What makes a design work be a winner of the A’ Design Award and Competition? Indeed, the formula is not infallible, and we do not guarantee the prize, because It depends on the jury’s evaluation. However, if you follow suggested advice and tips, you will be much closer to be a winner of the award.
If you are looking to enter some prestigious design competitions, make sure to track the A’ Design Award – one of the leading design competitions where talented designers ranging from all categories participate to win the coveted award.
The A’ Design Award & Competition has emerged as a governing body in popularizing designs, offering professionals and creators a fruitful opportunity to set up their careers, win recognition, and seek worldwide promotion of their design projects.
Ready to win contests for towns and cities around the world? Well, let’s go!
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Introduce yourself
If you don’t show up and don’t present yourself, you can’t win. It is useless to watch a contest, read the rules, turn it over your head, not carry out your idea, and kick because, after seeing what he has won, you would have had a good chance of taking the cat into the water.
If you have free time or fancy the contest’s theme, don’t think too much about it. Some believe that contests are dry shit, that you work for free so that the jury has a lot of things to choose from and encourage intrusion. We think, if you agree with the rules and feel like it, it is a good way to train creativity. What’s more, if you think they’re not cool, then don’t read this post or the rules.
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Read the bases well
If you wish to compete to win a contest, it is not worth looking over the edge and saying “Fair, 50 × 70. Voucher!”. You have to pay attention to the requirements to participate and to specifications such as guidelines of registration and submission.
Normally, you want to start designing or illustrating as soon as possible to have more time to execute your idea, but stopping 40 minutes, an hour or two hours, to read the bases carefully, can save you hours of work and even the odd disappointment later.
We advise to know how to read some bases, which is not the same as knowing how to read. Between the lines, many times, they are giving us very valuable clues of what they want, for when the clues are crystal clear about what they do not want.
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Research the topic
If you are going to participate to the A’ Design Award & Competition for SPORTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATION EQUIPMENT DESIGN category, the first step may be to do some research on the subject, the category and previous winners of the same category! Don’t let this research intoxicate you.
Visual intoxication: a state that is generated after the excessive consumption of graphic information, which degenerates into creative paralysis.
The time you have to do research is limited, and you sure don’t go much beyond what everyone knows. So, abstain and do not base your design on that, because you can fall into topics that the jury rejects at the first change. Use it as inspiration and, why not, to put some little detail of those that are hardly seen, but add up.
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Turn your concept around
Sitting in front of the blank paper is very hard. We all know that who is dedicated to this or anything else creative. For this reason, take your notebook and write down ideas, concepts, words, phrases, paste images that inspire you. You can even make a playlist with songs that have to do with the subject.
Look for inspiration wherever you want but look for it. Do not stay with the first thing that comes to mind.
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Catch up on trends and break with them
If we present ourselves to a poster contest, we must begin by analyzing the piece that we have to do. A poster is not a brand. It does not have to last in time. This is how many jurors see it, although we have our reluctance at this point. It will last for the duration of the event to which it is intended. If we consider it from this perspective, it is good to catch up with what is taking place: watercolor, flat design, lettering. Those are the things that everyone is doing now, so there are two possibilities: that the jury chooses what is worth acclaim or want something different.
At this point, the decision is difficult. Our advice is that virtue is in balance and that you can do something following the trend but giving it a very personal touch or trying to put a different point (with a head) is perhaps the formula for success.
However, our advice is that you think about the timelessness of the pieces, it works better for us than fashions. What never goes out of style can win now, ten years from now and fifteen years ago.
