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Organizing a Fully Custom Design Competition
Do you want to promote your company in a unique and different way? Then run a new design competition hosted and organized by A'Design Award and Competitions. We will setup a unique domain and design a special website for you and will turnkey organize and manage your design competition at our platform. You will have access to additional channels and people that are not available in your industry. You can reach and engage with innovators and designers who could offer a range of attractive ideas that your inner circle can't. By organizing a well-planned, fair, consistent and transparent competition, you can find and reach creative people who are normally unwilling to communicate directly with you; you will most likely reach new and original ideas, creative minds and out-of-the-box design thinking for your needs. Most of all, organizing a design competition creates positive impact and relationship between you and your current and future clients. Learn about benefits here.

Note: If you would like to learn about simpler low-budget custom design competitions click here. If you wish to organize a design competition as a sub-event for your tradeshows or larger events please check A' Design Award Expo Editions. Furthermore, you could decide to sponsor a design competition instead of organization. Before you run a fully custom design competition, you need to have a brief ready.

Start with Your Brief
For us to organize a good design competition for you, we will need a brief that communicates: (1) Statement and Vision, (2) Background Information, (3) Project Scope and Restrictions, (4) Submission Requirements, (5) Entry Process
Timing and Schedule, (6) Benefits, Awards and Compensation and (7) Terms and Conditions (Copyrights, Publication, Exhibition Requirements). In general, we would be preparing elements (4), (5), and (7), but you need to provide with us all other elements, and we could take care of everything else that includes but not limited to the platform for submission of ideas, marketing and advertising the design competition, finding the most skilled jury members and suggesting awards of honoraria, publishing results and promoting the competition in the most respected design publications worldwide, in all languages.

Fully Custom Design Competition Packages

Promo Media Enterprise
In this package, we provide all the base functionality to run a unique design competition, we provide fully IT Integration and support, competition management and public relations. National Design Awards could easily be organized using the Promo Design Competition Organization package. In addition to the Promo Package, we offer advanced competition management, and further public relations and communication. This package is suitable for running International Design Awards with the possibility of having the competition platform in multiple languages. This package is for enterprises where we think & take care of everything for you. Total competition management, highly advanced public relations and extensive communication are possible. Especially see the Design Competition Organization Proposal for an idea of its benefits and reach.

 

Table 1. Comparison of 3 Types of Fully Custom Design Competitions
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  Promo Media Enterprise
IT-Infrastructure & Functionality      
Technical Advisory Included Included Included
Create or Edit a Brief Included Included Included
Registration of Participants Included Included Included
Create or Edit a Participant Profile Included Included Included
Publicly Visible Participant Profile and Portfolios Included Included Included
Upload Design, Video or Presentations Included Included Included
Storage Space for Submitted Ideas Included Included Included
Voting Designs by Public Included Included Included
Voting Designs by Jury Included Included Included
Ranking Designs based on Votes Included Included Included
Announcing Results via RSS Included Included Included
Competition Statistics Included Included Included
Demographics Information Included Included Included
Platform Hosting Included Included Included
PHP-MySQL Based Programming and Integration Included Included Included
Search Engine Optimization Included Included Included
Campaign Tracking with Google Analytics Not Available Optional Included
Social Networking Pages Not Available Optional Included
Multi Lingual Website (3 Languages) Not Available Optional Included
Sending Newsletters Included Included Included
Competition RSS Included Included Included
Competition Blog Included Included Included
Unique Interface for Mobile Devices Not Available Optional Included
Newsletter Management Not Available Optional Included
Feedback to Participants Not Available Optional Included
Designer Interviews Not Available Optional Included
Participants' Feedbacks Not Available Optional Included
FAQ, HAQ and Support Pages Not Available Optional Included
Press Control Panel Not Available Optional Included
Proof of Creation Document Not Available Optional Included
Credit Card Payment Processing Gateway+ Optional Optional Optional
Alternative Payment Methods Incorporation+ Optional Optional Optional
Administrator Control Panel Included Included Included
       
