On-Demand Winner Services

Winner Services vs A' Design Prize
The A' Design Prize represents one of the most comprehensive design accolade package globally, encompassing over 100 distinct benefits across multiple categories including professional recognition (trophies, certificates, and prestigious titles), global exposure (exhibitions, yearbook publications, and museum displays), marketing support (PR campaigns, press releases, and media promotions), digital presence enhancement (winner profiles, online galleries, and social media features), business development (networking opportunities, business listings, and sales platforms), and professional growth (exclusive memberships, design authority building, and legacy creation). Each of these benefits is automatically awarded to winners as part of their victory package.

Before we explain the Winner Services, we want to make a clear distinction and help you understand the nuance; the A' Design Prize is your comprehensive victory package that comes automatically with winning the award - it's the foundation of your success story that includes everything needed to leverage your achievement effectively. The A' Design Award's on-demand winner services, on the other hand, are specialized, optional enhancements that allow winners to amplify specific aspects of their victory through targeted services like express judging, additional PR campaigns, professional photography, or specialized marketing support. Think of the A' Design Prize as your complete success toolkit, while on-demand winner services are the premium tools you can add to further customize and enhance your award experience based on your specific needs and goals.

A' Design Award's On-Demand Winner Services offer professional administrative support and convenience solutions that help participants efficiently manage their award journey while maintaining the competition's strict standards of fair evaluation. These optional services complement our extensive free entry programs and community support initiatives, ensuring that great design remains the sole criterion for success, regardless of how an entry is submitted. Every design deserves a fair chance to shine. At A' Design Award, our blind peer-review process ensures that every submission is evaluated on its own merit, free from bias or influence. When you win the A' Design Award, you unlock access to white-glove Winner's Only Services for advertising, promoting, marketing your work with our public relations and outreach services. In this page, we are providing you list of some of the services that you will be able to request, after you win, please note that some of the services are indeed available before you win. We have noted Winner-Only for services that you can only order after winning the A' Design Award.

Express Judging Service
The Express Judging Service represents an accelerated path to receiving your A' Design Award evaluation results, allowing you to potentially leverage your award status and begin your marketing initiatives ahead of the standard announcement timeline. This premium service maintains the same rigorous evaluation standards as the regular judging process, utilizing a panel of qualified jury members from academia, industry professionals, and design enthusiasts to assess entries based on established criteria. Whether you are seeking rapid results for immediate marketing opportunities or need early confirmation for strategic planning, the Express Judging Service offers a fast-track option while ensuring your submission receives the same thorough consideration and prestigious recognition as all A' Design Award evaluations.

Entry Insurance Service
The Entry Insurance service offers peace of mind to A' Design Award participants by providing a safety net for their award nominations through a unique substitution ticket system. This innovative service ensures that if an entry does not achieve winner status, participants will receive a replacement nomination ticket for a future submission, effectively providing another opportunity to compete for the prestigious accolade. Whether you are seasoned designer or a first-time participant, the Entry Insurance service provides valuable assurance and flexibility in the award journey, making it a strategic choice for those seeking to maximize their chances of success.

Professional Preliminary Judging and Evaluation Service
The Professional Preliminary Evaluation and Judging Service provides participants with comprehensive insights and expert feedback on their award submissions before final nomination. This detailed assessment service evaluates every aspect of the submission, from image quality and presentation to category selection and descriptive text, offering constructive recommendations to enhance the entry's potential for success. Through professional guidance and thorough analysis, this service enables participants to optimize their submissions and make informed decisions about their award journey, ultimately maximizing their opportunity to achieve recognition in the A' Design Award competition.

Portfolio Evaluation Service
The Portfolio Evaluation Service offers a strategic consultancy approach to help organizations identify their strongest design candidates for A' Design Award nominations through professional assessment and detailed analysis. This comprehensive service provides participants with expert insights on each design in their portfolio, delivering specific recommendations on award potential, category selection, and presentation optimization to maximize chances of success. Through detailed feasibility reports and actionable guidance, the Portfolio Evaluation Service enables companies to make informed decisions about their award submissions, ensuring resources are invested in the most promising entries while optimizing both cost efficiency and potential for recognition.

