A' News Award
A' News Award is an international, juried design accolade established to recognize and promote good news.
A' News Award
Good news deserves great recognition.
A' News Award is your tool of choice to advertise, publicize and promote your good news, to make your great news publicly known, appreciated and loved in all major countries, in all major languages, so that you and your good news work gets the righteous attention you truly deserve and entitled to.
A' News Award’s media exposure provides victorious designers with the chance to attain national and international fame, to honor them as well as to incentivize them, but most importantly, to help their work reach their true potential.
It is free to sign-up for A' News Award, it is free to upload your news and it is free, anonymous, confidential and obligation-free to obtain a preliminary score, before you nominate your work for A' News Award consideration.
FAME, PRESTIGE, PUBLICITY
Dominate News Industry by winning a prestigious, respected and coveted award that gets you published and promoted worldwide.
TROPHY, CERTIFICATE, YEARBOOK
Claim your Metal News Award Trophy, your Certificate of News Excellence, News Award-Winner Logo and Your Yearbook of Award-Winning Projects.
EXHIBITION, PR & GALA-NIGHT
Empower your news with a well-designed, world-class public relations programme. Get exhibited in Italy and internationally. Get invited to the Gala-Night and Award Ceremony.
SEE THE WINNERS
A' News Award winner showcase is a source of amazing and unlimited inspiration and creativity for everyone interested in good news.
VEDI I VINCITORI
Affluent customers and design buyers regularly check A' Design Award winner showcase, featuring 20.101 winners in all categories, to find latest, trendsetting products, projects, arts and design.
JOIN NEWS AWARD
Good news deserves great recognition, if you have a good news, nominate it for A' News Award, and you too may become a winner and get your design recognized, respected, promoted and advertised worldwide.
VISION
The A' Design Award aims to highlight, advertise and promote good news for a better future. A' News Award aims to channel the attention of press, interactive medias, design journalists, distributors and buyers to the award winners.
MISSION
Provide a fair, ethical, apolitical and competitive platform for companies, designers and innovators from all fields with different experience levels, different disciplines and market focus to compete on. A' News Award aims to provide a global audience for award winners to showcase their success and talents to.
ACTION
The A' News Award is an international indicator of excellence and perfection in news, the A' News Award is recognized worldwide and takes the attention of design-oriented companies, professionals and interest groups.
WHO IS AWARDED?
The A' News Award is given to best news. Submission is open to all concept stage works, prototypes as well as finished works and realized projects.
UNIQUE AWARD TROPHY
The A' News Award Trophy was designed to be realized by the newest production techniques in order to underline the innovation behind award-winning designs.
HIGHLIGHTING INNOVATION
The A' News Award Trophies are made of metal. Platinum and Gold Trophies and are electro plated in gold color.
WHAT IS AWARDED?
You can nominate original and innovative news work designed within the last 5 years; including but not limited to products, projects, services, experiences and designs..
WHO IS AWARDED?
The A' News Award is open to all entities, especially accepting nominations from brands, manufacturers, creative agencies, architecture offices and design studios..
WHEN IS AWARDED?
There are six entry periods, First, Early, Standard, Late, Last, Omega. It is recomended to join before the end of Late Entry Deadline, that is on February 28th. Results are announced every year on May 1st.
NEWS EXHIBITION
The Museum of Outstanding Design, the moving design museum was founded by A' Design Award & Competition in order to exhibit the award-winning news in Italy and abroad, internationally.
ARE YOU IN THE MOOD?
Eligible A' News Award winners are provided free of charge exhibition space in the MOOD. No matter how big or small your news, it will be exhibited.
WE DO IT FOR YOU
If you are unable to send a physical version of your award-winning news, A' News Award will prepare a large poster presentation and exhibit your work on behalf of you.
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
A' Design Award works hard to exhibit all award-winning news in multiple countries each year to ensure your news is properly exhibited worldwide.
TRAVELING THE CONTINENTS
For each international design exhibition, as well as for exhibition of your news in Italy, you will be given a certificate of exhibition that may be relevant for your academic progression.
SHOWCASE YOUR NEWS
We will also provide you with photos of your works from the international news exhibitions we organize, and you may find these photos useful in promoting your news to new audiences.
40×40 EXHIBITIONS
40×40 Exhibitions are international good design exhibitions featuring outstanding works of 40 Designers from 40 Countries.
GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION
The A' News Award Winners are invited to take part in 40×40 Exhibitions by sending their works. Acceptance to 40×40 Exhibition is subject to the exhibition curator.
POWER TO YOU
The A' News Award laureates are also empowered to host and curate their own 40×40 Exhibitions, allowing them to take the center stage as the curators.
MUSEO DEL DESIGN
Museo del Design, the super contemporary design museum in Como, Italy will be accepting select A' News Award winner news to its permanent collection.
AWARD WINNER'S EXHIBITION
All A' News Award Winners are exhibited at Museo del Design at the annual A' Design Award Winner's Exhibition, free of charge.
PUBLIC EXHIBITION
The A' News Award Exhibition at Museo del Design, located right behind Villa Olmo, allows the award-winning works to get exposed to affluent design-loving tourists visiting Como, Italy.
NEWS AWARD CERTIFICATE
Eligible award-winning news are given a unique framed certificate, printed on heavy paper, featuring the name of the awarded work, achievement status and the designer.
CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE
The A' News Award Winners' Certificate is a great tool to communicate your outstanding achievement to your audiences. The A' Design Award Winners' Certificate is stamped, signed, framed and presented to you during gala-night.
FEATURES A QR CODE
The A' News Award Certificate features a QR Code which could be scanned by QR Code Readers in order to check the validity of the certificate.
WINNER NEWS YEARBOOK
The A' News Award winners are published in the annual yearbook by DesignerPress in Italy. The yearbooks helps to disseminate the award-winning news.
SEND TO PRESS
The Hardcopy version of the A' Design Award Winner Designs Yearbook is distributed to key press members, universities and design associations.
GOOD DESIGNS ARE PUBLISHED
Eligible A' News Award Winner Designs are included in the winners' yearbook free of charge. Laureates of the A' News Award are all listed as co-editors of the book.
