A' Design Award and Competition (http://www.adesignaward.com) is looking for the best designs, design ideas, prototypes and finished products by talented designers, artists and architects to award them with the A' Design Award.

Winner Designers of A'Design Award receive the following benefits and exposure:

1. Featured in the yearly ResultBook

Top designs are featured in this yearly book to increase the exposure of designs and products to a wider public. These yearly ResultBooks are delivered to a wide range of professionals, design oriented companies and press members.

2. Communicated to the Press

Extensive coverage in global media ensures that you are renowned worldwide. We provide free services to prepare your press releases to communicate to a worldwide audience furthermore we also help you to find services for custom press release preparation in addition to the ones we deliver.

3. Advertised to a Wide Range of Design Sensitive People

In addition to standard press and traditional media, A'Design Award & Competition advertises winners in online media and search engines as well to millions of people who are searching for design. We have a large dedicated budget to reach millions of people every year.

4. Introduced to Companies

Winning designs are introduced to relevant companies. Winners find the opportunity to meet with the industry and businesses. Some winners will have the opportunity to be supported and mentored by industry leaders and large players in the design field. Meeting with the companies usually lead to eventual realization of concept or idea-stage designs, or finding new distribution channels for existing products.

5. Certificate of Quality

The "A' Design Award Winner Certificate" is a proof of quality of design which you can use to highlight the qualifications of your designs. Winner Designers can download the "A' Design Award Winner Logo" and use this special logo with their product packaging or websites.

6. Trade Fairs, Conferences and Meetings

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, conferences, meetings and other design related events in order to create the sectorial hype.

7. Introduced to Design World

Winners are introduced to Curators, Architects, Designers, Companies, and other relevant people and institutions in the design world to get more out of the award. Special notifications are send to the Museum Directors, Academicians, Media Directors and Design Departments of Multi-National Companies.

8. A Reason to Contact Press

Winning the A'Design Award, is prestigious, it is a very solid reason to contact the press and have increased exposure of your designs and products around the world and we provide free PR and press-release services to winners.

9. Realization Possibilities

Winner designs are very likely to be realized by thousands of companies that are following the competition each year, the winners are communicated early so that they can make an early patent rights application right-away.

10. Increased Sales

Winning designs get enough exposure to increase the sales of products significantly, it is an investment that you can rely on throughout the life of the product. More fame means more business.

About the Award

The A'Design Award and Competition is for designers, innovators and companies that want to highlight themselves to attract the focus of media, publishers and buyers.

Competition

In a world where there are millions of products and designs launch each year, the award was born out of the desire to underline the best designs and well-designed products. The award-winning products and designs are highlighted to the international public in the A' Design Museum and Gallery in Italy and they are communicated to all relevant press across the world.

Categories

A' Design Award and Competitions are organized and awarded annually in a wide range of categories, every month a particular competition is held. These are; Furniture Design Competition, Packaging Design Competition, Architectural Design Competition, Fashion Design Competition, Lighting Design Competition, Toy Design Competition, Digital Devices Competition, Interior Design Competition, Vehicle Design Competition, Interface Design Competition, Home Appliances Design Competition and Graphic Design Competition. Addition to the annual competitions there are also sponsored competitions, held in parallel to other competitions.

The main competitions are organized in the following categories:

01. FURNITURE AND HOMEWARE DESIGN

02. PACKAGING DESIGN

03. ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING DESIGN

04. FASHION AND JEWELERY DESIGN

05. LIGHTING DESIGN

06. TOY AND RECREATION DESIGN

07. DIGITAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES DESIGN

08. INTERIOR DESIGN

09. VEHICLE DESIGN

10. INTERFACE DESIGN

11. HOME APPLIANCES DESIGN

12. GRAPHICS AND ADVERTISING DESIGN

13. COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND 3D MODEL DESIGN

14. PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTO MANIPULATION DESIGN

15. ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL DESIGN AWARD

16. MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC DESIGN AWARD

17. MOVIE AND ANIMATION DESIGN

18. FOOD AND CULINARY DESIGN AWARD

19. MATERIAL AND TEXTURE DESIGN

20. SOCIAL DESIGN

21. IDEA DESIGN

22. ARTS, CRAFTS AND READY-MADE DESIGN AWARD

23. META DESIGN

24. UNEXPECTED DESIGN

25. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES DESIGN

26. ADVANCED DESIGN AND DESIGN RESEARCH

27. YOUNG DESIGN

28. HEAVY MACHINERY DESIGN

25. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES DESIGN

26. ADVANCED DESIGN AND DESIGN RESEARCH

27. YOUNG DESIGN

28. HEAVY MACHINERY DESIGN

Learn more at: www.adesignaward.com/categories.html

Mission

The mission of the A' Award and Competition is to provide a fair, ethical and competitive platform for companies, designers and innovators from all fields with different experience levels, different 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; to bring together designers, companies and the press.

Vision

Highlight, Advertise & Advocate good design, designers and design oriented companies. To channel the attention of press, interactive medias, design critics, distributers and buyers to the award winner.

Publicity

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 of design, our aim is to increase the publicity of good products and good designs, to provide designers and companies a solid excuse to shout-out that they have a good product, good design. A'Design Award is a great opportunity for designers to have a jump in their careers as the A' Design Award offers winners extensive marketing services to make use of the success of winning the award. The winning designs are also presented for a year at the A'Award museum and gallery in Italy. Winners of the Award will have extensive press appearings and this is free; A'Design Competition does not ask any further money from the winners and aggressively pursues media opportunities for the winning designs for free.

Unique Aspects

The A' Design Award and Competition offers an unique system for designers to sell their winning ideas to sponsor companies, likewise the companies can bid for the competing design ideas and make offers to buy the designs. The system also provides an online exhibition system and creates free profile pages for designers, innovators and companies, this system is always on and whether you win or not, you will have full access to the system. This is an interactive system where you can write your biography or corporate profile, create an extensive online portfolio by adding additional designs and exhibit new designs or products.

Results

The results are always published first to the designers, there will be a period given to both companies and the designers to get production rights and patents globally, a four month period to file for protection. Designers also receive help and support from the A ‘Design Award for filing and application to protect their designs. The winning designs will be exhibited in our Gallery and Museum in Italy. 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.

Organizer

The competitions are organized in association with the Salone del Designer, Association of Design, Museum of Design, OMC Design Studios, Design Faculty, Design PR Wire, Designer Press, Advanced Design Conference, ADF and Design League.

We invite all talents, designers, artists and architects to join and nominate their designs for A' Design Award -www.adesignaward.com

About A' Design Award and Competitions

A'Design Award and Competitions, aims to highlight the excellent qualifications of best designs, design concepts and design oriented products. A' Design Award and Competitions are organized and awarded annually and internationally in a wide range of categories, every month a particular competition is held.

Relevant Website

More info could be found at www.adesignaward.com