A' Academic Design Award

Good academic design deserves great recognition.

A' Academic Design Award is your tool of choice to advertise, publicize and promote your good academic designs, to make your great academic designs publicly known, appreciated and loved in all major countries, in all major languages, so that you and your good academic design work gets the righteous attention you truly deserve and entitled to.

A' Academic Design Award’s media exposure provides victorious designers with the chance to attain national and international fame, to honor them as well as to incentivize them, but most importantly, to help their work reach their true potential.

It is free to sign-up for A' Academic Design Award, it is free to upload your academic design and it is free, anonymous, confidential and obligation-free to obtain a preliminary score, before you nominate your work for A' Academic Design Award consideration.

FAME, PRESTIGE, PUBLICITY
Dominate Academic design Industry by winning a prestigious, respected and coveted award that gets you published and promoted worldwide.

TROPHY, CERTIFICATE, YEARBOOK
Claim your 3D Metal Printed Academic design Award Trophy, your Certificate of Academic design Excellence, Academic design Award-Winner Logo and Your Yearbook of Award-Winning Projects.

EXHIBITION, PR & GALA-NIGHT
Empower your academic designs with a well-designed, world-class public relations programme. Get exhibited in Italy and internationally. Get invited to the Gala-Night and Award Ceremony.

SEE THE WINNERS
A' Academic Design Award winner showcase is a source of amazing and unlimited inspiration and creativity for everyone interested in good academic design.

VEDI I VINCITORI
Affluent customers and design buyers regularly check A' Design Award winner showcase, featuring 16.577 winners in all categories, to find latest, trendsetting products, projects, arts and design.

JOIN ACADEMIC DESIGNS AWARD
Good academic design deserves great recognition, if you have a good academic design, nominate it for A' Academic Design Award, and you too may become a winner and get your design recognized, respected, promoted and advertised worldwide.

VISION
The A' Design Award aims to highlight, advertise and promote good academic design for a better future. A' Academic Design Award aims to channel the attention of press, interactive medias, design journalists, distributors and buyers to the award winners.

MISSION
Provide a fair, ethical, apolitical and competitive platform for companies, designers and innovators from all fields with different experience levels, different disciplines and market focus to compete on. A' Academic Design Award aims to provide a global audience for award winners to showcase their success and talents to.

ACTION
The A' Academic Design Award is an international indicator of quality and perfection in academic design, the A' Academic Design Award is recognized worldwide and takes the attention of design-oriented companies, professionals and interest groups.

WHO IS AWARDED?
The A' Academic Design Award is given to best academic designs. Submission is open to all concept stage works, prototypes as well as finished works and realized projects.

UNIQUE AWARD TROPHY
The A' Academic Design Award Trophy was designed to be realized by the newest production techniques in order to underline the innovation behind award-winning designs.

HIGHLIGHTING INNOVATION
The A' Academic Design Award Trophies are realized by 3D metal printing of stainless steel. Platinum and Gold Trophies and are electro plated in gold color.

WHAT IS AWARDED?
You can nominate original and innovative academic design work designed within the last 5 years; including but not limited to products, projects, services, experiences and designs..

WHO IS AWARDED?
The A' Academic Design Award is open to all entities, especially accepting nominations from brands, manufacturers, creative agencies, architecture offices and design studios..

WHEN IS AWARDED?
There are six entry periods, First, Early, Standard, Late, Last, Omega. It is recomended to join before the end of Late Entry Deadline, that is on February 28th. Results are announced every year, starting from April 15th to winners and May 1st to Public.

ACADEMIC DESIGN EXHIBITION
The Museum of Outstanding Design, the moving design museum was founded by A' Design Award & Competition in order to exhibit the award-winning academic designs in Italy and abroad, internationally.

ARE YOU IN THE MOOD?
Eligible A' Academic Design Award winners are provided free of charge exhibition space in the MOOD. No matter how big or small your academic design, it will be exhibited.

WE DO IT FOR YOU
If you are unable to send a physical version of your award-winning academic design, A' Academic Design Award will prepare a large poster presentation and exhibit your work on behalf of you.

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
A' Design Award works hard to exhibit all award-winning academic designs in multiple countries each year to ensure your academic design is properly exhibited worldwide.

TRAVELING THE CONTINENTS
For each international design exhibition, as well as for exhibition of your academic designs in Italy, you will be given a certificate of exhibition that may be relevant for your academic progression.

SHOWCASE YOUR ACADEMIC DESIGN
We will also provide you with photos of your works from the international academic design exhibitions we organize, and you may find these photos useful in promoting your academic design to new audiences.

40×40 EXHIBITIONS
40×40 Exhibitions are international good design exhibitions featuring outstanding works of 40 Designers from 40 Countries.

GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION
The A' Academic Design Award Winners are invited to take part in 40×40 Exhibitions by sending their works. Acceptance to 40×40 Exhibition is subject to the exhibition curator.

POWER TO YOU
The A' Academic Design Award laureates are also empowered to host and curate their own 40×40 Exhibitions, allowing them to take the center stage as the curators.

MUSEO DEL DESIGN
Museo del Design, the super contemporary design museum in Como, Italy will be accepting select A' Academic Design Award winner academic designs to its permanent collection.

AWARD WINNER'S EXHIBITION
All A' Academic Design Award Winners are exhibited at Museo del Design at the annual A' Design Award Winner's Exhibition, free of charge.

PUBLIC EXHIBITION
The A' Academic Design Award Exhibition at Museo del Design, located right behind Villa Olmo, allows the award-winning works to get exposed to affluent design-loving tourists visiting Como, Italy.

ACADEMIC DESIGN AWARD CERTIFICATE
Eligible award-winning academic designs are given a unique framed certificate, printed on heavy paper, featuring the name of the awarded work, achievement status and the designer.

CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE
The A' Academic Design Award Winners' Certificate is a great tool to communicate your outstanding achievement to your audiences. The A' Design Award Winners' Certificate is stamped, signed, framed and presented to you during gala-night.

FEATURES A QR CODE
The A' Academic Design Award Certificate features a QR Code which could be scanned by QR Code Readers in order to check the validity of the certificate.

WINNER ACADEMIC DESIGNS YEARBOOK
The A' Academic Design Award winners are published in the annual yearbook by DesignerPress in Italy. The yearbooks helps to disseminate the award-winning academic designs.

SEND TO PRESS
The Hardcopy version of the A' Design Award Winner Designs Yearbook is distributed to key press members, universities and design associations.

GOOD DESIGNS ARE PUBLISHED
All A' Academic Design Award Winner Designs are included in the winners' yearbook free of charge. Laureates of the A' Academic Design Award are all listed as co-editors of the book.

HARDCOVER & DIGITAL
The A' Academic Design Award Winners Annual Yearbook are available as hard-copy editions in addition to digital editions, designed, registered, printed and distributed in Italy, in English, registered with valid ISBN numbers.

HIGH-QUALITY PRINTING
The A' Academic Design Award books are full color digital printed on acid-free paper to preserve the design for long periods of time, and are great additions to any design library.

GET & CHECK IT
The hardcover versions of the winner's yearbooks are gifted to laureates of the A' Academic Design Award free of charge during gala-night and award ceremony. Yearbooks are available for sale at select retailers and museum shops.

THE GALA NIGHT
A' Academic Design Award organizes a unique gala night and award ceremony near the beautiful Como Lake in Italy for winners to celebrate their success.

A' GRAND CELEBRATION
Press Members, Industry Leads, Prominent Designers and Companies are all invited in order to create networking opportunities for winners.

WINNERS ARE INVITED
Eligible A' Academic Design Award winners are able to participate the Gala-Night and Award-Ceremony free of charge. Winners have also opportunity to order additional tickets for their guests.

RED CARPET ACADEMIC DESIGN EVENT
A' Academic Design Award gala night and award ceremony is super exclusive, black-tie, red-carpet event for academic design.

BLACK TIE ACADEMIC DESIGN EVENT
Very Important People, Ambassadors, Influential Journalists and Industry Juggernauts are provided VIP invitations to attend the A' Academic Design Award gala night and award ceremony.

FULL GLAMOUR ACADEMIC DESIGN EVENT
Each and every eligible A' Academic Design Award winners are called to stage to celebrate their success and to retrieve their academic design prize.

LA NOTTE PREMIO A'
Celebration occasion exclusively reserved for top A' Academic Design Award winners. Hosted in addition to our gala night to celebrate the "Prime Designer of the Year" title.

ARS FUTURA CULTURA
Designers meet to discuss strategies and policies to advance the design discipline. A' Academic Design Award winners may reserve their seat to join the meetings.

ARTS FOR FUTURE
Ars Futura Cultura means arts cultivate the future, that is why A' Design Award & Competition invest heavily in promoting good design, art and architecture every year.

WORLD DESIGN CONSORTIUM
World Design Consortium is a global design, architecture, innovation and engineering agency, winner of tens of thousands of awards.

GOOD IN ALL INDUSTRIES
World Design Consortium have uniquely specialized members in each and every industry, especially academic design, thanks to its world-class members representing the very brightest in all fields.

MEMBERS IN ALL COUNTRIES
Winners of the A' Academic Design Award are invited to join the World Design Consortium. WDC Partners rely on each other to expand the range of services and capabilities they offer professionally.

PATRONS & SPONSORS
Over the years, A' Academic Design Award have earned the patronage of many prestigious institutions. While the sponsors and patrons vary every year, the awards had been previously endorsed by institutions such as: BEDA, Bureau of European Design Associations, Politecnico di Milano University, Como Municipality Culture Department and Ragione Lombardia, among other respectable and reputable organizations.

MARKETING INVESTMENT
Taking part in the A' Academic Design Award is almost totally risk free through preliminary preliminary checking service that tells how good your work is prior to nomination. Preliminary score is provided completely free of charge to each entrant. The A' Academic Design Award does not ask contractually obliged further fees from its winners. The A' Academic Design Award spends most of its operating income for promoting its laureates, creating a significant advertisement value. Companies and designers use the A' Academic Design Award Winner Logo to promote themselves and attract new customers.

AWARD IN NUMBERS
The A' Academic Design Award is gaining significant popularity each year. Currently the A' Design Award has 194.905.672 page views, 181.730 members, 52.338 submissions, 1500 gala-night and exhibition participants, and winners from 122 countries. Updated numbers and statistics could be found at A' Design Award In-Numbers page. We believe numbers are important for designers to understand what it means to be a winner.

A' ACADEMIC DESIGN AWARD JURY
A' Design Award Jury is truly great and powerful, composed of 227 established professionals, influential press members and academics, each design is given importance and equal consideration during voting.

EXPERIENCED & BALANCED JURY
A' Design Award Jury although changes every year features a balanced composition of academic design professionals, journalists, scholars and entrepreneurs to ensure each academic design is voted fairly.

RESEARCH THROUGH VOTING
During the voting processes, A' Academic Design Award jury members fill a custom criteria survey, and indicate how the academic designs should be voted better in the future.

THE A' METHODOLOGY
A' Academic Design Award features a highly developed, ethical methodology for voting academic designs which makes use of standardised scoring, pre-established criteria and bias removal.

STANDARDISED SCORE
A' Academic Design Award Scores are standardised based on the a) The Weights of Criteria, b) Average Score of Jury Members, c) Average Scores of All Years.

INTUITIVE VOTING
A' Academic Design Award Jury votes online, therefore no jury member effects another jury member's votes, the voting panel is easy to use yet requires a careful analysis of the works to be voted.

