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This page includes several articles and papers to have a better understanding on design competitions, how to improve design awards and how to organize better, more ethical design competitions.

History of Design Awards & Competitions - A Brief introduction & history of design awards and competitions; what is the first design competition organized, how did design competitions changed over the centuries etc. (Theory)

Design Competition Voting System - How to derive real criteria weights for a design competition using the preference ordering votes. (Theory)

Method for Pre-evaluation and Filtering of Jury Membership Applications for A' Design Award & Competition (Theory)

Assigning a Quality Score for Design Competitions - What are the core qualities that makes a design competition good, fair and effective. (Theory)

Importance of Design Presentations - Real weights of presentations on the evaluation of submissions during a design competition. (Article)

How to Measure Value of a Design Award - This article explores how a Manual Review for Measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) for Design Competitions could be made. (Article)

Controversies about Design Contests - This articles discusses some of the most controversial issues regarding to design contests. (Notes)

Why a good design award should cover more categories? - This Article discusses why a good design competition should cover more categories based on reach and relevance. (Article)

Why Designers Don't Join Design Awards. (Article)

Issues Regarding Public Voting in Design Competitions - This article discusses pros and cons of public voting schemas used by some design competitions and awards, the methodology used is experimentation, observation, and first-hand experience supported by political science and economics theories. (Theory)

Utilization of Design Award Winner Logos - This article discuss how design award winner logos should be utilized, details and examples are provided. (Best Practices)

Cost of a Design Awards Program Organization - An estimate of the cost of conducting a design awards program may be calculated by assigning costs to the several essential items. (Article)

Coinnovation through Competitions - This article discusses the usage of design competitions and contests as a tool to derive and form co-innovation among designers. (Exploration).

Personas for Support - Creation of a New Persona - This article discusses the usage of personas for support and explains our support persona. (Theory)

Editorial Perspective - Learn what editorial perspective means and how it could be used to improve the textual presentation of an award entry. (Article)

BENEFITS
THE DESIGN PRIZE
WINNERS SERVICES
PR CAMPAIGN
PRESS RELEASE
MEDIA CAMPAIGNS
AWARD TROPHY
AWARD CERTIFICATE
AWARD WINNER LOGO
PRIME DESIGN MARK
BUY & SELL DESIGN
DESIGN BUSINESS NETWORK
AWARD SUPPLEMENT

METHODOLOGY
DESIGN AWARD JURY
PRELIMINARY SCORE
VOTING SYSTEM
EVALUATION CRITERIA
METHODOLOGY
BENEFITS FOR WINNERS
PRIVACY POLICY
ELIGIBILITY
FEEDBACK
WINNERS' MANUAL
PROOF OF CREATION
WINNER KIT CONTENTS
FAIR JUDGING
AWARD YEARBOOK
AWARD GALA NIGHT
AWARD EXHIBITION

MAKING AN ENTRY
ENTRY INSTRUCTIONS
REGISTRATION
ALL CATEGORIES

FEES & DATES
FURTHER FEES POLICY
MAKING A PAYMENT
PAYMENT METHODS
DATES & FEES

TRENDS & REPORTS
DESIGN TRENDS
DESIGNER REPORTS
DESIGNER PROFILES
DESIGN INTERVIEWS

ABOUT
THE AWARD
AWARD IN NUMBERS
HOMEPAGE
AWARD WINNING DESIGNS
DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
MUSEUM OF DESIGN
PRIME CLUBS
SITEMAP
RESOURCE

RANKINGS
DESIGNER RANKINGS
WORLD DESIGN RANKINGS
DESIGN CLASSIFICATIONS
POPULAR DESIGNERS

CORPORATE
GET INVOLVED
SPONSOR AN AWARD
BENEFITS FOR SPONSORS
IMPRESSUM IMPRINT

PRESS
DOWNLOADS
PRESS-KITS
PRESS PORTAL
LIST OF WINNERS
PUBLICATIONS
RANKINGS
CALL FOR ENTRIES
RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT

Good design deserves great recognition.

A' Design Award & Competition.