Application to Design Turkey can be done by an authorized personnel of the manufacturing company, authorized personnel the trademark owner company or the designer. The applying party is responsible to get permission from other related parties, and to give correct information about them. The organizer is not responsible of any incorrect or incomplete information.

Design Turkey invite applications of product designs which are manufactured with industrial methods, with certain functions aiming at reaching the end usres. Candidate products need to be lounched in the market at most three years ago (earliest 1 January 2007). Hand made products or prototypes can not apply for the award. Fod and chemistry products and textile design, fashion design and graphic design are out of the context. If only the graphic design is unseperable part of the product, it will be evaluated together with the 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.

Product samples and presentation materials which are delivered to the exhibition hall can be exhibited in different cities or countries by the organizers.

The organizers have the right to publish and keep in archive all the application information and visual materials, product samples and presentation materials which are delivered to the exhibition hall.

All materials submitted for the exhibition need to be taken by the applicants at the end of exhibitions.  Organizers are no longer responsible for the materials which are not taken in time. However, the organizers may keep the materials for traveling exhibitions, by informing the applicants five days prior to  end of the exhibitions.

Products might be transported by the Design Turkey organisation. Every effort will be made to ensure the security of products and other materials submitted by the applicant during assessment and exhibition. Design Turkey organisation accepts no responsibility for any damage or loss caused to any submission material during transportation, handling or storage and that packaging, transportation and insurance of any submission material is the responsibility of the applicant. Due to the highly fragile nature of some submission material, please be aware that damage or loss might occur. Insurance to cover damage or loss should be considered if the value of the item is considerable.

Designs of submitted products and presentation materials to the exhibition should be original. If the designs or presentation materials are not original and violates third parties' intellectual property, the organizers can not be taken reponsible. 

The responsibility to take necessary actions to protect the intellectual property rights of the products belongs to the applicants, in case of copying of the products the organizers are not responsible.

The names and address of the participants will be shown on all submissions in the exhibion and publications.

A contract is signed with the firms and designers of award winning product for using the award mark on the product, packaging and all presentation and promotion materials.

Award marks can only be used for the award winning product itself by the award owners.