Visualization Service
The Visualization Service elevates the presentation of award submissions through professional 3D renderings, illustrations, and enhanced imagery created by expert artists to ensure optimal communication of design value. This comprehensive service transforms product and service presentations into compelling visual narratives that effectively convey unique features and benefits, maximizing the potential for positive evaluation and recognition. By combining professional visualization with submission management, this service offers participants a complete solution for achieving the highest standard of presentation quality, ensuring their designs are showcased in the most impactful and professional manner possible.

PR Push Service
The PR Push Package offers a comprehensive, hands-off solution for busy executives seeking to participate in the A' Design Award competition through a dedicated representative who manages the entire submission process. This premium service combines manual submission handling, professional preliminary evaluation, and express judging to streamline the award entry process, ensuring optimal presentation and rapid results. From initial product information submission to potential award announcement, the PR Push Package delivers a complete, professionally managed experience that maximizes both efficiency and potential for success while minimizing time investment from the participant.

Manual/Hardcopy Submission Service
The Manual/Hardcopy Submission Service provides a convenient solution for participants who prefer to submit their design materials in physical format or require assistance with the digital submission process. This comprehensive service includes professional handling of all submission components, from image uploads and text entry to category selection, ensuring accurate representation of designs while eliminating technical barriers to participation. Whether chosen with or without nomination fees included, this service streamlines the submission process by having experienced professionals manage the technical aspects of entry preparation, allowing participants to focus on their design presentation rather than submission logistics.

Paid Promo Boost Service WINNERS-ONLY
The Paid Promo Boost service amplifies the visibility of award-winning designs through strategically managed social media advertising campaigns, providing enhanced exposure to targeted audiences. This customized promotion service creates dedicated paid advertising campaigns for individual winning designs, ensuring maximum impact and reach through professional campaign management and strategic budget allocation. By leveraging social media platforms and targeted advertising, this service helps winners extend their award recognition beyond traditional channels, creating additional opportunities for visibility and engagement with relevant audiences.

Concierge Services
The A' Design Award Concierge Service delivers a premium, personalized experience that guides participants through every aspect of their award journey with dedicated support and expert mentorship. This comprehensive service combines professional insights, strategic guidance, and priority assistance to help participants optimize their submissions, maximize award benefits, and streamline their participation experience from initial entry to post-win promotion. Through tailored support and meticulous attention to detail, the Concierge Service transforms the award participation process into a seamless, professionally managed experience that ensures participants can fully leverage every opportunity for recognition and success.

Media Price Quotation Service
The Media Price Quotation Service provides a strategic approach to securing additional media coverage for award-winning designs by obtaining customized price quotations from relevant journalists, editors, and publications across the design industry and specific market sectors. This specialized service leverages established media relationships to gather detailed pricing information for various publication opportunities, including advertorials, sponsored posts, and editorial features, enabling brands to make informed decisions about their media investment strategy. Through professional negotiation and industry expertise, this service helps winners extend their award recognition beyond standard coverage, offering valuable insights into promotional opportunities while saving time and resources in media outreach efforts.

Brand Resonance Services WINNERS-ONLY
The Brand Resonance Services offer a comprehensive strategic approach to maximizing the impact of your A' Design Award victory through personalized consultancy and implementation support across multiple brand touchpoints. This premium service combines digital marketing expertise, targeted PR campaigns, and team empowerment strategies to transform your award recognition into tangible business growth and enhanced market presence. Through customized planning and professional guidance, the Brand Resonance Services help organizations leverage their award status effectively, ensuring the achievement creates lasting value while strengthening brand identity and market position across all channels.

Private Publicist Service WINNERS-ONLY
The Private Publicist Service offers A' Design Award winners an exclusive, personalized approach to maximizing their award recognition through dedicated professional PR management and strategic media outreach. This premium eight-week service combines expert guidance, proactive media engagement, and comprehensive PR strategy implementation to help winners optimize their award exposure and brand visibility through professional public relations expertise. Through personalized attention and industry knowledge, the Private Publicist Service transforms award recognition into meaningful media coverage and brand enhancement opportunities, providing winners with a hands-on approach to leveraging their achievement in the global design community.

