Check out previous A’ Design Award and Competition winners across different categories right here and register before February 28 to take a shot at pure red designer gold!
for more information on how to register, visit: https://competition.adesignaward.com/registration.php
tomeo by hugo charlet-berguerand
A’ design award winner in furniture, decorative items and homeware design category, 2020
image © photographer hugo charlet berguerand, tomeo, 2020
perception by haejun jung
A’ design award winner in interior space and exhibition design category, 2020
image © feelament, perception, 2020
shangrao seazen wuyue plaza by alex xu & partners
A’ design award winner in lighting products and lighting projects design category, 2020
image © 2020 alex xu & partners
mobius by kejun li
A’ design award winner in lighting products and lighting projects design category, 2020
image © kejun li
coast whale by zhang jinyu
A’ design award winner in architecture, building and structure design category, 2020
image © 2020 zhang jinyu
A’ Design Mission And Vision
The A’ Design Award & Competition was developed after a scientific research study based on prior analysis of 1,000 other design competitions as well as ethnographic research and survey of over 500 designers and brands who take part in design competitions. The award is organized by OMC Design Studios SRL and its spinoffs and has earned the patronage of the following institutions: Como Cultural Department, The Bureau of European Design Associations. The competition aims to highlight, advertise advocate good design, designers, and design oriented companies. As well as to channel the attention of press, interactive media, design critics, distributors and buyers to the award winner.
The mission of the A’ Award and Competition is to provide a fair, ethical and competitive platform for companies, designers and innovators from all design fields with different experience levels, diverse disciplines and market focus to compete on while providing them a global audience to showcase their success and talents to. The A’ Award and Competition aims to act as blender; incessantly processing and progressing to bring together designers, companies, and the press.
Learn all about it right here: A’ (A-Prime) Design Award.
oplamp by sapiens design studio
A’ design award winner in lighting products and lighting projects design category, 2020
image © 2020 sapiens design studio
Z line house by revano satria
A’ design award winner in architecture, building and structure design category, 2020
image © fernando gomulya photography
rainforest by sini majuri
A’ design award winner in furniture, decorative items and homeware design category, 2020
image © heidi-hanna karhu, helsinki finland
rotass haute joallerie by xiaobing yao
A’ design award winner in interior space and exhibition design category, 2020
image © photographer qiang dou, the reception desk, 2019
quadrant arcade by cehao yu
A’ design award winner in lighting products and lighting projects design category, 2020
image © photographer philip ville, 2019
Counting Categories
A’ Design Award and Competitions are organized and awarded annually in a wide range of categories. They are categorized into several subcategories:
Industrial Design Competitions; Furniture Design Competition, Packaging Design Competition, Lightning Design Competition, Toy Design Competition, Digital Devices Competition, Vehicle Design Competition, Home Appliances Design Competition, Medical, and Scientific Design Competition. Architectural Design Competitions; Architectural Design Competition, Interior Design Competition. Graphic Design Competitions: Interface Design Competition, Graphic Design Competition, Computer Graphics, and 3D Model Design Competition. Meta Competitions: Social Design Competition, Idea Design Competition, and Meta Design Competition Technical and R&D Based Competitions: Engineering and Technical Design Competition, Material and Texture Design Competition. Photography and Cinema Competitions: Photography and Photo Manipulation Design Competition, Movie and Animation Design Competition, Other Important Competition Categories: Fashion Design Competition Food and Culinary Design Competition, Arts, Crafts and Ready-Made Design Competition and the Unexpected Design Competition.
From Good Industrial Design Award, Good Architecture Design Award, Good Product Design Award, Good Communication Design Award, Good Service Design Award to Good Fashion Design Award, you can scout
all further categories right here to take your most bespoke pick!
The Grand Jury Panel
For the 2020-2021 A’ Design Award and Competition, there are 211 Jury Members forming the International Design Academy – The Grand A’ Design Award Jury Panel, composed of design professionals, press members and academics.
