A' Musical Instrument Award

Good musical instrument deserves great recognition.

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

A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award, it is free to upload your musical instrument and it is free, anonymous, confidential and obligation-free to obtain a preliminary score, before you nominate your work for A' Musical Instrument Award consideration.

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

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

EXHIBITION, PR & GALA-NIGHT
Empower your musical instruments 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' Musical Instrument 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 musical instrument deserves great recognition, if you have a good musical instrument, nominate it for A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award aims to provide a global audience for award winners to showcase their success and talents to.

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

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

UNIQUE TROPHY
The A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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 musical instrument work designed within the last 5 years; including but not limited to musical instruments, audio products, sound designs, audio equipment, set and stage equipment, sound fx, sound products as well as their marketing, communication and packaging.

WHO IS AWARDED?
The A' Musical Instrument Award is open to all, especially accepting nominations from musical instruments designers, industrial designers, musicians, innovators, creators and music instrument producers.

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 musical instruments in Italy and abroad, internationally.

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

WE DO IT FOR YOU
If you are unable to send a physical version of your award-winning musical instrument, A' Musical Instrument 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 musical instruments multiple countries each year to ensure your musical instrument is respectfully and fully exhibited worldwide.

TRAVELING THE CONTINENTS
For each international design exhibition, as well as for exhibition of your musical instruments 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 musical instrument exhibitions we organize, and you may find these photos useful in promoting your musical instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award winning works to its permanent collection.

WINNER'S EXHIBITION
All A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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 musical instruments 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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 musical instruments.

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' Musical Instrument Award Winner Designs are included in the winners' yearbook free of charge, laureates of the A' Musical Instrument Award are further listed as co-editors of the book.

HARDCOVER & DIGITAL
The A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award free of charge and are further available for sale at select retailers and museum shops.

THE GALANIGHT
A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award winners are called to stage to celebrate their success.

LA NOTTE PREMIO A'
Celebration occassion exclusively reserved for top A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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 musical instrument, thanks to its world-class members representing the very brightest in all fields.

MEMBERS IN ALL COUNTRIES
Winners of the A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award is almost totally risk free through preliminary checking service which is provided completely free of charge to each entrant, and A' Musical Instrument Award does not ask further fees from winners. The A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award Winner Logo to promote themselves and attract new leads.

AWARD IN NUMBERS
The A' Musical Instrument Award is gaining significant popularity each year. Currently the A' Design Award has 179.093.156 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' Musical Instrument Award jury members fill a custom criteria survey, and thus indicate how a category should be voted in the future.

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

STANDARDISED SCORE
A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award Winners Kit is separated into two pieces: 1. Public Relations and Reputation Services & 2. Package of Physical Components.

THE PACKAGE
Eligible A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award winners, and A' Design Award and Competitions grants unlimited usage to winners, without yearly fees.

ADDED VALUE
A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award Winner Logo is an excellent symbol to communicate your musical instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award winners are able to use their winner logos free of charge without annual licensing fees.

THE MEDIATION
Being an A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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.

Services for Winners

A unique public relations campaign will be made for the Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award increases your connectivity with the media.

Sound Excellence.

Join A' Musical Instrument Award and communicate your good musical instrument values.

PRESS RELEASE PREPARATION
A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award winners automatically and without any payments.

DESIGNER INTERVIEWS
A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award, this helps press members write their articles faster.

DESIGN INTERVIEWS
A' Musical Instrument Award publishes interviews regarding award winning musical instruments 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' Musical Instrument Award, this helps journalists write feature stories faster.

DESIGN LEGENDS
A' Musical Instrument 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 musical instruments 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' Musical Instrument 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 musical instruments 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 Inspirational Design Interviews

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IDNN NETWORK
International Design News Network helps your musical instruments 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 musical instruments to audiences far and beyond.

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

BDCN NETWORK
Best Design Creative Network is all about communicating your excellence in musical instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award laureates.

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

FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL
A' Musical Instrument 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 musical instruments worldwide.

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

FOR GREAT AUDIENCES
A' Musical Instrument Award winners are provided free editorial coverage and a free news article that feature their musical instruments.

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' Musical Instrument Award will be prominently featured and published.

PRESS CONTROL PANEL
A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award winners, free of charge, to showcase their award-winning musical instruments.

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' Musical Instrument Award you will get a premium portfolio created for you, without you doing anything, we will list all your award-winning musical instruments on your behalf.

SECURITY COMES FIRST
The Security of your submissions, your personal data and designs is of uttermost importance to A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award never shares your personal data with other publishers, let alone selling it. Furthermore you can use privacy locks for your designs.

How to Participate in Musical Instrument Award 2022 - 2023

Joining the Musical Instrument Design Award 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. Afterwards, 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 Musical Instrument Awards consideration. If your entry is rejected, you are suggested to update your presentation before nominating your design to Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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 musical instrument 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 musical instrument 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 musical instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award could secure you some editorial space at both the traditional, new and social media and could create free publicity that your musical instruments 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' Musical Instrument Award you may expect a great return on your investment and advertise your musical instruments 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 musical instruments.

DESIGN TRANSLATIONS
A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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. — Architecture #3 Buildings Awards — Print #75 Published Media Design Awards — Web #99 Website Design Awards — Interior #8 Restaurant Design Awards — Graphic #12 Calendar Design Awards — Interior #8 Interior Design Awards — Repair and Restoration #80 Restoration Product Awards — Gift #53 Gift Design Awards — Lighting #5 Lighting Awards — Fashion #4 Fashion Awards — Architecture #3 Stadium Architecture Awards — Photography #14 Photo Awards are some of the accolades organized by the A' Design Awards.