Marketing Boost Service
The Marketing Boost service offers A' Design Award winners a comprehensive, customizable advertising and promotion strategy that leverages the competition's established network of design-focused media channels and industry connections. This premium service combines multiple marketing approaches, from digital campaigns to physical exhibitions, allowing winners to amplify their award recognition through targeted promotional activities tailored to their specific goals and budget parameters. Through professional campaign management and strategic implementation, the Marketing Boost service transforms award recognition into measurable market impact, providing winners with access to specialized design-oriented audiences while maximizing their investment in promotional activities.

Account Services
The Account Services provide A' Design Award participants with a comprehensive suite of administrative and technical solutions for managing their competition profiles, entries, and award-related content. This essential service category encompasses everything from basic account modifications to complex content management requests, ensuring participants can effectively maintain and update their competition presence. Through professional handling of administrative changes, technical updates, and specialized requests, Account Services help participants navigate the competition platform while maintaining data integrity and compliance with competition standards.

Additional Press Kits Dispatch Service WINNERS-ONLY
The Additional Press Kit Dispatch Service enhances A' Design Award winners' media outreach capabilities by providing extra credits for distributing electronic press kits to targeted journalists and media outlets beyond the standard allocation. This strategic service leverages A' Design Award's established media relationships and professional reputation to deliver winners' press materials with institutional authority, increasing the likelihood of media coverage and industry recognition. Through various credit packages tailored to different publicity needs, this service enables winners to expand their media presence strategically while benefiting from the competition's credible endorsement and established distribution channels.

Photography Service
The Photography Service offers A' Design Award participants professional studio photography to enhance the visual presentation of their submissions through high-quality, expertly captured images. This comprehensive service combines professional photography expertise with submission management, ensuring products and designs are showcased through compelling visuals that effectively communicate their value and appeal to judges and audiences alike. Through professional studio settings and expert photographic techniques, this service helps participants maximize their entry's visual impact while streamlining the submission process by including manual upload assistance.

Corporate Advertising Services WINNERS-ONLY
The Advertisement Opportunities at A' Design Award present a diverse range of promotional platforms and marketing solutions designed to enhance visibility for designers, companies, and institutions within the global design community. This comprehensive suite of services combines complimentary benefits for award winners, such as PR campaigns and design rankings, with premium marketing options including direct marketing, conference speaking opportunities, and sponsorship packages. Through strategic promotional tools and established networks, these advertising opportunities enable participants to leverage the competition's prestigious platform for enhanced brand recognition, professional networking, and market reach while accessing targeted design-oriented audiences worldwide.

Design PR Club Membership
The Design PR Club Membership offers a strategic, subscription-based approach to design award participation through customized packages that combine monthly nomination opportunities with premium services tailored to different organizational needs and budgets. This comprehensive membership program provides participants with regular access to A' Design Award submissions, express evaluations, and portfolio assessments, while offering varying levels of additional benefits such as PR concierge services and professional preliminary scoring. Through structured annual packages designed for different entity types - from large enterprises to individual designers - the Design PR Club Membership enables systematic participation in the competition while maximizing promotional opportunities and professional exposure throughout the year.

Video Testimonial Service WINNERS-ONLY
The Video Testimonial Service provides A' Design Award winners with professional video feedback from jury members who evaluated their winning designs, creating powerful third-party endorsements for marketing and promotional purposes. This premium service combines expert jury insights with professional video production to capture authentic testimonials about the merits and unique features of award-winning designs, delivering compelling content for brand storytelling and marketing campaigns. Through carefully structured interviews and professional production values, this service transforms expert evaluations into valuable marketing assets while maintaining the integrity and credibility of jury feedback.

Conference Speakers Service
The Conference Speakers Service connects event organizers with distinguished A' Design Award winners and jury members to deliver compelling presentations, keynotes, and workshops across various design disciplines and industries. This premium service leverages the competition's extensive network of award-winning professionals to match events with experienced speakers who bring expertise, credibility, and international perspective to conferences and symposiums. Through careful speaker selection based on expertise, location, and event requirements, this service helps organizers enhance their programs with accomplished design professionals while providing access to both local and international thought leaders in the creative industries.

