A' Kitchen Tool Award

Good kitchen tool deserves great recognition.

A' Kitchen Tool Award is your tool of choice to advertise, publicize and promote your good kitchen tools, to make your great kitchen tools publicly known, appreciated and loved in all countries, in all languages, so that you and your good kitchen tool work gets the righteous attention you truly deserve and entitled to.

A' Kitchen Tool 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' Kitchen Tool Award, it is free to upload your kitchen tool and it is free, anonymous, confidential and obligation-free to obtain a preliminary score, before you nominate your work for A' Kitchen Tool Award consideration.

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

TROPHY, CERTIFICATE, YEARBOOK
Claim your 3D Metal Printed Kitchen tool Award Trophy, your Certificate of Kitchen tool Excellence and Your Yearbook of Award-Winning Projects.

EXHIBITION, PR & GALA-NIGHT
Empower your kitchen tools with an unmatched, world-class public relations programme. Get exhibited in Italy and internationally. Get invited to the Gala. Get famous.

SEE THE WINNERS
A' Kitchen Tool Award winner showcase is a source of amazing and unlimited inspiration and creativity, for designers and design lovers alike.

VEDI I VINCITORI
Affluent customers and design buyers regularly check A' Design Award winner showcase, featuring 16.576 winners in all categories, to find latest, trendsetting products, projects, arts and design.

YOU TOO CAN BE A WINNER.
Good kitchen tool deserves great recognition, if you have a good kitchen tool, nominate it for A' Kitchen Tool Award, and you too may become a winner and get your design recognized, respected, promoted and advertised worldwide.

VISION
Highlight, Advertise & Advocate good design, designers and design oriented companies for a better future. A' Kitchen Tool Award aims to channel the attention of press, interactive medias, design critics, distributors and buyers to the award winners.

MISSION
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. A' Kitchen Tool Award aims to provide a global audience for award winners to showcase their success and talents to.

ACTION
The A' Kitchen Tool Award is not just an award, it is the indicator of quality and perfection in design, the A' Kitchen Tool Award is recognized worldwide and takes the attention of design oriented companies, professionals and interest groups.

WHO IS AWARDED?
The A' Kitchen Tool Award is given to best designs; all concept stage, prototype and finished works are considered.

UNIQUE TROPHY
The A' Kitchen Tool Award Trophy was designed to be realized by the newest production techniques in order to underline the innovative content of winners.

HIGLIGHTING INNOVATION
The A' Kitchen Tool 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 kitchen tool work designed within the last 5 years; including but not limited to kitchenware, kitchen utensils, tableware, drinkware, culinary appliances, hospitality products, catering equipment, hotel, restaurant, cafe, catering, bar products, solutions, culinary products, beverages and their packaging and communication.

WHO IS AWARDED?
The A' Kitchen Tool Award is open to all, especially accepting nominations from industrial designers, ceramic artists, glass artists, metalsmiths and kitchenware manufacturers.

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.

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

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

WE DO IT FOR YOU
If you are unable to send a physical version of your award-winning kitchen tool, A' Kitchen Tool 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 kitchen tools multiple countries each year to ensure your kitchen tool is respectfully and fully exhibited worldwide.

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

SHOWCASING YOUR WORKS
We will also provide you with photos of your works from the international kitchen tool exhibitions we organize, and you may find these photos useful in promoting your kitchen tool to your audiences.

40X40 EXHIBITIONS
40x40 Exhibitions are international good design exhibitions featuring outstanding works of 40 Designers from 40 Countries.

PROVIDES MORE EXPOSURE
The A' Kitchen Tool Award Winners are invited to take part in 40x40 Exhibitions by sending their works, acceptence is subject to the exhibition curator.

POWER TO YOU
The A' Kitchen Tool Award laureates are also empowered to host and curate 40x40 Exhibitions, allowing them to take the center stage as the curators.

MUSEO DEL DESIGN
Museo del Design, the super contemporary design museum located in Como, Italy will be accepting select A' Kitchen Tool Award winning works to its permanent collection.