RESEARCH DRIVEN
A' Design Award and Competition was developed as a part of a Ph.D. thesis at Politecnico di Milano, in Milan, Italy, after analysis of over 800 Design Competitions.

MORE RESEARCH
The A' Academic Design Award platform is constantly in development, and is improved thanks to survey results and through ongoing research in order to provide the most value for the competition participants.

FAIR COMPETITION
A' Academic Design Award is not affiliated with any subculture, politic group, interest group or institution, and the jury is equally free during voting, your academic design will be judged fairly.

ACADEMIC DESIGN PRIZE
The A' Academic Design Award Prize is composed of logo license, public relations, publicity and reputation services, as well as the winner's kit that contains physical items, such as trophy, yearbook and certificate.

ACADEMIC DESIGN AWARD PRIZE
Eligible A' Academic Design Award Winners will receive their personalized Winners' Kit Package that include printed and framed award certificate, 3D printed metal award trophy, A' Design Award Winners Yearbook, Award-winner's Manual Booklet, A3 Posters and A3 Certificate, and more.

FREE AT GALA NIGHT
The A' Academic Design Award Winners' Kit is free and given to all pro-edition winners at the Gala-Night & Exhibition. If you are unable to join the gala-night and award celebration events, you can order your kit to be shipped to your address.

ACADEMIC DESIGN AWARD WINNER LOGO
Winners of the A' Academic Design Award are provided a special license to use the academic design award-winner logo. The A' Academic Design Award winner logo can be freely implemented to product packages, marketing materials, communications and public relation campaigns to help differentiate award-winning academic designs.

AVAILABLE IN MANY FORMATS
The A' Academic Design Award Winners' Logo is available in many formats and can be incorporated into all sorts of advertisements free of charge, and can be used freely by your agents and dealers with regards to your award-winning academic designs.

LIFETIME USAGE
The Academic design Award Winners' Logo is provided free of charge to all A' Academic Design Award winners, and A' Design Award and Competitions grants unlimited usage to winners, without yearly fees, without recurrent costs.

ADDED VALUE
A' Academic Design Award Winner Logo helps you communicate the excellent design values embedded in your academic design to your customers, consumers and clients.

IN COMMUNICATIONS
To leverage their award-winner status and get further benefits, A' Academic Design Award Winners use the logos in their communications prominently and visibly.

MAKES THE DIFFERENCE
The A' Design Award Winner Logo's is expected to create a positive impact during a client's decision towards you and your work, and is designed to orient consumers and customers towards purchase of your academic design.

SYMBOL OF EXCELLENCE
The A' Academic Design Award Winner Logo is an excellent symbol to communicate your design excellence, quality and capabilities.

FOR ALL INDUSTRIES
There is a distinct award-winner logo for each and every industry. The academic design award winner logo was designed following industry best practices, and taking into consideration historical use and heritage.

EXCLUSIVE FOR WINNERS
Many awards require annual payments for unlimited logo use license. A' Academic Design Award winners are able to use their award-winner logos unlimitedly and free of charge without annual licensing fees.

DESIGN MEDIATION
Being an A' Academic Design Award winner is just the beginning, eligible laureates are provided with complimentary mediation and brokerage services for selling their conceptual designs.

GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT
Designers are kind, polite individuals who might have difficulty in making contracts with businesses, but we will be there to help.

HELP WITH CONTRACTS
A' Design Award, together with Design Mediators, provides support to eligible designers to help form legal contracts with companies who are interested in buying design concepts.

SALONE DEL DESIGNER
A' Design Award has founded the Salone del Designer, with the sole purpose to provide a platform for award winners to sell their designs.

SELL ACADEMIC DESIGN CONCEPTS
A' Academic Design Award Winner Designers can set a sales price and also customize their contracts for selling their award-winning designs through the Salone del Designer platform.

LIST YOUR DESIGNS FOR SALE
The Salone del Designer platform access and sales listing service is provided free of charge to all winners, however only award-winning designs can be listed for sale.

THE DESIGNMEGASTORE
At DesignMegaStore winner designers and companies can sell any of their designs or products, not only winning entries.

SELL GOOD ACADEMIC DESIGN
DesignerMegaStore normally requires a registration fee and annual listing fees to sell your academic design. Registration and listing is provided free of charge to all winners without annual fees.

%0 SALES COMMISSION
The DesignMegaStore is not just free for winners, but also does not take any commissions from the sales of designs, products or projects. You keep all the revenues.

JOIN DESIGN TENDERS
Not just sell designs; but join design tenders to give a price quote for design and production of custom academic design products, services and more for international buyers.

SELL HIGH-LEVEL SERVICES
Are you a manufacturer? Give price quotes to big buyers for turnkey design and manufacturing solutions. Are you a designer? Find high-profile requests.

EXCLUSIVE SERVICE
The BuySellDesign network is exclusive to A' Design Award Winners, who wish to provide academic design services to worldwide clients.

Winners' Services

A unique public relations campaign will be made for the Academic Design Design Award winners. Your work and your details will be communicated to thousands of press contacts, and also we will prepare a media kit for you. You can use this professionally prepared media kit to contact local press contacts. The winning design and the designer or the design studio will also be featured in the design annual and yearbook which is distributed by Design PR Wire to key figures in the design industry such as high-profile editors, press members and multi-national companies.

PROOF OF DESIGN CREATION
Can you prove that you are indeed the original creator of your work? The Proof of Creation certificate given by A' Design Award can be useful.

DULY SIGNED AND TIMESTAMPED
The Proof of Creation document is a signed and timestamped paper to help you prove that at a given time, you had the design concept in your hands.

FREE & EASY TO OBTAIN
A' Design Award provides an easy way to obtain the Proof of Design Creation document, free for all participants. Please note that this is not a patent or registration.

GOOD PR SERVICES
A' Academic Design Award winners are provided with numerous public relations and promotion services through DesignPRWire to celebrate their success.