Competition Sponsorship
The Sponsorship program at A' Design Award offers diverse partnership opportunities for organizations to connect meaningfully with the global design community through various engagement levels and contribution types. This comprehensive program provides multiple sponsorship categories - from Metal and Category Sponsorships to Media Partnerships and Patronage - enabling organizations to align their brand with design excellence while accessing the competition's extensive network of creative professionals, media contacts, and design-oriented audiences. Through strategic sponsorship options tailored to different organizational goals and resources, this program creates valuable opportunities for brands to enhance their visibility and credibility within the international design community while supporting the advancement of design excellence.

Competition Organization
The Fully Custom Design Competition service offers organizations a comprehensive, turnkey solution for creating and managing their own branded design competitions with varying levels of support and functionality. This end-to-end service combines sophisticated IT infrastructure, professional competition management, and strategic public relations across three distinct package levels - Promo, Media, and Enterprise - to meet different organizational needs and budgets. Through customizable features, professional management, and extensive promotional support, this service enables organizations to create impactful design competitions that align with their brand values while leveraging A' Design Award's established platform and expertise in competition organization.

Jury Member Support
The Jury Member Support service provides design competitions and events with access to qualified, experienced jurors through three distinct channels of jury member acquisition and management. This comprehensive service combines jury member exchange programs, panel provision services, and direct jury support options to help event organizers establish credible evaluation panels for their competitions. Through professional jury selection and management processes, this service enables organizations to build balanced, experienced judging panels while maintaining high standards of fairness and expertise in design evaluation.

Digital Competition Platform
The Digital Competition Platform offers event organizers a sophisticated, comprehensive technological solution for managing design competitions through the advanced Design League platform, developed from years of research and practical experience. This robust digital infrastructure combines multiple specialized modules for submission management, jury evaluation, and result publication, while offering customizable features to meet specific competition requirements and maintain high standards of fairness and efficiency. Through automated processes, secure data management, and integrated promotional tools, this platform enables organizations to conduct professional design competitions while optimizing resources and enhancing participant experience across all stages of the competition process.

Independent Observers
The Independent Observer service provides third-party oversight to design competitions and events, ensuring transparency, fairness, and ethical conduct throughout the evaluation process. This professional monitoring service deploys experienced observers who maintain the integrity of competitions through passive observation and documentation, while having the authority to address potential irregularities during the event. Through impartial oversight and professional documentation, this service helps organizations establish credibility and defend the legitimacy of their competition results while maintaining high standards of fairness in design evaluation processes.

Patronage and Endorsements
The Patronage and Endorsement service provides official recognition and validation to design competitions and events that meet rigorous quality standards and ethical guidelines established by A' Design Award. This comprehensive evaluation service assesses competitions across multiple criteria, from jury composition to intellectual property rights, ensuring endorsed events maintain high standards of fairness, professionalism, and participant benefits. Through detailed analysis and professional validation, this service helps organizations establish credibility and trust with potential participants while promoting ethical practices in design competition organization.

Grand Award Prize
The Grand Award Prize offers competition organizers a comprehensive B2B solution to enhance their design events' prestige and attractiveness by incorporating A' Design Award's established benefits package into their prize offerings. This strategic service enables organizers to provide participants with valuable incentives such as international exposure, publication opportunities, and prestigious recognition, while saving resources on prize management and logistics. Through various package levels and professional prize administration, this service helps organizations elevate their competitions' value proposition and attract higher-quality entries while leveraging A' Design Award's established platform and credibility in the global design community.

Award Organization
The A' Award Expo Edition offers event organizers a specialized design competition format that integrates seamlessly with trade shows, exhibitions, and design events through three distinct service packages: Patronage & Guidelines, Managed Organization, and Cooperation. This comprehensive program combines on-site judging, same-day results announcement, and immediate PR campaigns with professional award ceremony management and exhibition opportunities, providing exhibitors with both immediate recognition and access to international exposure through the main A' Design Award platform. Through structured evaluation processes, professional delegation support, and various promotional opportunities, this service transforms traditional exhibitions into dynamic events that create additional value for both organizers and participants while maintaining the prestigious standards of A' Design Award recognition.

Design Procurement Services
The Hire Award-Winning Designers service provides organizations with two distinct pathways to connect with distinguished A' Design Award laureates and creative professionals for their design needs. This comprehensive service combines a free self-service exploration platform through designer.org with a premium six-day consultancy program, offering structured guidance in design procurement and professional matchmaking. Through detailed project assessment, tailored designer matching, and optional ongoing support services, this platform helps businesses forge meaningful collaborations with award-winning creative professionals while ensuring alignment with project goals and budget requirements.