WINNER'S EXHIBITION
All A' Kitchen Tool Award Winners will also be exhibited at Museo del Design at the annual A' Design Award Winner's Exhibition that is organized at the end of each edition.

FOR GENERAL AUDIENCES
The A' Kitchen Tool 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.

THE CERTIFICATE
Eligibile award-winning kitchen tools are given a unique framed certificate, printed on heavy paper, featuring the name of the awarded work, achievement status and the designer.

EXPLAINS THE AWARD
The A' Kitchen Tool Award Winners' Certificate explains type of award won, and is signed by the President, Vice-President and Jury Coordinator of A' Design Award.

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

THE YEARBOOK
Our own publishing house, the DesignerPress was founded by A' Design Award in order to disseminate the award-winning kitchen tools.

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

YOU ARE IN
All A' Kitchen Tool Award Winner Designs are included in the winners' yearbook free of charge, laureates of the A' Kitchen Tool Award are further listed as co-editors of the book.

HARDCOVER & DIGITAL
The A' Kitchen Tool Award Winners Annual Yearbook are available as hard-copy editions in addition to digital editions, designed, registered, printed and distributed in Italy, in English.

DIGITAL PRINTING
The A' Kitchen Tool Award books are full color digital printed to acid-free paper to preserve the designs' presentation qualities for long periods of time, and are great additions to any design library.

GET & CHECK IT
The Hardcopy versions of the winner's yearbooks are distributed to laureates of the A' Kitchen Tool Award free of charge and are further available for sale at select retailers and museum shops.

THE GALANIGHT
A' Kitchen Tool Award organizes a unique Galanight & Award Ceremony near the beautiful Como Lake in Italy for winner designers.

EVERYONE IS HERE
Press Members, Industry Leads, Prominent Designers and Companies are all invited in order to create networking opportunities for winners.

YOU ARE INVITED
Eligible A' Kitchen Tool Award winners are able to participate the Gala-Night and Award-Ceremony free of charge, together with a guest of their choice.

RED CARPET
A' Kitchen Tool Award Galanight & Award Ceremony is super exclusive, black-tie, red-carpet event.

BLACK TIE
Very Important People, Ambassadors, Influential Journalists and Industry Juggernauts are provided VIP invitations.

FULL GLAMOUR
Each and every eligible A' Kitchen Tool Award winners are called to stage to celebrate their success.

LA NOTTE PREMIO A'
Celebration occassion exclusively reserved for top A' Kitchen Tool Award winners. Hosted in addition to our Galanight to celebrate the "Designer of the Year" title.

ARS FUTURA CULTURA
AIBA, ISPM, IBSP, IAD, ICCI and IDC boards meet to discuss strategies and policies to advance the design discipline. A' Kitchen Tool 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 EVERYTHING
World Design Consortium have uniquely specialized members in each and every industry, especially kitchen tool, thanks to its world-class members representing the very brightest in all fields.

MEMBERS IN ALL COUNTRIES
Winners of the A' Kitchen Tool 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' Kitchen Tool 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.

INVESTMENT
Taking part in the A' Kitchen Tool Award is almost totally risk free through preliminary checking service which is provided completely free of charge to each entrant, and A' Kitchen Tool Award does not ask further fees from winners. The A' Kitchen Tool Award spends most of its operating income for promoting its winners, creating a collective impacts, equivalent advertisement value worth hundreds of millions of euros each year. Companies and designers use our the A' Kitchen Tool Award Winner Logo to promote themselves and attract new leads.

AWARD IN NUMBERS
The A' Kitchen Tool Award is gaining significant popularity each year. Currently the A' Design Award has 179.100.234 page views, 179.387 members, 50.462 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.

THE A' AWARD JURY
A' Design Award Jury is truly great and powerful, composed of 227 leading 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 professionals, journalists, scholars and entrepreneurs to ensure each design is voted from different perspectives.