RESPECT DESIGN
A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award grants you access the unique A' Prestige System that provides ultra exclusive intangible and tangible benefits.

PRESTIGE TOKENS
Winners of the A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award winners will be listed at World Design Ratings, together with their WDC-Rank, Designer Title and Designer Honorifics.

DESIGNER HONORIFICS
A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award winners will be eligible to obtain a video interview published about their profile and award-winning musical instruments.

4K/8K SPOTLIGHT VIDEOS
Eligibile laureates will also have the opportunity to get their award-winning musical instruments 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' Musical Instrument 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 musical instrument for a better future.

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

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

Juried Musical Instrument Design Award

In a world where there are countless projects released yearly, The Musical Instrument Design Award aims to bring forward the prime qualifications of unrivaled Musical Instrument designs and Musical Instrument design concepts by presenting them with advertising and promotion. A' Musical Instrument Award is an annual juried design prize organized by A' Design Award & Competitions. The prize aims to bring forward, disseminate & advocate 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' Musical Instrument Award is always awarded in five tiers: Platinum A' Musical Instrument Award, Gold A' Musical Instrument Award, Silver A' Musical Instrument Award, Bronze A' Musical Instrument Award and Iron A' Musical Instrument Award. These tiers are reserved for winner musical instruments.

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

FORESIGHT TO YOU
When you sign-up and upload your musical instrument to the A' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award is an achievement like no other, much more than an accolade for good musical instrument, more than a musical instrument prize, completely redefining what a musical instrument award and musical instrument competition is all about.

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

COVETED PRIZE
Musical instrument award winner logo, musical instrument award trophy, musical instrument award winners book, musical instrument award winners certificate, musical instrument award gala-night, musical instrument award exhibition, and marketing services for good musical instrument. 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award is for everybody, but big brands know better how to use the musical instrument award efficiently for their benefits.

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

MAIN IMAGE
To take part in A' Musical Instrument Award you need one primary main image that represents your musical instrument. 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 musical instrument 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 musical instrument 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' Musical Instrument 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 musical instrument from your control panel which is displayed and made available to you after your login. You can upload as many musical instruments 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 musical instrument 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' Musical Instrument Award today for fame, prestige and publicity as well as to promote and advertise your name and your excellency in musical instrument. Position and market yourself as a leader in musical instrument 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 #84351 Fastback Electric Guitar — 2 #55677 Eagle Electric guitar — 3 #140371 Type V Travel Electric Guitar — 4 #66773 DrumString Instrument — 5 #40511 Blackout Electric Guitar — 6 #122682 Una Corda Acoustic Piano — 7 #124936 Aurora Synthesizer — 8 #50765 Fidular Modular Fiddle — 9 #53358 Let It Play musical device — 10 #79653 Black Hole Multifunctional Guitar — 11 #76039 Almada Bb Trumpet — 12 #34960 MoovBox Anti-stress synthetizer — 13 #36932 Celloridoo Composite musical instrument — 14 #101028 Shatron Mute for Trumpet — 15 #38747 Crossway Electronic Educational Piano — 16 #126635 Spark Travel Guitar — 17 #38984 Classico SH1 Musical Instrument — 18 #101972 Zikit Diameter Change Mechanism — 19 #83650 Fastback Electric Guitar — 20 #76944 Eagle Electric guitar — 21 #46104 Type V Travel Electric Guitar — 22 #31501 DrumString Instrument — 23 #104473 Blackout Electric Guitar — 24 #58537 Una Corda Acoustic Piano — 25 #55245 Aurora Synthesizer — 26 #136009 Fidular Modular Fiddle — 27 #51249 Let It Play musical device — 28 #33593 Black Hole Multifunctional Guitar — 29 #46909 Almada Bb Trumpet — 30 #133445 MoovBox Anti-stress synthetizer — 31 #102975 Celloridoo Composite musical instrument — 32 #50953 Shatron Mute for Trumpet — 33 #70658 Crossway Electronic Educational Piano — 34 #98513 Spark Travel Guitar — 35 #52433 Classico SH1 Musical Instrument — 36 #65254 Zikit Diameter Change Mechanism — 37 #62919 MWC Musical Instrument — 38 #40187 Tradition CDN Custom Adjustable Acoustic Guitar — 39 #72893 Bent Wood Cajon Traditional Craft Musical Instrument — 40 #136965 DC 3 Stool — 41 #104729 Lavazza Desea Coffee Machine — 42 #75776 Ideal Combine Harvester — 43 #78022 tianjin vanke jade avenue sales office Sales Center — 44 #79717 Project EGG small pavilion — 45 #104797 Unream Voxel Printed Lamp — 46 #106350 CanguRo Mobility Robot — 47 #68088 Nueve Bike Rack — 48 #71721 Xsr 155 Yacht — 49 #138805 Tensegrity Deployable Sensor for Disaster Area — 50 #50394 Tre Modular Concrete Tile Series — 51 #54581 Omdesign 2016 Sustainable packaging — 52 #61400 k-haler Inhaler — 53 #68171 Niwa Outdoor Furniture — 54 #70658 OnePlus 6 Smart Phone.