Get Approval to Participate
Participation to A’ Design Award could be pivotal to your company's further success in the industry, providing unmatched advertising and promotion possibilities as well as to network with design oriented audiences and if you need senior management's approval for taking part and travel expenditures, it's worth it to develop a proposal so you can attend our gala night and exhibitions in Italy.

Why Your Company Should Join the A' Design Award?
Participating in prestigious and fair A' Design Awards can provide a range of benefits for companies, including increased brand visibility and recognition, opportunities for networking and collaboration with other design industry professionals, and a chance to showcase the company's design work and innovations to a global audience. Winning the coveted A' Design Prize can also lead to increased market credibility and customer trust, and can potentially drive sales by allowing the company to use the A' Design Award Winner Logo. In addition, participating in the A' Dsign Awards demonstrates a commitment to design excellence and innovation, which can help attract top design talent to your company. Taking part and winning the A' Design Award also provides a platform for your company's design work and design team to be recognized and rewarded for their efforts.

Here are a few easy steps to gain approval to participate and eventually attend the gala-night and award ceremony, as well as other benefits such as getting listed in World Design Rankings as one of the best designers from your country.

It is easy to justify and get an approval from your boss or manager, you need to make a simple proposal that explains benefits of your participation.

Identify Your Category and Likelihood of Success
Identify design award entry categories that align with your professional goals and use our platform to get a free and confidential preliminary score for your work. The preliminary score tells your likelihood of success before you even take part in the competition, without any fees or obligations involved, and getting a score is easy, just upload your design and wait. The preliminary score mechanism will be useful to convince your boss and manager; if you get good score for your product or service, if your preliminary score is high, it means you are more likely to win the design award, so let your boss know that. Furthermore, once you submit a design the jury will double check its category compliance in case you were not sure where your work fits.

Highlight Benefits
Take a look at the A’ Design Prize that address specific needs within your organization; for example; an award winner logo on your product might be extremely useful to increase sales, the PR campaign and having your work published in over 100 languages and over 100 magazines can be useful for finding new customers, both abroad and locally, the fact that the project has been awarded could increase trust of and respect by your prospective clients, and taking part could push your company to innovate further and be more competitive in the marketplace.

Prepare a list of benefits that you can achieve by taking part in A’ Design Award. We advise you to choose the top 5 reasons why you should join and make a statement with that in mind. We have prepared the following pages to help you further: Benefits of Participation. Remember to share your award participation goals with your department and demonstrate how your design award entry will help your team achieve their goals.

Which Benefits to Highlight?
For large enterprises, the “Award Logo” will be highly relevant; unlike other awards, you do not need to pay yearly licensing fees to use the A’ Design Award Winner Logo, furthermore studies has shown that simply placing the design award logo on product or communication would help convince more customers towards a purchase. You might also want to highlight the public relations and press aspects of the award as well as its prestige thanks to its large jury composed of design professionals.

Finally, it is good to note that A' Design Award translates and publishes award-winning designs in over 100+ languages, that's a great value for international brand recognition for large enterprises. Finally, another very important benefit that is often invisible is the fact that there are no "Further Fees", this is relevant to you as a large enterprise as you can manage your budget in advance, you know what you spend, and you know that there are no fees for claiming the award or obtaining any of the benefits aforementioned.

A' Design Awards Participation for Enterprises - Bullet Points
For large enterprises, the A' Design Award is cheap to take part; there are no obligatory "winner's fees" which mean your brand would save significantly for post results benefits and services such as logo, yearbook, certificate, exhibitions, gala and similar. Moreover, using Free Preliminary Review service, you can reduce your participation risk by learning if your product or project has merit and if it has high likelihood of winning, and of course you also have the following benefits which could be highly relevant for brands:

• Increased brand visibility and recognition.
• Opportunities for networking and collaboration with other design industry professionals.
• A chance to showcase the company's design work and innovations to a global audience.
• Potential for increased market credibility and customer trust.
• Potential for increased sales by using the award winner logo.
• Demonstrating a commitment to design excellence and innovation.
• Attracting top design talent to the company.
• Providing a platform for the company's design work and design team to be recognized and rewarded.

Seal that Envelope
Now that you have chosen a category, learned your likelihood of success and identified the most important benefits of participation, it is time to make your pitch. You should now submit a formal, written proposal to your department head. Include your intended schedule of award participation and explain why the participation will be valuable to your organization; focus on benefits and likelihood of success. Strengthen your proposal by listing department goals that align with taking part in the competition. You can remind that if the organization sponsors specific designers, the costs would be less, and highlight professional entry as well as digital entry fees. If you choose professional entry method, please also include the cost of airfare, meals and lodging in order to make it an all-inclusive proposal that would potentially cover your participation to the Gala-Night. Remind in your proposal that taking part in the A’ Design Award is a great investment that could open the door for a wide range of business possibilities, publicity, networking promotion and advertising.

Important - Let us Do All Above for You!
Since we know that you are very busy and already occupied, we have prepared an online tool to convince your managers, boss, president, supervisors, leaders, administrators, governors, directors, officers, executives, elders, bureaucrats, authorities, heads, chairs, and deans in your organization; simply fill our template by choosing a few details. PS: You need to be logged-in to view our tool!