HARDCOVER & DIGITAL
The A' News Award Winners Annual Yearbook are available as hard-copy editions in addition to digital editions, designed, registered, printed and distributed in Italy, in English, registered with valid ISBN numbers.
HIGH-QUALITY PRINTING
The A' News Award books are full color digital printed on acid-free paper to preserve the design for long periods of time, and are great additions to any design library.
GET & CHECK IT
The hardcover versions of the winner's yearbooks are gifted to laureates of the A' News Award free of charge during gala-night and award ceremony. Yearbooks are available for sale at select retailers and museum shops.
THE GALA NIGHT
A' News Award organizes a unique gala night and award ceremony near the beautiful Como Lake in Italy for winners to celebrate their success.
A' GRAND CELEBRATION
Press Members, Industry Leads, Prominent Designers and Companies are all invited in order to create networking opportunities for winners.
WINNERS ARE INVITED
Eligible A' News Award winners are able to participate the Gala-Night and Award-Ceremony free of charge. Winners have also opportunity to order additional tickets for their guests.
RED CARPET NEWS EVENT
A' News Award gala night and award ceremony is super exclusive, black-tie, red-carpet event for news.
BLACK TIE NEWS EVENT
Very Important People, Ambassadors, Influential Journalists and Industry Juggernauts are provided VIP invitations to attend the A' News Award gala night and award ceremony.
FULL GLAMOUR NEWS EVENT
Each and every eligible A' News Award winners are called to stage to celebrate their success and to retrieve their news prize.
LA NOTTE PREMIO A'
Celebration occasion exclusively reserved for top A' News Award winners. Hosted in addition to our gala night to celebrate the "Prime Designer of the Year" title.
ARS FUTURA CULTURA
Designers meet to discuss strategies and policies to advance the design discipline. A' News Award winners may reserve their seat to join the meetings.
ARTS FOR FUTURE
Ars Futura Cultura means arts cultivate the future, that is why A' Design Award & Competition invest heavily in promoting good design, art, architecture and innovation every year.
WORLD DESIGN CONSORTIUM
World Design Consortium is a global design, architecture, innovation and engineering agency, winner of tens of thousands of awards.
GOOD IN ALL INDUSTRIES
World Design Consortium have uniquely specialized members in each and every industry, especially news, thanks to its world-class members representing the very brightest in all fields.
MEMBERS IN ALL COUNTRIES
Winners of the A' News Award are invited to join the World Design Consortium. WDC Partners rely on each other to expand the range of services and capabilities they offer professionally.
PATRONS & SPONSORS
Over the years, A' News Award have earned the patronage of many prestigious institutions. While the sponsors and patrons vary every year, the awards had been previously endorsed by institutions such as: BEDA, Bureau of European Design Associations, Politecnico di Milano University, Como Municipality Culture Department and Ragione Lombardia, among other respectable and reputable organizations.
MARKETING INVESTMENT
Taking part in the A' News Award is almost totally risk free through preliminary preliminary checking service that tells how good your work is prior to nomination. Preliminary score is provided completely free of charge to each entrant. The A' News Award does not ask contractually obliged further fees from its winners. The A' News Award spends most of its operating income for promoting its laureates, creating a significant advertisement value. Companies and designers use the A' News Award Winner Logo to promote themselves and attract new customers.
AWARD IN NUMBERS
The A' News Award is gaining significant popularity each year. Currently the A' Design Award has 700.289.177 page views, 202.616 members, 72.287 submissions, 1500 gala-night and exhibition participants, and winners from 122 countries. Updated numbers and statistics could be found at A' Design Award In-Numbers page. We believe numbers are important for designers to understand what it means to be a winner.
A' NEWS AWARD JURY
A' Design Award Jury is truly great and powerful, composed of 278 established professionals, influential press members and academics, each design is given importance and equal consideration during voting.
EXPERIENCED & BALANCED JURY
A' Design Award Jury although changes every year features a balanced composition of news professionals, journalists, scholars and entrepreneurs to ensure each news is voted fairly.
RESEARCH THROUGH VOTING
During the voting processes, A' News Award jury members fill a custom criteria survey, and indicate how the news should be voted better in the future.
THE A' METHODOLOGY
A' News Award features a highly developed, ethical methodology for voting news which makes use of standardised scoring, pre-established criteria and bias removal.
STANDARDISED SCORE
A' News Award Scores are standardised based on the a) The Weights of Criteria, b) Average Score of Jury Members, c) Average Scores of All Years.
INTUITIVE VOTING
A' News Award Jury votes online, therefore no jury member effects another jury member's votes, the voting panel is easy to use yet requires a careful analysis of the works to be voted.
RESEARCH DRIVEN
A' Design Award and Competition was developed as a part of a Ph.D. thesis at Politecnico di Milano, in Milan, Italy, after analysis of over 800 Design Competitions.
MORE RESEARCH
The A' News Award platform is constantly in development, and is improved thanks to survey results and through ongoing research in order to provide the most value for the competition participants.
FAIR COMPETITION
A' News Award is not affiliated with any subculture, politic group, interest group or institution, and the jury is equally free during voting, your news will be judged fairly.
NEWS PRIZE
The A' News Award Prize is composed of logo license, public relations, publicity and reputation services, as well as the winner's kit that contains physical items, such as trophy, yearbook and certificate.
NEWS AWARD PRIZE
Eligible A' News Award Winners will receive their personalized Winners' Kit Package that include printed and framed award certificate, metal award trophy, A' Design Award Winners Yearbook, Award-winner's Manual Booklet, A3 Posters and A3 Certificate, and more.
FREE AT GALA NIGHT
The A' News Award Winners' Kit is free and given to all pro-edition winners at the Gala-Night & Exhibition. If you are unable to join the gala-night and award celebration events, you can order your kit to be shipped to your address.
NEWS AWARD WINNER LOGO
Winners of the A' News Award are provided a special license to use the news award-winner logo. The A' News Award winner logo can be freely implemented to product packages, marketing materials, communications and public relation campaigns to help differentiate award-winning news.
