Design Rankings Inclusion

Design Rankings
A' Design Awards have been publishing and maintaining a series of important ratings and ranking systems for good design, since 2009. In aligned with our mission and vision, the primary aim of these prominent design ranking and rating systems is to recognize, respect and honor award-winning designers for their excellent contributions to the fields of art, design, architecture and design engineering, and ultimately create incentives for the award-winning designers, design agencies and enterprises to create many new good designs that help, benefit and advance society. With yearly campaigns designed around promoting the rankings, and by advertising the ranked designers, the inclusion in the design ranking systems create positive value for the listed designers by providing them with reputation, visibility, discoverability as well as business prospects. A’ Design Awards runs and manages 8 different ranking and rating systems, which are explained in this page. Each ranking and rating system has its own dedicated website as well as deliverables such as infographics, certificates and media materials that are made available to award-winning designers to get most out of their success and participation. Discover and explore designer rankings to see the best of best in each country, each design industry and each time-frame.

Designer Rankings
R+ Designer Rankings system ranks all the designers that have been granted with the A' Design Award, but also counts the runner-up status designs as single points. Designers are further granted 2 to 6 additional points for each award they have won. Designers with the highest score are displayed first; i.e. designers are ranked based on the award status points. Within this perspective, winning a Platinum A' Design Award could be considered equal to winning three A' (Iron) Design Awards. The listing includes all years; therefore it is usually observed that even the top designers' positions fluctuate yearly. Winners usually share their information regarding the rankings through press releases and announcements. A' Design Award and Competition also makes a distinct press release and campaign each year to announce the designer rankings, and to promote the highest ranking designers. The aim of the Designer Rankings is to spur competition among participants and to award the highest ranking winners once again by celebrating them with a different title. Further information could be found and the updated rankings could be observed at designerrankings.com Award winners are also able to download the Designer Rankings certificates from their control panels, at Designer Rankings section.

World Design Rankings
WDR World Design Rankings ranks all the countries based on the number of designers that have been granted with the A' Design Award. The displayed rankings are based on the aggregated scores of participants between all competition years. A’ Design Award & Competition provides a heat map of countries on the world map, and a special distinct press release for the updated world design rankings each year. For World Design Rankings, each winner gets the following points: Platinum A’ Design Award 6 Points, Golden A’ Design Award 5 Points, Silver A’ Design Award 4 Points, Bronze A’ Design Award 3 Points and Iron A’ Design Award 2 Points. Runner-Ups not included. World Design Rankings are usually featured in the media, and works great as a communication tool. Many winners do announce their contributions to the rankings through press releases or mentions. A’ Design Award & Competition makes a distinct press release for World Design Rankings each year and a communication campaign is run at different media to highlight the importance of the rankings. A certificate for World Design Rankings is available to A' Design Award winners. The aim of the World Design Rankings is to foster competition among countries, and to create further awareness for design. Further information could be found and the updated world design rankings could be observed at worlddesignrankings.com

Design Classifications
DAC Design Classifications ranks all the designers in a specific design category, for example you could learn the best furniture designers, the best architects or fashion designers. The DAC - Design Classifications platform rankins is category based. The design classification ranking is aimed to highlight the very best designers in each category in order to help high-profile companies or editors who are searching for the top creatives. For DAC Design Classifications, each winner gets the following points: Platinum A’ Design Award 6 Points, Golden A’ Design Award 5 Points, Silver A’ Design Award 4 Points, Bronze A’ Design Award 3 Points and Iron A’ Design Award 2 Points. A certificate for Design Classifications is available to A' Design Award laureates. Learn more and see the latest standings at designclassifications.com

POPDES Popular Designers
Unlike award level based rankings (World Design Rankings, Designer Rankings and Design Classifications all sort designers based on the quantity and quality of awards won), the POPDES ranking sorting algorithm and its score is based on the number of press member views, designer profile views, design views, likes and interests by other users. Therefore the POPDES rankings show the most popular designers; it is a ranking of famous designers. Working with top POPDES designers can help establish and promote your brand value as a company. Popular Designers Index deviates from our purely meritocratic indexing methods as the POPDES algorithm is further affected by impressions, visualizations, search volume and trends. Popular Designers Index shall too be considered meritocratic from the perspective that better designs as well as better marketed designs would naturally gain more impressions, and knowing which designers are more popular and which designers are great marketers may be relevant to interested parties such as companies looking to co-brand with successful designers with a hope to increase their market reach and sales. The public designer popularity rankings are updated every year two times. See the latest standings at popdes.com

