Design Showcase Video

Design Showcase Video
One of the founding goals of the A' Design Award is to create awareness, publicity and recognition for award-winning good designs; since doing so helps us achieve our goals of creating a universal appreciation and understanding of good design by incentivizing great designers to come up with superior products and projects that advance and benefit mankind.

To achieve our primary goals as well as to create an equal opportunity for designers worldwide to participate in a very prestigious international design award with an expert grand jury panel and big prize, we have created the Design Showcase Video initiative.

We are pleased to provide an incentive for you to create and publish a video compilation in which you would feature award-winning designs from the list of the winners of the A' Design Awards in any or all categories of your choice.

You have complete creative freedom for the video provided that it is elegantly made. You can make an animated slideshow with some background music or you could talk positively about the works in a react video. You can showcase the images of winning works in the background or you could record your own screen and show designs from the website, it is all up to you. You can showcase the works anyway you like provided that the video is elegant and showcases the awarded works in positive manner.

For the video description and details, we would be pleased if you could attribute the winner’s works by providing links to the profiles of the designers or their work at the A' Design Award website.

We will review your video two times, first we will check if it is good and in general compliant with our guidelines, then second, once your video is published, after 30 days (or whenever you want us to), we will review your video one more time; first we will check your video for its quality and second, we will review the view count; we will assign you a digital nomination ticket or pro-edition ticket depending on the following criteria at the time we review your video for the second and last time.

You should satisfy all requirements A, B and C to be eligible for a free nomination ticket; you will get either pro-edition ticket or digital edition ticket and not both. We reserve right to issue you multiple tickets if your video reaches an exceptional number of views.

Free Digital Edition Ticket Criteria: A) Video quality is HD or higher. B) Video is min. 1 minutes 30 seconds long. C) Either your video reaches 5.000 views or Your video reaches 500 views but its quality is truly exceptional, very professional, really well done.

Free Pro-Edition Ticket Criteria: A) Video quality is HD or higher. B) Video is min. 1 minutes 30 seconds long. C) Either your video reaches 50.000 views or your video reaches 5.000 views but its quality is truly exceptional, very professional, really well done.

Discounted Digital Edition Ticket Criteria: If you cannot fulfill free digital edition ticket criteria, you are happy to learn that your efforts will not be in vain, you will still get something out of it; we will provide you with 50% discount on digital nomination ticket if your video reaches 2.000 views, or 30% discount on digital nomination ticket if your video reaches 1.000 views. If your video does not get enough views, we will provide you with 20% discount for digital edition nomination ticket if it reaches at least 20 views.

Additional Nomination Tickets: You will get an additional digital edition nomination ticket for each 100.000 Views or an additional pro-edition nomination ticket for each additional 200.000 views; as such to get 2 pro-edition tickets, you should have 50.000+200.000 views, but to get 1 pro and 1 digital ticket you would need 50.000+100.000 views.

We want to kindly remind that the purpose of the Design Showcase Video is two folds; first it is to provide an opportunity for designers worldwide to take part in a prestigious design award for free, and second, it is to help us promote and advertise the A' Design Award winners in video format, as such, for us the video will serve as an advertising which we would be paying for with the nomination tickets, and as an advertising, you have all rights to note that the video is sponsored or indicate that your video is sponsored content, but also as an advertising, we want the video to have an overall positive tone; especially include designs in your video that you really like yourself; instead of providing sad comments to designs that are not withing your expectations, instead do not feature them at all; focus featuring the good designs only.

To get started with this initiative, please contact us first. We will send you digital data package containing high resolution 4K images suitable for screen. We would ask you to have the video published in English if possible and we also accept videos in other languages such as Italian or Chinese, please consult us. Finally, we want to remind you that the videos shall be publicly available, and not set as “private” or “hidden”. You should keep the video available online for at least two years from the date it gets published.

Once you publish your video please contact us, we will check if it is compliant with our guidelines, and if it is we may promote it on behalf of you, helping you with the views!

How does Design Showcase Video help you? In addition to being eligible to obtain nomination tickets or discounts, you are creating awareness for good design worldwide and you would help A' Design Award with its mission to create a better world with good design by spreading and creating an awareness and appreciation of good design, and perhaps equally importantly if you have never recorded and published a video, your design showcase video may very well be a great exercise towards a new way of promotion and audience outreach for you and your brand.

A' Design Award & Competition was designed was designed by designers for the designers; the accolade does not bring contractual financial obligations and burdens to award winners thanks to its "no further fees" policy.