Competition Management      
Participation Terms and Agreements Included Included Included
Competition Poster, Flyer and Logo Included Included Included
Competition Winners' Certificate Included Included Included
Competition Winners Book Design and Layouting Not Available Optional Included
Production of Winners Book (100 Copies) Not Available Optional Included
Standard Size Banners for Web Usage Included Included Included
Unique Domain Name (5 years) Included Included Included
Unique Website Design for the Competition Included Included Included
Utilizing Existing Participant Base Not Available Optional Included
Arranging Jury Members Optional Included Included
Arranging Advertisement Channels Not Available Optional Included
Creating A Royalty Based Contract Between the Company and the Participants Not Available Optional Included
Creating A Non-Disclosure Contract Between the Company and the Participants Not Available Optional Included
Managing Award Payments to Winner Designers Not Available Optional Included
Help with Creative Brief and Submission Texts Not Available Optional Included
Total Organization of Gala Night+ Not Available Optional Optional
Total Organization of Gala Night+ Not Available Optional Optional
Design of Award Trophy Not Available Optional Optional
Competition Trophy Production (8 Items)+ Not Available Optional Optional
Distributing Awards to Winners Via Mail Not Available Optional Optional
Expenses for Jurors Not Available Optional Optional
Overheads for Competition Management Not Available Optional Optional
       
Public Relations      
Announcing Competition Start to Media in Newsletter Included Included Included
Announcing Competition Start to Members in Newsletter Included Included Included
Announcing Competition Results to Media in Newsletter Included Included Included
Announcing Competition Results to Members in Newsletter Included Included Included
Sending Special Competition Start Mails to Members Not Available Optional Included
Sending Special Competition Start Mails to Media Not Available Optional Included
Sending Special Competition Results Mails to Members Not Available Optional Included
Sending Special Competition Results Mails to Media Not Available Optional Included
Creating Viral Videos or Offline Campaigns+ Not Available Optional Included
Getting in Touch with Institutions to Publicize the Event Not Available Optional Included
Running Frequent Competition Blog & Updates Not Available Optional Included
Inviting Key Designers to Take Part in the Competition+ Not Available Optional Included
Viral and Social Communication Tools Not Available Optional Included
Advertorial and Editorial Sponsorship Not Available Optional Optional
       
Base Costs      
A' Design Award and Competitions' Fees 75.000 € 100.000 € 300.000 €
       
Optional Costs      
Advertisement Budget+ Suggested:
50.000 €+
Suggested:
100.000 €+
Suggested:
200.000 €+
Gala Night Budget+ Suggested:
25.000 €+
Suggested:
50.000 €+
Suggested:
100.000 €+
Winners Compensation and Fees Suggested:
25.000 €+
Suggested:
50.000 €+
Suggested:
100.000 €+
Jury Members' Fees Suggested:
25.000 €+
Suggested:
50.000 €+
Suggested:
100.000 €+
Postage Fees for Distribution of Awards, Certificates, Books etc. Equal to it costs. Equal to it costs. Equal to it costs.
       
Total Cost 75.000 € -
200.000 €+
100.000 € -
350.000 €+
300.000 € -
800.000 €+
+ Can be adjusted further by the organizer, additional charges may apply for Optional Items.
Optional : Optional, Included : Included, Not Available : Not Included

How much does it Costs?
Organizing a fully managed, turn-key design competition costs around 75.000 € to 300.000 € + IVA. Out of this cost, we are going to make a huge advertisement campaign that would have an equavalent value of 50.000 €'s this is only possible thanks to our extensive database of designers, artists and innovators. The Award prize has a minimum, but it can be further increased and will be determined together with A'Design Award Organization and Your Company, the award depends on a number of factors such as: Your Brand Identity (the more famous your brand is, the less compensation and incentives you might need to supply), Your Sector (Some industrial sectors are interesting, yet others might be not as interesting for designers), in addition to a monetary prize it is possible to set up alternative incentives such as a gift package of products or a constant percentage (between 3%-5%) from the income of the sales of products, or advertising the designers name. The incentives cannot be less then 25.000 € or equavalent worth.

Are you low on Budget?
• Organize a custom design competition that will run at A' Design Award and Competitions webpage.
• If you wish to organize a competition as a sub-event, check expo editions.
• To boost your own design award and competition learn about The Grand Award Prize.

How Will My Competition Look Like?
Each design competition we organize will have its very own website and unique domain name, we will also do the website design in addition to flyers, posters and banners. This website is indeed an advanced community web-site where users (designers) can register themselves, create profile pages with photos, upload designs, search for other designers, comment on others designs and profiles, submit videos etc, the jury will have the ability to vote designs online, optionally competitions can be open for public voting, these websites will use the technology provided by A' Design Award and Competition and the design competition website for your company will be fully customized to match your brand identity and values.

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Enjoy your seat and the show. Let us run your design award and competition on behalf of you, taking care of thousands of decisions in a correct way to create the most value for your brand.

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