AVAILABLE IN MANY FORMATS
The A' News Award Winners' Logo is available in many formats and can be incorporated into all sorts of advertisements free of charge, and can be used freely by your agents and dealers with regards to your award-winning news.
LIFETIME USAGE
The News Award Winners' Logo is provided free of charge to all A' News Award winners, and A' Design Award and Competitions grants unlimited usage to winners, without yearly fees, without recurrent costs.
ADDED VALUE
A' News Award Winner Logo helps you communicate the excellent design values embedded in your news to your customers, consumers and clients.
IN COMMUNICATIONS
To leverage their award-winner status and get further benefits, A' News Award Winners use the logos in their communications prominently and visibly.
MAKES THE DIFFERENCE
The A' Design Award Winner Logo's is expected to create a positive impact during a client's decision towards you and your work, and is designed to orient consumers and customers towards purchase of your news.
SYMBOL OF EXCELLENCE
The A' News Award Winner Logo is an excellent symbol to communicate your design excellence, quality and capabilities.
FOR ALL INDUSTRIES
There is a distinct award-winner logo for each and every industry. The news award winner logo was designed following industry best practices, and taking into consideration historical use and heritage.
EXCLUSIVE FOR WINNERS
Many awards require annual payments for unlimited logo use license. A' News Award winners are able to use their award-winner logos unlimitedly and free of charge without annual licensing fees.
DESIGN MEDIATION
Being an A' News Award winner is just the beginning, eligible laureates are provided with complimentary mediation and brokerage services for selling their conceptual designs.
GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT
Designers are kind, polite individuals who might have difficulty in making contracts with businesses, but we will be there to help.
HELP WITH CONTRACTS
A' Design Award, together with Design Mediators, provides support to eligible designers to help form legal contracts with companies who are interested in buying design concepts.
SALONE DEL DESIGNER
A' Design Award has founded the Salone del Designer, with the sole purpose to provide a platform for award winners to sell their designs.
SELL NEWS CONCEPTS
A' News Award Winner Designers can set a sales price and also customize their contracts for selling their award-winning designs through the Salone del Designer platform.
LIST YOUR DESIGNS FOR SALE
The Salone del Designer platform access and sales listing service is provided free of charge to all winners, however only award-winning designs can be listed for sale.
THE DESIGNMEGASTORE
At DesignMegaStore winner designers and companies can sell any of their designs or products, not only winning entries.
SELL GOOD NEWS
DesignerMegaStore normally requires a registration fee and annual listing fees to sell your news. Registration and listing is provided free of charge to all winners without annual fees.
%0 SALES COMMISSION
The DesignMegaStore is not just free for winners, but also does not take any commissions from the sales of designs, products or projects. You keep all the revenues.
JOIN DESIGN TENDERS
Not just sell designs; but join design tenders to give a price quote for design and production of custom news products, services and more for international buyers.
SELL HIGH-LEVEL SERVICES
Are you a manufacturer? Give price quotes to big buyers for turnkey design and manufacturing solutions. Are you a designer? Find high-profile requests.
EXCLUSIVE SERVICE
The BuySellDesign network is exclusive to A' Design Award Winners, who wish to provide news services to worldwide clients.
Winners' Services
A special public relations campaign will be made for the News Design Award winners. Your design and your details will be communicated to thousands of press contacts, and also we will prepare a pr-kit for you. You can use this professionally prepared pr-kit to reach local press contacts. The winning design and the designer or the design studio will also be featured in the design annual and yearbook which is distributed by Design PR Wire to key figures in the design industry such as high-profile editors, press members and multi-national companies.
PROOF OF DESIGN CREATION
Can you prove that you are indeed the original creator of your work? The Proof of Creation certificate given by A' Design Award can be useful.
DULY SIGNED AND TIMESTAMPED
The Proof of Creation document is a signed and timestamped paper to help you prove that at a given time, you had the design concept in your hands.
FREE & EASY TO OBTAIN
A' Design Award provides an easy way to obtain the Proof of Design Creation document, free for all participants. Please note that this is not a patent or registration.
GOOD PR SERVICES
A' News Award winners are provided with numerous public relations and promotion services through DesignPRWire to celebrate their success.
BEHIND THE CURTAINS
The scope of PR Services is not just digital, throughout the year, DesignPRWire visits tradefairs and introduces winner news to design-oriented companies.
CONNECT WITH PRESS
With services such as press release preparation and distribution, all free of charge, A' News Award increases your connectivity with the media and provides you with exposure throughout the year.
PRESS RELEASE PREPARATION
A' News Award prepares a press release for all eligible winner news, in addition to allowing winners to upload their own releases to our platform for international press release distribution.
PRESS RELEASE DISTRIBUTION
News Award Winner press releases are distributed by DesignPRWire to a wide range of press members including both the traditional and online digital media.
IT IS FREE & HIGH RES.
Electronic multi-media press release preparation and distribution services are provided to all A' News Award winners automatically and without any payments.
DESIGNER INTERVIEWS
A' News Award publishes interviews with the award winning designers at designerinterviews.com and all news award winners are eligible for complimentary interviews.
PICKED BY THE PRESS
Designer Interviews are also available at A' Design Award Website and are part of the Electronic Press Kit that are distributed to media members and journalists.
USED BY JOURNALISTS
Designer Interviews are provided in a way to encourage usage without attribution to A' News Award, this helps the press members to write their articles faster.
NEWS INTERVIEWS
A' News Award publishes interviews regarding award winning news at design-interviews.com, and the interview service is provided free of charge for all news award winners.
DESIGNED FOR THE PRESS
News Interviews, which are also available at A' Design Award Website, are part of the Electronic Press Kit that are distributed to journalists.
INTEGRATED BY THE PRESS
Design Interviews platform was designed in a way to incentivize coverage by the press without attribution to A' News Award, to help journalists write feature stories faster.
DESIGN LEGENDS
A' News Award publishes interviews with legendary designers at design-legends.com and as a laureate, we would be honor to feature you and your award winning news.
LEGENDARY INTERVIEWS
Design Legends interviews help award-winning designers express themselves and explain their news better to worldwide audiences in long text format.
