Designers.org Impressum

Every publication carries the mark of its maker. The Designers.org impressum is the formal expression of that principle for websites and digital services, identifying the individual or organization legally responsible for operating this publication. Designers.org publishes this impressum as a natural extension of the same transparency that shapes every other corner of the registry, where each award can be verified with its verification code, each ranking follows a published methodology, and each visitor deserves to know who stands behind the registry in use.

The Impressum Tradition

The word impressum derives from the Latin impressum, meaning that which has been pressed in, referring to the identifying mark a printer physically pressed into each page to declare responsibility for the published work. As the printing press spread across Europe, regulatory frameworks formalized the practice into law, requiring every publisher to name the responsible party on every edition that left the press.

Newspapers and periodicals carried the same principle forward as the masthead, where the publisher, the editors, and the principal staff appeared in every printed issue, giving readers clear knowledge of who stood behind the content they were reading. The masthead became a respected mark of editorial accountability across centuries of publishing.

The internet extended publishing to a global scale. Several European legal frameworks responded by applying the same transparency requirements that governed printed periodicals to online publishing. The impressum became the digital continuation of the printed masthead, carrying the same core purpose into the era of websites and web applications, where every visitor deserves to know who operates the service in use.

Why Designers.org Publishes an Impressum

When a journalist reads the press release of an award-winning design in the newsroom, when a client confirms a certificate on the Verify an Award page, when a laureate shows an award badge on a portfolio or a shop, when a buyer compares designers on the Designer Rankings before commissioning a project, each visitor places a measure of trust in Designers.org. The Designers.org impressum ensures that trust has a verifiable foundation, where the operator is named, the address is registered, and the responsible party is reachable through documented channels.

Designers.org is engineered for verifiability. Every award-winning design carries a verification code that anyone can check, every design page names its designer, its category, its award level and its edition, and every ranking follows the published methodology of the A' Design Award & Competition. The impressum extends that spirit of transparency to organizational identity, where the same openness that lets a visitor confirm an award also lets the visitor observe the identity of the operator. The award is verifiable. The maker is verifiable.

Designers.org Operator Information

The complete legal disclosure for Designers.org at dezigners.org, including the registered operator name, registered address, responsible party details, and formal contact information, is maintained through an official impressum registry. Please use the link below to access the full, current, and legally binding impressum for dezigners.org.

View Designers.org Impressum Registry

Additional Legal Pages

You may also review the Designers.org Privacy Policy, the Cookie Policy and the Terms and Conditions. For a full overview of Designers.org and how the registry of award-winning designs, designers, brands and rankings works, please visit the About Designers.org page. To return to the registry, open the Designers.org home page.