FAQ Entry #518

This is a respond to a previously asked question about the A' Design Award and Competition. The full list of frequently asked questions can be accessed here.

#518: How do I enter the A' Design Award Competition?

Entries can be submitted online through the A' Design Awards website. Entrants must provide a detailed description of their design, along with images and technical specifications. The late deadline for entries is usually on February 28th of each year.

Keywords: entry, online submission, description, images, technical specifications

The following questions could be related:

• #26: Hi, I registered to enter the competition, I am interested in a couple of categories, however, I cannot decide which to enter without knowing entry deadlines and I looked on the website, but I must have missed it. Can you please give me the entry deadlines for each category and when winners will be announced?
• #43: Is there a discount for multiple article (design/entry) submission for the same category? For example: If I submitted two articles to the same category, does the entry fee double?
• #69: I want to take part in the competitions what do I need to do?
• #80: Do I need to send all photos / renders / sketches / views combined as a single image or shall I send all the visuals as separate images?
• #87: I am a very talented designer or arts student, currently enrolled in a university or higher education, in a design faculty or arts department, but I do not possess the very required funds for joining in the competition, is there any discounts or opportunities for students?
• #89: I would like to know if I can also attach a video presentation of my design in addition to the images I have already submitted.
• #109: Some of the text I enter for the description of my project during uploading such as details, function, inspiration, unique properties, interaction, project duration, production technology, package dimension, tags, research abstract or challenge are not visible when I view design?
• #110: Are there any restrictions or best practices while entering the descriptive texts when uploading my design?
• #111: How can I modify or change my design description and details?
• #148: Can I submit many different designs for the Furniture Design Award as a single entry?
• #149: How can I learn if my design is applicable, or if my entry be counted or if my design is eligible for winning the award?
• #150: Does it matter to enter description of my design? What is its weight on the scoring?
• #164: How can I upload higher resolution profile images?
• #166: My yearbook page does not display correctly, how can I fix it?
• #169: My page title is wrong in the yearbook how can I change it?
• #173: Our design studio is the winner of the design award, how many people could attend the gala night?
• #185: Our company has processed payment only once for the entry X, but it is shown on the entry’s page that there are several approved transactions for this entry, and there are two different transaction tokens with the status [APPROVED] for this entry. Could you please investigate into this issue?
• #187: Can I place text with-in the images to better explain them?
• #189: I would like to point out that by presenting the images in the square format nearly half of the presented design content will get lost, as the content is best shown in landscape layout. Can you please suggest any solution to this issue?
• #195: We are trying to upload images for our submission. But when we upload them and submit the page just spins and spins and then says done with no progress. We cannot submit images, can you help?
• #213: My image is larger than 3600x3600 pixels, how can I submit it?
• #224: I would like to check if I can pay via credit card to purchase the nomination ticket for the early-bird period now, and then submit the design work later?
• #225: What is a Nomination Ticket?
• #229: I have submitted a design with images, but received an email stating that there is not any images, is there anything wrong with my submission?
• #231: Is the nomination fee per image or per entry?
• #233: I have made changes to the pictures in the designs my designs however in while thumbnails show the right images, when I open the images in full size the old picture still opens, how can I fix this?
• #241: Is it possible to register the same project to more than one category?
• #255: It is too difficult to submit entries to the design award, there are too many submission requirements and it is too bureaucratic to enter and nominate works. Is there an easy way to do join?
• #257: If I fix the client / studio section and input my brand info, would it raise my preliminary score?
• #259: I find there are five (5) image slots where I can upload my designs to. Does this mean that I can nominate up to five (5) designs through a single nomination?
• #260: I would like to know whether Late Application makes any difference in the Award process.
• #263: I win 2 awards. It says on the website that each winning project have 1 ticket for the Gala Night. Besides that, I can purchase up to 9 extra tickets. Since me and my partner have 2 winning projects, how many people can we invite, maximum? The maximum 9 extra tickets are per winning projects or per designers?
• #265: For the character limit in the various descriptions for a submission, are spaces counted?
• #267: I have uploaded my design images and have begun to fill out the application but I will need a few more days to complete populating the required fields in the application. I just wanted to check with you that the uploads and content that I have out there so far will be saved there for a few more days until I can complete the application.
• #268: I like to participate with a project but I am confused about nomination prices. Could you give me the price of participation? If you win an award, how much it cost when you have won it?
• #291: How to apply for the design competition; is there an application form?
• #298: With regards to an interior design project, what is the date of completion of the project that we could nominate to design competition? Are there any restrictions?
• #303: We would like to add our product to you award competition. However, it is not entirely clear how much we would have to pay in fees for this - could you please clarify.
• #306: I can submit everything latest by February 28 right?
• #307: Please let us know what are the requirement to enter for the competition, do we need to pay anything?
• #308: What should I do if I submitted as a digital entry but want to get a Yearbook (just Yearbook)?
• #310: I would like to know if all the documents attached must be written in English in the design description. Can I use another language in a description document added for the design?
• #313: I did not understand if it is possible for us, to nominate more than one project in the same category or different categories, if is possible?
• #314: Are the submissions pictorial only or do we need to submit associated text?
• #315: I haven't received my gala night invitation yet. Could you please inform me about the issue?
• #318: Do we have to nominate each project that we upload to the system. I mean that can we decide to nominate our projects according to the preliminary checks?
• #319: What I should do to take a part in the design competition?
