The DBA Design Effectiveness Awards recognise the return on investment, a coherent, well-thought out and professionally executed design strategy can achieve.
The DBA Design Effectiveness Awards are not about design, they’re about the difference design makes. Coveted Bronze, Silver and Gold awards recognise the compelling influence of design on the success of a project or business. Crucially, the awards are evidence-based, the impact of design measured and verified. Entered jointly by client and designer, and rigorously judged by business leaders in three rounds of judging, the Awards represent independent and authoritative recognition of the value of your work. This year – we saw the impact of design across the spectrum. For a list of this year's winners, click here.
The Design Business Association is the world's most vocal champion of the role of effective design in the creation of business growth. The most important way of communicating the value of design is by measuring its true effectiveness.
The annual DBA Design Effectiveness Awards are both prestigious and authoritative, covering the broad spectrum of the design industry by measuring entries against their own design brief metrics and not against each other.
By integrating business aims and objectives from the start of the partnership, you set the stage for a transparent and accountable relationship between client and designer that provides the best creative and commercial environment for success. Award-winning case studies serve to demonstrate the excellent value for money and return on investment that a coherent, well-thought-out and professionally executed design strategy can achieve.
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A new design process devleoped by DCA Design International for GlaxoSmithKline has delivered crucial cost savings in the manufacture of the Sensodyne Daily Care toothbrush. By passing on these savings to consumers they have overcome price as a barrier to the emerging rural Indian market and exceeded delivery forecasts four times over in the first six months alone.
The photos from the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards ceremony on 12 June 2019 are available here for you to view and download.
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The DBA Design Effectiveness Awards recognise the return on investment, a coherent, well-thought out and professionally executed design strategy can achieve.
