Application to Design Turkey Industrial Design Awards is done on the Internet both in English and in Turkish until 10 September 2012. Application for product design can be done by (1) the manufacturer or (2) the brand owner company representative or (3) the designer(s). A company or designer may apply for the award with more than one product. Products of any product design evaluation jury members, their close relatives, or the companies the jury members are working at, or the products manufactured by the companies the jury members are working at cannot be a candidate for the award. The application is done in three steps.

STEP 1: Application for Pre-Evaluation

The application form which is filled out on the internet requires information regarding the brand owner company, (if dfifferent) manufacturing company and designer(s), information about the product and design, and at least two digital photos taken from different angles. The form is filled both in Turkish and in English. While filling the form, attention should be paid to the character limitations. During the application below listed information are also needed in order to fill out the forms:

1. Intellectual Property Rights (if available)
2. Chamber of Commerce registration number of Trademark owner 

Click Application_form_product.pdf (241.0 KB) to see the information required to fill out the application forms.

The applicant is requested to pay an application fee for every product s/he applies for the award system. If the application is made for more than one sector, the applicant needs to pay the application fee for each sector. 

Application fee for every product that is a candidate for the Design Turkey awards is 100 TL. The fee should be deposited into the below bank account owned by Industrial Designers Society of Turkey.

Garanti Bankası, Ankara Ümitköy Branch
Account Number: 483/6288068
IBAN: TR49 0006 2000 4830 0006 2880 68

STEP 2: Submission of Information for the Exhibition Catalogue

Below listed information are requested to be sent by courier.

1. A CD containing two copies of following information:

• high resolution design images (at leat 15 cm. width 300 dpi, TIFF or CMYK Jpg format, at least 2 at most 8 images)
• Designers’ portrait photos (separately for each designer, at least 10 cm. width, 300 dpi, CMYK Jpeg format)

2. Original signed copy of an agreement stating the terms and conditions are accepted by the applicant. Click Design Turkey 2012 Agreement (41.5 KB) (in Turkish)

Above listed documents should be sent to the below adress no later than 2 November 2010

Adress:
Gökhan İçel
TURQUALITY Sekreteryası, ITKIB
Çoban Çeşme Mevki Sanayi Cad.
Dış Ticaret Kompleksi B Blok
Yenibosna Bahçelievler
Tel: +90 212 454 03 54

STEP 3: Application for the Main Evaluation

The applicants of product designs who have passed the pre-evaluation stage are invited to the exhibition and requested to comply with the following procedure until 23 October 2012

1. The names and contact details of the authorised people who will deal with the exhibition and to whom the award will be delivered if the applicant wins an award. The form will be filled by clicking on the "attendant" link on the "my applications" page.
2. Revision or completion of the entry information through internet, if it is requested by the juros.
3. Application fee, for the products of participants which pass the pre-evaluation phase and are invited to take place in the exhibition and catalogue, is 300 TL. and it should be deposited to the account whose details are given above.

The applicants are required to submit a sample product as indicated in the application to the exhibition hall on the date which will be announced later.

The applicants of the products which cannot be exhibited in the exhibition hall because of their size, are requested to provide good quality scaled models and/or large photographs. The applicants will be further informed about the details of the exhibition system and the exact time of delivery of the exhibition material. The assembly of the exhibition material should be done by the guidance of the authorised person from the applicant firm.

Important dates:

Applications: 27 April - 10 September 2012
Pre-evaluation on the internet: 11 September - 2 October 2012
Submission of information for the catalogue: 20 September 2012
Notification of pre -evaluation: 3 October 2012
Payment of fee and updating the submission: 3-23 October 2012
Submission of products to the exhibition: November 2012
Construction of exhibition: November 2012
Jury evaluation of products: November 2012
Award Ceremony and exhibition opening: November 2012
Exhibition: November 2012
Conference: November 2012