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Association of Design (AOD) is a for-profit network for design, founded by OMC Design Studios S.R.L. The aim and mission of AOD is to provide its members marketing and networking opportunities in addition to design industry services. AOD is responsible for providing a networking platform to A’ Design Award Winners in addition to design certification.

Museum of Outstanding Design (MOOD) is a semi-temporary and travelling design museum accessible online. The Museum organizes both virtual and physical exhibitions every year at different locations. MOOD has hosted many exhibitions to date and is responsible for organizing winners’ exhibition for A’ Design Award.

Designer Press is a subsidiary of OMC Design Studios S.R.L. for publishing design related material and books. Designer Press publishes books about design, and is responsible for preparation of the A’ Award Winners’ book, its pagination, design, publication and dissemination.

OMC Design Studios S.R.L organizes design courses, especially for strategic design, design communication and marketing under the Design Faculty brand. The courses are run at OMC Design Studios headquarters in Como in collaboration with design professionals and academics. Design Faculty is responsible for providing and arranging jury members to the competition.

Design PR Wire is a public relations and press relations service for design only. Design PR Wire helps designers, design studios, and design oriented companies to reach media. Design PR Wire is responsible for Media Relations of A’ Design Award, providing press release preparation and distribution services to award winners. Design PR Wire is owned and operated by OMC Design Studios S.R.L.

Design League is an innovation platform developed by OMC Design Studios S.R.L. The platform is an online interactive system to organize and manage design competitions. Design League provides structural and technical support to A’ Design Award. A’ Design Award utilizes the IT infra-structure provided by Design League.

Design Mega Store is an online marketplace for designers to sell their services, products and designs. The platform aims to be the mega-store for design. Different than other online marketplaces, design mega store do not take commission from sales. Winners of the A’ Design Award can use the website free of charge to add and sell their offerings. Design Mega Store is owned and operated by OMC Design Studios S.R.L.

Advanced Design Conference is a Design Conference on Advanced Design. It is an ongoing project with Politecnico di Milano – Advanced Design Research Unit. The conference is organized in Como, structural and organization support will be provided by OMC Design Studios S.R.L.

Design Mediators is a consulting service for designers, design studios and companies for design mediation and brokerage. Design Mediators is backed up by OMC Design Studios S.R.L.  The service helps designers to make agreements for sales of designs, for transfer of intellectual property rights, providing support for contracts preparation and acts as a mediator. The services are provided free of charge to A’ Award Winners.

Good Design Mark provides a badge to winner products of A’ Design Award. The badge is applied on product packages and incorporates a QR Barcode Code that is linked to an online page to validate the products. Good Design Mark is developed by OMC Design Studios S.R.L. A’ Award Winners are granted free usage of this service.

Salone del Designer is an online trade fair and showcase platform for design. Designers, Design Studios and Award Winner companies can display their products and designs, also by setting up sales price and options. Salone del Design is owned and operated by OMC Design Studios S.R.L. Services provided by Salone del Designer are free to A’ Award Winners.

Advanced Design Factory (ADF) is a design studio specialized in building webpages and interactive applications. ADF provides structural and design support to A’ Design Award and helps to the creation of dissemination channels, micro websites and such.

Designer Ratings is a system by A’ Design Award which Ranks the Winner Designers based on their award winnings. Ratings are displayed online, and are visible at major search engines. The service is provided free of charge to the participants of A’ Design Award to increase dissemination. Designer Ratings is operated by A’ Award.

Design Competition is an aggregator of all the Design Competitions organized throughout the world, Design Competition provides free listings for all design contests, prizes, awards and challenges. Design Competition advertised A’ Design Award and helps dissemination of the A’ Design Award through communications support.

Design Amid (Amidst Design) is a lifestyle and design magazine, it is published in both Italian and English. Design Amid publishes articles about design, design lifestyle, events and happenings sych as trade fairs, exhibitions, designers interviews etc. Design Amid has its own editorial team but also allows guest editors to write articles. Design Amid actively provides coverage of design events by sending a reporter and photographer to events. Design Amid is the media sponsor for A’ Award and features A’ Award Winners in Articles.

AwardWinningDesign.org, AwardedDesign.com BestDesigners.org, TheBestDesignAward.com, TheAwardWinner.com are dissemination channels for A’ Design Award winners. These platforms are online webpages optimized for search engines. The aim of these channels is to increase the visibility of A’ Award Winners in search engines and to advertise the winners further.

Creatives Challenge is a platform to organize innovation contests. It has been developed by OMC Design Studios S.R.L. and enables small and medium enterprises to organize small design competitions in order to crowdsource design ideas. The platform provides A’ Design Award structural support.

DI: Design Interviews is a platform where there are interviews with award winning designers, the platform reaches a wide audience and helps the dissemination of results in addition to creating furter publicity. Interviews of winning designers regarding the "designs" published.

Design Creation platform exist to provide a "Proof of Creation" document for the designers. The "Proof of Creation" can be used to proove that a designer is the creator of a design at a given time. We provide a templates and tools to make it easier to obtain the "proof of creation" document.

OMC Design Studios is a multi-disciplinary international design studio, with headquarters in Italy and agents around the world.