RESEARCH THROUGH VOTING
During the voting processes, A' Kitchen Tool Award jury members fill a custom criteria survey, and thus indicate how a category should be voted in the future.

THE A' METHODOLOGY
A' Kitchen Tool Award features a highly developed, ethical methodology for voting with standardised scoring, voting criteria and more.

STANDARDISED SCORE
A' Kitchen Tool 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' Kitchen Tool Award Jury votes online, therefore no one effects others' votes, the vothing panel is easy 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 after analysis of over 800 Design Competitions.

MORE RESEARCH
The A' Kitchen Tool Award platform is constantly developed with survey results and through ongoing research in order to provide the most value for the winners.

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

THE A' WINNERS' KIT
The A' Kitchen Tool Award Winners Kit is separated into two pieces: 1. Public Relations and Reputation Services & 2. Package of Physical Components.

THE PACKAGE
Eligible A' Kitchen Tool 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
The A' Kitchen Tool 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 shipment service to have your kit shipped to your address.

THE WINNER LOGO
Winners of the A' Kitchen Tool Award are given the award-winner logo that they could implement in their communications and public relation campaigns.

MANY FORMATS
The A' Design Award Winners' Logo is available in many formats and can be incorporated into all sorts of advertisements and marketing communications.

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

ADDED VALUE
A' Kitchen Tool Award Winner Logo highlights the additional design value embedded in your work.

IN COMMUNICATIONS
To leverage their award-winner status and get further benefits, A' Kitchen Tool 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 a purchase.

SYMBOL OF EXCELLENCE
The A' Kitchen Tool Award Winner Logo is an excellent symbol to communicate your kitchen tool excellence.

FOR ALL INDUSTRIES
There is a distinct award-winner logo for each industry, based on industry best practices, history and heritage.

FREE FOR WINNERS
Most awards require annual payments for logo license. A' Kitchen Tool Award winners are able to use their winner logos free of charge without annual licensing fees.

THE MEDIATION
Being an A' Kitchen Tool Award winner is just the beginning, eligible laureates are provided with complimentary mediation and brokerage services.

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 in order to help form legal contracts with companies.

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

THE PLATFORM
A' Kitchen Tool Award Winner Designers can set a sales price and also customize their contracts for selling their award-winning designs through the Salone del Designer.

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

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

FREE FOR WINNERS
DesignerMegaStore normally requires a 500 € Registration fee, however the service is provided free of charge to all winners.

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

JOIN DESIGN TENDERS
Not just sell designs; but join design tenders to give quote for design and production of custom 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 services to worldwide clients.

Benefits for Winning Designers

A unique public relations campaign will be made for the Kitchen Tool 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 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 help.

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

FREE & EASY
A' Design Award provides an easy way to obtain your proof of creation, free to all participants. Please note that this is not a patent or registration.

THE PR SERVICES
A' Kitchen Tool Award winners are provided with numerous public relations and promotion services through DesignPRWire to celebrate their success.

BEHIND THE CURTAINS
It is not just digital, throughout the year, DesignPRWire visits tradefairs and introduces winners to design oriented companies.

CONNECT WITH PRESS
With services such as press release preparation and distribution, again free of charge, A' Kitchen Tool Award increases your connectivity with the media.

Horeca Excellence.

Join A' Kitchen Tool Award and communicate your good kitchen tool values.

PRESS RELEASE PREPARATION
A' Kitchen Tool Award prepares a press release for all the winner designs, in addition also allows winners to upload their own releases to our platform.

PRESS RELEASE DISTRIBUTION
Both press releases are distributed by DesignPRWire to a wide range of press members including both the traditional and digital media.

IT IS FREE & HIGH RES.
The press release preparation and distribution services are provided to all A' Kitchen Tool Award winners automatically and without any payments.

DESIGNER INTERVIEWS
A' Kitchen Tool Award publishes interviews with the winning designers at designerinterviews.com, all winners are eligible for complimentary interviews.

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

RE-USED BY PRESS.
Designer Interviews are provided in a way to encourage usage without attribution to A' Kitchen Tool Award, this helps press members write their articles faster.