BEHIND THE CURTAINS
The scope of PR Services is not just digital, throughout the year, DesignPRWire visits tradefairs and introduces winner academic designs to design-oriented companies.

CONNECT WITH PRESS
With services such as press release preparation and distribution, all free of charge, A' Academic Design Award increases your connectivity with the media and provides you with exposure throughout the year.

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PRESS RELEASE PREPARATION
A' Academic Design Award prepares a press release for all winner academic designs, in addition to allowing winners to upload their own releases to our platform for international press release distribution.

PRESS RELEASE DISTRIBUTION
Academic design Award Winner press releases are distributed by DesignPRWire to a wide range of press members including both the traditional and online digital media.

IT IS FREE & HIGH RES.
Electronic multi-media press release preparation and distribution services are provided to all A' Academic Design Award winners automatically and without any payments.

DESIGNER INTERVIEWS
A' Academic Design Award publishes interviews with the award winning designers at designerinterviews.com and all academic design award winners are eligible for complimentary interviews.

PICKED BY THE PRESS
Designer Interviews are also available at A' Design Award Website and are part of the Electronic Press Kit that are distributed to media members and journalists.

USED BY JOURNALISTS
Designer Interviews are provided in a way to encourage usage without attribution to A' Academic Design Award, this helps the press members to write their articles faster.

ACADEMIC DESIGN INTERVIEWS
A' Academic Design Award publishes interviews regarding award winning academic designs at design-interviews.com, and the interview service is provided free of charge for all academic design award winners.

DESIGNED FOR THE PRESS
Academic design Interviews, which are also available at A' Design Award Website, are part of the Electronic Press Kit that are distributed to journalists.

INTEGRATED BY THE PRESS
Design Interviews platform was designed in a way to incentivize coverage by the press without attribution to A' Academic Design Award, to help journalists write feature stories faster.

DESIGN LEGENDS
A' Academic Design Award publishes interviews with legendary designers at design-legends.com and as a laureate, we would be honor to feature you and your award winning academic design.

LEGENDARY INTERVIEWS
Design Legends interviews help award-winning designers express themselves and explain their academic designs better to worldwide audiences in long text format.

LEGENDARY COMMUNICATION.
Design Legends interviews are included in your Electronic Press Kits that are distributed to academic design media, and are also available to you for your own communication.

MAGNIFICENT DESIGNERS
A' Academic Design Award publishes interviews of Magnificent designers at magnificentdesigners.com, award-winners are all contacted to schedule for an interview and talk about their award-winning academic designs.

MAGNIFICENT MEDIA
Magnificent Designers platform allows laureates to communicate their perspectives on academic designs with easy to follow questions and answers format.

LOVED BY ACADEMIC DESIGN LOVERS
Magnificent Designers, along with other interview platforms provide design-oriented audiences rich and high quality knowledge and wisdom into philosophy of designers behind original and creative academic designs.

Explore Great Design Interviews

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IDNN NETWORK
International Design News Network helps your academic designs get international coverage through publications in all major languages.

REACH THE WORLD
IDNN publications reaches almost all of the world population in their native language, and helps you communicate your academic designs to audiences far and beyond.

IN 108 LANGUAGES
IDNN Network publishes award-winning academic design news in 108 languages, in 108 publications, for true global outreach.

BDCN NETWORK
Best Design Creative Network is all about communicating your excellence in academic design to your locality. BDCN helps you get discovered when best academic design in your region is searched for.

122 SHOWCASES
There are 122 BDCN websites, each specialized in a distinct geographic area. Each BDCN Network website showcase the best of the best academic design from a specific region.

PROMOTE YOUR ACADEMIC DESIGN
When you win the A' Academic Design Award you will be listed in your local BDCN publication aimed to attract local clients, consumers, customers and buyers to your academic design.

BEST DESIGNERS NETWORK
Best Designers Platform is all about delivering due respects, recognition and good reputation rightfully deserved by A' Academic Design Award laureates. Winners of the A' Academic Design Award are listed in the Best Designers Network.

ACCLAIMED AND BRILLIANT
Get recognized, respected and published among other acclaimed and brilliant academic design masters, and get found when good academic design is searched for.

FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL
A' Academic Design Award winners, with their outstanding and excellent designs deserve all the fame and influence. Getting listed at Best Designers Platform, is only one of the many perks of winning the A' Academic Design Award.

DXGN NETWORK
Design News Exchange Network spotlights, publishes and features good academic designs worldwide. DXGN features and publishes articles on award-winning good academic design.

PROMOTE YOUR GOOD DESIGN
DXGN is composed of 127 amazing magazines that feature award-winning designers and their work. A' Academic Design Award winners are published.

REACH GREAT AUDIENCES
A' Academic Design Award winners are provided free editorial coverage and free news articles featuring their academic designs at the DXGN Design News Network.

GOOD NETWORK
Good Design News Network is composed of 50 publications that feature good design in different industries. GOOD Network is composed of many publications, each specialized in a given industry.

ACADEMIC DESIGN PUBLICATION
For each and every industry, there is a distinct GOOD Network publication that will feature, spotlight and highlight your award-winning works. Get your academic design published in the GOOD Network.

GOOD DESIGN SHOWCASE
Good design deserves great recognition. Winners of A' Academic Design Award will be prominently featured and published in the GOOD Design News Network.

NEWSROOM
A' Academic Design Award provides many tools for press members to reach good academic design content. Accredited journalists are given access to exclusive interviews, academic design images and press releases.

REACH ACADEMIC DESIGN JOURNALISTS
A' Academic Design Award Newsroom empowers journalists to interview award winners. Journalists can download press releases and high-resolution images of awarded academic designs.

DESIGNED FOR MEDIA COVERAGE
A' Academic Design Award Newsroom provides academic design journalists with ready to use images, interviews and content. A' Academic Design Award Newsroom allows journalists to easily feature your award-winning academic design and provide you with fast media coverage.

