How to apply
(Call for Entries is now closed)

The DesignAward Award accepts submissions from a wide range of categories:

Household furniture, Household appliances, Homewares and accessories, Home office accessories, Bathroom and sanitary equipment, Lighting design, Outdoor furniture, Babies and children accessories, Personal care & wellness, Homecare devices, Wearables Lifestyle accessories, Consumer electronics, Packaging, Materials and surfaces.

Since innovative projects do not necessarily fit into existing categories, any other project relating to products for the home, under the theme ‘Smart Home’, is welcome.

For more information, check out the ‘Award’ section.

DesignWanted Award gives designers and companies the chance to exhibit material products or ideas that have not yet been fully realised.

You can compete in the:

• Product Design category

• (and/or) the Concept Design category

For more info, visit the ‘Award’ section.

Life has changed over the last two years, completely altering our perception of home design, and what impact smart design can have on our lives and wellbeing.

For this reason, the theme of the first edition of the DesignWanted Award is SMART HOME, which hopes to answer the question: How can we improve our home experiences?

DesignWanted Award is looking for products and ideas that improve the quality of life, think–gadgets that make homes more sustainable, or handcrafted objects designed to solve one of life’s many daily difficulties.

It may or may not include tech, or it might be a hybrid solution, as long as it’s designed to make home life…smarter!

Products will be judged alongside competing projects that will be selected because of the way they impact and improve people’s daily lives as a result of their smart function and positive effect on our habits and/or activities.

Yes, we have defined some limits in relation to the theme of the call, that is the home environment.

Maximum dimensions allowed: 80 cm x 150 cm x 80 cm.

For any doubt, feel free to contact us at award@designwanted.com.

Up to 3.

Each product will go through a dedicated selection process.

This means that for each product admitted to the second phase you will have to bear the registration cost.

Within 24 hours.

If your application is considered eligible, you will receive an email from our team confirming your participation in the DesignWanted Award.

The e-mail will contain all the instructions and the payment link you will need to complete your registration and submission.

No, you don’t have to do it right away, but we advise you not to let too much time pass.

Once you have paid, you will have access to your reserved account. From here, under ‘submit project’ you can enter the information and materials at any time, until the end of the call.

So, take your time to make sure your submission is well done.

Note: once the submission has been submitted, you will no longer be able to edit it yourself, but you will need to contact our team. This, to ensure that projects are not modified at the last, with contents other than the original ones for which your application was considered eligible.

The registration fee, which you pay only after your admission to the Award, includes your participation in the same, the various selection steps and, in the event of your placement in the shortlist or among the winners, the related prize (see here).

The fee does not include, and therefore does not cover, all logistic costs (of products and people) and other costs not explicitly indicated.

If you are among the 10 winners of the ‘Product Design’ category, you will be responsible for the shipping costs of the product (to/from Milan) and for any personal travel / accommodation expenses.

Based on the steps described under the ‘selection process’ tab on this page, we will announce the winners at the end of February 2023. A that time, all winners will receive the necessary instructions to manage the product delivery.

Feel free to contact us, at any time, at award@designwanted.com.