Design Leaderboards
Design Leaderboards is significantly different from existing popular ranking and rating systems used in design field, the Design Leaderboards ranks and rates the designers on their most recent success, instead of lifetime achievements or impressions. Design Leaderboard rankings and ratings are calculated by giving a heavier weight on meritocratic achievements in the recent years, while giving less weight on meritocratic achievements in past years; the ratings mechanism gives more importance to recent success and less emphasis on past success to provide you with a list of current leaders of the design world, helping you find recently successful designers. Design Leaderboards helps journalists, media companies, large enterprises, and design-oriented businesses discover, feature, connect and hire trendsetting creators, rising designers, star architects and upcoming talents, that are recently on the rise. Design Leaderboards ranking mechanism is affected by an exponential function of time, as well as exponential growth of award scores. Learn about the design leader board algorithm and ranking mechanism at Design Leaderboards.

World Design Ratings
Designer ratings, titles and honorifics are given to award-winning designers, artists, architects, innovators and creators who showcase and prove their excellent design tenets and capabilities with their award-winning works year after year, we have a dedicated page that explains the World Design Ratings platform. Design Leaderboards also provide further valuable information such as if the ranked entity is a design agency, a design-oriented enterprise, a design professional or a young designer, the number of awards the designer has won in different awards categories, and the total number of impressions the designer has received as of the moment the rankings were updated, as well as quantity and quality of awards won, and the years the awards were won.

Best Designers
Another platform where winners are displayed are called the "Best Designers", this platform is more or less equal to designer rankings platform, except that winner designers are displayed with their profile photos, together with a link to their profile at A' Design Awards. Inclusion is automated for all winners. Further information could be found and the updated rankings could be observed at bestdesigners.org

Design Award Winners List
The A' Design Award Winners List showcases winners of the latest design award, sorted by categories and sorted by award status; Platinum award winners are shown atop, followed by Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron winners. The A' Design Award Winner’s List only shows winners of the last design competition but you can access past winners from our ranking and ratings websites going back to 2009.

How to Get Listed in the Rankings
To get included, enter and nominate your design for awards-consideration, if you are winner, you will join the leader boards. All winners are automatically placed in the all our ranking, rating and leaderboard platforms; you will be automatically included in the designer rankings, designer ratings, design leaderboards, popular designers index, best designers website, winners list, design classifications and world design rankings provided that your profile information is filled correctly. If a winner does not show-up on rankings they are advised to fill their profile completely.

What is the Ultimate Goal of Rankings and Rating Systems for Design?
Everything we do at the A' Design Awards, we do to achieve our mission of making the World a better place with good design. Ultimately, our goal with all our ranking and rating mechanisms for designs and designers is to incentivize the designers, the creatives, the innovators, the pioneers. It is hard to be a designer, artists or architect; creating a good design is a big investment, needs a lot of inspiration, time investment, sacrifice and creative energy; we know that recognizing, promoting, honouring and advertising great designers and their exceptional work incentivizes them to create new and better designs that eventually help and advance society; respecting designers, and showing them their work matters, is absolutely crucial for our mission, we believe the ranking and rating systems could be one the ways to push and ignite the designers to create better products, projects and services. A' Design Award’s ranking and rating systems, which are extensively promoted and advertised every year, helping designers get recognized, respected, honoured, and promoted eventually helps make the World a better place for all. Rankings and ratings helps us show our respect and love for good design, for great designers, and of course we also undertake many more tasks to achieve our noble goal, such as by means of organizing international design exhibitions, publishing good design yearbooks, creating and promoting design events, providing publicity services, and engaging in public awareness campaigns, within the scope of the much coveted A' Design Prize given to award-winning designers worldwide.