The "A" Design and Competition Award is the world's largest competition focused on innovation and creativity in design, highlighting the best designs to support the global design culture and creating incentives for participants to make the best designs in the future. It provides a fair, ethical and competitive platform for companies, designers and innovators in all areas of design with different levels of expertise. It offers comprehensive and intensive publicity to the winners. The awards are distributed at a ceremony held in Italy and published in all relevant newspapers around the world.
Contest Categories:
- Industrial Design Competitions: Furniture Design Competition, Packaging Design Competition, Game Design Competition, Digital Hardware Competition, Vehicle Design Competition, Home Appliance Design Competition, Medical and Scientific Design Competition.
- Architectural design competitions: Interior design competition.
- Graphic Design Competitions: Interface Design Competition, Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling Competition.
- Social Design Competition, Art Design Competition.
- Technical and Research Competitions: Engineering and Technical Design Competition, Material Design Competition.
- Photography and Cinema Contests: Photography Design Competition, Film and Animation Design Contest.
- Other categories: Fashion Design Competition, Food Design Competition, Art Competition, Handicrafts.
Eligibility Criteria:
- The competition is open to all companies and people who are amateur and professional from all over the world.
- Students and professional individuals can only submit their own designs. Independent participants and designers do not need to have a patent to submit works and previously patented designs can also be submitted.
- Companies have to own intellectual property rights or patents of the relevant works and designs for submission.
- Companies must submit the names of designers participating in the design.
- There is no age limit for joining the competition however entrants must have a legal representative if they are under legal age.
- Designs can be in hand-made/manual sketches, blueprints, technical and in any media that makes sense.
- Entries are suggested to be designed in the last 10 years to take part in the competition.
- Military designs and weapons are especially ineligible.
- The prizes are non-transferable and will be awarded to the winning person directly.
- More than one design can be shared.
- Designs that create hatred or violate the law in any way are disqualified.
- There should not be any marks on the submitted designs displaying the name of an entrant, his or her school or firm or logo, or any other symbol that could identify the entrant.
Value:
The award consists of numerous rewards in the form of advertising services, public relations and certification services with a total value of 50,000 euros.
- Win € 25.000,00 Worth of Equivalent Advertising.
- Win € 7.500,00 Net Google Adwords & Facebook Advertising at A' Award.
- Win € 5.000,00 Worth of Special Website Design for your A' Ultimate Award-Winning Design.
- Win € 4.000,00 Worth of Physical Exhibition Service by Mood.
- Win € 1.000,00 Worth of 1 Year Subscription to Salone del Designer.
- Win € 500,00 Worth of 1 Year Subscription to DesignMegaStore.
- Win € 1.000,00 Worth of Design Mediation Service from DesignMediators.
- Win € 500,00 Worth of Editorial Article at DesignAmid Magazine.
- Win € 500,00 Worth of Yearbook Page Design and Implementation at A' Design Award.
- Win € 500,00 Worth of Gala-Night Invitation from A' Design Award.
- Other prizes worth € 10,000.
About:
A' Design Award and Competitions are organized and awarded annually and internationally in a wide range of categories to create awareness for good design. It is the largest design competition in the world reaching over 200 countries each year.
A' Design Award and Competitions, aims to highlight the excellent qualifications of best designs, design concepts, and design-oriented products.
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