Last year's Dezeen Awards winners have shared the transformative impact the accolade has had on their studios, with one victor describing it as "a very important moment in our career".
Winning has brought them more media attention, invitations to speak at conferences, more interest from potential employees and, in many cases, new business leads and projects.
"Winning a Dezeen Award has opened new doors to another level of business," said Atelier NL, which won two awards at the awards ceremony held in London last November.
"We feel like our work is taken more seriously now," the studio said. "We also got a new project at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden thanks to Dezeen Awards!"
Casson Mann accepting accepting a Dezeen Award for interior design project of the year "We have been getting more and more international project requests lately," said i29, which won interior designer of the year. "To win a Dezeen Award has been a very important moment in our career," the studio added.
"Dezeen is unarguably the biggest design platform in the world, so the appreciation for our work on such a stage is very meaningful."
Dezeen Awards 2019 is open for entries until 30 May. This year there are 36 categories that you can enter, including 30 categories for architecture, interiors and design projects plus six categories for established and emerging studios.
In its inaugural year Dezeen Awards presented hand-made trophies to...