Digital First Ticket Initiative

Accessible is Prestigious
Everyone deserves their good design recognized and promoted for its excellence. However not everyone has the means to pay for expensive and costly design awards. In 2009 when the A’ Design Award was first founded, we brought accessible and economically efficient design award participation and victory to the masses; especially we helped designers save thousands of Euros on “winner fees” by implementing a “no further fees” policy; the obligatory fees, charged by other paid design recognition programs were a great deterrent for most designers to have their works recognized and awarded, and we made a difference by offering a great alternative that does not confuse price with prize; where the prize does not come with a price.

A’ Worthy Design Price
To make the competition even more accessible we further implemented a cost effective, digital nomination method which enabled and allowed designers as well as businesses with lower budgets to take part in the accolades. We also made the A’ Design Prize worth a lot to participants by making it a powerful tool to market and promote good design; especially with international translations, media communications, and PR services that served to augment the success of our laureates. Throughout the years we developed the A’ Design Prize and expanded it with many benefits to support awarded designers.

Sponsoring Good Design
Meanwhile we also created numerous programs to support, subsidize and sponsor designers by providing them free entry possibilities; we created a significant number of patronage and sponsorship programs and listed them all online as part of our policy, and we did sponsor many designers who had great designs but needed help.

Universal and Inclusive
Finally we also presented designers with complimentary preliminary evaluation and judging services to ensure their nominations make sense and their hard earned income is not spent for nothing. All these initiatives; “no further fees”, “low-cost entry fees”, “free entry methods” and “free preliminary score” service helped us create one of the World’s largest and most influential design awards that is highly accessible, meritorious and fair, and thus prestigious, inclusive and universal.

Fair and Open Competition
Within our goal of making the design awards even more accessible and more fair and therefore even more prestigious, we have finally created the First Ticket Initiative, which provides an opportunity to all designers, artists, architects, creators and innovators to nominate one single design with truly discounted nomination fees and of course without any further contractually obliged fees for winners.

Everyone Can Benefit
Digital First Ticket is an initiative that everyone can benefit from once, regardless of any eligibility prerequisites. To take part in the Digital First Ticket initiative you need to acquire the special Initiative Digital Nomination Ticket. You may click on the link below to obtain your special ticket. To be able to obtain the ticket you must be logged-in and must have selected your account type.

Positive Price Discrimination
The Initiative Digital Nomination Ticket has different costs depending on your account type; in general it should be one of the most cost effective methods to take part in the A’ Design Awards and it is much cheaper for upcoming young designers, professional artists, architects and designers; the fee is same throughout the year (invariant to entry period), without regards to preliminary score (not effected by your preliminary score) and is for digital nomination entry method only.

What Happens Next
When you acquire the Initiative Digital First Nomination Ticket, you will receive a code which you can use to complete nomination of one of your work for awards consideration; we will send you further instructions soon after your acquisition. You will only be able to use the Initiative Digital Nomination Ticket once. In general it is good to remember that the tickets are valid for 365 days upon their purchase and thus could generally be used for current or next entry period within their validity date.

Can Be Obtained and Used Only Once
You can use this initiative only once, for one single design. You cannot acquire it two times however you can use the Initiative Digital Nomination Ticket if you have already joined by other means; you can use it if you are already a winner; we allow you to do so to be fair with you in case you have already paid full entry fees, you can use this initiative to make one entry with discounts; as long as you have not made use of the Digital First Nomination Ticket initiative in the past, you can make use of this program to obtain your special ticket. To be very honest, the Digital First Nomination Ticket initiative is for designers who cannot afford to join normally by paying full entry fees; if you have the financial means to pay for full entry fees please try not use this initiative, but if you do, we will not condemn you for doing so, and we just ask you kindly.

Not Free but Good Enough
We noted the Digital First Ticket within our list of free to join methods even though it is not free to join with this method, however we thought since this method is providing quite a discounted entry possibility, you may as a designer be pleased to find it within the list. Make sure to check other free participation methods.

A' Design Award & Competition was designed keeping the designers 1st in our minds; the accolade does not bring contractual financial obligations and burdens to award winners thanks to its "no further fees" policy.