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Emerging Creative Design Firm of the Year Award
Recognising emerging creative agencies demonstrating innovation, originality, and design excellence
About this category
This category celebrates a young creative design firm making its mark early. It recognises firms that have quickly built a reputation for quality in branding, visual identity, digital and print design, winning the trust of clients and showing the ambition to become a leading name in creative design.
The winner will show strong early growth, a clear point of difference, and the foundations of a firm that will keep growing: good people, good clients and good work.
Eligibility
Open to UK-based creative design firms trading for five years or less, with achievements within the last 12 to 24 months. Self-nominations and third-party nominations are both welcome.
Judging criteria
- Entries will be judged on early growth and momentum
- Quality of work and client outcomes
- A clear proposition and point of difference
- The strength of the team being built
- Potential for future growth
Qualitative criteria
- Clarity of vision and proposition
- Originality and craft of design work
- Strength of brand thinking
- Quality of client collaboration
- Ambition and plans for the future
Metrics
- Revenue growth since launch
- Clients won and retained
- Client results linked to design work
- Project volume and value
- Team growth
Additional criteria
- Submissions should include the story of the firm so far
- A portfolio of recent work
- Client testimonials and supporting figures
- An outline of plans for the next two to three years
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