Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility to participate extends to all designers, design studios, companies, research laboratories, inventors, design professionals and students from anywhere in the world are eligible to enter.

All kinds of inventions, novelty designs and aesthetic designs that are not in the market, and not produced for sale before 1 December 2007 can be entered. Award decisions are taken on the concept presentations directly by the jury during the adjudication process.

There are 2 categories of entrants for the competition, corporate entrants and individual entrants. Corporate entrants refer to design teams of companies or designers entering as an organisation.

Individual entrants refer to professional or student designers. Individual entrants may comprise of teams of not more than 10 members.

For the various categories that you may compete in, take a look at award details. To get an idea of what the jury will be looking out for in your concept, click on assessment criteria in award details.

Dates and fees for the competition can be found here.