Application to the Product Design Awards are open to representatives of manufacturers, brand owners, or designers.

Design Turkey Industrial Design Awards invite submissions of product designs with certain functions targeting end users, and which are manufactured by industrial methods. Candidate products need to be launched in the marketplace at most two years ago (i.e. no earlier than 1 January 2010). Hand made products or prototypes are not eligible for awards. Food and chemistry products, textile designs,  fashion designs and graphic designs  are out of the scope of the awards. Graphic designs are evaluated only when they formed an inseperable part of a manufactured product.  

Below products can apply to Design Turkey product evaluation:
1) Products designed by Turkish citizens
2) Products designed by designers residing in Turkey or design companies registered to a chamber of trade in Turkey
3) Products manufactured by companies established according to Turkish Trade Law or Law of Debts.
4) Products whose trade mark is registered by companies established according to Turkish Trade Law or Law of Debts