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The A’ Design Awards and Competition is currently open for submissions. If you have a design you believe can win or want to nominate a design, don’t waste time and submit it today! You can register here. The deadline for submission is February 28, and ArchEyes is set to announce the winners of the 2022 edition with a unique feature in May. 

The A’ Design Award is a prestigious design award that welcomes creators to submit their work into one of over 100 different categories, including the Good Architecture Design Award, the Good Product Design Award, Good Communication Design Award, Good Service Design Award, Good Fashion Design Award among others. The diverse selection of categories guarantees your projects can be submitted to the one most relevant.

It is definitely worth it to take the time to submit your design, as you will receive a free preliminary evaluation of your design. Your submission is then judged by an international jury panel composed of 211 jury members, design professionals, press members, and academics that follow a peer-review process with anonymous voting and evaluation of entries.

Since 2010, the A’ Design Award & Competition recognize, reward, and promote the very best of design, believing that arts, design, and technology can shape a better future. Having the A’ Award attracts the eyes of design-oriented audiences worldwide.

Here are some of our favorite winners from previous editions, each under a different design category:

Architecture, Building, and Structure Design

Dream House Island Rural Renewal by Tianqi GuanThis category is a specialized design competition open to both concept stage and realized architectural projects, urban design projects, and buildings designed by architects, architecture offices, real estate developers, and construction companies worldwide.

Urban Planning and Urban Design

scenic path
Scenic Path Along Guixeres by Batlle i Roig Arquitectura

The Urban Planning and Urban Design award considers your submission based on evaluation criteria such as Innovation, project uniqueness, social impacts, environment friendliness, energy utilization, and project-specific criteria.

Landscape Planning and Garden Design

Poly Tianhuan Garden Garden by IAPA Pty. Ltd
Poly Tianhuan Garden Garden by IAPA

Landscape Planning and Garden Design Award is an open design competition submission to concept stage, prototype, or finished landscape and garden designs by professional and young landscape designers, architects, architecture studios, urban planners, and the creative industry worldwide.

Interior Design

cosmetea pop up
Cosmetea Pop Up by Lina Chen

The Interior Design award considers your submission on multiple dimensions. Your project design is evaluated together with its value creation, visual appeal, space usage, and other aspects.

Furniture, Homeware, and Decor Items Design

lattice chair
Lattice Chair Weaving Armchair by Chen Kuan-Cheng

The Furniture, Homeware, and Decor Items Design award considers your submission based on evaluation criteria such as Innovation, uniqueness of the project, social impacts, environmental friendliness, energy utilization, and project-specific criteria. The most important criteria are highlighted as Design, Engineering, Ergonomy, and Presentation.

Home Appliances Design

Millo One Blender by Millo Appliances
Millo One Blender by Millo Appliances / © Millo Appliances

The best home appliance designs are selected according to the product’s form, functional and emotional aspects; the designs are considered for their degree of innovation, aesthetic qualities, functionality, usefulness, ease of realization and realization efficiency, ergonomics, and human interaction.

Street Furniture Design

Radial by Jaroslaw Markowicz
Radial by Jaroslaw Markowicz / © Jaroslaw Markowicz

When submitting to the Street Furniture Design competition, keep in mind that your submission will be evaluated on multiple dimensions; your product is judged together with its durability and aesthetics.

Lighting Products Design

be water
Be Water by Fernando Correa | © Matteo Piazza, Flavio Di Renzo

The submissions for the Lighting Products Design Award will be evaluated based on the illumination properties, functionality, ease of use, aesthetic properties, ergonomics, and energy efficiency. Lighting Projects Design will be judged based on the Innovation, artistic content, and aesthetical properties.

BedBuilding Materials, Construction Components, Structures & Systems Design

Solarbreaker by Jaroslaw Markowicz
Solarbreaker by Jaroslaw Markowicz / © Jaroslaw Markowicz

The A’ Building Materials, Construction Components, Structures & Systems Design Competition is a specialized design competition open to both concept stage and realized building materials, architectural fixtures, exterior and interior surfaces, construction components, coatings, and finishings developed by professional designers and architects, product development companies, R&D centers, research-oriented companies, product manufacturers and other business in this industry worldwide.

Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware, and Cookware Design

FinaMill, Smart Kitchen Mill Grind with Spice Pods by Alex Liu
FinaMill, Smart Kitchen Mill Grind with Spice Pods by Alex Liu

Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware, and Cookware Design Award is a freestyle design competition open to all concept stage, prototype, or finished products by professional and young designers, design studios, and design oriented table manufacturers worldwide.

Other design award categories are available. 

Win the World’s largest and most influential design award

There are a lot of benefits of winning the award, such as international exhibitions, a yearbook publication, publicity, world design rankings inclusion, a gala-night for networking, space allocation in the winners’ exhibition (both online gallery inclusions as well as a physical exhibition in Italy).

Registration to A’ Design Award & Competition 2021-2022 is open!
The deadline for submission is February 28. Results will be announced to the public on May 2022.