LEGENDARY COMMUNICATION
Design Legends interviews are included in your Electronic Press Kits that are distributed to news media, and are also available to you for your own communication.
MAGNIFICENT DESIGNERS
A' News Award publishes interviews of Magnificent designers at magnificentdesigners.com, award-winners are all contacted to schedule for an interview and talk about their award-winning news.
MAGNIFICENT MEDIA
Magnificent Designers platform allows laureates to communicate their perspectives on news with easy to follow questions and answers format.
LOVED BY NEWS LOVERS
Magnificent Designers, along with other interview platforms provide design-oriented audiences rich and high quality knowledge and wisdom into philosophy of designers behind original and creative news.
Discover Uplifting Design Interviews
Discover uplifting design interviews published by The News Design Award at these fine design interview websites : — Magnificent Designers #1 Magnificent Designers — Design Interviews #2 Design Interviews — Design Legends #3 Design Legends — Designer Interviews #4 Designer Interviews
IDNN NETWORK
International Design News Network helps your news get international coverage through publications in all major languages.
REACH THE WORLD
IDNN publications reaches almost all of the world population in their native language, and helps you communicate your news to audiences far and beyond.
IN 108 LANGUAGES
IDNN Network publishes award-winning news news in 108 languages, in 108 publications, for true global outreach.
BDCN NETWORK
Best Design Creative Network is all about communicating your excellence in news to your locality. BDCN helps you get discovered when best news in your region is searched for.
122 SHOWCASES
There are 122 BDCN websites, each specialized in a distinct geographic area. Each BDCN Network website showcase the best of the best news from a specific region.
PROMOTE YOUR NEWS
When you win the A' News Award you will be listed in your local BDCN publication aimed to attract local clients, consumers, customers and buyers to your news.
BEST DESIGNERS NETWORK
Best Designers Platform is all about delivering due respects, recognition and good reputation rightfully deserved by A' News Award laureates. Winners of the A' News Award are listed in the Best Designers Network.
ACCLAIMED AND BRILLIANT
Get recognized, respected and published among other acclaimed and brilliant news masters, and get found when good news is searched for.
FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL
A' News Award winners, with their outstanding and excellent designs deserve all the fame and influence. Getting listed at Best Designers Platform, is only one of the many perks of winning the A' News Award.
DXGN NETWORK
Design News Exchange Network spotlights, publishes and features good news worldwide. DXGN features and publishes articles on award-winning good news.
PROMOTE YOUR GOOD DESIGN
DXGN is composed of 128 amazing magazines that feature award-winning designers and their work. A' News Award winners are published.
REACH GREAT AUDIENCES
A' News Award winners are provided free editorial coverage and free news articles featuring their news at the DXGN Design News Network.
GOOD NETWORK
Good Design News Network is composed of 50 publications that feature good design in different industries. GOOD Network is composed of many publications, each specialized in a given industry.
NEWS PUBLICATION
For each and every industry, there is a distinct GOOD Network publication that will feature, spotlight and highlight your award-winning works. Get your news published in the GOOD Network.
GOOD DESIGN SHOWCASE
Good design deserves great recognition. Winners of A' News Award will be prominently featured and published in the GOOD Design News Network.
NEWSROOM
A' News Award provides many tools for press members to reach good news content. Accredited journalists are given access to exclusive interviews, news images and press releases.
REACH NEWS JOURNALISTS
A' News Award Newsroom empowers journalists to interview award winners. Journalists can download press releases and high-resolution images of awarded news.
DESIGNED FOR MEDIA COVERAGE
A' News Award Newsroom provides news journalists with ready to use images, interviews and content. A' News Award Newsroom allows journalists to easily feature your award-winning news and provide you with fast media coverage.
DESIGNERS.ORG
Designers.org premium portfolio service is provided to all A' News Award winners, free of charge. Award winners use their Designers.org premium portfolio to showcase their award-winning news to design-oriented audiences worldwide.
PREMIUM PORTFOLIO
Designers.org is highly selective for the quality of news that are accepted, showcased and exhibited in their platform; only award-winning news are accepted for showcase promotion.
SHOWCASE AND EXHIBIT
Get your work exhibited and showcased beautifully. By winning the A' News Award you will get a premium portfolio created for you, without you doing anything, we will list all your award-winning news on your behalf at designers.org platform.
SECURITY COMES FIRST
The Security of your submissions, your personal data and news is of uttermost importance to A' News Award. Your password is secured with the SHA algorithm and even we do not know your password. Furthermore, your connections are secured and encrypted with SSL.
CONCEALED CATEGORIES
Normally all A' News Award results are public and heavily promoted, however A' News Award allows you to make a concealed nomination. If you make a concealed nomination, your work is not published if it is awarded but you can still use the winner logo. The concealed nomination method is relevant for patent-pending designs and trade-secrets.
CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT
A' News Award is continuously improved to provide your award-winning news with new and exciting promotion and publicity opportunities. Every year, we do our best to refine and improve the A' News Award Prize to serve you better.
How to Take Part in News Award 2024 - 2025
Participating in the News Design Award is easy; first create an account at the A' Design Award and Competition, login to your account and finally submit your work. When you upload your design, your work will be checked by the preliminary jury for its presentation. Later, your design will be assigned a preliminary score from ten (best) to zero (worst), your work may also be marked approved or rejected to take part in the competition. If your entry is approved you can continue nominating your work for News Awards consideration. If your entry is rejected, you are suggested to update your presentation before nominating your work to News Award.
DESIGNER RANKINGS
A' Design Award and Competition publishes Designer Rankings that is easily accessible by public and media. The Rankings feature the number of awards won by each designer and total rankings. Top 10, Top 100 and Top 1000 Designers can be accessed.
HIGH-RANKING DESIGNERS
Designer Rankings allow potential customers to find high-ranking designers. High-ranking design teams allow their designer ranking status to impress clients and customers. Journalists check Designer Rankings and discover good designers.
RISE IN RANKINGS
A' News Award Winners are included in the Designer Rankings, each award-winning news contributes a point towards better and higher ranking. Designer Rankings help award-winning designers and their awarded designs gain exposure.
