The A’ Design Awards and Competition is currently open for submissions, but you have to run; the deadline is February 28, 2021! If you have a design you believe can win, don’t waste time and submit it today! ArchEyes is set to announce the winners of the 2021 edition with a unique feature on April 15.
The A’ Design Award is a prestigious design award that welcomes creators to submit their work into one of over 100 different categories, including architecture, building, and structure design; decorative items and homeware design; lighting products and projects design; interior space and exhibition design or packaging design 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 of 218 members composed of 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, with the conviction 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
Nankai LiangJiang Secondary School by gad / © Shiromio Studio
This 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
Waterfront Pearl by Yun Du / © BLVD International
The Urban Planning and Urban Design award considers your submission on evaluation criteria such as Innovation, uniqueness of the project, social impacts, environment friendliness, energy utilization, and project-specific criteria.
Landscape Planning and Garden Design
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
EN Skincare Salon and Store by Yusuke Kinoshita / © David Foessel
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
Ponto Armchair by Roberta Banqueri / © Moresco, Ponto, 2019
The Furniture, Homeware, and Decor Items Design award considers your submission on evaluation criteria such as Innovation, uniqueness of the project, social impacts, environment 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 Appliances
The best home appliance designs are selected according to form, functional and emotional aspects of the product; the designs are considered for their degree of innovation, aesthetic qualities, functionality, and usefulness and ease of realization and realization efficiency, ergonomics, and human interaction.
Street Furniture Design
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
The Intelligent Eggshell Lamp by Chunlong Xiang, Yixin Bu, and Wenting Wang
For the Lighting Products Design Award, the submissions 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 / © 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
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.
Further 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), and guaranteed publication through IDNN and DXGN Networks to 100+ magazines.
Registration to A’ Design Award & Competition 2020-2021 is open!
The deadline for submission is February 28. Results will be announced to the public on April 15, 2021.
