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Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design 2025 – enter now and gain international recognition!
The Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design is one of the world’s most prestigious competitions for outstanding communication design and brand management. Each year, an international jury of experts honours the most creative achievements – from innovative advertising campaigns to impressive corporate designs and interactive digital projects.
South Africa is emerging as a hub for innovative and impactful design. With a rich cultural heritage and a growing creative industry, South African designers and agencies are making their mark on the global stage. Now, they have the opportunity to showcase their talents to an international jury: The Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design 2025 is open for submissions!
Easy participation – who can enter?
The competition is open to designers, agencies, companies, and brands whose projects were published after 1 July 2022 or will be published before 1 July 2025. Projects that have already been submitted to this competition in previous years are not eligible.
From 10 February to 6 June 2025, projects can be registered in 18 competition categories. The international Red Dot Jury, consisting of experts from the fields of design, journalism, and academia, will evaluate each submission individually.
Outstanding works will receive a Red Dot, a Red Dot: Best of the Best, or the Red Dot: Grand Prix award.
Red Dot: Junior Award – a chance for emerging talents
Young creatives can participate in the Red Dot: Junior Award and compete with the best emerging designers worldwide – with reduced entry fees. Eligible participants include apprentices, students, and young professionals who graduated no more than two years ago.
All submissions are judged on an equal footing with professional work. Particularly outstanding achievements receive a Red Dot or a Red Dot: Best of the Best.
The most impressive junior project of the year will be honoured with the Red Dot: Junior Prize and a €10,000 cash award.
Why enter? Benefits for South African creatives
Winning a Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design offers numerous advantages:
- Red Dot Label – a globally recognised seal of excellence in design.
- International visibility – winning projects are featured in the Red Dot Winners Section, one of the largest online archives for contemporary design with over 34,000 entries.
- Global exhibitions – winning works are showcased in the Red Dot Design Museum Essen and the Museum of Communication Berlin. Particularly outstanding projects also have the chance to be presented at international design events – a unique opportunity for South African creatives to gain worldwide exposure.
- Industry recognition – publication in the International Yearbook Brands & Communication Design, one of the leading reference works for the creative industry.
Award ceremony & networking in Berlin
The Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design 2025 award ceremony is the highlight of the competition year and will take place on 7 November 2025 at the Konzerthaus Berlin. The winners of the Red Dot: Best of the Best, Red Dot: Grand Prix, and Red Dot: Junior Prize will be honoured on the grand stage. Additionally, the coveted Red Dot: Agency of the Year title will be awarded.
Following the gala, the exclusive Designers' Night will offer a unique opportunity to connect with leading creatives from the industry in a celebratory atmosphere for all winners.
Register now – submission phases at a glance
Overall registration period: 10 February – 6 June 2025
- Early bird: 10 February – 7 March 2025
- Regular: 8 March – 16 May 2025
- Latecomer: 17 May – 6 June 2025
Take advantage of this opportunity to present your work to a world-renowned jury and establish yourself as a leading creative talent on the global stage!
More information and registration at: https://www.red-dot.org/bcd
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The Red Dot Design Award is one of the most prestigious design competitions worldwide. Participants can submit entries in three disciplines: products, brands and communication projects, as well as prototypes and design concepts. Each year, a jury convenes for each award category to individually assess the submissions and subsequently decide on the awarding of distinctions.
The Red Dot Design Award has a nearly 70-year history: in 1955, a jury convened for the first time to evaluate the best designs of that era. In the 1990s, Red Dot CEO Professor Dr. Peter Zec developed the name and brand of the award.
