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WHAT IS A’ DESIGN AWARD

M I S S I O N

The vision of the A' Award and Competition is to 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, while providing them a global audience to showcase their success and talents to. The A' Award and Competition aims to act as blender; to bring together designers, companies and the press.

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U N I Q U E A S P E C T S

3 Keystones:

• a clear methodology
• adequate pricing
• high returns on investment

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I N N U M B E R S

In Numbers:

• 1.800.000 Pageviews
• 16.000 Registrations
• 4.000 Project Submissions
• 2.500 Rejected Projects
• 1.500 Approved Works
• 400 Gala Participants
• 260 Winners
• 102 Nationalities
• 40 Categories
• 30 Judges
• 4 Patrons

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Award

• Extensive PR Campaign
• Award Trophy
• Gala Night
• Physical Exhibition of Selected Projects
• Winners' Certificate
• Winners Badges
• Competition Logo
• Participants' Certificate
• Competition Statistics & Score Sheet
• Yearbook Publication
• The Annual Yearbook
• Feedback Notes by the Jury
• Winner Services such as Consultancy,

Design Mediation and others.

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T H E O R G A N I Z E R

The Organizer:

• OMC Design Studios S.R.L.
• In-house organisation.
• Custom Software Creation
• In Charge of The Marketing and Pr

Campaign

• Liaison with All The Actors Involved
• Financial Partner
• Event Partner: Gala Night and

Exhibition

• A’ Award is the result of a Research

Project (Ph.D. Thesis) at Politecnico di Milano

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A'Design Award and Competitions, aims to highlight the excellent qualifications of best designs, design concepts and design oriented products.

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Every year, products that focus on innovation, technology, design and creativity are awarded with the A'

• Award. The organization also helps the

creative minds to meet with the business people to realize their product ideas or to reach a wider range of buyers for their existing products.

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Participating in the A'Design Award & Competition design awards demonstrates the will to innovate, redesign, rethink and the courage to compare yourself to others in competition.

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Winning projects are exhibited both online and at the end-of year exhibition, in addition to the yearbook.

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Winners receieve extensive attention from the press, and exlusive pr-services are provided for all winners. A’ Design Award works as a communication & marketing tool; a service designed to communicate the quality of a design to the public audience.

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A’ Design Award positions itself as an alternative to existing design competitions offering added value in comparison to its competitors such as: No Further Fees, Free Exhibition, Gala- Night and Free PR-Service, Jury Feedbacks, Score Sheet & More.

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The Trophy of the A’ Design Award is available in 3 different formats. Standard, Large and XXL. Each trophy is made of three dimensional printing and fusion of

• metal. The A’ Award trophy is unique and

is impossible to create with traditional

• technologies. It was created with the

highest technology available today, it represents the combination of arts, science and technology. The standard trophy is provided free to participants, larger versions are available for purchase.

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The Winners’ Kit has two dimensions: firstly the services provided by the A’ Design Award such as Public Relations, Design Mediation, Communication and Marketing and also the Physical components such as the book, exhibition posters, certificates, the trophy, additional marketing and communication materials and more.

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D I S T I N G U I S H E D D E S I G N E R P R O G R A M

Distinguished Designer Program To Honor the Winning Designers, A’ Design Award and Competitions have come up with the Distinguished Designer Program, which is a tiered program that bestows unique benefits at each level. The Distinguished Designer Program was designed to create a further organic link between the winners and the organization itself. Participation in the program is free and is life-long.

https://www.adesignaward.com/distinguished-designer- program.php

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P R O O F O F C R E A T I O N

Proof of Creation & Paternity "Proof of Creation" is a paper document that explains your design (title, description and images), and duly signed by the designer and two witnesses, that you deposit at a third-party (A' Design Award) to help you prove that you are the creator of a design. It serves as evidence that you created a design at a particular date.

*Please note that "Proof of Creation" Certificate is not a Patent or Design Rights registration.

http://www.adesignaward.com/proof-of-creation.php

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Proof of Creation - Deposit We provide the “Proof of Creation” template which you can print in your office by yourself. The template is automatically filled with your design details and images, and can be accessed from your control panel. In addition, we provide a depository service for your “Proof

• f Creation”. We will keep your “Proof of

Creation” documents, as a third-party. For each nominated design, no matter winner or not, and without having the need to wait for the results announced, you can have a "Proof of Creation". Only one document is allowed per nomination.

https://www.adesignaward.com/distinguished-designer- program.php

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For Companies, Brands and Businesses there are 3 main ways to be involved.

