Why Nominate

Being recognised for an Award offers a distinct competitive advantage to those offering products and services to a highly visible, global market. It provides recognition of excellence for current and prospective employees, investors, clients and customers, and industry collaborators and partners.

DRIVENxDESIGN award programs also offer a unique platform for brands to reach a highly specialised audience through the Awards communication streams.

The Awards are open to anyone with an interest in developing products and services that are designed to have both a commercial and market impact.

Immediate benefits on nomination submission are:

• After review all nominations are shortlisted and displayed on the awards website visible to our extensive audience.
• You will also receive a notification email with promotional tools including awards logos.
• Nominations will be featured in our eNewsletter, media releases and social media channels

As a marketplace platform, the awards provides an opportunity to:

• Promote your courage, innovation, creativity and craft leadership to your peers across three continents
• Gain marketplace exposure of your project or brand
• Increase awareness of your work and gain marketplace and peer comment
• Provide a mark of distinction for your project or brand
• Selected award winning projects will be invited to participate in the associated design summit.  This is a live interview and puts your design work and team front and center as design leaders.

The Awards enable your brand to:

• Benchmark your work
• Impress clients and customers
• Boost confidence in your products and services
• Add unmistakable gravitas to your marketing materials
• Boost employee morale and demonstrate company pride in their work
• Demostrate your business is listening to and adapting to your clients' and customers' needs
• Stand out from your competition by being recogized as an award winner

According to a study by the University of Leicester*, award winning companies experienced:

• Higher growth in sales over non-award winning companies by an average of 77%
• Higher increases in operating income over non-award winning companies by an average of 18%
• Higher growth in assets over non-award winning companies by an average of 44%

*Source: University of Leicester, sponsored by the British Quality Foundation (BQF) and the European Foundation for Quality Management (http://www.quality-foundation.co.uk/pub_reports.htm), based over a period of 11 years.