Team Members' Winner Certificates

Excellence of Design Certificates for Team Members
A’ Design Award provides complimentary, personalized and already printed and ready to frame and ready to use Excellence in Design Certificates to eligible Professional Edition laureates who attend our iconic gala night - La Notte Premio A' to receive winner kits on stage or to brands who request their winner kits for delivery. The number of complimentary team member certificates varies by the laureate’s account type, up to 40 certificates for Enterprise Account holders and as many as 500 team member certificates exclusively reserved for laureates who had participated the A' Design Award via Business Consortium Account Type. For example, smaller entities such as Start-Ups can receive up to 8 certificates, while larger enterprises can receive up to 40 certificates, and multinational corporations registered as Business Consortiums can receive up to 500 certificates. Our Team Member Certificates help you recognize your team’s contributions to your A' Design Award winner design, without any of the extra fees typically charged by other awards or recognition programs. A' Design Award's prestigious Excellence in Design Certificates, validated by an independent jury of internationally acclaimed design experts, go far beyond meritocratic recognition and enhance your company’s reputation, strengthen your brand’s positioning as an innovation leader and visibly demonstrate your investment in creative talent, innovation, technology, architecture and design. By leveraging A' Design Award's Team Member Certificates, which is a significant cost-saving opportunity, you are also freeing valuable resources that can instead be directed toward even further innovation, talent development and growth initiatives. A' Design Award's Excellence in Design Certificates, provided free of charge to your team members, following their meritocratic win, motivates your teams, boost employee retention and organically amplify your brand’s visibility as proud employees share their design award winner achievements within their professional networks and social media. A’ Design Award’s complimentary Excellence in Design Certificates, given free to eligible laureates' team members, personalized and printed distinctly for each and every team member noted in your project details, help your brand build a powerful culture of recognition, accelerate your brand’s market advantage and position your organization as a leader in design excellence, all at no additional cost.

Boost Your Brand with A' Design Award's Excellence in Desig Certificates for Your Team Members
A’ Design Award provides personalized Excellence in Design Certificates free of charge to eligible Professional Edition laureates who either attend the gala night (La Notte Premio A') to retrieve their winners’ kit on stage, or who order their winners’ kit for delivery. Depending on their account type, laureates can recognize up to 500 individual team members per awarded project with complimentary printed certificates—significantly more generous than typical awards programs, which often charge substantial fees per certificate. Our complimentary team member certificates benefit delivers immediate financial savings, freeing resources that can be reinvested directly into innovation, talent development and organizational growth. Each jury-validated certificate serves simultaneously as a permanent professional credential for team members, a powerful retention and recruitment tool for the organization and a credible third-party endorsement of design excellence that enhances trust among clients, investors and partners. When numerous team members proudly display and share their prestigious certificates, it generates exponential organic visibility, showcasing your brand's excellence in design as well as your organization's scale, capability and commitment to design quality, advantages that compound into sustained brand equity, accelerated sales cycles, improved corporate culture and lasting competitive strength.

• Massive Financial Advantage
  While other competitors generally charge a substential amount per certificate, A' Design Award provides up to 500 personalized Excellence in Design Certificates for Team Members completely free, delivering immediate and significant savings for winning organizations. According to resource-based view theory in strategic management, unique cost advantages in human capital investment create sustainable competitive advantages. In simple terms, you save substantial money while building a stronger competitive position than companies that must pay for team recognition by simply joining A' Design Award.
  
  
• Strategic Budget Liberation
  A' Design Award's complimentary team member certificates eliminate traditional recognition costs, allowing winning companies to reallocate significant resources from administrative recognition expenses to innovation, R&D, and talent development initiatives. Opportunity cost theory in economics demonstrates how freed capital deployed to core competencies generates exponentially higher returns than administrative spending. Essentially, money saved on certificates can be invested in activities that directly grow your business and capabilities.
  
  
• Scalable Economic Value
  A' Design Award's Complimentary Excellence in Design Certificates for Winner Team Members scale with organizational size - from 8 certificates for start-ups to 500 for multinationals, ensuring proportional value delivery regardless of company scale. Economies of scale principles show how larger organizations extract greater value from scaled benefits, creating competitive moats. Whether you are small or large enterprise, you receive proportional value that grows with your success.
  
  
• Individual Career Assets
  Each team member of A' Design Award winning projects receives a personalized, jury-validated Excellence in Design Certificate that becomes a permanent professional credential, enhancing the certificate holder's portfolio and career trajectory. Human capital theory establishes that investments in employee credentials and recognition generate measurable returns through enhanced productivity and innovation capacity. Your team members gain valuable career assets that make them more productive while working for you.
  