• #321: We would like to upload few of our projects to the Design Awards. But the thing is that one of them was sent to different architectural competition. Can we use the same project to participate in your competition? Please let us know if it's not against your policies, so we can go ahead and upload our concepts to your website.
• #322: Can I send the design presentation as a drawing on paper?
• #323: I am planning to submit one of my design to the awards. Would it be possible for me to submit the exact same product to another competition?
• #324: What projects are eligible for the architecture categories: completed and conceptual, or just completed?
• #326: Can we know the final fee before nominating each work?
• #327: Are we obligated to pay the fees after we see the final price by uploading our work and receiving a preliminary score but decide not to participate?
• #338: Is there any limitations for participating in different fields or design award categories?
• #339: Is there a possibility to submit three different models of the same design in one only ID#. How do you recommend me to do it? Is there a possibility to still submit three main images and four optional images for each of them? Other ways I would only submit one because the optional ones are important to understand the object. Can i submit as well one sketch drawing in each group?
• #341: Can I join the design award competition without a patent?
• #346: Why the nomination fees differentiate based on entry period.
• #354: What is the competition criteria?
• #355: I do not know in which space I shall put my logo to go together with my design award entry?
• #364: To enter the fashion design part of the competition, do you want completed garments now or is it preliminary designs and complete the garments at a later stage? Also for the entry do you want or need a process of design - as in where the concept of the garment came from?
• #365: Is it possible to proceed with an entry and win an award without going through the nomination stage?
• #370: Can designs be submitted in sketch forms with hand written details?
• #376: If we apply a project as a group of two (2) people, in this case which is the fee due for nomination?
• #377: I have had a read through your guidelines and will be applying for the preliminary stage very soon - just one thing, I see no mention or address for submitting on actual product, prototype or sample. Is a product or prototype submission required?
• #378: Which is the next stop if our design has passed the preliminary test? Do I have to nominate my design, how can i do it? which is the deadline?
• #382: I an planning to attend the competition, but still I have a doubt. Do I have to send to A'Design Award & Competition the real product, or just the images and texts?
• #384: We will not nominate our design due to the negative feedback of the preliminary test but are we obliged to nominate our design or can we participate with another project?
• #385: Is this design competition can be join by a group?
• #386: I thought, I could take part at the promo. I compared the ticket-prices and I am lost. With promo it is X Euro, normal price is also X Euro what am I missing? I have a preliminary score of 9 and would like to buy a pro nomination ticket.
• #387: How much time I have to put on or insert drawings?
• #388: Is it possible to insert photo? (Can I upload a photograph to support my entry)
• #390: Is it necessary that the design must be published in same year of award entry?
• #391: I would like to ask about registration fees since it is not very clear to me. If I understand it correctly, we can submit our products for free and pay after preliminary checking if the results are good, right?
• #396: Can I submit my design into many categories? If yes how do I do that?
• #397: Can we submit our products free and decide on nomination after the preliminary score?
• #398: After nominating my work and paying for the nomination, it possible for me to win the prize？
• #399: I have renders, sketches and photos of my design as well as the design itself, which should I send to you?
• #400: Can I send teamwork projects? I mean designs I did with another person?
• #402: I have submitted my work and now I have a preliminary score. I would like to know when I have to finish nomination of my project in order to have my work considered for the design award.
• #406: A product, to be submitted, needs to be produced by a company or not? For example can I submit a table only by a render image? Or submitting a prototype photo?
• #407: Is it required for submission that the product is new design? For example can I submit a product I designed several years ago?
• #408: Is there a specific requirement for when the submitted project was completed? (How recently completed can a project be? Also, how old can a project be to qualify?)
• #410: What is the nominal fee incurred for winning a prize?
• #412: About the possibility to participate as co-author (we are two designers that need to present one project) but I need to know if we must register separately or not. What are the correct steps?
• #416: Hello! I am new in design competitions and I would like to know why I have to pay so much money in order to participate in the competition. Thanks!
• #437: I am a fashion designer with no company and I would like to apply in a design award and competition how can I apply? and how to do it step by step?
• #442: I recently nominated my design so that I could take advantage of the early nomination fee. I am now a little worried as my submission needs a lot of work and I will be unable to make it perfect for the next few months as my photographer is away. How long do I have to make the required changes to my design please?. As I would like to make it perfect before final judgement. Also will my submission compromised as I nominated the design too early or is it only fully judged at a later date?
• #448: For the main and optional images, please advise if composited image is accepted?
• #450: If the winner design is in a concealed category, will these works be displayed in the award ceremony in the screen or stage?
• #453: Is there any fee for submitting our concept designs and nominating our design concepts for competition?
• #457: My profile image is not displayed with the rest of the award winning designers, why is that?
• #461: I wonder, if I could submit my work just as the design, is it possible? I mean can I just send only the sketch, rendering, concept but not the actual product for ward consideration?
• #481: I have a nomination ticket that I haven’t used and when I go through the steps to pay and use the nominated ticket there is still a fee shown, how can that be?
• #482: May I purchase the entry now, but submit my work later? Do I need to firstly do the Preliminary Score Test ? When can I use the ticket last?
• #484: I submitted a project in another design competition, and I am wondering if I can submit it in your competition as well
• #485: Would I be submitting a specific piece or would I be submitting multiple pieces that together would exemplify a certain style or technique of art?
• #495: We do not have a Logo, what do we put to the Logo section of the entry? Can we just leave it blank?
• #508: I cannot find my gala-night images, where are my gala images? Could it be possible my gala-night photos are deleted? Can you find my image?
• #533: The A' Design Prize is too big, why is the submission is free and nomination fee is so low?

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