The foundation of any good design award, in addition to fair evaluation and judging by an extensive methodology, is to have a strong and expert design competition jury which provides their invaluable knowledge base and insight to evaluate the submitted entries, creating benefit and value for participants by transferring their insights and ideas in form of votes, feedbacks and suggestions. Good design award jury panels shall be multidisciplinary and comprised of recognized but most importantly experienced international designers, professors, entrepreneurs, journalists, and publishers who can truly validate and evaluate design using their wisdom, experience, specialization, and technical knowledge.
As it behooves any good design award, every design award jury member should follow a code of conduct or as we require to sign a jury agreement and shall be excluded from taking part in the competition. In addition, to avoid conflicts of interest, the jurors may not be employees of the participating companies.
Furthermore, to create more value on the participants’ behalf, the A’ Design Award and Competition has introduced, for the first time in all of its design award and competition history, a prejudging procedure called the “preliminary evaluation” and checking which helps participants to get insights about their work before they participate in the design competition finals.
The Benefits Of Going Into Battle
The competition provides extensive and intense publicity to award-winning designs, it is considered as a quality and high-return alternative to any advertising you might be running provided that you have a good design that could win the accolade. For more benefits click here. For the Winners’ pack contents, click here.
We are talking about extensive PR campaigns, Marketing&Consultancy, press communication in 20+ different languages…
The Works!
The Tenderness of Wool Art Material. Silver A’ Design Award Winner for Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design Category in 2018. Wenyi Xiang for Wenyi Xiang
The Weight Of Textile Story Textile Design.
Bronze A’ Design Award Winner for Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design Category in 2018. Sheng Qiu for Sheng Qiu
Transcendence Clothing. Silver A’ Design Award Winner for Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design Category in 2018. Xianyang Zhang
Competition Publicity And Properties
With its database of tens of thousands of press contacts, the competition aims to highlight existing products and designs which were developed with a good taste in design, our aim is to increase the publicity of good products and good designs, to provide designers and companies with a solid excuse to tell the world they can boast a good product and good design.
The A’ Design Award is a great opportunity for designers to have a jump in their careers as the design award offers winners extensive marketing services to make use of the success of winning the award. Winners of the Award will have extensive press appearances, press release preparation, and distribution. The A’ Design Competition does not ask any further money from the winners and aggressively pursues media opportunities for the winning designs for free.
The A’ Design Award differentiates from any other design competition, design contest, and prize by several aspects: The following adjectives are how we define ourselves: Collaborative, Innovator, Smart, Fair, Scientific, Thoughtful, Munificent, Beneficial, Philanthropic and Beautiful.
Click here to learn why A’ Design Award & Competition is a truly unique design award.
samaranch memorial by archiland
A’ design award winner in architecture, building and structure design category, 2020
image © yan chen
codependent by fletcher eshbaugh
A’ design award winner in furniture, decorative items and homeware design category, 2020
image © fletcher eshbaugh
K11 musea by crystal chan
A’ design award winner in interior space and exhibition design category, 2020
image © edmon leong
phuket vip mercury by songhuan wu
A’ design award winner in interior space and exhibition design category, 2020
image © NHD-design,2019
iris by max kampa
A’ design award winner in lighting products and lighting projects design category, 2020
image © max kampa
termalija family wellness by ENOTA
A’ design award winner in architecture, building and structure design category, 2020
image © photographer miran kambič
Registration, Results, And References
The results are always published first to the designers, there will be a period given to both companies and designers to obtain production rights and patents globally, as well as a four-month period to file for protection. Designers also receive help and support from the A’ Design Award for filing an application to protect their designs.
The winners can use the A’ Design Award can use badges and stickers free of charge to further underline that their products and designs have been evaluated by a respectful organization and that their products have been marked as great designs.
To see the competition timeline, click here.
- View A’ Design Award Winners here and full Photo Gallery here;
- Take a look at the Testimonials or the A’ Design Award in Numbers.
Remember: Deadline for regular submissions is February 28so hurry up and enter the competition right here!
Results will be announced to the public on May 1 with selected winners and results featured on The China Temper that very same day.
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