Early Call for Entries: A' Design Awards & Competition 2021-2022

Written by Olivia Bartolini
Published on June 16, 2021

The 2021-2022 A' Design Awards are now open and accepting early entires. The A’ Design Award & Competition provides valuable feedback and experience to its contestants. The A’ Design Award winners will proudly display their award trophies and design excellence certificates which grant them a high level of exposure and recognition.

The global competition - which requires no entry fee or additional costs - encourages designers from every and any country to apply, with equal opportunities for all contestants.

With 100 categories, the A' Design Awards invites architects, industrial designers, UI/UX designers, and creatives in any field to enter their award-winning ideas.

Among these categories, sections related to the built environment include:

Architecture, Building, and Structure Design
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Building Materials
Construction Components
Structures & Systems
Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Urban Planning and Urban Design
Engineering, Construction, and Infrastructure Design

The A’ Design Award also recognizes projects in broader categories, such as Good Industrial Design, Good Architecture Design, or Good Product Design.

Benefits of The A’ Design Award Include:

The A' Design Award Trophy
The annual yearbook
A printed certificate in a metal frame
The award winners manual
A 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
Feedback, judging, and evaluation of entries by a respected jury panel
Lifelong licensing of the award winners logo
A2 poster design and printing for exhibition
Inclusion in the World Design Rankings and translation of award-winning works to 20+ languages

Entries will be adjudicated by the A' Design Award's jury of hundreds of experts from around the globe including scholars, professionals, and media members. Unlike other awards, A’ Design uses a peer-review process with anonymous voting and evaluation of entries. Each jury member is required to sign a jury agreement and follow a code of conduct. In addition, jurors may not be employees of the participating companies, to avoid conflicts of interest. This jury process has been designed to lead to more fair and equitable decisions, with no single juror exercising undue influence on the results of the awards.

The deadline for early submission for the A' Design Award closes on June 30, 2021. You can submit your design, or find out more about the awards in multiple languages. After the winners are announced to the public on May 1st, 2022, a selection of architecture-related winners will be featured in a post on ArchDaily. See a selection of winners from previous years below.