WORLD DESIGN RANKINGS
A' Design Award and Competition publishes the World Design Rankings that ranks countries and regions based on the number of award-winning designers from each territory. Journalists use World Design Rankings to find best news talent from your region.
PRESTIGE AND HONOUR
Each country and region further lists the best brands, designers, artists and architects within the territory. For each A' News Award you win, you will be increasing your regional score in the global World Design Rankings, bringing honor and prestige to your region.
THE FIRST AND ONLY
World Design Rankings is a very inclusive ranking system for design, with representation from all major industries and territories. Obtaining a high rank in the World Design Rankings will help you communicate your news excellence to journalists and buyers from a unique perspective.
AIBA
Alliance of International Business Associations. Free membership for award winning associations, organizations, institutions and clubs.
ISPM
International Society of Product Manufacturers. Free membership for award winning product manufacturers and companies.
IBSP
International Bureau of Service Providers. Free membership for award winning businesses and institutions in tertiary sector of the economy.
IAD
International Association of Designers. Free membership opportunity for A' News Award laureates.
ICCI
International Council of Creative Industries. Free membership for award winning businesses and institutions related to creativity.
IDC
International Design Club. Free membership for award winning creative agencies, architecture offices, artists workshops and designer studios.
FREE PRELIMINARY SCORE
A' News Award will review your submission and inform you how good your news is prior to nomination. You will get a score from zero (0) to ten (10). Ten (10) is the highest preliminary score. Preliminary score service is provided completely free of charge to you and is confidential.
FREE PRELIMINARY REVIEW
Preliminary score service is provided to you free of charge. Preliminary score is confidential. When you submit your work to A' News Award, your submission will be reviewed, and you will be provided a numerical preliminary score together with suggestions on how to improve your design presentation.
FREE NEWS REVIEW
You will get your news reviewed for free and you will learn how good your news actually is. If you get a high preliminary score for your news you may want to nominate your news for A' News Award consideration.
SOCIAL MEDIA PROMOTION
A' News Award winners are featured in social media platforms. A' News Award have created many tools to help you advertise and promote your news in social media.
NEWS PUBLICITY
Reach out to your prospective customers and connect with your existing clients in social media. A' News Award winners benefit from exclusive social media promotions created to promote award-winning news.
PR AGENCY FOR NEWS
If you need a public relations agency for news, you will be happy to learn that A' News Award Prize includes many public relations and promotions services. Public relations services are provided free of charge to all A' News Award winners.
DESIGN OF THE DAY
Design of the Day initiative aims to create social awareness for a distinct award-winning news each day. Design of the Day is promoted in hundreds of publications as well as social media.
DESIGNER OF THE DAY
Designer of the Day initiative aims to create social awareness for a distinct news award winner each day. Designer of the Day is promoted in hundreds of publications as well as social media.
INTERVIEW OF THE DAY
Design Interview of the Day initiative aims to create social awareness for a distinct award-winning news interview each day. Design Interview of the Day is promoted in hundreds of publications as well as social media.
DESIGN LEGEND OF THE DAY
Legend of the Day initiative aims to boost and promote a distinct news award-winner in social media as well as at hundreds of magazines and publications.
DESIGN TEAM OF THE DAY
Design Team of the Day initiative aims to boost and promote an award-winning news team in new media as well as at hundreds of magazines and publications.
HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY
Highlight of the Day initiative helps us promote your news and your image as an award-winner in social media, as well as hundreds of magazines and publications.
CASE STUDY
As a business, you might already be spending tons of money on the advertisements, you already know the costs & prize for publications, advertorial and editorial placements but most importantly you know it is best when customers find you, when you are the spotlight.
GET PUBLICITY
Winning the A' News Award could help you secure some editorial space at both the traditional, new and social media and could create free publicity that your news very much deserves. Winning the A' News Award could help you attract prospective clients and customers to your business.
ADVERTISE NEWS
A' News Award provide its winners with really good PR services, electronic and traditional press release preparation and distribution, mass media syndication and access to an exclusive advertisement network. Winning the A' News Award will help you advertise your news easily.
AWARD SPONSORSHIP
The A' News Award offers many scholarship programs to provide opportunity for start-ups and young designers to take part in the competition free of charge with their designs. The purpose of these sponsorship programs is to make the news competition more fair, ethical and accessible.
UNIVERSAL ACCESS
By taking part in our award sponsorship programs, you can earn free entry tickets to nominate your news for A' News Award consideration. There are many sponsorship programs available, some of them are very simple to take part.
DESIGN AMBASSADOR PROGRAM
Design Ambassador program is one of the many news award scholarship programs we offer. If you perform a few simple tasks to help us create an awareness for good design, you may be granted free entry tickets to nominate your news for awards consideration.
DESIGN TRANSLATIONS
A' News Award winner designs are translated to almost all major languages free of charge. A' News Award award-winning news are published and promoted in all major languages.
TRANSLATION PLATFORM
In addition to the free of charge translation services provided by the A' News Award, award winners could further provide translations of their work in their native languages.
UNIVERSAL REACH
Reach majority of the world population in their native language. Get your news promoted to buyers, journalists, businesses and design enthusiasts that speak foreign languages. Help the world discover your news.
COMPETITION CATEGORIES
A' Design Award & Competition features many competition categories in order to reach the widest audience possible. Large number of categories allow designers and brands from different industries to compete in a truly international multi-disciplinary competition.
WIDE REACH
Research indicates that the worth and value of an award increases proportionally to its reach. Having a large number of competition categories allows the A' Design Award to reach a large number of people from diverse backgrounds.
OPEN TO ALL NEWS
A' News Award is open to nomination of all types of news. You can nominate news already realized and released to the market. You can also nominate news concepts and prototypes that are not yet released to the market.
Organized by A' Design Awards.