Direct Marketing WINNERS-ONLY
The Direct Marketing service provides organizations access to an exclusive network of design professionals, enthusiasts, and decision-makers who have actively opted to receive curated opportunities in creative fields. This targeted communication channel connects brands with qualified audiences across design, art, architecture, and engineering sectors through sophisticated segmentation and personalized outreach strategies. Through professional campaign management and strategic messaging, this service enables organizations to present their offerings to an engaged, design-oriented audience while maintaining high deliverability rates and meaningful engagement metrics, ensuring maximum impact for marketing initiatives within the creative community.

Free Winner Services
When you login to A' Design Award's Control Panel, from the post-competition services panel you can access tools such as the "Press Release Wizard", for a personalized press release for your award-winning work that you can send to your relevant press contacts, "Winner Labels" that you can use to indicate the quality of your award-winning design and its award-winner design status, plus documents and information on "Copyrighting and registering a product", "Making a patent application", "Advertising and communicating winner designs or products", "Reaching companies" etc. Moreover you will have access to PR Campaign Tools, Press Release Distribution System, Design Interviews, Publicity Tools, Certificates, Yearbook Review, as well as Guidelines for Winners, there are over 100+ free services / benefits that are provided to you, some of them are provided passively without your involvement, others will require you to take a few quick steps.

Free Award Certificates and Badges
A' Design Award Winners have access to the "A'Design Award Badge" / "A' Design Award Winner Logos" that you can use to communicate the quality of your product and designs, you can download all the necessary files for the badge in the winner services page. In addition to the badge, we have also created a widget that you can put into your webpages, when clicked the widget goes to a special page showing statistics of the competition and your winners certificate with the winning design. "Winner Certificate" is given to all the winners and they can also be accessed anytime after the competition. You can download and print additional certificates for internal and external communication in subsidiaries, shops and outlets.

Free Consultancy Services
Consultancy services for winners services include : "Preparing a custom press release", "Copyright and patent application consultancy", "Service for winners to sell their designs to companies", "Advertisement campaign consultancy", "Custom webpage design and promotion" etc. These services may require an additional fee, but there is always counterpart documents in the basic services panel so that you can do everything here by yourself.

Commercialisation and Mediation Services
With your request, A'Design Competition can help you get in touch with business consultants, agencies & institutions supporting innovation, venture capitalists and angel investors, distributors and retailers of design, original design manufacturers and design oriented companies, brand owners and big companies, prototyping and model making companies, research and development organisations, end buyers and users of designs and products, engineering and precision engineering companies plus intellectual property lawyers. The contact information for these companies will also be available online based on your eligiblity. Some of these services are free and some subject to a fee.

Free Automated Passive Services for Winners
Most of the services noted at the A' Design Award's control prize are indeed passive services, which means that you do not need to take action to activate; for example we send the press releases for all the winners without any additional costs. In addition the winners are published in our yearly ResultBook, on top of that, all the participants are given a free online portfolio sponsored by Salone del Designer where they can communicate their designs online. We send the ResultBooks (Winner's Annual) to design-oriented companies to increase the potential for the companies to contact designers. Winners are also admitted to the Association of Designers free of charge. Some select designs might also be exhibited in our prototype museum and gallery. The A'Design Award will also present itself in design oriented trade-fairs around the world, winners will got chance to be promoted in these fairs (pro-edition laureates only).

Free Public & Media Relations Services for Winners
DesignPRWire is a public and media relations agency for design. They provide integrated multidisciplinary communication and marketing services to A' Design Award winners such as: 1. Press Release Preparation with Rich Media Hosting. 2. Press Release Distribution to Media Outlets, Magazine Editors and Press Members. 3. Press and Media Relations through Direct Communication with Important Press Members. 4. Newsletter Communication through Design-PR.org to opt-in registrants. 5. Micro/Splash Website Development for Campaigns with Search Engine Optimization. 6. Direct & Pitch-in Advertising for Campaigns at Popular Media Channels. 7. Submission of Your Designs to Design Blogs, Design News Indexes and Portals etc.

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