POSITION YOUR WORK WHERE IT BELONGS:
AMONG INTERNATIONAL WINNERS
BIG SEE Awards
BIG SEE Awards were launched as regional awards to systematically explore and promote the creative and business potential of the Southeast Europe. With the ambition of connecting creativity beyond regional boundaries, they have outgrown regional frameworks and become international. Nowadays BIG SEE Awards contribute to the unique and original creative achievements in architecture, interior, product and fashion design globally.
Registration dates
- Latecomers: August 2 – August 31, 2023
Winners’s Benefits
- Product excellence recognition
- Positioning among leading designers and design oriented companies
- Networking with the business and creative elite
- Flexible and cost-effective promotional concept
Numbers
- 21 countries
- 350 million people
- 55.000+ visitors
- 500+ exhibitors
- 30.000+ readers
PROJECT SUBMISSION
Eligibility
- Products completed within the last three years.
- Entrants are allowed to submit multiple products, each with a separated entry form.
- Only on time submitted products with specified text description and images will be admitted to competition.
- Entries will not be accepted or judged without payment of the entry fee.
Criteria & Judging
- ergonomy
- aesthetics
- ethics & ecology
- emotion
- business potential
Among the BIG SEE Awards Winners, Grand Prix Winner in each category will be selected. The jury has the right to recategorise any entry. The decision of the jury is final. The jury is not obliged to explain its decision.
Categories
Entrants can choose among the following categories:
- Home (furniture, lighting and lamps, household appliances and accessories, tableware, soft furnishings, sanitary furniture, food packaging etc.)
- Personal (jewellery, wearable tech, mobile phones, watches, shoes, eyewear)
- Leisure (sports equipment, bar and restaurant products, luxury goods, toys, personal care, wellness and beauty)
- Work (working machinery, tools and equipment, office stationery, furniture and lights for work)
- Mobility (all means of personal or public transport – bicycles, cars, ships, trains, planes, transport related accessories)
- Urban (urban equipment and public lighting)
Process
FEES AND PACKAGES
Registration Fee
- Early bird extended: 150 €
- Regular: 200 €
- Latecomers: 300 €
Winners’
Packages
(obligatory)
- Use of Award logo
- Award certificate (pdf)
- 1/6 page project presentation in BIG SEE Report
- BIG SEE Report issue
- Winning product presentation on website
- BIG Design event: winning project presentation with awarding of Prize Trophy and photo shooting
- Free entrance to BIG Design event
EXPLANATIONS IN INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTS BELLOW.
Provides powerful exposure and reach of the project!
- All from WINNER BASIC +
- 1/1 full page project presentation in BIG SEE Report
- Facebook campaign, 15 days, daily reach 8.000-22.000
- Post in all BIG SEE Social Media channels
- Brand profile; an exclusive reference card
EXPLANATIONS IN INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTS BELLOW.
DESIGN WEEK
ON MONTH OF DESIGN LJUBLJANA
EVENT PARTICIPATION, OCT 5-7, 2023
BIG Design event
Design conference, winning projects presentations and awarding
October 6, 2023, Ljubljana
Winner’s project presentations (3 min, 10 slides) with awarding of Prize Trophy and photo shooting.
Included in Winner’s packages
Grand Prix Award Ceremony
October 6, 2023, Ljubljana
Exhibiting
October 5-7, 2023, Ljubljana
Exhibition events for sharing unique design stories with a new audience and a reference for innovation in design.
The central venues of Design Week are shops, salons, galleries, museums, exhibition spaces, studios, markets, restaurants and other bars in the centre of Ljubljana.
Up to 5 employees: 300 € (regular price 600 €)
More than 5 employees: 1.200 € (regular price 2.400 €)
PROMOTION
For tailor made exposure winners have an opportunity to select individual promotional elements if they are not already included in selected package.
Use of award logo and award certificate
Winners have an opportunity of using a BIG SEE Award logo as a proof of excellence. It is intended for publication at winning project presentations.
Included in Winner’s packages
Award Trophy
Personally at Big Design Festival but postal delivery is still an option.
Postal delivery: 70 €
BIG SEE Report
The BIG SEE Report is annual review of BIG SEE Award Winners.
This printed publication gives the award winners an extended promotional options.
1/6 page product presentation included in all winners packages
1/3 page product present., price: 500 €
1/1 full page product present., price: 1.000 €
2/1 spread product present., price: 2.000 €
Winning project presentation on website
(lifetime, see here)
Imminent lifelong presentation of project excellence, included in all award packages.
Included in Winner’s packages
Brand profile
(lifetime, see here)
Exclusive business card with reference and communication information, tailored for international customers.
Includes:
- brand / studio presentation: photo, logo, description, contact details and projects in one place
- brand / studio exposure at each of the winning projects
- front page exposure in randomly featured “Winners’s profiles” section
- brand interview: background of the winning project, thoughts, driving force and vision (see here)
- publication of up to 3 featured products per year
- inclusion of the interviews, statements, video clips, etc.
- ongoing updates
Price: 300 €
Social media posts and campaigns
Our bespoke posts on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter offer a comprehensive insight into your brand / studio through awarded products presentations and enable a great opportunity to reach new clients in a specific market.
One post in all BIG SEE Social Media channels. Price: 200 €
Facebook / Instagram campaigns; sponsored post with the link to a winning product on the BIG SEE website with a daily reach 8.000-22.000.
15 days, price: 100 €
30 days, price: 180 €
60 days, price: 300 €
APPLICATION FORM
Do not forget to submit a minimum of 6 photographs of your product in high resolution with the photographer’s name and a portrait photo of the studio/company or the presenter of the winning project on the BIG Design event.