iF Design

• You can use the iF label for as long as your award-winning product is offered on the market. There are no restrictions regarding the length of time or the areas (advertisements, online banners, press releases) in which you can use the label.  

• With the iF ranking label, you will receive an additional label to communicate your position in the iF ranking.

• You will also receive print-ready data to produce stickers for your daily correspondence, for packaging and other purposes.

• Your award-winning entry will automatically be included in the iF online exhibition, and what's more, it will be there for an unlimited period of time! Link your website to your entry in the iF online exhibition.

• We will provide you with an individual company portrait in the iF online exhibition. You can add information, pictures, videos etc. to your portrait.

• If you are an award winner in three different iF design awards, you can use the premium option for your company portrait in the iF online exhibition: impress your clients and other visitors with your success story, a feature that offers additional, attractive visual representation options such as gallery or timeline.

• We offer you a special feature to showcase all the iF design awards you have received so far: your widget, an animated slideshow in a window system, which you can use as an online banner on your website, in your showroom or at trade exhibitions.

• You will also get a special QR Code for your print communications, which will point to your portrait in the iF online exhibition.

• Hamburg's HafenCity, one of the new architecture highlights in northern Europe, is where our new permanent iF design exhibition Hamburg is located. Your most recent award-winning entry will be presented in one of three changing exhibitions, each of which will last for several months. On another floor, we will present all award-winning entries from 1953 onwards.

• As an award winner, you will be invited to the awards ceremony, the iF design awards night, which will take place on 28 February 2014. Our 75 iF gold award winners will be honored in a special act on the large stage.

• The iF design awards night will be captured by professional photographers. Their photos will be made available to you for download immediately after the event, so that you can use them in your communication measures.

• You will receive your certificate during the iF design awards night.

• Together with a comprehensive manual, the print data for the certificate will be made available to you in digital format, so that you can plan the use of your certificate without any limitations.

• For an additional fee, you can order display versions of your certificate.*

*These services are available at additional costs.

• Your award-winning entry will automatically be presented, in detail, in the iF yearbook. From 2014, the yearbooks will be published as Ebooks.

• As an award-winner you will receive a free copy of the iF yearbook. You can order additional copies at a special rate.

• For the third time, iF will publish BEST CREATiFES. Only those who are included in the iF ranking have the option to introduce their company and service portfolio in this special publication.

• If you participate in BEST CREATiFES, you will get two free copies and you can order additional copies at a special rate.

• Immediately after the jury session, iF launches its schedule of comprehensive international press and PR measures to support you in your communications. Our press distribution list contains more than 1,000 qualified contacts worldwide.

• We will provide you with ready-to-use, precisely formulated text modules to support your own press and PR activities.

• We will also give you text samples to communicate your position in the iF ranking.

• Our 75 gold award winners will receive a very special communication tool: an individual jury statement, a summary of expert opinion, to underline the credibility of your communication.

• We at iF cooperate with major international online design portals and we have put together special communication packages for you as an iF design award winner.

• The iF DESIGN TALENTS GmbH presents more than 40,000 student design concepts from all over the world. By placing banner adverts on these pages, you can precisely target new international design talent.*

*These services are available at additional costs.