DESIGN INTERVIEWS
A' Kitchen Tool Award publishes interviews regarding award winning kitchen tools at design-interviews.com, interview service is provided free of charge for all winners.

DESIGNED FOR PRESS
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 PRESS.
Design interviews were designed in a way to incentivize coverage without attribution to A' Kitchen Tool Award, this helps journalists write feature stories faster.

DESIGN LEGENDS
A' Kitchen Tool Award publishes interviews with legendary designers at design-legends.com and as a laureate, we would be honor to feature you as well.

LEGENDARY INTERVIEWS
Design Legends interviews help award-winning designers express themselves and explain their kitchen tools better to their audiences with long format text.

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

MAGNIFICIENT DESIGNERS
A' Kitchen Tool Award publishes interviews of magnificient designers at magnificentdesigners.com, award-winners are all contacted to schedule for interviews.

MAGNIFICIENT MEDIA
Magnificient Designers platform allows laureates to communicate their perspectives on kitchen tools with easy to follow questions and answers format.

LOVED BY READERS.
Magnificient Designers, along with other interview platforms provide design oriented audiences rich and high quality knowledge and wisdom into philosophy of designers.

Explore Provocative Design Interviews

Explore provocative design interviews published by The Kitchen Tool Design Competition at these fine design interview blogs : — Magnificent Designers #1 Magnificent Designers — Design Interviews #2 Design Interviews — Design Legends #3 Design Legends — Designer Interviews #4 Designer Interviews

IDNN NETWORK
International Design News Network helps your kitchen tools get true international coverage through local publications.

REACHING 99.9%
IDNN Reaches the 99.9% of the World Population in their native language, and helps you communicate your kitchen tools to audiences far and beyond.

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

BDCN NETWORK
Best Design Creative Network is all about communicating your excellence in kitchen tool especially to your locality.

122 SHOWCASES
122 Websites, each specialized in a geographic area showcase the best of the best works from the region.

IN ALL REGIONS
When you win the A' Kitchen Tool Award you will be listed in your local BDCN publication aimed to attract clients, consumers, customers and buyers to you.

BEST NETWORK
Best Designers Platform is all about delivering due respects, recognition and good reputation rightfully deserved by A' Kitchen Tool Award laureates.

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

FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL
A' Kitchen Tool Award winners, with their outstanding and excellent designs deserve all the fame and influence, and getting listed as best of the best helps.

DXGN NETWORK
Design News Exchange Network spotlights, publishes and features good kitchen tools worldwide.

GOOD DESIGN
DXGN is composed of 127 amazing magazines that feature award-winning designers and their work.

FOR GREAT AUDIENCES
A' Kitchen Tool Award winners are provided free editorial coverage and a free news article that feature their kitchen tools.

GOOD NETWORK
Good Design Dissemination Network is composed of 50 publications that feature good design.

INDUSTRY SPECIFIC
For each and every industry, there is a distinct publication that will feature, spotlight and highlight your works.

DESIGN SHOWCASE
Good design deserves great recognition, and winners of A' Kitchen Tool Award will be prominently featured and published.

PRESS CONTROL PANEL
A' Kitchen Tool Award provides a unique control panel for press members, accredited press members are given a lot of controls and functionality.

HELPING PRESS
Some of the prominent functions are: requesting interviews with winners, downloading press kits of winners with high-resolution images etc.

AND THE WINNERS
Press Members could also upload their articles in PDF format, keep track of their likes etc. Designers can see press interests and downloads.

DESIGNERS.ORG
Designers.org premium portfolio profile is provided to all A' Kitchen Tool Award winners, free of charge, to showcase their award-winning kitchen tools.

PREMIUM PORTFOLIO
Unlike other platforms, the Designers.org is very selective for the sort of projects that are showcased and exhibited, getting included is a privilage.

SHOWCASE AND EXHIBIT
Get your work exhibited and showcased beautifully. By winning the A' Kitchen Tool Award you will get a premium portfolio created for you, without you doing anything, we will list all your award-winning kitchen tools on your behalf.