• 1. As a Participant
• 2. As a Sponsor
• 3. As an Organizer

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What is the Difference between a Participant, Sponsor and a Competition Organizer? The Participant; joins an already existing A’ Design Award and Competition category by their designs. The Sponsor; supports an already existing A’ Design Award and Competition category through their offerings. The Competition Organizer; runs a totally new and custom design competition that responds to your requirements, utilizing the A’ Design Award platform with a unique domain with custom interface.

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Why should your Company Participate? Winning the award provides great deal of exposure to new business opportunities by reaching thousands of passionate innovators, business people, design enthusiasts and designers worldwide. Winners are provided a free PR Campaign and also PR Guidelines to get the most out

• f their success.

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• 1. Communicated to the Press

Extensive coverage in global media ensures that you are reknowned worldwide. In association with DesignPRWire, we submit your multimedia press-releases to a wide range of editors in magazines, newspapers and e-zines worldwide. We reach thousands

• f editors in design and category related

magazines to communicate your products in an editorial way.

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Exhibited at MOOD Winner Designs are exhibited physically at the MOOD: Museum of Outstanding Design. Press Members and Award Winners are invited to take part in the exhibition. Each year, a premium exhibition location is selected that presents the theme of the

• exhibitions. Locations are chosen at tourist

spots in order to attract also the bypassers.

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Exhibition is Free. Exhibition is provided free of charge to winners, and MOOD Prints poster versions

• f the entries that could not be exhibited free
• f charge. Entry to the exhibition is also free

to participants, guests and is also open to the public free of charge to increase dissemination possibilities. Furthermore, each winning entry receives a Certificate of Exhibition that could be useful in certain situations.

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• 2. Advertised to a Wide Range of Design

Sensitive People In addition to standard press and traditional media communication, A'Design Award & Competition advertises winners in online media and search engines as well as to millions of people who are searching for

• design. We have a dedicated budget to

advertise winners.

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• 3. Certificate of Quality

The "A' Design Award Winner Certificate" is a proof of quality of design which you can use to highlight the qualifications of your

• product. Winner Companies can download

the "A' Design Award Winner Logo" and use this special logo with your product packaging or websites.

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Winners’ Logo A’ Design Award & Competition winners are granted the usage of award winner logo to place in their communication materials such as brochures, website, and products. This service is provided free to all winners.

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Winners’ QR Code In addition to the award winner logo, A’ Design Award & Competitions provides a service to generate and place a QR Code to the products which could help end-users to learn more about the product through A’ Design Award & Competitions platform. This service is provided free of charge to winners.

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Good Design Mark Product designs that have won the A’ Design Award & Competitions are also granted right to use the Black Good Design Seal to highlight the innate design quality within their products. This service is provided free

• f charge to winners.

http://www.gooddesignmark.com/

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• 4. Trade Fairs, Conferences and Meetings

The A'Design Award will also present itself in design oriented trade-fairs around the world, winners will got chance to be promoted in these fairs, conferences, meetings and other design related events in order to create the sectoral hype.

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• 5. Introduced to Design World

Winners are introduced to Curators, Architects, Designers, Companies, and

• ther relevant people and institutions in the

design world to get more out of the award. In addition to our press contacts, we engage in serious Public Relations campaigns with the people that we got to now in the design events.

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• 6. A Reason to Contact Press

Winning the A'Design Award, is prestigious, it is a very solid reason to contact the press and celebrate your excellence in product design, to have increased exposure of your designs and products around the world or give an advertisement.

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• 7. Increased Sales

Winning designs get enough exposure to increase the sales of products significantly. A' Design Award Winner logo helps undecided buyers to pick a reliable decision

• easily. it is an investment that you can rely
• n throughout the life of the product.

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• 8. Featured in the Yearly ResultBook

Top designs are featured in this yearly book to increase the exposure of designs and products to a wider public. These yearly ResultBooks are delivered to a wide range

• f professionals, editors and lead buyers,

being in this publication assures long lasting advertisement.

