Your Work Deserves a Bigger Stage: A’ Design Award & Competition Call for Submissions

Think your work belongs among the world’s best? Enter the A’ Design Award and put your work on the international stage.

The A’ Design Award & Competition is now accepting submissions for its latest edition, inviting designers, architects, artists, studios, brands and creative professionals from around the world to put their work forward.

With an enormous range of disciplines represented, the competition is less about fitting into one particular definition of design and more about recognizing thoughtful ideas, strong execution and work that pushes its field forward.

The regular submission deadline is September 30, 2026, with results scheduled to be announced to the public on May 1, 2027. Register you work here.

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Categories

The breadth of disciplines represented offers plenty of room for different kinds of creative work. Some of our favorite categories include:

• Good Industrial Design Award: For furniture, appliances, vehicles, machinery and other objects where function and form have to work together.
• Good Architectural Design Award: For architecture, buildings, structures and projects that rethink the spaces we inhabit.
• Good Product Design Award: For consumer products and everyday objects that solve problems, introduce new ideas or simply do something exceptionally well.
• Good Communication Design Award: For graphic design, illustration, branding, visual identities, packaging and other forms of visual communication.
• Good Service Design Award: For services, systems and experiences designed to make the way we live, work and interact better.
• Good Fashion Design Award: For garments, accessories, footwear and textile-driven ideas that bring fresh thinking to fashion.

How Are the Entries Judged?

Entries are evaluated by an international jury made up of design professionals, academics and press members. For this edition, the Grand A’ Design Award Jury comprises 316 members from a broad range of disciplines and countries. The judging process brings together different areas of expertise and perspectives rather than relying on a single individual’s taste or opinion.

The competition also offers a preliminary evaluation service, giving participants the opportunity to receive an assessment of their work before the final judging process.

What Happens If You Win?

Winning is about more than putting an award badge on your website. The A’ Design Prize is designed to give winning designers a collection of tools and opportunities that can help their work travel much further.

Among the benefits available to winners are:

• International exhibition exposure: Winning projects can be featured in A’ Design Award exhibitions, including exhibitions in Italy.
• Inclusion in the A’ Design Award Yearbook: Selected winning work is published in the annual collection of award-winning designs.
• International PR and publicity: Winners receive promotional support intended to bring their work to the attention of media, design publications and other audiences.
• World Design Rankings inclusion: Winning designs contribute to the World Design Rankings, which tracks design performance across countries and territories.
• Gala-Night and award ceremony: Winners are invited to celebrate their achievement at the A’ Design Award gala and ceremony near Lake Como in Italy.
• The A’ Design Award trophy: Winners receive an official award trophy presented as part of the A’ Design Prize.
• Winner certificate and logo: Winners receive an official certificate and a license to use the A’ Design Award Winner Logo as part of their professional communications.
• Translation and international exposure: Winning projects can benefit from translation services that help make their work accessible to international audiences.
• Professional networking: The award’s international events bring together designers, journalists, academics, industry professionals and companies, creating opportunities to make new connections.
• Designer rankings and recognition platforms: Winners can gain visibility across A’ Design Award’s various rankings and design recognition platforms.

In other words, the prize is designed to keep working long after the trophy has been handed over. The official winner benefits include the yearbook, exhibitions, PR support, rankings, trophy and access to the gala-night and its international design network.

Ready to Put Your Work Out There?

There is always another great idea waiting to be discovered. Maybe this year it is yours.

The regular submission deadline is September 30, 2026, so now is the time to choose your strongest project, polish the presentation and put it forward.

Register your Design here.

The A’ Design Award & Competition will announce its results publicly on May 1, 2027. Inspiration Grid will also be back to share a selection of the winning designs when the results are announced.

Your next great project could be an award-winning one.

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