A' Design Award has over 100+ competition categories. — Sustainable Product #95 Eco-Sustainable Design Awards — Street Furniture #61 Street Furniture Design Awards — Structured Product #109 Structured Product Awards — Computer Graphics #13 Digital Art Awards — Idea #21 Idea Design Awards — Lighting #5 Lighting Design Competition — Movie #17 Movie Design Awards — Graphic #12 Advertisement Design Awards — Playground #157 Playground Awards — Art Supplies #53 Golden Notepad Awards — Graphics #106 The A' Graphic Design Awards — Architecture #3 Green Building Awards are some of the accolades organized by the A' Design Awards.
RESPECT NEWS
The A' News Award respects designers and companies who take part in the accolades. The news awards logo and publicity services are provided free of charge to all eligible winners. News award trophies, yearbooks and certificates are distributed free of charge during the gala night to eligible winners.
WINNERS' PACK
A' News Award winners are eligible to obtain the A' News Prize which includes public relations, advertising and promotion services. A' News Award winners are given a broad logo license to promote their news worldwide as award-winning news.
WINNER BENEFITS
When you win the A' News Award, you enjoy a significant amount of 88+ exclusive benefits reserved for our laureates. A' News Award brings fame, prestige and publicity to your brand.
PRESTIGE SYSTEM
The A' News Award grants you access to its unique A' Prestige System that provides you with a special opportunity to benefit from very exclusive intangible and tangible benefits.
PRESTIGE TOKENS
Winners of the A' News Award are able to accumulate A' Prestige Tokens that could be exchanged for a plethora of privileged benefits and highly exclusive services.
GOLDEN TICKETS
Having your name written and showcased on the walls of a contemporary design museum in large gold letters, and to have your news accepted to a permanent collection of a design museum are only some of the perks that may be obtained by using your A' Prestige Tokens.
A' DESIGN STAR
The A' Design Star is a special design recognition programme that is aimed to recognize and reward time-proven news excellence.
A' STAR EMBLEM
A' Design Star Emblem is a very special symbol awarded to multiple award-winning designers, brands, innovators, companies and agencies that are able to repeatedly and consistently create good news.
A' STAR GUIDE
The A' Design Star guide lists the A' Design Star recognized 8-Star, 7-Star and 6-Star designers. A' Design Star is aimed to help large enterprises and brands to find reliable news providers.
WORLD DESIGN RATINGS
A' News Award winners will be listed at World Design Ratings, together with their WDC-Rank, Designer Title and Designer Honorifics.
DESIGNER HONORIFICS
A' News Award winners will be able to obtain respectable honorific titles based on their creative merits and tenets, including but not limited to Master and Grand-Master designations.
HONOURING DESIGNERS
Your designer honorific title serves more than just to praise your excellent skills, they serve to signal your audiences to treat you with the uttermost respect you deserve as an outstanding designer.
VIDEO INTERVIEWS
Select A' News Award winners will be eligible to have a video interview published about their profile and award-winning news.
SPOTLIGHT VIDEOS
Eligible laureates will have the opportunity to get their award-winning news professionally spotlighted and video-captured.
VIDEO CHANNELS
Your Video Interviews and Spotlight Videos, will be published and actively promoted at our online video channels to help you reach new audiences.
RESOLUTE MOTTO
The motto of the A' News Award is "Ars Futura Cultura" i.e. Arts Cultivate the Future, Arts for the Culture of Future. We believe that the future is shaped by arts, design and technology, thus there is need of good news for a better future.
DESIGNED FOR DESIGNERS
The A' News Award is created to bring together designers, companies, audiences interested in news and news journalists. A' News Award aims to highlight good news products and services to design-oriented audiences.
THE MYTH, THE LEGEND
Winning the A' News Award is a certificate of excellence for designers, a proof of quality for companies. Having the A' News Award attracts the eyes of design-oriented audiences worldwide.
News Competition
In a world where immense amount of designs communicated every year, The News Design Award aims to draw out the unique qualifications of preeminent News designs and News design concepts by supporting them with PR and attention. The A' News Award is an annual international news competition with an aim to recognize, spotlight and advertise good news worldwide. The A' News Prize includes News Award Winner Logo, News Trophy, News Excellence Certificate as well as public relations and marketing for promoting awarded news.
5 TIERS OF HEAVEN
A' News Award is always awarded in five tiers: Platinum A' News Award, Gold A' News Award, Silver A' News Award, Bronze A' News Award and Iron A' News Award. These award tiers are reserved for winner news.
5 LEVELS OF RECOGNITION
In addition to award levels, there is also honorable A' News Award Runner-up and A' News Award Participant status, the A' News Award Nominee tag, together with A' News Award Withdrawn and the A' News Award Disqualified status.
FORESIGHT TO YOU
When you sign-up and upload your news to the A' News Award you gain professional insight; preliminary jurors will score your work from zero (0) to ten (10), free of charge, and completely confidential, you will know well in advance what to expect if you nominate your work.
GOOD AWARD
A' News Award gives a lot of importance to promote and advertise award winning news adequately. We believe that a good news award should offer more than a logo, a good news competition should provide more than a certificate, a good news prize is more than a trophy.
ENGINEERED
Every single element that makes the A' News Award for good news was synthetically designed and engineered to help your award-winning news reach its true potential, to help you find new markets and audiences.
COVETED PRIZE
News award winner logo, news award trophy, news award winners book, news award winners certificate, news award gala-night, news award exhibition, and marketing services for good news. awaits eligible winners.
YOUNG DESIGN PIONEER
Young Design Pioneer is a special recognition granted by International Design Club to a young yet highly professional and creative designer under the age of 40.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Young A' News Award laureates are eligible to be nominated for the Young Design Pioneer title and obtain their special certificate and trophy to celebrate the occasion.
HIGHLIGHTING POTENTIAL
Young Design Pioneer recipients are also given the All-Plus Trophy, featuring a plus sign in all six perspectives, highlighting the immense, multi-dimensional creative and professional growth capacity.
INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
Innovator of the Year title is a special recognition granted by Alliance of International Business Associations to a select A' News Award winner enterprise that implements good design as a core value in their business.
RECOGNIZING GOOD DESIGN
Innovator of the Year title recognizes the use of good design in business to create superior products and projects that benefit the society, customers, clients as well as employees.