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Yearbook Inclusion as Co-Author Not only your design is included in the hard- copy printed version of the yearbooks, but also you are credited as a co-author of the

• book. Each award winning entry, gets a free

full page inclusion. Each book is registered under a different ISBN number.

http://www.adesignaward.com/printedition.html

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• 9. Work With Top Talent

Winner companies usually get the

• pportunity to work with the best talent;

highly skilled designers, architects and artists will be applying for jobs to the winning companies.

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• 10. Company Awards

Is there a talented employee in your company? If she/he wins, your company also wins! Your company will also receive the same A' Design Competition Award addressed to your company name, furthermore your company's name will be written to our hall of fame and will be listed in the winner-companies page with a link to your company website.

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• 11. Project Assessment

All the participants of the A' Design Award and Competition will receive a detailed score sheet that could be used for to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the projects.

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Competition Categories A’ Design Award accepts entries in a wide- range of categories, from Graphics to Industrial Design, Architecture to Interiors, Photography to Fashion, and Strategic Design to Technical Products. View Categories Here: http://adesignaward.com/categories.html

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Submission Companies can submit any designs for which they hold the intellectual property rights or patents. There is no further

• restrictions. Both concept works and end-

products are accepted. Register Here: http://adesignaward.com/registration.php

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Nomination Nominating your submissions for an award has a base fee depending on the submission period (early – 75 €, standard – 100 €, late – 125 €). In addition companies are offered nomination packages with discounts. A Nomination package is an exclusive promotion organized by A' Design Award and Competitions for companies.

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Nomination Packages Nomination packages contain nomination tickets that could be used to waive processing fees while making submissions. Nomination tickets given in packages can be distributed to your designers, partners, employees etc. Valid for Design Studios, Architecture Offices, Creative Design Agencies and Design Oriented Companies, and other businesses that produce design products.

http://adesignaward.com/nomination-packages-businesses.html

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Nomination Packages for Businesses

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Package Name Aimed At # Submissions1 Cost per Submission2 Total Cost3 Micro Promo Startups or Freelancers 5 225 € 1.125 € Mini Promo Startups or SMEs with 5-10 People 10 220 € 2.200 € Studio Promo SMEs with 5-10 People 15 215 € 3.225 € Office Promo SMEs with 10 to 50 People 25 210 € 5.250 € Agency Promo SMEs with 50 to 250 People 40 205 € 8.200 € Enterprise Promo SMEs with 250 or More People 65 200 € 13.000 € Line Promo Multinational Companies 105 195 € 20.475 € Portfolio Promo Multinational Companies 170 190 € 32.300 €

1Each category submission counts as a single entry. 2The submission period is not relevant and does not effect the price. You could make early, standard or

late submissions as you see fit. 3These are the final costs regardless of any taxes, for example for EU companies, we will make an invoice for the Studio Promo package such as 937,5 € + 187,5 € IVA = 1.125 €, this applies to all other packages.

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Express Evaluation Service The Express Judging Service is aimed to create an instant PR-Push for your products, design concepts and works. In 72 hours, 3 members of the jury will judge the entries and compare with the last year winners, and results will be communicated. If your entry is a winner, we will start your pr-campaign

• immediately. Express Judging service costs

€150 to €450 including VAT based on the judging period. Can be ordered after nomination only.

http://adesignaward.com/express-judging-service.html

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Hardcopy Submission and Visualization Service Presentation of your design is very important, and therefore we provide additional services for presentation; photograph and visualization to participants through our solution partners. For Finished Products: You can send your finished products to us and we will have a professional photographer take pictures and product shots in a photography studio. Costs 750 € per

• product. For Concepts: You can send us your

conceptual drawings and hand drawings and we can contact a 3D Modelling agency to create 3D presentations of your work. Costs 1500 € per concept. After we do the visualization or photography we will update the images ourselves for you.

http://www.adesignaward.com/visualization.html

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Category Suggestion and Pre-Evaluation Service When you upload your design to A’ Design Award and Competition, a preliminary jury member will check your design for various aspects and approve or reject your entry, the jury member will also make suggestions for improving the presentation, and the jury member will also suggest you a category of nomination for your work. These services are provided free of charge to all participants.

