Are you a great designer or brand with superior design products, projects and services? If so, the A’ Design Award is for you. The world’s largest and most prestigious competition, it recognises and celebrates designers, artists, architects, brands, design agencies and more across a very diverse list of categories that range from Architecture, Building and Structure Design to Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design; Home Appliances Design to Street Furniture Design; Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design; Website and Web Design and many more. In fact, so comprehensive is this list that there are over 100 main categories and more subcategories in which to submit your designs.
So how is it done? Simple. Register your work at competition.adesignaward.com before 28 February 2024. However, the sooner you enter, the better, as with the submission process come access to a host of benefits including valuable feedback for an esteemed panel of judges.
Spark Sofa by Wang Jun, Winner in Furniture Design Category, 2022—2023.
Resonet Pavilion-Sinan Mansions Pavilion by William Chen-Creative Prototyping Unit, Winner in Lighting Products and Lighting Projects Design Category, 2016—2017.
Studio by The Hill Architecture Office by Anand Deshmukh and Chetan Lahoti, Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category, 2022—2023.
Whilst a spot in the winners roll call guarantees prestige and recognition from your peers, you’ll also receive benefits including (but not limited to) a 3D Printed Metal A’ Design Award trophy; space allocation in the winners’ exhibition (both online gallery inclusions as well as physical exhibition in Italy); free sales listing at SaloneDelDesigner; utilisation of DesignMediator services; inclusion in BuySellDesign Network; and an invitation for two to the highly anticipated gala-night.
The 2022—2023 edition congratulated 1,884 winners from 114 countries in 140 different design disciplines, entries evaluated by an internationally influential jury panel composed of established scholars, prominent press members, creative design professionals and experienced entrepreneurs who devoted great care and attention when making their selections.
Established to create awareness for good design practices and principles, creatives are invited to take part in the accolades by nominating their best works, projects and products for award consideration, with results for the 2023—2024 round announced on our very pages mid-April 2024.
Interested parties should register their works at competition.adesignaward.com, where further information on evaluation criteria, key dates, entry forms and presentation guidelines can also be found. In the meantime, peruse the images in this post which highlight our personal top 20 favourite winners from years gone by.
The Bad Cafe Cafe by Nuru Karim Nudes, Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2016—2017.
Barin Ski Resort by Ryra Design Studio, Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2015—2016.
Trill MacHine Voice Processing Device by Lichen Wang,
Winner in Arts, Crafts and Ready-Made Design Category, 2018—2019.
Emotions Posters by Rui Ma, Winner in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Category, 2021—2022.
Materializing The Digital Transformable Fabrics 3d Printed by Valentina Favaro, Winner in Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design Category, 2019—2020.
10:1 Compressible Furniture by Christian Hammer Juhl
Winner in Furniture, Decorative Items and Homeware Design Category, 2017 – 2018.
Grotto Sauna Freestanding Residential Sauna by Partisans, Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2014—2015.
Junzi Kitchen Bleecker Street Restaurant by Xuhui Zhang, Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category, 2018—2019.
Dry Salon Commercial Space by Tim Chen,
Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category, 2019—2020.
Junzi Kitchen Bleecker Street Restaurant by Xuhui Zhang, Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category, 2018—2019.
After School Shared Residential Space by Tsung-Ju Lu and Lin Tsai-Wen, Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category, 2019—2020
Solar Egg – More Than a Sauna Public Sauna by Futurniture and Bigert & Bergström
Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2017 – 2018.
Loong Swim Club by Xiang Li, Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category, 2019—2020.
Peep Modular Screen by Guorong Luo, Winner in Arts, Crafts and Ready-Made Design Category, 2017—2018.
Studio With Mirror Bridge Studio by Jinrui Liu, Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category, 2019—2020.
Double Skin House by Nobuhito Mori, Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2021—2022.