SECURITY COMES FIRST
The Security of your submissions, your personal data and designs is of uttermost importance to A' Kitchen Tool Award.

SECURE HASH ALGORITHM
Your personal data is saved with SHA algorithm and even we do not know your password. Furthermore, connections are secured with SSL.

PRIVACY LOCK
A' Kitchen Tool Award never shares your personal data with other publishers, let alone selling it. Furthermore you can use privacy locks for your designs.

How to Register to Kitchen Tool Competition 2022 - 2023

Joining the Kitchen Tool Design Competition is easy; first create an account at the A' Design Award and Competition, login to your account and submit your project. When you enter your work, your project will be checked by the preliminary jury for its presentation. Following, your design will be assigned a preliminary score from 10 (best) to 0 (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 Kitchen Tool Awards consideration. If your entry is rejected, you are suggested to update your presentation before nominating your design to Kitchen Tool Award.

DESIGNER RANKINGS
A' Design Award and Competition publishes Designer Rankings that is easily accessible by public and media.

TOP 10 DESIGNERS
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.

YOUR PLACE IS RESERVED
A' Kitchen Tool Award Winners have their spot in the Designer Rankings reserved, to ensure their excellent design skills gain worldwide recognition.

WORLD DESIGN RANKINGS
A' Design Award and Competition publishes World Designer Rankings that ranks countries and regions based on awarded participants.

PRESTIGE AND HONOUR
Each country and region further lists the best designers, artists and architects within, and for each award you won, you will be increasing your country score as well.

THE FIRST AND ONLY
WDR - World Design Rankings is the first and only inclusive ranking system for design among multiple disciplines, with almost all industries represented.

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' Kitchen Tool 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.

PRELIMINARY JUDGING
Each uploaded design recieves a confidential preliminary score, free of charge, by A' Kitchen Tool Award. Get a score of 0 (worst) to 10 (best) and learn how good your work actually is.

THE PROCESS
One of the professional preliminary jury members, apart from the grand jury panel, checks your entries, and provides suggestions on how to improve your design presentation.

APPROVED OR REJECTED
Your design will be scored, and further it will be either approved or rejected, if rejected you are suggested to make the required changes before nominating your design.

A' AWARD @ SOCIAL MEDIA
A' Design Award & Competition actively takes part in the social media and the ongoing conversation in order to relay your message.

THE PHENOMENON
Social media is great to reach out your prospective customers and to connect with your existing clients. A' Kitchen Tool Award takes it up a notch, presenting you with countless tools and opportunities to relay your success at social media.

AND WE ARE IN
No matter what the media is, A' Kitchen Tool Award is ready to take your message further by helping you reach a wider audience.

DESIGN OF THE DAY
Design of the Day initiative aims to create social awareness for a single award-winning kitchen tool work. Promoted not just in social media, but also featured in hundreds of publications.

DESIGNER OF THE DAY
Designer of the Day initiative aims to create social awareness for a single award-winning physical person. Posted not just in social media, but also published in hundreds of blogs.

INTERVIEW OF THE DAY
Design Interview of the Day initiative creates social awareness for an award-winning kitchen tool interview. Featured not just in social media, but also published in hundreds of media.

LEGEND OF THE DAY
Legend of the Day initiative aims to boost a single award-winning physical person in social media and hundreds of syndicated blogs, magazines and publications.

TEAM OF THE DAY
Design Team of the Day initiative aims to boost a group of award-winning physical persons, usually a design team, in new media and hundreds of digital publications.

HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY
Highlight of the Day initiative helps us promote your kitchen tool and your image as an award-winner in social media, as well as blogs, magazines and new media.

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' Kitchen Tool Award could secure you some editorial space at both the traditional, new and social media and could create free publicity that your kitchen tools very much deserve, but most importantly, attracting prospective clients and customers to your business.