http://www.adesignaward.com/category-suggestion.html

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Designer Rankings A’ Design Award ranks all the designers that have been granted with the A' Design Award and publishes online rankings at «Designer Rankings». For main competition categories, an A' Award counts as two (2), bronze award counts as three (3), silver award counts as (4), and a golden award counts as five (5) points, the first place / platinum award counts as six (6) score points. Learn More:

http://www.designerrankings.com/

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Spread, Reach and Impressions Together with DesignPRWire, A’ Award created its own network to spread the winning entries also online. Winning entries appear on our network of 120+ websites, which are linked to your winning entry with the sole purpose to increase your visibility also online (in addition to our efforts at tradefairs, events etc). See an Example:

http://www.awardeddesigns.com/

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Further Search Engine Visibility ListOf.Net platform helps search engine users to find distinct types of design related services: designers, architects, artists, design studios, architecture offices, design

• riented producers and pr agents in an easy

fashion. See an Example:

http://www.listof.net

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Design Interviews Together with DesignPRWire, A’ Design Award have created the «DI: Design Interviews» in order to share the professional lives of designers, architects and artists with design enthusiasts and other designers, in order to provide tips for upcoming designers, artists and architects to advance their design knowledge and skills, and to give our readers a feel for how designers come up with their winning designs. Learn More:

http://www.design-interviews.com/

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PR Results Case Study Winning Entries appeared on major design blogs, and traditional media. A’ Award connects designers and the media under the DesignPRWire umbrella. As a case study,

• ne of our winners was published in the

biggest national newspaper, creating equivalent advertising worth of 20.000 €, furthermore the same winner also appeared

• n seven other magazines, some full page,

traditional printed media creating an additional equivalent advertising value of 25.000 €, we do not even account for the countless online impressions. Incredible ROI (hundreds of times the initial investment).

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Prestige Winning the A’ Design Award provides significant prestige to its’ participants. It is common to see winners get featured in national televisions, newspapers and other sources and appear at many magazines, blogs and other media.

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Manual for Winners To help winners appear more on the media, A’ Design Award & Competition provides a manual for winners which provides hints to get further publicity and impact for their award winning status. The manual is distributed to all winners for free.

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Award Ceremony A’ Design Award & Competitions organize a magnificient Gala-Night and Award ceremony where the winners are presented their awards. The Gala-Night brings businesses, award winners and the press together for networking and future colloboration possibilities.

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The 40 Categories

Our Categories are: 1. Furniture and Homeware Design,2. Packaging Design,3. Architecture, Building and Urban Design,4. Fashion and Jewellery Design,5. Lighting Design,6. Toy and Recreation Design,7. Digital and Electronic Devices Design,8. Interior Design,9. Vehicle and Transportation Design,10. Interface Design,11. Home Appliances Design,12. Graphics Design,13. Computer Graphics and 3D Model Design,14. Photography and Photo Manipulation Design,15. Engineering and Technical Design,16. Medical and Scientific Design,17. Movie and Animation Design,18. Food and Culinary Design,19. Materials, Building Components and Texture Design,20. Social Design,21. Idea Design,22. Arts, Crafts and Ready-Made Design,23. Meta, Strategic and Service Design,24. Unexpected Design,25. Information Technologies Design,26. Advanced Design and Design Research,27. Young Design,28. Heavy Machinery Design,29. Performing Arts, Style and Scenery Design,30. Music, Audio and Sound Design,31. Writing, Literature and Content Design,32. Excellence in Design,33. Diligence and Intelligence in Design,34. Actor, Talent and Model Design,35. Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design,36. Futuristic Design,37. Social and Behavioral Sciences Design,38. Natural Sciences and Mathematics Design,39. Awards, Prize and Competitions Design,40. Event and Happening Design. Learn more about each category: http://adesignaward.com/categories.html

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Why 40 Categories? Research Driven Reasons:

Our statistics, surveys and academic research indicate that the number

• f categories increases the overall impact generated by the awards,

without having an impact on the intrinsic value of the award itself. The additional positive impact is created by reaching a wider audience (the long tail) of relevant people and demographics, and viral networking effect created by sharing. Typically a design enthusiast visits our website to learn the winners of a specific competition based on her area of interest. However, because

• ur winners in other categories are equivalently interesting, what

happens in most of the cases is that: the visitor also checks the winners

• f other categories. This creates a win-win situation for the existing

award winners: as editors, design enthusiasts, companies looking for designers who are originally looking for winners, products and designers in specific categories also come to know the winners in your category. You reach people that are outside your initial category and this increases your fame also outside your initial design sector which is highly important for reinforcing your brand identity.

http://www.adesignaward.com/many-categories.html

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Learn more about participation. For More Info Visit: http://bit.ly/join-a-competition Send an Email To: support@adesignaward.com

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Do Well by Doing Good By Sponsoring the A' Award and Competition reach a global audience of designers, design oriented consumers and design enthusiasts worldwide. Support our cause of advocating good design in exchange for brand recognition.

