Grand Award Prize

This page explains the Grand Award Prize, a B2B product offered by A’ Design Awards to other design, innovation and engineering competition organizers as well as for design weeks, trade-show and trade-fairs. If you are a designer looking for the A' Design Award Competition prize, visit : A' Design Award Prize instead.

What is Grand Award Prize
Simply put, the Grand Award Prize is a catalyst, sort of steroids for your own design event; it is a way for you to make your design event relevant, coveted and prestigious in a short period of time with great efficiency. This is especially relevant for organizations who wish to organize a design award or design competition, and who wish to make their design award or design competition worthy, relevant and attractive for audiences. You need Grand Award Prize if you want to organize a successful design event.

Why You Need the Grand Award Prize
Did you know that competitions compete more for attracting participants than participants competing in a competition aiming to win a prize? Every year, there are over hundred thousand creative competitions organized worldwide annually (including regional awards, online contest, international accolades, government accolades and international competitions in verticals such as design, innovation, engineering and idea generation). As a result of this intense competition among competitions themselves, prospective participants are now facing a wide choice of accolades to choose from and they have the possibility to compare and join the competitions that offer the most value. It is a pity but true, most participants will not read competition terms, especially if they are joining a competition for the first time; this means even if you are a great organizer who has put reasonable effort to organize a prestigious competition with terms and agreements favoring the designers, it will be less likely to create an impact on the amount of work submitted to your event. Likewise getting great and prestigious patrons or sponsors does not proportionally increase the amount of entries, especially if you require significant amount of work from the entrants (i.e. if you wish to receive in-depth solutions); the patronages could attract better participants, more qualified or experienced talent but the number of participants or works would not be increased significantly this way. Likewise, having a great jury also helps but only for attracting experienced designers; if you are organizing a competition that targets the general population, the jury will not be an effective way to get more entries. The most statistically significant aspect for increasing the number of entrants to a competition that targets creative talents (apart from the reach / i.e. competition popularity) is the award prizes; i.e. what you offer as an organizer to the prospective winners. The Grand Award Prize is a special list of items and services offered by A’ Design Award & Competition that you can add and implement to your competition so that you would get more entries and attract more experienced designers.

Who is The Grand Award Prize for?
The Grand Award Prize is designed for competition organizers who wish to attract a higher number of participants through improving their award offering and incentives. It could be purchased and integrated to any design, idea, innovation or engineering competition without any restrictions. The Grand Award Prize is a booster for your competitions, contests, awards and accolades, helping you as an organizer, to receive more entries from more talents and could potentially increase the overall quality of entries by creating a further incentive for prospective entrants to come up with superior works. Since the award kit is extremely rich and fully comprehensive, it also adds a further layer of prestige and credibility to your competition. It is also great for organizers who might not have the time or resources to manage a design award organization completely, or for those who have time, integrating the Grand Award Prize can reduce costs and man-hour requirements.

Who uses The Grand Award Prize?
Design Associations, Companies, Trade-Fairs, Event-Organizers and Publications who would wish to organize creativity awards, competitions or accolades can use the Grand Award Prize. For Trade-Fair organizers, we also have a more complex offering called the “Expo Edition”.

Commercial Presentation : The Grand Award Prize
The Grand Award Prize, targeting other creative (design, innovation, engineering) competitions, contests and awards, is a B2B product offered by A’ Design Award & Competition. It is a list of items and services that would be listed as a part of your award prize which you would outsource to us; in simpler terms, your competition can also offer the items included in the A’ Design Prize to your participants. When integrated by creative competitions, contests or awards, the Grand Award Prize increases the value of your accolades and helps the organizers to attract better talents & more entrants since the Grand Award Prize creates a strong incentive for prospective participants to join the competition. In another way, Grand Award Prize, allows design competition organizers worldwide to outsource award benefits (prizes) that would be offered to your participants to A’ Design Awards. I.e. A’ Design Awards will manage further deliverables that you could offer to your participants such as Gala-Night participation, Yearbook Publication, Award Trophy, Award Winner Certificate and many others helping you save resources and time.

Save Time and Resources
Purchase the Grand Award Package, and you will not need to do the following investments to have the ultimate design prize to offer to your entrants: Yearbook Pagination and Publication Costs, Award Trophy Design and Realization Costs, Certificate of Excellence and Printing Costs, Gala-Night and Exhibition Organization and Catering Costs, Translation Costs for Prize Presentation and Winner Works, Press Release Preparation and Distribution Costs, Marketing and PR Costs (for Winners) and many others, in summary you save more than hundred thousand euros but would be still offering a great prize package to your competition participants. Since all of these items are organized, procured and managed by A’ Design Award & Competitions, you will also save time and man-hours, and can focus your energy and resources on improving further aspects of your competition such as additional PR or marketing to attract even more entries.