DESIGNERS.ORG
Designers.org premium portfolio service is provided to all A' Academic Design Award winners, free of charge. Award winners use their Designers.org premium portfolio to showcase their award-winning academic designs to design-oriented audiences worldwide.

PREMIUM PORTFOLIO
Designers.org is highly selective for the quality of academic designs that are accepted, showcased and exhibited in their platform; only award-winning academic designs are accepted for showcase promotion.

SHOWCASE AND EXHIBIT
Get your work exhibited and showcased beautifully. By winning the A' Academic Design Award you will get a premium portfolio created for you, without you doing anything, we will list all your award-winning academic designs on your behalf at designers.org platform.

SECURITY COMES FIRST
The Security of your submissions, your personal data and academic designs is of uttermost importance to A' Academic Design Award. Your password is secured with the SHA algorithm and even we do not know your password. Furthermore, your connections are secured and encrypted with SSL.

CONCEALED CATEGORIES
Normally all A' Academic Design Award results are public and heavily promoted, however A' Academic Design Award allows you to make a concealed nomination. If you make a concealed nomination, your work is not published if it is awarded but you can still use the winner logo. The concealed nomination method is relevant for patent-pending designs and trade-secrets.

CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT
A' Academic Design Award is continuously improved to provide your award-winning academic designs with new and exciting promotion and publicity opportunities. Every year, we do our best to refine and improve the A' Academic Design Award Prize to serve you better.

How to Participate in Academic Design Competition 2022 - 2023

Joining the Academic Design Design Competition is easy; first create an account at the A' Design Award and Competition, login to your account and finally submit your work. When you enter your work, your work will be checked by the preliminary jury for its presentation. Afterwards, your design will be assigned a preliminary score from ten (best) to zero (worst), your work may also be marked approved or rejected to take part in the competition. If your entry is approved you can continue nominating your design for Academic Design Awards consideration. If your entry is rejected, you are suggested to update your presentation before nominating your design to Academic Design Award.

DESIGNER RANKINGS
A' Design Award and Competition publishes Designer Rankings that is easily accessible by public and media. The Rankings feature the number of awards won by each designer and total rankings. Top 10, Top 100 and Top 1000 Designers can be accessed.

HIGH-RANKING DESIGNERS
Designer Rankings allow potential customers to find high-ranking designers. High-ranking design teams allow their designer ranking status to impress clients and customers. Journalists check Designer Rankings and discover good designers.

RISE IN RANKINGS
A' Academic Design Award Winners are included in the Designer Rankings, each award-winning academic design contributes a point towards better and higher ranking. Designer Rankings help award-winning designers and their awarded designs gain exposure.

WORLD DESIGN RANKINGS
A' Design Award and Competition publishes the World Design Rankings that ranks countries and regions based on the number of award-winning designers from each territory. Journalists use World Design Rankings to find best academic design talent from your region.

PRESTIGE AND HONOUR
Each country and region further lists the best brands, designers, artists and architects within the territory. For each A' Academic Design Award you win, you will be increasing your regional score in the global World Design Rankings, bringing honor and prestige to your region.

THE FIRST AND ONLY
World Design Rankings is a very inclusive ranking system for design, with representation from all major industries and territories. Obtaining a high rank in the World Design Rankings will help you communicate your academic design excellence to journalists and buyers from a unique perspective.

AIBA
Alliance of International Business Associations. Free membership for award winning associations, organizations, institutions and clubs.

ISPM
International Society of Product Manufacturers. Free membership for award winning product manufacturers and companies.

IBSP
International Bureau of Service Providers. Free membership for award winning businesses and institutions in tertiary sector of the economy.

IAD
International Association of Designers. Free membership opportunity for A' Academic Design Award laureates.

ICCI
International Council of Creative Industries. Free membership for award winning businesses and institutions related to creativity.

IDC
International Design Club. Free membership for award winning creative agencies, architecture offices, artists workshops and designer studios.

FREE PRELIMINARY SCORE
A' Academic Design Award will review your submission and inform you how good your academic design is prior to nomination. You will get a score from zero (0) to ten (10). Ten (10) is the highest preliminary score. Preliminary score service is provided completely free of charge to you and is confidential.

FREE PRELIMINARY REVIEW
Preliminary score service is provided to you free of charge. Preliminary score is confidential. When you submit your work to A' Academic Design Award, your submission will be reviewed, and you will be provided a numerical preliminary score together with suggestions on how to improve your design presentation.

FREE ACADEMIC DESIGN REVIEW
You will get your academic design reviewed for free and you will learn how good your academic design actually is. If you get a high preliminary score for your academic design you may want to nominate your academic design for A' Academic Design Award consideration.

SOCIAL MEDIA PROMOTION
A' Academic Design Award winners are featured in social media platforms. A' Academic Design Award have created many tools to help you advertise and promote your academic design in social media.

ACADEMIC DESIGN PUBLICITY
Reach out to your prospective customers and connect with your existing clients in social media. A' Academic Design Award winners benefit from exclusive social media promotions created to promote award-winning academic designs.

PR AGENCY FOR ACADEMIC DESIGN
If you need a public relations agency for academic design, you will be happy to learn that A' Academic Design Award Prize includes many public relations and promotions services. Public relations services are provided free of charge to all A' Academic Design Award winners.

DESIGN OF THE DAY
Design of the Day initiative aims to create social awareness for a distinct award-winning academic design each day. Design of the Day is promoted in hundreds of publications as well as social media.

DESIGNER OF THE DAY
Designer of the Day initiative aims to create social awareness for a distinct academic design award winner each day. Designer of the Day is promoted in hundreds of publications as well as social media.

INTERVIEW OF THE DAY
Design Interview of the Day initiative aims to create social awareness for a distinct award-winning academic design interview each day. Design Interview of the Day is promoted in hundreds of publications as well as social media.