INNOVATION TROPHY
Innovator of the Year recipients are given the Innovation Trophy, to highlight, recognize and celebrate their stellar innovation, creativity and expansional growth, as well as to thank them for making the world a better place with their good design.
DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Designer of the Year is title the highest achievement granted by International Association of Designers, to award-winning designers to celebrate their success. Every year, only one Prime Designer of the Year title is granted.
SIGNED BY MASTERS
Designer of the Year Certificate is signed by 40 world-class master designers. Obtaining the Prime Designer of the Year title is a great honour.
SPECIAL METAL TROPHY
Prime Designer of the Year award recipients are also given a special metal trophy to celebrate their success. A' News Award winners have a chance to get elected as the Prime Designer of the Year.
NEWS AWARD TROPHY
Omega Particle is the name of the trophy given to A' News Award winners. The A' News Award Trophy represent infinite possibilities of a design process.
SOFT ORGANIC INTERIOR
The soft organic curves within the A' News Award Trophy signify our emotions. the emotional content that is implemented in design process.
HARD GEOMETRIC EXTERIOR
The hard geometric edges of the A' News Award Trophy signify logic, the scientific content that is embedded in design process.
MEDIA PARTNERS
A' News Award has 42 media partners this year, when we talk about Media Partners, these are different from the list of publications we reach via pr campaigns or press releases; these are the list of publications that will definetely publish a selection of our winners.
DIRECT EXPOSURE
By taking part and nominating your work, you gain direct exposure to our Media Partners, which combined, have more than hundred million page views annually, your news will have a chance to tap on their audiences, and get your work seen by the millions. We had already provided 38.803 media placements for our laureates.
INDIRECT EXPOSURE
In addition to getting your work seen by 42 Media Partners, your news will also get an opportunity to be discovered by 500.000+ journalists, editors and media members that receive our press releases.
DESIGNER.ORG
Designer.org is a highly prestigious global marketplace and community for good design. Designer.org brings together the finest minds in the design industry to showcase their exceptional projects to prospective clients, design buyers, customers, and the media, with a clear call to take action towards business and collaboration.
GOOD DESIGN
Designer.org connects award-winners with leading brands and enterprises. This collaboration-centric approach allows designers to expand their horizons and gain global exposure. For companies, listing on Designer.org signals a dedication to good design, quality and innovation.
GOOD BUSINESS
Being a winner of the A' News Award comes with many perks, one being a spot on Designer.org. Designer.org listing offers A' News Award laureates increased visibility and a pathway to new business contacts and opportunities.
PRIME EDITIONS
In addition to the A' Design Award yearbooks, the A' Design Award winners get an exclusive opportunity to get their work published in the Prime Edition books. The Prime Editions are ultra-premium, extra-large, carefully curated, high-quality, outstanding photobooks that publish award-winning excellent designs, original art and innovative architecture worldwide.
YOUR OWN DESIGN BOOK
Prime Editions, anthology and monograph books, come in three types. The Designer Prime Editions are books that publish award-winning works of just one designer. Plus, The Category Prime Editions publish award-winning works from a given design award category. Finally, The Locality Prime Editions publish award-winning works from distinct territories.
PREMIUM PUBLICATION
Winners of the A' Design Award will have the exclusive opportunity to have their award-winning works published in the Prime Editions publications. Top award-winning designers will have a special opportunity to have a book dedicated to just their own works.
TRIPLE PRESS RELEASE
As a recipient of the prestigious A' News Award, you get a masterfully crafted press release that vividly showcases your achievement in news. Beyond this primary acknowledgment, you are also endowed with two additional press release credits, granting you the flexibility to craft narratives that genuinely embody your design ethos.
PRECISION-TARGETED OUTREACH
The PRDS System, designed to directly connect you with your target demographics, promotes your groundbreaking news to important news industry publications, local broadcasters and niche media channels. Rather than you announcing your award status, let us broadcast your significant win, spotlighting your big news award globally.
PUBLIC RELATIONS SUPPORT
Every press release tool we offer is meticulously crafted to boost your news media visibility and enhance your prominence. Backed by the A' Design Award and Competition, your news award success stories are perfectly positioned to attain the global acknowledgment they merit.
BIG BRANDS
The A' News Award is for everybody, but big brands know better how to use the news award efficiently for their benefits.
FAMOUS COMPANIES
Enterprises especially use the news award logo, news award-winning status to promote sales, and further use the news award to celebrate success of their R&D teams.
MAKE USE OF A' AWARD.
Companies also benefit from the international publicity, advertising and marketing services provided to news award-winners. You too can enjoy all these advertising and promotion benefits if you win the A' Design Award.
/DESIGN/Newswire
With /DESIGN/Newswire, every A' News Award winner gains exclusive access to broadcast their award-winning work and press release to global design outlets, media, editors, journalists, and prestigious publications.
BROADCAST YOUR SUCCESS
/DESIGN/Newswire is ready to amplify your A' News Award achievements, relaying them to influential design magazines, industry publications, and a vast array of national and international media outlets, including television, radio, newspapers, and online news networks.
GET MARKETPLACE ATTENTION
Being featured in prominent news publications opens doors to potential consumers, customers, and clients. Each media placement secured by /DESIGN/Newswire amplifies your voice, connecting you with a marketplace audience eager for original and innovative news.
DESIGN NEWSROOM
A' News Award will create a tailored Design|Newsroom for you, complete with high-res images, detailed interviews, and expertly crafted texts. This newsroom offers journalists the ready-to-use content and high-resolution imagery they seek.
GOLDMINE FOR MEDIA
Design|Newsroom presents a curated collection of exceptional, award-winning design content to media professionals and journalists. Design|Newsroom equips press members with an array of ready-to-publish assets, including high-resolution images, interviews and in-depth design stories, making it easy to feature your award-winning news.
MAKE IT EASY
The easier you make it for journalists, the more exposure you get. A' News Award sets you up for success with prepared high-res images, detailed interviews, and visuals of your %work%. By streamlining the content process, you become a quick pick for media features.