Grand Award Prize Integration
The Integration of the Grand Award Prize to your competition or contest is very easy, add the following sentence to your "call for entries": “Winners of the competition (1st, 2nd and 3rd Places) will be granted a free entry to the international annual juried A’ Design Award & Competition, one of the worlds’ most diffused and largest design awards recognizing outstanding creativity and ingenuity in all disciplines from all countries. It is your chance to compete for international fame, prestige and recognition” add also the following two lines to your list of prizes together with the *details: 1. Ultimate A’ Design Award Gift Card (1st, 2nd and 3rd Places). *In addition to the award prizes listed above, have a chance to win the A' International Design Award: In addition to the award winners’ kit which includes the award trophy, the annual yearbook, printed certificate in metal frame, award winners manual, free gala-night invitation for two people to the award ceremony, free participation and space allocation in the winners' exhibition, free sales listing at SaloneDelDesigner, free utilization of DesignMediator services, inclusion in BuySellDesign Network, proof of creation service, free subscription to listof.net, free listing at DesignMegaStore, guaranteed publication through IDNN and DXGN Networks to 100+ magazines including Design Interviews & DM Design Magazine, press release preparation and distribution through DesignPRWire, publicity and visibility through DesignMedia communications, feedbacks, judging and evaluation of entries by a respected jury panel, lifelong licensing of the award winners logo, A2 poster design and printing for exhibition,  and many others such as inclusion in the World Design Rankings, and translation of award winning works to 20+ languages, all of which are provided with no further fees, winners of the A’ Design Award & Competition also receive fame, prestige and international exposure. **Please kindly note that you are not automatically granted the A’ Design Prize; the winners will be given a special nomination ticket to join the A’ Design Awards, the international design accolades. Learn more about A’ Design Awards at designaward.com (In addition, we have many translations of the A’ Prize here: http://www.designinternational.org which you could integrate or use)

Grand Award Prize Costs
The cost of integrating the Grand Award Prize to your competition is calculated based on the number of awards you wish to offer. Please refer to the Grand Award Packages below for sample configurations. You will receive an invoice on purchase, and can deduct this expense from your revenues for tax purposes. The Grand Award Prize fee also includes eventual shipment of winners’ kits to awarded participants: we distribute winners’ kits free of charge during our gala-night and exhibition where your winners would be invited to collect however in case your winners cannot join these events, we will also ship the winners’ kits as a part of this prize. In addition, the fees also include a DesignPRWire distribution service to help spread the news about your competition to reach further participants and to help your competition be easily discovered when searched for.

Grand Award Prize Packages
Each Grand Award Package must include at least one Ultimate Edition Gift Card to ensure that you could list physical items such as “Trophy”, “Yearbook”, “Certificate” as a part of your offering. Please kindly note that the Digital Edition is does not include Physical Items, for full details refer to this page. Refer to the Following Table for Costs. The Grand Award Prize Gold is the most popular option.

Purchase a “Grand Award Prize” Package now, and help your creative competition be more attractive; increase the value of your event by offering additional international publicity, fame and recognition to your entrants through A' Design Award participation.

Grand Award Prize Eligibility for Entrants
The A’ Design Award & Competition’s eligibility conditions do not limit or filter entrants and is open to participants from all countries who are of legal age, the only limiting factor is that all entrants must sign and confirm our terms and agreements in order to take part in the accolades. Our terms and agreements are favorable for designers; designers keep rights to their designs.

Grand Award Prize Eligibility for Organizers
The A’ Design Award & Competition’s Grand Award Prize is aimed towards competition organizers that respect the intellectual property rights of designers; any competition that does not fulfill this particular criteria will be disqualified and logo usage will not be allowed; i.e. if your competition terms and agreements require that the designer “must” transfer “all” legal rights to you, you cannot apply for this program, therefore before you purchase remember to contact us here.

Grand Award Prize PR Images
You will be able to use the following editorial images in your communication to indicate that your competition also offers the “Grand Award Prize”, you will be allowed to use the logo that matches your package, we will also provide high-resolution image for the Grand Award Prize logo. Furthermore you can add DesignPRWire to the list of institutions that support your organization since they would be distributing your news about the competition, we will also send you the high-resolution DesignPRWire Logo.

A' Design Award & Competitions' Grand Award Prize could add significant value to your design competition, contest and competition by providing the Worlds' Best Design Prize to its winners.