GET ADVERTISED
With Exceptional PR Services, Electronic and Traditional Press Release Preparation and Distribution, Mass Media Syndication and the Advertisement Network, winning the A' Kitchen Tool Award you may expect a great return on your investment and advertise your kitchen tools efficiently.

JOIN FOR FREE
A' Design Award and Competition offers many programs that provide opportunity for students and young designers to take part in the competition free of charge.

SUGGEST A TALENT PROGRAM
By taking part in this program, you can earn free entry tickets and t-shirts of A' Design Award and Competition by suggesting other designers.

DESIGN AMBASSADOR PROGRAM
Students can also apply for becoming a Design Ambassador, by performing simple tasks, students can win free entry tickets to nominate their kitchen tools.

DESIGN TRANSLATIONS
A' Kitchen Tool Award winner designs are translated to almost all major languages free of charge, and each award-winning work is published in each and every language.

TRANSLATION PLATFORM
In addition to the free of charge translation service provided by A' Kitchen Tool Award, winners could further provide translations in their native languages.

UNIVERSAL REACH
Reach 99% of the world population in their native language; reach non-English speaking world of buyers, press members, businesses and design enthusiasts.

COMPETITION CATEGORIES
A' Design Award & Competition features many distinct design competition categories in order to reach the widest audience and to allow designers to compete in a truly international multi-disciplinary platform.

WHY SO MANY CATEGORIES?
Research indicate that the worth and value of any award increases proportionally to its reach through network effects.

CONCEPT OR FINISHED WORKS
A' Kitchen Tool Award is open to all concept stage works, prototypes, finished and realized projects, services and products that are already in market.

Organized by A' Design Awards.

A' Design Award has over 100+ competition categories. — Art #22 Art Portfolio Awards — Building Components #19 Building Material Design Awards — Legwear #103 Stockings Design Awards — Furniture #1 Furniture Design Awards — Architecture #3 Luminary Design Awards — Machinery #54 Machinery Design Awards — Sanitary Ware #56 Sanitary Ware Design Awards — Industrial Equipment #68 World Class Awards — Literature #124 Written Literature Awards — Energy #58 Energy Technology Awards — Movie #17 Character Design Awards — Adult Product #101 Underwear Awards are some of the accolades organized by the A' Design Awards.

RESPECT DESIGN
A' Kitchen Tool Award respects designers and design oriented companies. The winners kit, logo and publicity services are all given and provided free of charge to all eligible winners.

WINNERS' PACK
A' Design Award winners receive an exclusive and inclusive package of items, services and benefits to celebrate their victory, at no additional cost, without any further fees.

NO FURTHER FEES
There are no extra fees for A' Kitchen Tool Award winners for claiming the A' Design Prize. Gala-night and exhibition participation is free to eligible laureates. There are no annual fees for logo usage. There is only pure respect.

PRESTIGE SYSTEM
The A' Kitchen Tool Award grants you access the unique A' Prestige System that provides ultra exclusive intangible and tangible benefits.

PRESTIGE TOKENS
Winners of the A' Kitchen Tool Award are able to accumulate A' Prestige Tokens that could be exchanged for a plethora of privileged benefits and super 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 works accepted to a permanent collection of a design museum are only some of the perks that may be obtained by using your A' Prestige.

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

A' STAR EMBLEM
A' Design Star Emblem is a very special symbol awarded to select top designers, innovators and agencies that are able to repeatedly and consistently create good designs.

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

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

DESIGNER HONORIFICS
A' Kitchen Tool 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 auidences to treat you with the uttermost respect you deserve as an outstanding designer.

4K/8K VIDEO INTERVIEWS
Select A' Kitchen Tool Award winners will be eligible to obtain a video interview published about their profile and award-winning kitchen tools.

4K/8K SPOTLIGHT VIDEOS
Eligibile laureates will also have the opportunity to get their award-winning kitchen tools professionally spotlighted and video-captured.

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

RESOLUTE MOTTO
The motto of the A' Kitchen Tool 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 kitchen tool for a better future.