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Why Should you Sponsor A' Award? Networking, Exposure, Brand Building. Sponsors have a unique opportunity to be associated with a highly successful design competition and demonstrate both internally and externally their commitment to the progress of the progress of design. They are able to connect with some of the most influential designers and develop on-going business relationships with them and their

• rganizations.

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Sponsorship Types

• 1. Category Sponsors
• 2. Jury Sponsors
• 3. Metal Sponsors
• 4. Media Partners
• 5. Patrons

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Category Sponsors, are sponsors who contribute to a category with an award prize. Jury Sponsors, are sponsors who contribute to the design competition by providing a jury member. Metal Sponsors (such as Gold Sponsor, Silver etc) are sponsors who contribute to competition by monetary means. Media Partners provide press coverage and in return are given exclusive privileges. Patrons are usually non-profit organizations, government entities or education centers.

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Sponsorship Benefits Sponsoring A' Design Award is a great

• pportunity to deepen your bonds with your

design oriented client base, customers and consumers.

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• 1. Trend Insights

Observe ideas and designs focusing on a particular issue or problem. Preview, see,

• bserve and analyze the upcoming trends

from today.

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• 2. Indirect Advertisement

Advertise your enterprise in a positive way and build brand identity through competition

• involvement. Improve your positioning and

perception by design oriented community.

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• 3. Direct Advertisement

Advertise your products, services or platform by taking part in the event. Reach

• ur audience of designers and design

enthusiasts throughout the world. Advertise your company through the design competition to designers, design lovers and

• public. Drive traffic to your websites.

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• 4. Reason to Communicate

Create a reason to make a press release and public relations campaign as a sponsor

• f a design event together with winning

Designers and Designs.

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• 5. Demographics & Statistics

Access our database of competition

• participants. Get demographics information

and statistics data based on designers. Please note that individual designers information are not available, but compounded statistics are provided.

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• 6. Brand Building over Design

Deepen customer relationship and engagement through your design competition involvement. Get credibility and improve your authority in your market and the design world.

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• 7. Discover

Connect with design industry and professionals, discover hidden gems and new talents in the design by taking an active role in a strategic event

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• 8. Design Culture Cultivation

Improve design culture within your

• rganization, by building a database of

participants and registering them with your human resources department, recruit and work with talented people around the globe, incorporate these people to your own enterprise.

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• 9. Support Design Community

Support global design culture by backing up designers through monetary (by awarding them with a prize money), and famosity aid (by publicizing their works and advertising the award) and by realizing their projects and by professional feedbacks through judging process.

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• 10. Get Fresh

Be the first to know the results of the competition, get in touch with the winners to realize their winning ideas or to hire them, know what is hip this year in advance to your competitors.

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Be a Part of It Sponsors are exclusively invited to take part in the evaluation of the entries, gala-night, exhibition, and any other events organized by A’, they are included in the yearbook and press releases and furthermore they are communicated in all the possible ways to the media.

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Further Benefits and Exposure #1 Profiling on marketing material used to promote the award, Participation in the adjudication of the award with senior panel, Profiling at the awards ceremony & during A' Gala Night, corporate logo to appear on display holding slide during award presentation and also totems, Recognition from A' Design Award during award presentation, Full page full colour advertising in Year Book, PR opportunities in the promotion of the award through DesignPRWire

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Further Benefits and Exposure #2 Banner profiling to appear in post-award photo of winners with sponsor logo & profiling on A' Award website used to promote the award, Attendance Tickets to Award Ceremony & Gala Dinner, Exclusive access to the entries – providing valuable business intelligence, Profiling in post award ceremony e-letter alert containing company banner & link, Full page full colour advertising in the post awards supplement, Corporate logo to appear on the Award prize, and much more depending on the Sponsorship type.