  
• Retention Through Recognition
  By providing tangible, meritocratic A' Design Award Excellence in Design Certificates to all project contributors, organizations experience reduced turnover as employees feel valued by their employer and see concrete growth opportunities within the company. Herzberg's two-factor theory identifies recognition as a key motivator that, when properly implemented, significantly reduces costly employee turnover. Simply put, recognized employees stay longer, saving you recruitment and training costs.
  
  
• Motivation Multiplication Effect
  When entire teams receive A' Design Award's Complimentary Printed Team Members' Excellence in Design Certificates, the recognition creates a culture of achievement where innovation and excellence become self-reinforcing behaviors throughout the organization. Self-determination theory in psychology demonstrates that competence recognition triggers intrinsic motivation, leading to sustained high performance and creative output. Your team naturally becomes more innovative and productive when their excellence is formally recognized, especially by the A' Design Award in a meritocratic manner.
  
  
• Exponential Network Visibility
  Each A' Design Award Excellence in Design Certificate holder becomes a brand ambassador for the winning organization, with team members sharing A' Design Award achievements across business networks, social media, portfolios and professional networks, creating massive organic reach for the company brand. Network theory in sociology demonstrates how distributed nodes (certificate holders) create exponential reach compared to centralized communication, amplifying brand presence authentically. Your brand message spreads naturally through hundreds of trusted professional voices rather than expensive advertising, we empower your team members to advertise and promote your winner products.
  
  
• Unimpeachable Third-Party Validation
  A' Design Award's jury-blinded, merit-normalized evaluation process behind your complimentary Excellence in Design Certificates for Team Members provides credibility that cannot be simply bought, offering clients and partners proof of your organization's genuine design excellence. Signaling theory in economics explains how independent third-party validation such as that of A' Design Award reduces information asymmetry, enabling premium pricing and partnership opportunities. Clients trust you more and become more likely to pay premium prices because your excellence is independently verified, not self-proclaimed.
  
  
• Organizational Depth Demonstration
  A display of hundreds of personalized A' Design Award Team Members' Excellence in Design Certificates communicates the winning company's scale, capability and systematic excellence that smaller competitors cannot match. Institutional theory suggests that visible symbols of achievement create legitimacy and trust, facilitating market expansion and client acquisition. Your office walls or website showcasing numerous certificates instantly communicates that you operate at a scale and quality level above competitors.
  
  
• Creative Risk Enhancement
  A' Design Award's team-wide recognition through Complimentary Printed Team Members' Excellence in Design Certificates creates psychological safety where designers feel empowered to pursue bold, innovative solutions knowing team member contributions will be acknowledged. Psychological safety research by Amy Edmondson shows that recognized teams exhibit higher innovation rates through increased experimentation and learning from failure. Your teams become more innovative because they feel safe to experiment and push boundaries when they know their efforts are valued, more specifically, when your team members know their contributions to ambitious projects will be formally recognized through personalized certificates by A' Design Award, they pursue breakthrough solutions rather than safe iterations which can help you with more patent applications, more first-mover advantage in new market categories, shift from incremental to radical innovation and competitive differentiation with bold design solutions, so this is indeed highly important for your brand.
  
  
• Cross-Functional Unity
  A' Design Award Excellence in Design Certificates awarded to your engineers, UX writers, project managers, architects and designers through the complimentary team member certificates program dissolve traditional departmental silos, accelerating collaborative innovation cycles. Social identity theory demonstrates how shared recognition creates superordinate identity, reducing intergroup bias and enhancing collaboration efficiency. Different departments work together seamlessly because everyone shares the common achievement of design excellence, you make your company bond together with their A' Design Award success.
  
  
• Excellence Identity Formation
  A' Design Award's Complimentary Excellence in Design Certificates for Winner Team Members become embedded in your company DNA, making it more likely for your brand to attract top talent who seek environments where design excellence is systematically celebrated and rewarded. Organizational culture theory shows how artifact-based recognition systems shape values and behaviors, creating self-selecting talent pools of high performers. Top designers would be more inclined to and naturally would want to join your company because they see concrete evidence that your brand excellence is recognized and celebrated.
  
  
• Evergreen Content Generation
  Each A' Design Award Excellence in Design Certificate, especially when you frame them and organize a brand ceremony with them (consider making a ceremony where you present to your team members the A' Design Award Excellence in Design Certificates that we had already prepared for them in a prestigious setting or evening) creates multiple content opportunities for winning organizations - social media posts featuring team members receiving Complimentary Excellence in Design Certificates, newsletter features highlighting award-winning teams, press releases showcasing A' Design Award recognition, and case studies demonstrating design excellence throughout the year. Content marketing research shows that authentic employee-generated content achieves engagement rates multiple times higher than corporate messaging, while building trust through demonstrated achievement. Your marketing team gains a year's worth of authentic success stories from your already valuable A' Design Award, keeping your brand visible and credible without constant content creation costs.
  