DESIGNED FOR DESIGNERS
The A' Kitchen Tool Award is created to act as blender; to bring together designers, companies, the audience and the press. A' Kitchen Tool Award aims to highlight good products and services to design oriented audiences.

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

The A' Kitchen Tool Design Competition

In a world where there are immense amount of projects made yearlong, The Kitchen Tool Design Award aims to emphasize the prime qualifications of premium Kitchen Tool designs and Kitchen Tool design concepts by presenting them with advertisement and promotion. A' Kitchen Tool Award is an annual juried design prize organized by A' Design Award & Competitions. The prize aims to draw out, disseminate & support good design, designers and design oriented enterprises by funneling the attention of journalists, traditional media, design writers, distributers and buyers to the winner.

5 TIERS OF HEAVEN
A' Kitchen Tool Award is always awarded in five tiers: Platinum A' Kitchen Tool Award, Gold A' Kitchen Tool Award, Silver A' Kitchen Tool Award, Bronze A' Kitchen Tool Award and Iron A' Kitchen Tool Award. These tiers are reserved for winner kitchen tools.

5 LEVELS OF HELL
There is also honorable A' Kitchen Tool Award Runner-up and A' Kitchen Tool Award Participant status, the A' Kitchen Tool Award Nominee tag, together with A' Kitchen Tool Award Withdrawn and the A' Kitchen Tool Award Disqualified status.

FORESIGHT TO YOU
When you sign-up and upload your kitchen tool to the A' Kitchen Tool Award you gain divine insight; preliminary jurors will score your work from ten (10) "best" to zero (0) "worst" free of charge and confidential, so you know well in advance what to expect if you nominate your work.

CATEGORY DEFINING
You will see that the A' Kitchen Tool Award is an achievement like no other, much more than an accolade for good kitchen tool, more than a kitchen tool prize, completely redefining what a kitchen tool award and kitchen tool competition is all about.

ENGINEERED
Every single element that makes the A' Design Prize for Good Kitchen tool was synthetically designed and engineered to help your award-winning kitchen tool reach its true maximum potential, to help you find new markets and audiences.

COVETED PRIZE
Kitchen tool award winner logo, kitchen tool award trophy, kitchen tool award winners book, kitchen tool award winners certificate, kitchen tool award gala-night, kitchen tool award exhibition, and marketing services for good kitchen tool. You can have it all.

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' Kitchen Tool Award laureates are eligible to be nominated for the Young Design Pioneer title and obtain their special certificate and trophy to celebrate the occassion.

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' Kitchen Tool 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.

ALL STAR
Innovator of the Year recipients are given the All-Star 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 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 Designer of the Year title is a great honour like no other.

PI-HEAD TROPHY
Designer of the Year are also given the special Pi-Head trophy to celebrate their success. A' Kitchen Tool Award winners have a chance to get elected as the Designer of the Year.

OMEGA PARTICLE
Omega Particle is the name of the trophy given to A' Kitchen Tool Award winners. The Trophy represent infinite possibilities of a design process.

SOFT ORGANIC INTERIOR
The soft organic curves within the trophy signify our emotions, the emotional content that is implemented in design process.

HARD GEOMETRIC EXTERIOR
The hard geometric edges of the trophy signify logic, the scientific content that is embedded in design process.

MEDIA PARTNERS
A' Kitchen Tool 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, you will have a chance to tap on their audiences, and get your work seen by the millions. We had already provided 30.517 media placements for our laureates.

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

BIG BRANDS
The A' Kitchen Tool Award is for everybody, but big brands know better how to use the kitchen tool award efficiently for their benefits.

FAMOUS COMPANIES
Enterprises especially use the kitchen tool award logo, kitchen tool award-winning status to promote sales, and further use the kitchen tool 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 kitchen tool award-winners. You too can enjoy all these benefits.

MAIN IMAGE
To take part in A' Kitchen Tool Award you need one primary main image that represents your kitchen tool. This image shall be placed in a canvas that is 3600 x 3600 pixels, 72 dpi, jpeg file.

