Transform Awards Asia-Pacific opens for entries for 2020
The sprawling Asia-Pacific region reaches from the sands of Sydney to the high-rises of Shanghai, and everywhere between. The Transform Awards celebrates the best in rebranding and brand development across this region, to set the benchmark for excellence in brand transformation.
The Transform Awards Asia-Pacific has, for the past six years, recognised the best in rebranding, brand strategy, brand implementation and creative branding. It is now announcing its call for entries for its 2020 programme. The awards, which took place last year in Shanghai, will be celebrating again in Shanghai on 1 December.
A panel of experts from the biggest companies in the region will judge each entry, determining who excels in the strategic and creative delivery of rebranding. Previous winners include Alibaba, HSBC, Petinsurance.com.au Hyundai, Amnesty International, Konica Minolta, KFC, and many more. The entry process into categories like ‘Best brand localisation,’ and ‘Best use of a visual property,’ is straightforward and guidance can be found here.
Entries must be received by 4 September. Those received by 10 July will receive a discounted entry fee.
For more information, please contact Jessica Dunmall or call +44 3950 5356.
Categories include:
CONTENT
BEST USE OF A VISUAL PROPERTY; PHOTOGRAPHY/ ILLUSTRATION/DIGITAL
This award is for the best use of imagery: graphic, still, video or digital, during a rebrand or brand development project.
BEST BRAND ARCHITECTURE SOLUTION
This category rewards the most efficient corporate organisational strategies developed for a brand.
BEST USE OF COPY STYLE/TONE OF VOICE
This award is for the brand that best uses a verbal style to reflect its overall identity and to differentiate the brand from its competitors.
BEST BRAND EXPERIENCE
This award recognises excellence in the experiential aspects of a brand or rebrand. Developments to a physical space, online portal or other location that enhance the user’s experience of a brand will be accepted.
BEST USE OF PACKAGING
This award recognises the company that most effectively communicates a brand’s positioning, values and visual identity via product packaging.
BEST WAYFINDING OR SIGNAGE
This award honours branded signage and wayfinding systems that have been strategically developed to be effective and reflective of the brand’s values and overall visual identity.
BEST USE OF AUDIO BRANDING
This award recognises companies that have employed an innovative use of sound in the development of their brand.
BEST USE OF TYPOGRAPHY
This award reflects the role that typography has played in a brand's journey. This could be where the typography is an actual component of a wordmark or where typography is used within the visual identity. Alternatively, this award could be given when visual identity and typography have been strategically aligned with an organisation’s brand guidelines.
BEST PLACE OR NATION BRAND
This award recognises the brand journey made by a nation or a place. Entries could be from national, regional, city or district level.
PROCESS
BEST EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDER RELATIONS DURING A BRAND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
This award is for the best communication with external stakeholders throughout the process of a rebrand or during a brand development project. Companies should recognise that progress requires measured communication with all external stakeholders.
BEST INTERNAL COMMUNICATION DURING BRAND DEVELOPMENT
This award recognises the importance of effective communication with the internal audience during a brand transformation. Employees should be engaged and informed about changes in a company’s positioning or brand strategy, ensuring the changes takes place evenly throughout the organisation.
BEST IMPLEMENTATION OF BRAND DEVELOPMENT
This award is for the best execution of developments to or rebrand of an organisation. The coordinated rollout of a change helps to ensure a new identity has maximum impact on audiences
BEST IMPLEMENTATION OF A BRAND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ACROSS MULTIPLE MARKETS
This award is for brand development campaigns or rebrands that have been rolled out across multiple national markets to ensure that brand identity works across different languages and cultures.
BEST LOCALISATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL BRAND
This award benchmarks the effort of an organisation at bringing a global brand to the APAC region, making it relevant to the local markets.
STRATEGY
BEST CREATIVE STRATEGY
This award is for the best creative, thought-out, aligned strategy behind repositioning a brand.
BEST BRAND EVOLUTION
This award is for the brand that best moves its identity into the future while maintaining links with the past and evolving in a clear and creative way.
BEST STRATEGIC/CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW BRAND
This award is for the company that has adopted a strategic or creative approach when developing its new brand.
BEST DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW BRAND WITHIN AN EXISTING BRAND PORTFOLIO
This category rewards companies that develop a new brand within their portfolio of brands. As well as acknowledging the strategy and development of the new brand the judges will also look to see what the development adds to the existing corporate or master brand.
BEST NAMING STRATEGY
This award honours innovation in naming. It is for the most appropriate new name for a new brand, rebrand or brand extension or where an organisation can demonstrate a clear and well thought through naming strategy.
TYPE
BEST CORPORATE REBRAND FOLLOWING A MERGER OR ACQUISITION
This award is for the best rebrand of an organisation following a merger with another company or the incorporation of another company into the original brand.
BEST BRAND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT TO REFLECT CHANGED MISSION/ VALUES/POSITIONING
This award is for the best repositioning of an organisation to reflect a new approach to its business.
BEST BRAND CONSOLIDATION
This award is for the most effective alignment of individually branded elements and sub-brands of an organisation.
BEST REBRAND OF A DIGITAL PROPERTY
This award is for the best rebrand across the digital and online assets of an organisation, including its websites and apps.
SECTOR
BEST VISUAL IDENTITY FROM:
This award is for the best identity developed and used by a brand, including all visual aspects of a rebrand from logo to typeface in the brand’s sector.
- a charity/NGO/non-profit organisation
- education
- energy and utilities
- engineering & manufacturing
- farming & agriculture
- financial services
- FMCG (fast moving consumer goods)
- food and beverage
- healthcare and pharmaceuticals
- industrial and basic materials
- lifestyle and wellbeing
- mining and extractives
- professional services
- property, construction and facilities management
- public sector
- retail
- sports, travel, leisure and tourism
- technology, media and telecommunications
- transport and logistics
THE FOLLOWING AWARDS CANNOT BE ENTERED, AND THE WINNER WILL BE CHOSEN BY OUR JUDGES. THE WINNING AGENCIES OF THESE AWARDS, WILL BE INVITED TO JOIN NEXT YEAR'S JUDGING PANEL.
BEST OVERALL VISUAL IDENTITY
This award is for the best overall identity developed and used by a brand, including all visual aspects of a rebrand from the logo to the typeface. You cannot enter this award. All visual identity entries across different sectors will be automatically put forward for this award.
GRAND PRIX FOR EXCELLENCE IN REBRANDING
This award is for overall excellence in rebranding. You cannot enter this award. All entries will be automatically put forward for this award.