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Sponsorship Types There are five main sponsorship types.

• 1. Metal Sponsors
• 2. Category Sponsors
• 3. Jury Sponsors
• 4. Media Partners
• 5. Patronage

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• 1. Metal Sponsors

Metal Sponsors are companies, institutions

• r people who contribute to all the

categories of A' Design Award and Competition by monetary means or by providing equivalent significant support for

• rganization of the competition.

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• 1. Metal Sponsorship Types
• 1. Platinum Sponsor
• 2. Gold Sponsor
• 3. Silver Sponsor
• 4. Bronze Sponsor
• 5. Copper Sponsor
• 6. Iron Sponsor

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• 2. Category Sponsors

Category Sponsors are companies, institutions or people who sponsor a single category within A' Design Award & Competitions by offering an award prize to winners or by offering organizational support.

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• 2. Category Sponsorship Types
• 1. Category Main Sponsor
• 2. Category Prize Sponsor
• 3. Category Jury Sponsor
• 4. Category Media Partner
• 5. Name Benefactor

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• 3. Jury Sponsors

Jury Sponsors are companies, institutions or people who contribute to the design competition by providing a jury member to judge entries for a category or for all the competitions as a whole.

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• 3. Jury Sponsorship Types
• 1. Grand Jury Sponsor
• 2. Category Jury Sponsor
• 3. Individual Jury Sponsor

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• 4. Media Partners

Media Partners are press related companies, institutions, pr-offices and any

• ther entities who sponsor the A' Design

Award and Competition by providing press coverage and advertisement options.

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• 4. Media Partnership Types
• 1. Main Traditional Media Partner
• 2. Main Digital Media Partner
• 3. Category Traditional Media Partner
• 4. Category Digital Media Partner
• 5. Press Accreditation
• 6. Main PR Partner

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• 5. Patronage

Patrons are usually non-profit organizations, government entities or education centers that support the design competition on the level of organizational support.

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Metal Sponsorship Costs The costs can be further adjusted further by providing know-how, merchandise and service exchange.

• 1. Platinum Sponsorship costs 25.000 €
• 2. Gold Sponsorship costs 5.000 €
• 3. Silver Sponsorship costs 2.500 €
• 4. Bronze Sponsorship costs 1.250 €
• 5. Copper Sponsorship costs 750 €
• 6. Iron Sponsorship costs 500 €

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Main Benefits

• Reach New Audiences and Develop

Deeper Relations with Existing Audiences through Impressions.

• Connect to Design Oriented People and

Get Connected to Designers, Design Companies, Architects and Design Sensitive Audiences.

• Enhance Brand Image, Build up Prestige

and Credibility through Positive Publicity and Mass Coverage.

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By organizing a design competition, you invite fresh thinking and out of the box solutions for your company, the competitions are also good for reinforcing brand value through interactive communication with your customer base, they are reasons to communicate with press, and they provide the incentive for young designers and also experienced ones to get in touch with you and share their projects in advance. With

• rganizing a design competition you not only

promote your company, but build a database

• f possible clients and talented designers

and also contribute to design culture.

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There are two type of design competitions that we propose to organize. 1. Custom Design Competitions: are

• rganized within adesignaward.com under a

special page using the existing platform. 2. Fully Custom Design Competitions: are

• rganized with a unique domain name with

extensive configuration and unique design that matches your brand identity. The platform is re-configured to match your aims.

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Custom Design Competition This is a budget friendly option that also utilizes the A’ Design Award identity to attract more

• participants. The competition is held at

adesignaward.com website, and a communication mail is sent to existing

• members. We provide the digital platform,

basic communication & you provide the jury, the brief, the trophies, and anything else in this simple solution.

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Fully Custom Design Competition Organizing a fully custom design competition, using the A’ Design Award platform is a totally new level of experience for

• Enterprises. A’ Design Award has one of the

most advanced platforms available in market today, offering hundreds of unique features and benefits that cannot be found in any other platform. The system is totally configured to match your brand identity and runs in its own unique website [your- competition-name].com and customized platform.

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The platform for fully custom design competitions can be extensively configured by our expert engineers to create any kind

• f tailor-fit solutions as you would require;

collect any kind of data, accept submissions in any format and dimensions that you would require, and organize any kind of design competition that you could dream of. If you can think of it, we can realize it, better, if you tell us what you want to achieve, our experts can design such design competition and provide a list of options and budget structure.