DESIGN LEGEND OF THE DAY
Legend of the Day initiative aims to boost and promote a distinct academic design award-winner in social media as well as at hundreds of magazines and publications.

DESIGN TEAM OF THE DAY
Design Team of the Day initiative aims to boost and promote an award-winning academic design team in new media as well as at hundreds of magazines and publications.

HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY
Highlight of the Day initiative helps us promote your academic design and your image as an award-winner in social media, as well as hundreds of magazines and publications.

CASE STUDY
As a business, you might already be spending tons of money on the advertisements, you already know the costs & prize for publications, advertorial and editorial placements but most importantly you know it is best when customers find you, when you are the spotlight.

GET PUBLICITY
Winning the A' Academic Design Award could help you secure some editorial space at both the traditional, new and social media and could create free publicity that your academic designs very much deserves. Winning the A' Academic Design Award could help you attract prospective clients and customers to your business.

ADVERTISE ACADEMIC DESIGN
A' Academic Design Award provide its winners with really good PR services, electronic and traditional press release preparation and distribution, mass media syndication and access to an exclusive advertisement network. Winning the A' Academic Design Award will help you advertise your academic designs easily.

AWARD SPONSORSHIP
The A' Academic Design Award offers many scholarship programs to provide opportunity for start-ups and young designers to take part in the competition free of charge with their designs. The purpose of these sponsorship programs is to make the academic design competition more fair, ethical and accessible.

UNIVERSAL ACCESS
By taking part in our award sponsorship programs, you can earn free entry tickets to nominate your academic designs for A' Academic Design Award consideration. There are many sponsorship programs available, some of them are very simple to take part.

DESIGN AMBASSADOR PROGRAM
Design Ambassador program is one of the many academic design award scholarship programs we offer. If you perform a few simple tasks to help us create an awareness for good design, you may be granted free entry tickets to nominate your academic designs for awards consideration.

DESIGN TRANSLATIONS
A' Academic Design Award winner designs are translated to almost all major languages free of charge. A' Academic Design Award award-winning academic designs are published and promoted in all major languages.

TRANSLATION PLATFORM
In addition to the free of charge translation services provided by the A' Academic Design Award, award winners could further provide translations of their work in their native languages.

UNIVERSAL REACH
Reach majority of the world population in their native language. Get your academic design promoted to buyers, journalists, businesses and design enthusiasts that speak foreign languages. Help the world discover your academic design.

COMPETITION CATEGORIES
A' Design Award & Competition features many competition categories in order to reach the widest audience possible. Large number of categories allow designers and brands from different industries to compete in a truly international multi-disciplinary competition.

WIDE REACH
Research indicates that the worth and value of an award increases proportionally to its reach. Having a large number of competition categories allows the A' Design Award to reach a large number of people from diverse backgrounds.

OPEN TO ALL ACADEMIC DESIGNS
A' Academic Design Award is open to nomination of all types of academic designs. You can nominate academic designs already realized and released to the market. You can also nominate academic design concepts and prototypes that are not yet released to the market.

Organized by A' Design Awards.

A' Design Award has over 100+ competition categories. — Art #22 Artist Awards — Office Appliance #45 Blue Good Awards — Generative #73 Generative Art Awards — Machinery #54 Machinery Award — 3D Printing #97 Makers Award — Trade #88 Wholesale Design Awards — Baby Products #51 Baby Product Awards — Jewelry #49 Badge Design Awards — Robotics #33 Domestic Robot Awards — Furniture #1 Chair and Table Awards — Photography Equipment #71 Photography Device Design Awards — Architecture #3 Airport Architecture Awards are some of the accolades organized by the A' Design Awards.

RESPECT ACADEMIC DESIGN
The A' Academic Design Award respects designers and companies who take part in the accolades. The academic design awards logo and publicity services are provided free of charge to all eligible winners. Academic design award trophies, yearbooks and certificates are distributed free of charge during the gala night to eligible winners.

WINNERS' PACK
A' Academic Design Award winners are eligible to obtain the A' Academic design Prize which includes public relations, advertising and promotion services. A' Academic Design Award winners are given a broad logo license to promote their academic designs worldwide as award-winning academic designs.

WINNERS ARE WINNERS
If you win the the A' Academic Design Award, you do not have to pay any contractually obliged further fees. A' Academic Design Award does not force its laureates to pay so called winner fees.

PRESTIGE SYSTEM
The A' Academic Design Award grants you access to its unique A' Prestige System that provides you with a special opportunity to benefit from very exclusive intangible and tangible benefits.

PRESTIGE TOKENS
Winners of the A' Academic Design Award are able to accumulate A' Prestige Tokens that could be exchanged for a plethora of privileged benefits and highly exclusive services.

GOLDEN TICKETS
Having your name written and showcased on the walls of a contemporary design museum in large gold letters, and to have your academic design accepted to a permanent collection of a design museum are only some of the perks that may be obtained by using your A' Prestige Tokens.

A' DESIGN STAR
The A' Design Star is a special design recognition programme that is aimed to recognize and reward time-proven academic design excellence.

A' STAR EMBLEM
A' Design Star Emblem is a very special symbol awarded to multiple award-winning designers, brands, innovators, companies and agencies that are able to repeatedly and consistently create good academic designs.

A' STAR GUIDE
The A' Design Star guide lists the A' Design Star recognized 8-Star, 7-Star and 6-Star designers. A' Design Star is aimed to help large enterprises and brands to find reliable academic design providers.

WORLD DESIGN RATINGS
A' Academic Design Award winners will be listed at World Design Ratings, together with their WDC-Rank, Designer Title and Designer Honorifics.

DESIGNER HONORIFICS
A' Academic Design Award winners will be able to obtain respectable honorific titles based on their creative merits and tenets, including but not limited to Master and Grand-Master designations.

