A' Design Award & Competition Reviews 7

Scammy organization that keeps year and over year to keep engaging with us. They don't even follow basic EU laws considering that they are located in Italy.

In the EU, you must be able to unsubscribe from any list. This is not even allowed in their scammy emails. Technically, they are not following EU laws.

As a small business owner, I joined hoping for fair exposure and recognition. Instead, I faced ongoing unexpected chaarges that were never clear from the start.
For small busineses, this lack of transparency makes it nearly impossible to participate on equal terms. It’s simply not fair.

You get a reward if you pay. And if you are in their system, they continue to SPAM you.

They found me through my Behance profile. I have never reached them nor I was keen to take part in a design competition. They are sending emails for years and I have never answered. It seems like a spam to me.

Complete scam. I fell for it back in 2018 registering my design for an extortionate fee thinking it was a genuine competition. Since then, I've received non-stop spam, which is impossible to unsubscribe from. Submitting a ticket online always results in an error: 'message could not be delivered', or you have to find your login code to unsubscribe which is not the case with any other mailing service. Apart from that, after looking into their business address, it seems far from a 'prestigious award office'. Looks like a simple apartment building covered by thick trees. After doing more digging on Reddit, many others have done their research and confirmed that they're suspicious. Seems like a ploy to lure young, aspiring designers who are seeking exposure and charging them around 550 euros to partake in a fake competition to receive a fake award that isn't recognised by any major design platforms. If you're a designer reading this, save yourself the trouble and ignore their invitation.