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Our engineers can also design a custom configurator tool which will allow non- designers to take part in a competition by configuring variables (such as changing colors of components), editing specific areas

• f a design over an interactive interface etc.

Multi-step competitions, public voting, workshops, videos, and anything else you might think are also possible. The system can also be used in a way to accept bids & proposals by letting the participants to bid for the realization of projects; this can be useful for procurement and outsourcing.

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Some of the IT Features & Functionality are as follows: Create or Edit a Brief, Registration of Participants, Create or Edit a Participant Profile, Publicly Visible Participant Profile and Portfolios, Upload Design, Video or Presentations, Voting Designs by Public, Voting Designs by Jury, Ranking Designs based on Votes, Announcing Results via RSS, Competition Statistics, Demographics Information, Platform Hosting, PHP-MySQL Based Programming and Integration, Search Engine Optimization, Campaign Tracking with Google Analytics, Social Networking Pages, Multi Linguagal Website Sending Newsletters, Competition RSS, Competition Blog, Feedback to Participants and More.

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A’ Design Award team is expert at designing tools to get more out of your design competition such as viral tools to attract more participants, surveys to gather further data, or uniquely designed forms and submission procedure to gather more insights.

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Competition Management Features: Design, Production & Distribution of Winners' Certificate, Winners’ Book & Trophy, Unique Domain Name & Website Design, Utilizing Existing Participant Base, Arranging Jury Members & Advertisement Channels, Creating 1. A Royalty Based Contract Between the Company and the Participants,

• 2. A Non-Disclosure Contract Between the

Company and the Participants, Managing Award Payments to Winner Designers, Help with Creative Brief and Submission Texts, Paying Winners Fees and Prizes, Helping with or Total Organization of Gala Night, Design of Competition Poster, Flyer, Logo, Banners for Web Usage and More.

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As the organizer, you do not need to lift a finger, the A’ Design Award staff organizes the competition throughoutly from the Beginning to End, and maintains & runs both the technical and managerial part of the system. We provide the jury, the platform, the communication, the advertising campaign, post-competition management, invitation of people, design of any communication, websites and more.

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Some of the Public Relations Features are as follows: Announcing Competition Start, Call and Results to Media, A' Members and Industry in the form of Newsletter, E-Mail, Standard Advertising, Press-Releases and

• Editorials. Utilizing Viral and Social

Communication Tools to reach a wider audience by means of blogs, social networking website profiles, viral videos and campaigns both online and offline. Getting in touch with institutions such as universities and design centers to publicize the event. Inviting key designers to take part in the competition etc.

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Would you require a unique feature? Do you have a very specific aim? Working with the most talented staff in communication, computer engineering and design, we can design your competition in a way to reach your specific goals. Your competition could be, for example, designed for: Collecting Designs, Collecting Ideas, Building up a Customer Base, Focusing on Advertising, Human Resources & Recruitment Tool, Trend Analysis Tool, Product Pre-Configuration and Customization Tool etc.

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Design Competition Organization Offerings Fully Custom Design Competitions

• 1. Promo: Basic Package for Running a

Unique Design Competition.

• 2. Media: Total Package for Organizing a

Design Competition.

• 3. Enterprise: Exclusive - Full Package

where A’ Organizes Everything plus. Custom Design Competitions

• 1. Sponsored Standard: Fast and Economic

Solution that Uses our own platform.

• 2. Sponsored Plus: With unique domain

name and landing page design and added PR.

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How Much does It Cost to Organize a Competition? Base Prices for Organizing a Fully Custom Design Competition

• 1. Promo: 15.000 €
• 2. Media: 20.000 €
• 3. Enterprise: 30.000 €

Base Price for Running Custom Design Competitions in A’ Platform

• 1. Sponsored Standard: 3.000 €
• 2. Sponsored Plus: 5.000 €

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Case Study: Light Art in Italy

• Light Art in Italy is a book that brings

together best light-art works realized in Italy.

• The book collects entries through its online

website: lightartinitaly.com

• The A’ Platform makes everything

automatic and smooth, and a preview of the book is available to the administrators at real time.

• Both in English and Italian.

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• since. We regularly update our content. For

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