  
• Client Trust Architecture
  A' Design Award's tangible, third-party validated Team Members' Excellence in Design Certificates provide immediate proof of your winning organization's design capability, and if effectively used and leveraged, your award winner status and recognition, communicated easily with your certificates, can be useful for shortening sales cycles and justifying premium pricing through demonstrated expertise validated by A' Design Award's international jury. Trust theory in business relationships demonstrates that physical artifacts of achievement reduce perceived risk and accelerate decision-making processes in B2B contexts. Clients make faster purchase decisions and accept higher prices when they can see physical proof of your team's validated excellence.
  
  
• Partnership Negotiation Power
  Documented team excellence through numerous A' Design Award Complimentary Printed Team Members' Excellence in Design Certificates strengthens the laureate organization's position in partnership discussions, attracting premium collaborators who seek proven design leaders with A' Design Award recognition. Game theory and negotiation research establish that verifiable credentials shift bargaining power by reducing information asymmetry between potential partners. You negotiate from strength when potential partners see walls of certificates proving your team's capabilities, leading to better terms and premium partnerships.
  
  
• Performance Pattern Mapping
  When A' Design Award's Complimentary Excellence in Design Certificates for Winner Team Members are distributed across multiple projects and departments, the pattern of certificate recipients creates a clear map of excellence hotspots within your organization, revealing which team compositions, methodologies, and leadership styles consistently produce award-winning results. Knowledge management theory demonstrates that systematic documentation of success factors through tangible artifacts like A' Design Award certificates enables organizational learning and performance improvement at scale, particularly when certificates are freely available to all deserving team members rather than restricted by budget constraints. Because A' Design Award provides these certificates at no cost, you can comprehensively document and analyze success patterns across your entire organization, discovering and replicating the specific team dynamics and processes that produce excellence.
  
  
• Quality System Documentation
  A' Design Award Excellence in Design Certificates serve as external validation for the winning company's international quality certifications, for ESG ratings, and design maturity assessments, with complimentary team member certificates supporting continuous improvement initiatives through documented third-party recognition. Total Quality Management principles emphasize that external validation accelerates internal quality improvements through objective benchmarking and stakeholder buy-in. Your quality certifications become easier to obtain and maintain when supported by independent proof of excellence from A' Design Award.
  
  
• Investment Value Enhancement
  Documented design excellence through A' Design Award's Complimentary Excellence in Design Certificates for Team Members provides tangible assets for due diligence processes, supporting higher valuations for winning organizations in funding rounds and acquisitions. Financial theory on intangible asset valuation shows that documented excellence and human capital credentials directly translate to enterprise value premiums. Investors and acquirers pay more for companies that can prove their team's excellence with tangible, third-party validated certificates.
  
  
• Career-Long Network Effects
  As A' Design Award Excellence in Design Certificate recipients advance to leadership positions across industries, certificate holders carry the winning organization's excellence story with them, creating an ever-expanding network of advocates who reference their formative experience with the company's A' Design Award-winning team throughout their careers. Social capital theory demonstrates how professional networks compound exponentially over time, with each advancing alumnus becoming a node that connects to new markets and opportunities previously inaccessible to the organization. Your former team members become lifetime ambassadors, opening doors and creating opportunities in companies and markets you could never reach directly.
  
  
• Generational Excellence Legacy
  A' Design Award's Complimentary Excellence in Design Certificates for Team Members remain valid professional credentials throughout entire careers, providing decades of brand association as team members display A' Design Award certificates in offices, share the certificates in presentations, and reference A' Design Award recognition in professional biographies. Brand equity research shows that repeated exposure through trusted sources creates enduring positive associations that appreciate rather than depreciate over time, unlike traditional marketing investments, you leverage them forever. Your brand stays visible and respected for decades through certificates displayed in offices worldwide, providing returns long after other marketing efforts fade.
  
  
• Succession Planning Catalyst
  Prospective employees see tangible evidence of career development through displayed A' Design Award Excellence in Design Certificates given to your current and former team members, demonstrating that your organization genuinely invests in recognizing and developing talent through meritocratic recognition system such as the A' Design Award. Signaling theory in labor economics explains how visible career progression artifacts reduce recruitment costs by attracting self-selecting high performers who value merit-based advancement opportunities. Top talent naturally chooses your company because they can see real proof that excellence is recognized and careers are advanced through meaningful achievements.
  