HONOURING DESIGNERS
Your designer honorific title serves more than just to praise your excellent skills, they serve to signal your audiences to treat you with the uttermost respect you deserve as an outstanding designer.

VIDEO INTERVIEWS
Select A' Academic Design Award winners will be eligible to have a video interview published about their profile and award-winning academic designs.

SPOTLIGHT VIDEOS
Eligible laureates will have the opportunity to get their award-winning academic designs professionally spotlighted and video-captured.

VIDEO CHANNELS
Your Video Interviews and Spotlight Videos, will be published and actively promoted at our online video channels to help you reach new audiences.

RESOLUTE MOTTO
The motto of the A' Academic Design Award is "Ars Futura Cultura" i.e. Arts Cultivate the Future, Arts for the Culture of Future. We believe that the future is shaped by arts, design and technology, thus there is need of good academic design for a better future.

DESIGNED FOR DESIGNERS
The A' Academic Design Award is created to bring together designers, companies, audiences interested in academic design and academic design journalists. A' Academic Design Award aims to highlight good academic design products and services to design-oriented audiences.

THE MYTH, THE LEGEND
Winning the A' Academic Design Award is a certificate of excellence for designers, a proof of quality for companies. Having the A' Academic Design Award attracts the eyes of design-oriented audiences worldwide.

Academic Design Competition

In a world where there are immense amount of projects released yearly, The Academic Design Design Award aims to bring forward the unique qualifications of top Academic Design designs and Academic Design design concepts by supporting them with advertising and attention. The A' Academic Design Award is an international academic design competition with an aim to recognize, spotlight and promote good academic designs worldwide. The A' Academic Design Prize includes many items such as Academic Design Award Winner Logo, Academic Design Trophy, Academic Design Excellence Certificate as well as public relations and marketing for promoting awarded academic designs.

5 TIERS OF HEAVEN
A' Academic Design Award is always awarded in five tiers: Platinum A' Academic Design Award, Gold A' Academic Design Award, Silver A' Academic Design Award, Bronze A' Academic Design Award and Iron A' Academic Design Award. These award tiers are reserved for winner academic designs.

5 LEVELS OF RECOGNITION
In addition to award levels, there is also honorable A' Academic Design Award Runner-up and A' Academic Design Award Participant status, the A' Academic Design Award Nominee tag, together with A' Academic Design Award Withdrawn and the A' Academic Design Award Disqualified status.

FORESIGHT TO YOU
When you sign-up and upload your academic design to the A' Academic Design Award you gain professional insight; preliminary jurors will score your work from zero (0) to ten (10), free of charge, and completely confidential, you will know well in advance what to expect if you nominate your work.

GOOD AWARD
A' Academic Design Award gives a lot of importance to promote and advertise award winning academic designs adequately. We believe that a good academic design award should offer more than a logo, a good academic design competition should provide more than a certificate, a good academic design prize is more than a trophy.

ENGINEERED
Every single element that makes the A' Academic Design Award for good academic design was synthetically designed and engineered to help your award-winning academic design reach its true potential, to help you find new markets and audiences.

COVETED PRIZE
Academic design award winner logo, academic design award trophy, academic design award winners book, academic design award winners certificate, academic design award gala-night, academic design award exhibition, and marketing services for good academic design. awaits eligible winners.

YOUNG DESIGN PIONEER
Young Design Pioneer is a special recognition granted by International Design Club to a young yet highly professional and creative designer under the age of 40.

SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Young A' Academic Design Award laureates are eligible to be nominated for the Young Design Pioneer title and obtain their special certificate and trophy to celebrate the occasion.

HIGHLIGHTING POTENTIAL
Young Design Pioneer recipients are also given the All-Plus Trophy, featuring a plus sign in all six perspectives, highlighting the immense, multi-dimensional creative and professional growth capacity.

INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
Innovator of the Year title is a special recognition granted by Alliance of International Business Associations to a select A' Academic Design Award winner enterprise that implements good design as a core value in their business.

RECOGNIZING GOOD DESIGN
Innovator of the Year title recognizes the use of good design in business to create superior products and projects that benefit the society, customers, clients as well as employees.

INNOVATION TROPHY
Innovator of the Year recipients are given the Innovation Trophy, to highlight, recognize and celebrate their stellar innovation, creativity and expansional growth, as well as to thank them for making the world a better place with their good design.

DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Designer of the Year is title the highest achievement granted by International Association of Designers, to award-winning designers to celebrate their success. Every year, only one Prime Designer of the Year title is granted.

SIGNED BY MASTERS
Designer of the Year Certificate is signed by 40 world-class master designers. Obtaining the Prime Designer of the Year title is a great honour.

SPECIAL METAL TROPHY
Prime Designer of the Year award recipients are also given a special metal trophy to celebrate their success. A' Academic Design Award winners have a chance to get elected as the Prime Designer of the Year.

ACADEMIC DESIGN AWARD TROPHY
Omega Particle is the name of the trophy given to A' Academic Design Award winners. The A' Academic Design Award Trophy represent infinite possibilities of a design process.

SOFT ORGANIC INTERIOR
The soft organic curves within the A' Academic Design Award Trophy signify our emotions. the emotional content that is implemented in design process.

HARD GEOMETRIC EXTERIOR
The hard geometric edges of the A' Academic Design Award Trophy signify logic, the scientific content that is embedded in design process.

MEDIA PARTNERS
A' Academic Design Award has 46 media partners this year, when we talk about Media Partners, these are different from the list of publications we reach via pr campaigns or press releases; these are the list of publications that will definetely publish a selection of our winners.

DIRECT EXPOSURE
By taking part and nominating your work, you gain direct exposure to our Media Partners, which combined, have more than hundred million page views annually, your academic design will have a chance to tap on their audiences, and get your work seen by the millions. We had already provided 31.455 media placements for our laureates.

