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early discount submission period From 15 Jan 2011, you can submit your design concept to the award with a discount. When you submit your design concept at this period, you have the advantage of pre-judging. Pre-judging gives you 3 benefits: a. You can submit your design concept in English, Chinese, German, and Korean. This helps you save time and cost by avoiding the need to have your work translated into English until the jury indicates that the design concept has a potential to win a red dot. b. You can save with very low submission fee if your design concept is not ready to win a red dot. c. You can submit more design concepts to the award and only pay for the judging presentation fee for those design concepts that have the potential to win a red dot.
standard submission period From 1 Mar 2011 to 13 May 2011, you can submit your design concept to the award with the advantage of pre-judging. Pre-judging gives you 3 benefits: a. You can submit your design concept in English, Chinese, German, and Korean. This helps you save time and cost by avoiding the need to have your work translated into English until the jury indicates that the design concept has a potential to win a red dot. b. You can save with very low submission fee if your design concept is not ready to win a red dot. c. You can submit more design concepts to the award and only pay for the judging presentation fee for those design concepts that have the potential to win a red dot.
pre-judging At pre-judging, the jury reviews your design concept via a protected proprietary online portal. Jury who are native speakers of the languages, English, Chinese, German, and Korean are organised into language groups to evaluate your design concept based on your choice of language. The aim is to offer designers who are not English proficient a more equitable platform to compete for the award.
prepare for final judging After pre-judging, you will receive an email to inform you if your design concept will proceed on to the final judging. If your design concept is not already presented in English and is selected for final judging, you have to upload a new file with English translation for final judging. This is because English is the common language for the jury of different nations to debate and discuss your design concept at the final judging. You can translate the information to English yourself and upload the English presentation online OR you can purchase an English translation service to do it for you. There is also a judging presentation fee you will have to pay.
late submission period From 14 May 2011 to 12 July 2011, you can submit your design concept only in English. Design concepts submitted during the late period will proceed directly to final judging. Therefore, you will need to pay both the submission fee and the judging presentation fee.
final judging During final judging, jury from different nations arrive at the red dot design museum in Singapore for 3 days to study and debate the design concepts to determine which design concepts will win a red dot.
results You will receive a congratulatory letter if your design concept concept wins a red dot. The details of your winning design concept will not be revealed to the public and press until the awarding ceremony in November, to give you enough time to file for protection.
awarding ceremony In late November, the awarding ceremony will be held at the red dot design museum in Singapore. On that day, the exhibition of winning design concepts will open for a year online and in the museum. The award yearbook will also be launched. The red dot team will also liaise with more than 500 press and media contacts worldwide to feature the award winning designs.
