Call for Entries — A' Design Award Standard Deadline: September 30

Your Best Work Deserves the World's Attention. Submit by September 30.

The Standard Deadline for the A' Design Award & Competition closes on September 30. Designers, architects, brands, and innovators from 180 nationalities are invited to nominate their finest products, projects, and services for one of the world's most prestigious and comprehensive design accolades.

Somewhere in your portfolio sits a design that changed how someone lives, works, or feels.

That design has a global audience waiting for it. The A' Design Award & Competition, established in 2008 and organized annually across 196 categories, invites you to nominate your work before the Standard Deadline on September 30. Entries submitted by this date secure current nomination rates and enter the evaluation cycle leading to the results announcement, the winners' exhibition in Italy, and La Notte Premio A', the black-tie Gala Night and Awards Ceremony at Teatro Sociale Como.

Begin with a free, confidential preliminary evaluation. Upload your design and receive a Preliminary Score from 0 to 10 rating your design quality, a Presentation Score from 0 to 100 assessing technical compliance, and expert feedback with specific suggestions for strengthening your entry. This service carries zero cost and zero obligation to proceed. You learn exactly where your work stands before you commit a single euro.

What Recognition Sets in Motion

A grand jury of 312 academics, industry professionals, and journalists evaluates every entry through anonymous blind peer review against pre-established criteria. Recognition earned this way becomes a credential you can defend in any boardroom, pitch, or negotiation.

Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, a documented set of up to 215 winner benefits engineered to convert a single jury decision into sustained global visibility. Three mechanisms illustrate how this works in practice:

Your design travels in 108+ languages. Award-winning works receive translation and placement across 138+ magazines and publications worldwide, supported by press release preparation, newswire distribution, and a media network of 3,868 sites. The competition has generated over 43,000 press mentions and more than 1.1 billion design pageviews to date.

Your achievement becomes a permanent asset. Winners receive a perpetual, worldwide, unlimited license for the Award Winner Logo, a 3D-printed metal trophy designed in Italy, inclusion in the hardcover yearbook as a credited co-author, exhibition in Italy, and an Academic Citation and Digital Research Object Identifier that anchors your design in scholarly record through the Advanced Design Conference proceedings.

Your network expands at the highest level. Laureates join 23,580 award winners across the World Design Rankings, receive invitations to the Gala Night attended by 750 guests including editors, ambassadors, and industry leaders, and gain access to the Ars Futura Cultura Symposium on the shores of Lake Como, where introductions between winners regularly evolve into commissions and collaborations.

Four Pathways, One Deadline

The Multi-Modal Entry Architecture accommodates every strategic position: Pro-Edition for maximum prestige and the complete physical experience, Digital-Edition for a cost-effective and comprehensive digital pathway, Vision-Edition for flexible and customizable participation, and Classic-Edition for minimal upfront commitment. Pro, Digital, and Vision Editions operate under a no further fees policy, so the benefits you earn arrive free of additional contractual obligations.

Here is a quiet truth from nineteen years of organizing this competition: the entries that win are rarely the ones rushed in the final hours. Submitting now gives you time to act on preliminary feedback, refine your presentation, and enter with your strongest possible materials.

September 30 is your date.

Submit your design today at competition.adesignaward.com. Registration is free, the preliminary evaluation is free, and your journey toward international recognition begins with a single upload.

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