INDIRECT EXPOSURE
In addition to getting your work seen by 46 Media Partners, your academic design will also get an opportunity to be discovered by 500.000+ journalists, editors and media members that receive our press releases.

PRIME EDITIONS
In addition to the A' Design Award yearbooks, the A' Design Award winners get an exclusive opportunity to get their work published in the Prime Edition books. The Prime Editions are ultra-premium, extra-large, carefully curated, high-quality, outstanding photobooks that publish award-winning excellent designs, original art and innovative architecture worldwide.

YOUR OWN DESIGN BOOK
Prime Editions, anthology and monograph books, come in three types. The Designer Prime Editions are books that publish award-winning works of just one designer. Plus, The Category Prime Editions publish award-winning works from a given design award category. Finally, The Locality Prime Editions publish award-winning works from distinct territories.

PREMIUM PUBLICATION
Winners of the A' Design Award will have the exclusive opportunity to have their award-winning works published in the Prime Editions publications. Top award-winning designers will have a special opportunity to have a book dedicated to just their own works.

BIG BRANDS
The A' Academic Design Award is for everybody, but big brands know better how to use the academic design award efficiently for their benefits.

FAMOUS COMPANIES
Enterprises especially use the academic design award logo, academic design award-winning status to promote sales, and further use the academic design award to celebrate success of their R&D teams.

MAKE USE OF A' AWARD.
Companies also benefit from the international publicity, advertising and marketing services provided to academic design award-winners. You too can enjoy all these advertising and promotion benefits if you win the A' Design Award.

MAIN IMAGE
To take part in A' Academic Design Award you need one primary main image that represents your academic design. Your academic design image shall be placed in a canvas that is 3600 x 3600 pixels, and should be a 72 dpi resolution, jpeg file.

OPTIONAL IMAGES
If you wish to represent your academic design better, we would further recommend that you upload up to 4 optional images, each placed on a 1800 x 1800 pixel canvas, your images should have 72 dpi resolution, and should be jpeg files.

OPTIONAL PDF, LINK OR VIDEO
Finally, you will have an opportunity to support your academic design presentation with an optional video presentation, a private access link or a PDF document up to 40 pages, accessible only to jurors.

TAKE PART STEP #1
Register to A' Design Award & Competition for taking part in A' Academic Design Award. During academic design award registration, you will type in your name, surname and email. Confirm your e-mail address after registration to fully activate your profile. It is free to create an account.

TAKE PART STEP #2
Login to A' Design Award website. Upload your academic design. You can upload as many academic designs as you like. It is free and very easy to upload your designs.

TAKE PART STEP #3
Select the award category that you wish to compete for and nominate your academic design for the A' Academic Design Award before the competition deadline.

Join A' Academic Design Award today for fame, prestige and publicity as well as to promote and advertise your name and your excellency in academic design. Position and market yourself as a leader in academic design industry.

References and Sources.

Lists of award-winning projects featured, from first row to last row, from left to right, in order of appearance: — 1 #76707 Bariatric Project Wheelchair — 2 #102184 WF01 Wheelchair — 3 #58126 Phenotype 002 Bracelet — 4 #24667 Vertical + Horizontal Farm Tower Farming and Crop distribution tower — 5 #39467 Maxplo Tire — 6 #137787 WF02 Wheelchair — 7 #49405 Eatwell Assistive Tableware Set — 8 #67565 CityWays Data Visualization — 9 #50635 Titanium Choker Parametric Design — 10 #114604 Flexo InForm Assembly Pavilion — 11 #130038 Shape Grammars Book — 12 #76249 Vapor Breeze Tea Set — 13 #57860 The Breathing House dynamic facade of sliding terraces — 14 #65401 Photoptosis installation — 15 #127554 Tipit Cashless Tipping Device — 16 #27591 3rd Dimension Airship — 17 #87517 UNAwheel Mini Wheelchair Power Addon — 18 #98037 Megalopolis X Shenzhen Super Headquarter — 19 #31501 Bariatric Project Wheelchair — 20 #55245 WF01 Wheelchair — 21 #28801 Phenotype 002 Bracelet — 22 #91365 Vertical + Horizontal Farm Tower Farming and Crop distribution tower — 23 #51249 Maxplo Tire — 24 #63216 WF02 Wheelchair — 25 #29456 Eatwell Assistive Tableware Set — 26 #124362 CityWays Data Visualization — 27 #104473 Titanium Choker Parametric Design — 28 #99616 Flexo InForm Assembly Pavilion — 29 #66023 Shape Grammars Book — 30 #71721 Vapor Breeze Tea Set — 31 #76944 The Breathing House dynamic facade of sliding terraces — 32 #63001 Photoptosis installation — 33 #117296 Tipit Cashless Tipping Device — 34 #49675 3rd Dimension Airship — 35 #63742 UNAwheel Mini Wheelchair Power Addon — 36 #103479 Megalopolis X Shenzhen Super Headquarter — 37 #119617 Tour Crutch — 38 #56076 Q series wheelchair lift — 39 #33482 Hands on Search Future Advertising — 40 #39889 One-Handed Plate Set Tableware — 41 #50936 Cilllia 3D Hair Generator — 42 #54267 Textura Braille Smartphone — 43 #55868 MOOR wheelchair suiteable for interiors — 44 #56977 Amheba Bookcase — 45 #27540 Pearl Atlantis Floating Resort and Marine Observatory — 46 #39628 Reflect Dynamic design generation system — 47 #106928 X Transport Cargo Transportation — 48 #41720 Ocean Window Dubai Maritime Museum — 49 #98056 Ancer Dynamic Wheelchair — 50 #112156 Lamellae Multifunctional Shelving — 51 #36574 Talk2Me Deaf Communication App — 52 #45387 Afa Advance Firefighting Apparatus — 53 #73153 n01 Race Car — 54 #120086 Self Service Checkout SCO.