OPTIONAL IMAGES
If you wish to represent your kitchen tool better, we would further recommend that you upload 4 optional images, each placed on a 1800 x 1800 pixel canvas, again 72 dpi jpeg files.

SUPPORT FILES
Finally, and very optionally, depending on your work, you you may also desire to support your kitchen tool presentation with video or pdf documents, or provide a private link to more data.

TAKE PART STEP #1
Register to A' Design Award & Competition for taking part in A' Kitchen Tool Award. Make a quick registration with just your name, surname and email, or provide a full-registration with your complete profile details. Remember to confirm your e-mail address after registration to fully activate your profile.

TAKE PART STEP #2
Login to A' Design Award & Competition. Upload your kitchen tool from your control panel which is displayed and made available to you after your login. You can upload as many kitchen tools as you like, indeed seasoned laureates often upload multiple projects to get preliminary scores for all their recent works and portfolio.

TAKE PART STEP #3
Nominate your kitchen tool for A' Design Award & Competition, especially if you have a preliminary score of six (6) or higher, you got a good chance. If there are jury suggestions, follow them. That's it. It is free to sign-up for an account and you also get a free preliminary score for your uploaded designs.

Join A' Kitchen Tool Award today for fame, prestige and publicity as well as to promote and advertise your name and your excellency in kitchen tool. Position and market yourself as a leader in kitchen tool 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 #59466 Firo fire cooking set — 2 #43779 Spyker Trivet — 3 #26761 Temple Cake stand — 4 #39961 Tactica One Bottle opener — 5 #94166 FinaMill Smart Kitchen Mill — 6 #41379 LockBlock Self Locking Knife Block — 7 #126043 La Espresso Espresso Maker for Travel — 8 #30101 Only Right Here Knife holder — 9 #49839 N1 Series Knives — 10 #100225 Island Glass — 11 #29880 Osoro Open Tableware System — 12 #41908 Oli Olive Bowl — 13 #71170 Norlan Whisky Glass Drinking Glass — 14 #64406 Channel Bowl — 15 #110554 Plycelain Tableware Collection — 16 #53096 Erdnussschütte To get peanuts without touching themUniq — 17 #59204 EcoDining UV disinfection tableware case — 18 #72529 Sumu Series Cutlery — 19 #39467 Firo fire cooking set — 20 #31501 Spyker Trivet — 21 #91365 Temple Cake stand — 22 #98513 Tactica One Bottle opener — 23 #66852 FinaMill Smart Kitchen Mill — 24 #53436 LockBlock Self Locking Knife Block — 25 #79284 La Espresso Espresso Maker for Travel — 26 #86317 Only Right Here Knife holder — 27 #27603 N1 Series Knives — 28 #63742 Island Glass — 29 #99616 Osoro Open Tableware System — 30 #92952 Oli Olive Bowl — 31 #29456 Norlan Whisky Glass Drinking Glass — 32 #55245 Channel Bowl — 33 #45125 Plycelain Tableware Collection — 34 #132633 Erdnussschütte To get peanuts without touching themUniq — 35 #77404 EcoDining UV disinfection tableware case — 36 #76664 Sumu Series Cutlery — 37 #27911 Eva Fruit Tree — 38 #56676 Turkish Coffe Cup Table Ware — 39 #110855 Attimo Tea Set — 40 #49840 H1 Series Knives — 41 #61958 Multipot Cookware and cooking utensils — 42 #74981 Sake Automatic Preserver — 43 #43416 Acacia Honey dipper — 44 #72912 Utopia Tableware — 45 #83637 Oiless Plate — 46 #49841 A Series Knives — 47 #50815 Verso Salad servers — 48 #115656 Eleware Culinary — 49 #36723 Iris Butter dish — 50 #39943 Titobowl Snack bowl — 51 #54282 Diamond Wine Trivet Storage and display — 52 #110940 Icy Cocktail Glass — 53 #25283 CORTINA Kettle — 54 #37757 Swing pot condiment bottle.