  

Team Members' Winner Certificates - Free Excellence in Design Certificates for Your Team Members
A' Design Award & Competition provides Professional Edition laureates who order their winners’ kit for delivery or whom attend the La Notte Premio A' to retrieve their winners’ kit at stage free of charge, a very valuable and important benefit to obtain printed and personalized Excellence in Design Certificates for Winner Team Members. This is indeed a highly important benefit and the number of complimentary printed Team Member certificates we provide depends on your account type, which also controls the number of team members that maybe noted for your projects. For large enterprises and brands, whom can have a significant number of team members for their projects, our complimentary team member winner certificate benefit is a big value. Many awards charge extra for team member certificates significant amounts and imagine being in a position to order 25, 40 or 500 team member certificates, these could easily cost very significant amounts. Based on your account type, you can have up to 500 free, printed and personalized certificates for your team members. In detail: Professional Partnership, Start-Up and Young Collective accounts allow up to 8 team members for which we can provide up to 8 printed certificates. Non-Profit accounts permit 10, while Agency, Media, and Government accounts allow 20 team members, allowing you to request up to 20 free printed excellence in design certificates. Larger entities benefit from the Enterprise, Agency Cooperation, Institutional Alliance and Academic Collaboration accounts, each supporting up to 40 team members and thus you could request up to 40 additional Excellence in Design Certificates, personalized by project members, without extra cost. Major media networks and multinational enterprises can register under the Media Conglomerate and Business Consortium accounts, which accommodate 80 and 500 team members respectively, allowing you to request a significant number of Excellence in Design Certificates, personalized with team members’ name and printed. For organizations with large, collaborative design teams, the ability to have, without any extra fees, team winner member certificates for excellence in design translates into substantial financial value as well as business value. First of all you will recall that many awards charge significant fees for each team certificate, whereas A' Design Award includes them at no extra cost, so your financial savings are substantial, but more important is the fact that because they cost a lot of money many companies simply do not order them, however this results in a suboptimal outcome because when you reward the team members with their distinct excellence in design certificates, this functions as a great motivator, not only you recognize their individual contributions but also you honor their contributions by presenting them a meaningful certificate which their team has earned, this not only helps the professional careers of laureate teams but also supports your brand and positions yourself as a team of winners, where each team member can showcase their winner certificates, of course this increases the connection and bonds within your company, and would support your corporate culture and the structural integrity with your company in addition to increasing creative output of your research and development, design and creative departments. A' Design Award’s Excellence in Design Certificates are worthy and high motivators because they are only given meritocratically to eligible laureates whose works have been selected as a good design by an international and experienced grand jury panel composed of prominent design professionals, established academics and influential journalists who vote anonymously on the entries following blind peer review process where before the voting the entries are standardized for their presentation to eliminate presentation bias and after voting the scores are normalized to ensure that only the most meritocratic and good designs are awarded, therefore A' Design Award’s Excellence in Design Certificates and the A' Design Award Recognition they convey and communicate are highly important, and are true indicators of design excellence and thus are coveted and sought after, and the fact that you can freely provide these certificates to team members in your company adds more to their value because at this step, the certificates were not bought for but were given; we especially do this because this is indeed how we wish to honor and recognize the contributions of your team members to your good design projects. We especially give these certificates to your team members because we know that the greatest motivations and productivity boost for designers are self-actualization and intrinsic motivation, by honoring your designers’ contributions not only we create value for your brand but we also help create a better world where we expect your team to create new superior products and projects that benefit and advance society.

Disclaimer
Free printed team member certificates benefit only applies to Professional Edition laureates who attend our iconic gala night (we issue free Exclusive Gala Night Invitations for Professional Edition laureates to attend our gala so it is free to get the certificates and free to join gala, if you confirm your participation timely) and retrieve their winner kits free of charge on stage, or Professional Edition laureates who do not attend the gala but order their winner kits for delivery, if you do not attend the gala night to retrieve your winners’ kit on stage and if you do not request your winner kit for delivery, we cannot provide you with printed certificates for team members. Please further kindly note that free printed team member certificates benefit is not provided to individual professionals or solo designers such as the Professional, Academic and Young Accounts Types that support 0 team members (and as such cannot get free team member certificates because the account type does not allow it, however these account types instead get a subsidy for their nominations by means of lower nomination fees, which is yet another benefit).

A' Design Award & Competition honors your team members by providing extra certificates, with number of free team member certificates included in winner kits depending on your account types.