, we would be pleased to send horizontal 4K resolution posters, so we could showcase all winners in rotation as well, this will create additional value. In general the digital posters look great on 75"+ screens. In promoting the exhibition, utilizing both the provided digital materials and engaging in targeted marketing strategies ensures a broad and effective reach. A’ Design Award's support in curating and potentially even physically setting up exhibitions adds a layer of professional polish that can elevate the overall impact. Ultimately, combining these logistical and creative resources with thorough planning and community engagement ensures not just the smooth execution of the exhibition, but also its success in attracting international participants and audiences. By leveraging provided resources and integrating them with individual planning efforts, organizers can create a compelling and globally resonant design exhibition. The A’ Design Awards will prepare and send you design exhibition posters ready to print in your country or city. A’ Design Awards will also prepare and send you digital screen presentations. Furthermore, A’ Design Awards will also help you curate the physical items and bring you physical items from the permanent collection of our design museum. If you are thinking about organizing a design exhibition, contact us and we will help you. Creating Publicity, Finding Sponsors and Attracting Visitors Once you clarify and note your primary goal, the first thing you would want to do is to define your target audience and make a list of types of contacts you want to invite. In general, it is always a good idea to focus on your primary goal yet also to have a secondary objective as audience growth. The audience you are targeting, the list of people you wish to engage are going to be consisting of your existing contacts as well as new referrals, clients, customers and consumers that may be of value if you had time to connect them or reach them. Primary goals could be "find new clients", "get more press contacts", "make friends with affluent audiences", "form new connections with company owners" and similar. The audience are people who you want to know about the event, and your name; even if these people or entities would not attend the event, reaching out to them will create significant value; and up to twelve months from the event, your invitees should be able to remember your name and your business and should be able to consider you when taking decisions, after a year of event organization, you may need to refresh their memory as such repeating the events is of importance to occupy a piece of the minds of your target audiences. Once you clarify your goal and audience, simply brainstorm where your target audience converge; the answer would be mostly associations, clubs, member lists, institutions or organizations, but also you may target specific points such as readers of certain publications, attendees of a certain event, consumers of a specific service, customers of a specific business and similar. Once you know where you find the people, you should devise a strategy to capture their contacts. In some cases, if you collaborate with local PR agencies, venues or art galleries, they may help you with their contact list; even if they may not outright provide you with their contact lists they may agree to send invitations on your behalf, likewise media members may send newsletters on your behalf to their audiences, it is of course important to choose publications or sending communications to contact lists aligned with your goals, and your audiences. In general, the quality of people is more important than the quantity of people; it is better to have more relevant people than to have a lot of people; this would also give you the opportunity to have more time to spend with each valued guest and would help you more to accomplish your goals, unless your goal is to have images, photos or videos of the venue full of people, which is a valid goal; many organizers would use the design exhibition to attract new people, potential customers to their venue. Once you have the goals set, the audience clearly identified, contact lists are made or contact methods are selected, you should design the invitation as well as a poster, with date and venue of the design exhibition noted. If you prepare a poster, it is generally good to note names of exhibited designers within the poster. A' Design Award can help you prepare the poster, invitations, and we will also create a certificate for each exhibited work on behalf of you. In any step of the process, you may contact the A' Design Award, and we will help you. Exhibition Displays and Pedestals Most common sizes for displays are as follows: For small objects: 40 cm (w) x 40 cm (d) x 120 cm (h), for long objects: 100 cm (w) x 50 cm (d) x 100 cm (h) and for large objects: 100 cm (w) x 100 cm (d) x 50 cm (h). Thank You Ready to Organize?
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Benefits for Brands Organizing an international A' Design Award Exhibition in your city, offers your brand a multitude of benefits, serving as a powerful catalyst for growth and success. From maximizing brand exposure through media coverage and social media buzz to cultivating valuable networking opportunities with industry influencers and potential partners, an international A' Design Award Exhibition event positions your brand at the forefront of the design world. Showcasing products at the international A' Design Award Exhibition accelerates sales and business development, while establishing thought leadership and enhancing customer engagement through interactive experiences. The prestige of the A' Design Award elevates the brand's stature, attracting discerning customers and top talent alike. Moreover, the international A' Design Award Exhibition provides a platform for your brand to give back to the design community by supporting emerging talent and fostering innovation. By your brand's community engagements via the international A' Design Award Exhibition, you not only nurture the next generation of creative minds but also reinforce your brand's commitment to advancing the industry as a whole. This philanthropic aspect further enhances the brand's reputation and solidifies its position as a visionary leader in the design world.
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Benefits for Designers, Architects and Innovators Organizing an international A' Design Award Exhibition puts you at the center of attention and offers a transformative opportunity for you to propel your career and business to new heights. By curating and hosting the prestigious international A' Design Award Exhibition event, you can establish yourself as a thought leader, expand your professional network, develop valuable skills, and attract high-profile clients and projects. The exposure to cutting-edge designs from around the world fuels your creativity, while showcasing your own work alongside internationally recognized designs opens doors to new commissions and increased profitability. Moreover, organizing the exhibition allows you to give back to the design community by mentoring and supporting emerging talents, reinforcing your position as a visionary leader in the field.
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Benefits to Hosts, Venues, Cities, Governments and Municipal Agencies Hosting an A' Design Award exhibition offers a multitude of benefits, acting as a catalyst for economic growth, cultural enrichment, and urban development, positioning the host city as a global design destination. From boosting tourism and stimulating local businesses to fostering community engagement and attracting creative talent, the exhibition provides a platform for showcasing the city's potential and enhancing its international reputation. Moreover, it offers opportunities for educational growth, innovation, and design-led solutions to social and environmental challenges. By strategically leveraging these benefits, hosts, venues, cities, and governments can drive long-term economic, cultural, and social progress, ultimately improving the quality of life for their residents and visitors.
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Benefits to Tradeshows and Trade Fairs Hosting an A' Design Award exhibition alongside an existing tradeshow or business event can provide numerous benefits for the host venue. The prestigious reputation of the A' Design Award attracts new exhibitors and attendees, enhances media coverage, and elevates the overall profile of the event. The international A' Design Award exhibition offers unique content and experiences, fostering cross-industry collaboration and showcasing cutting-edge innovations. Moreover, the A' Design Award's global network can help expand the host event's international reach, connecting it with new markets, partners, and opportunities for growth. By leveraging the A' Design Award's expertise in curating and promoting exceptional design, the host event can position itself as a leader in its industry, setting the stage for future success and innovation.
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Benefits for Universities, Museums, Educational Institutions and Cultural Organizations
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