India’s Best Design Student Award recognises creativity and innovation among design students in India, providing valuable learning experiences. The award offers them a platform to showcase their talent and skills to a broader audience and industry experts.

The award is open to full-time design students across various disciplines, encompassing a wide range of creative fields. Each entry is meticulously evaluated by a distinguished panel of renowned designers, industry experts, and academics. These esteemed judges assess the submissions on creativity, originality, technical expertise, and overall presentation.

“India’s Best Design Student” Award is open to all design students pursuing courses in various disciplines, including Architecture, Product Design, Graphic Design, Animation, Fashion Design, Interior Design, Commercial Art, Printing, Film, Photography, Theatre, Crafts, Textiles, Ceramics and more.

If you are still unsure of your eligibility, write to us at ibda@design-india.com

• You must be a student currently pursuing a full-time (4 years) design course.
• Only 3rd year, 4th year Bachelors, and Masters students are eligible.
• If you have graduated, your graduation year must be the same as the year of the award. So if you have graduated in 2024, you are eligible to enter India’s Best Design Student Award 2024.

Yes, design students from all around the world, who fulfil the eligibility criteria, can enter the awards.

Winning “India’s Best Design Student Award” comes with a host of benefits that boost your confidence as a design student.

• Get recognised for your talent and creativity.
• Strengthen your portfolio and skill set, adding credibility.
• Elevate your personal branding with the prestigious title of ‘India’s Best Design Student.’
• Have your work evaluated by a panel of distinguished designers and industry experts.
• Expand your reach and exposure to a wider audience.
• Hone your design skills, rise up to challenges and gain real-world experience.
• Validate your creative and technical skills, and your ability to deliver innovative and high-quality design work.
• Get the chance to intern with India’s Best Design Studios.

No, there is no cash prize at India’s Best Design Student Award. All participants get a Certificate of Participation, while winners receive a Winner’s Certificate and a Medal.

India’s Best Design Student Awards are judged by a panel of renowned designers, industry experts, and academics.

They evaluate the submissions based on creativity, originality, technical skills, and overall presentation.

Each entry will be judged by multiple jury and their selections will be collated to declare the winners.

• You can submit only your academic projects which you have completed during your undergraduate or postgraduate courses.
• Freelance and professional projects are inadmissible, and will be disqualified.
• You can enter your graduation project as one of the projects.

Yes, you can submit a group project. Any group project that you submit will be treated as an individual project and will be credited to you.

Your entry must include four academic projects.

• Two of those should be skill projects with only the final results, no explorations.
• The other two projects must be design projects that should include the explorations along with the final results.

• Please follow the following format for skill projects
  • 2 pages per project
  • Faculty name, email & phone number
  • Final result
• Please follow the following format for design projects
  • 2 pages per project
  • Faculty name, email & phone number
  • Explorations
  • Final result

Follow this link to download the entry kit which explains the entry process in detail and gives you the template of a standard format for submitting your entries.

We inform all winners by email. Additionally, we also declare the winners on our social media accounts. Follow us to stay updated.

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Yes, you can modify the details in the registration form within 24 hours of the submission by emailing ibda@design-india.com and notifying us about the change.

Please try submitting your entry again. A high traffic volume on the website may be causing the issue. If you still cannot upload the entry file, you can email it to us at ibda@design-india.com

Yes, there is a one-time entry fee which will be used to defray the expenses of administrative and production processes involved in awarding the winners of IBDSA.

We support multiple payment options to accept entries for “India’s Best Design Student” Award:

• • Credit Card
  • Debit Card
  • Net Banking
  • Bank Transfer by NEFT/RTGS (Send us an email at ibda@design-india.com to use this mode of payment.

We will share our bank details with you.)
Please note that your payment should credit to our bank account before the entries close.

Please retry the payment after ensuring the information entered is accurate. Check your account details, billing addresses, and passwords. If your payment still fails, you can use the Bank Transfer payment option.

If the payment is debited from your account after a payment failure, it will be credited back within 7-10 days. If it doesn’t, please check with your bank.

Send us an email at ibda@design-india.com if your account gets debited twice. Any amount debited twice due to a glitch or technical error will be credited back through the same mode used while making the payment.

No, you cannot cancel your entry once your submission is complete. The entry fees are non-refundable.