DESIGN NEWS WORLD NETWORK
DNWN is a global, multilingual media network dedicated to spotlighting design excellence. When you win A' News Award you award-winning news will get eligible to get published via DNWN platform to help your news reach its intended audiences; clients, consumers, and customers in many countries.
IN-DEPTH ARTICLES
Being showcased on DNWN through in-depth articles spotlighting your works helps your award-winning news reach and resonate profoundly with key audiences — clients, consumers, customers and news buyers across diverse regions worldwide.
AMPLIFY YOUR SUCCESS
The high quality and organized presentation of your award-winning news on premium DNWN publications can inspire other journalists, editors and media houses to feature your news in their own publications, leading to even more exposure.
88 PERCENT
Higher Certainity : Before nomination, A' Design Awards gives you a score on your news. This score is provided to you free of charge. About 88% of the time, your preliminary score will be close to your final result. If there's a big difference, we give you another go within the scope of our Second Chance Policy.
VICTORY UNVEILED
When you secure a victory at the A' News Award, in recognition of your award-winning design, you gain eligibility to obtain the highly esteemed and much coveted A' Design Prize which contains 88+ benefits to promote your brand.
95 PERCENT
Increased Safety : 95% of A' News Award entrants use our free score-check before nominating their news. The preliminary score serves as a barometer and offers insight into the strength of your presentation and the potential success of your design, to help you make an informed decision of participation.
MAIN IMAGE
To take part in A' News Award you need one primary main image that represents your news. Your news image shall be placed in a canvas that is 3600 x 3600 pixels, and should be a 72 dpi resolution, jpeg file.
OPTIONAL IMAGES
If you wish to represent your news better, we would further recommend that you upload up to 4 optional images, each placed on a 1800 x 1800 pixel canvas, your images should have 72 dpi resolution, and should be jpeg files.
OPTIONAL PDF, LINK OR VIDEO
Finally, you will have an opportunity to support your news presentation with an optional video presentation, a private access link or a PDF document up to 40 pages, accessible only to jurors.
TAKE PART STEP #1
Register to A' Design Award & Competition for taking part in A' News Award. During news award registration, you will type in your name, surname and email. Confirm your e-mail address after registration to fully activate your profile. It is free to create an account.
TAKE PART STEP #2
Login to A' Design Award website. Upload your news. You can upload as many news as you like. It is free and very easy to upload your designs.
TAKE PART STEP #3
Select the award category that you wish to compete for and nominate your news for the A' News Award before the competition deadline.
Join A' News Award today for fame, prestige and publicity as well as to promote and advertise your name and your excellency in news. Position and market yourself as a leader in news industry.
References and Sources.
Lists of award-winning projects featured, from first row to last row, from left to right, in order of appearance: — 1 #152804 Memories of the East Street in Xi'an Book — 2 #160735 Rimac Magazine Issue 03 Print Magazine — 3 #154883 Hill of Owls Book Design — 4 #155544 Nua Calendars Book Design — 5 #155961 RE MAX Daelim Brochure Kit — 6 #157693 Hui House Limited Edition Artbook — 7 #140455 3D Embossed Book — 8 #158819 Gongche Sketch Book Impart Wisdom — 9 #160413 January Uprising Catalog of Documents — 10 #152755 Discovering Vienna Historical Coffee Table Book — 11 #151038 Safer Food Editorial Design — 12 #122141 The Seeds Of Faith Admission Letter For BFU 2018 — 13 #158580 World Vision Organization Overview Book Design — 14 #107581 Inside Muses Book — 15 #126660 Stock and Financial Instruments Designers Guide — 16 #138110 Seven Days and Nights Love Is Daylight Book — 17 #141542 LPCP 5th Anniversary Newspaper Design — 18 #149958 Kuwasawa Design School 2022 Guidebook — 19 #155976 Memories of the East Street in Xi'an Book — 20 #147254 Rimac Magazine Issue 03 Print Magazine — 21 #53436 Hill of Owls Book Design — 22 #31501 Nua Calendars Book Design — 23 #61054 RE MAX Daelim Brochure Kit — 24 #123073 Hui House Limited Edition Artbook — 25 #106350 3D Embossed Book — 26 #160602 Gongche Sketch Book Impart Wisdom — 27 #154462 January Uprising Catalog of Documents — 28 #155253 Discovering Vienna Historical Coffee Table Book — 29 #148175 Safer Food Editorial Design — 30 #144874 The Seeds Of Faith Admission Letter For BFU 2018 — 31 #76944 World Vision Organization Overview Book Design — 32 #154733 Inside Muses Book — 33 #148885 Stock and Financial Instruments Designers Guide — 34 #54581 Seven Days and Nights Love Is Daylight Book — 35 #154977 LPCP 5th Anniversary Newspaper Design — 36 #160300 Kuwasawa Design School 2022 Guidebook — 37 #131232 History of Chinese Character Design Book — 38 #147990 Museum Hanmi Exhibition Book Design — 39 #160411 Ukd Catalog — 40 #131295 Afterimages Magazine — 41 #108012 Art and Us Book Design — 42 #139429 Kon Paper Magazine — 43 #97144 The Birth of a Book Scientific Publication — 44 #134927 87MM Brand Story Book Design — 45 #143051 Punk Health Regimen Criteria Interactive Book — 46 #121418 Plastic Book — 47 #130690 After a Bird Fell Down Book — 48 #139124 The Tridea Project Book — 49 #136550 Discussing Time Book — 50 #114463 National Museum of Qatar Trade and Collector's Edition Books — 51 #123485 Memories of Mukden Book — 52 #150971 Literkolekcja Photobook — 53 #135430 Vicereines of Ireland Academic Book — 54 #148602 Menamonsters Illustrated Book.
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Good News Deserves Great Recognition.
With over 88+ Benefits in the A' Prize for Good News, the A' News Award is an excellent tool to have your good news recognized, honored and promoted worldwide. Obtain the A' News Award Winner and elevate your news globally. Winner works get translated and published in all major languages, get exhibited, promoted, advertised and shared in our media network reaching hundreds of millions of readers annually. A' News Award excellent ROI for promoting your good news.
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