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Photography Industry Leaderboards


Explore Leading Photographers, Photojournalists, Advertising Agencies, Digital Artists, Fashion Photographers, Wildlife Photographers, Landscape Photographers, Portrait Photographers, Fine Art Photographers, Product Photographers, Graphic Designers, Illustrators, Visual Effects Artists, Digital Asset Creators, Art Directors, Multimedia Artists, Social Media Content Creators, Photography Professionals, Freelance Photographers, Creators.

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Leaderboards

1

Florian W. Mueller

(ID #162512)

3.841

Leaderboard Score.

2

Martin Hoffmann

(ID #343615)

2.646

Leaderboard Score.

3

Simone Hutsch

(ID #295184)

2.020

Leaderboard Score.

4

Chris Slabber

(ID #135028)

1.611

Leaderboard Score.

5

Graeme Fordham

(ID #344516)

1.600

Leaderboard Score.

6

Darya Yerameyeva

(ID #235964)

2.401

Leaderboard Score.

7

Masaki Hirokawa

(ID #315944)

1.369

Leaderboard Score.

8

Ismail Niyaz Mohamed

(ID #243557)

1.000

Leaderboard Score.

9

Patrizia Dottori

(ID #276309)

884

Leaderboard Score.

10

Maja Zińczuk

(ID #303783)

800

Leaderboard Score.

11

Sara Gaafar

(ID #366564)

729

Leaderboard Score.

12

Katsuhiro Ohkuchi

(ID #301484)

625

Leaderboard Score.

13

Zheng Yuan Huang

(ID #266336)

580

Leaderboard Score.

14

Maksim Zinchuk

(ID #329557)

900

Leaderboard Score.

15

Kenji Fujii

(ID #256265)

896

Leaderboard Score.

16

SonyMusic Solutions inc.

(ID #346287)

2.880

Leaderboard Score.

17

Yu Kun

(ID #312641)

576

Leaderboard Score.

18

Theodosis Georgiadis

(ID #353444)

576

Leaderboard Score.

19

Yoshimi Sugiyama

(ID #181080)

493

Leaderboard Score.

20

Lau King

(ID #252022)

468

Leaderboard Score.

21

Hassan Abdullah Taher

(ID #311892)

637

Leaderboard Score.

22

Yicheng Feng

(ID #242006)

436

Leaderboard Score.

23

Annette Schreiber

(ID #297549)

400

Leaderboard Score.

24

Giuseppe Persia

(ID #159981)

400

Leaderboard Score.

25

Greg Barth

(ID #306808)

400

Leaderboard Score.

26

Satoru Nakahara

(ID #252597)

356

Leaderboard Score.

27

Matteo Ruisi

(ID #143986)

916

Leaderboard Score.

28

Mathew Guido

(ID #239328)

324

Leaderboard Score.

29

ECUST | Hao SHAN

(ID #303025)

4.498

Leaderboard Score.

30

Ingmar Swalue

(ID #240823)

288

Leaderboard Score.

31

Lampo Leong

(ID #244273)

6.383

Leaderboard Score.

32

Atsushi Maeda

(ID #242699)

261

Leaderboard Score.

33

Tiago & Tania

(ID #257463)

256

Leaderboard Score.

34

Masaru Eguchi

(ID #263730)

256

Leaderboard Score.

35

Naseer Behbehani

(ID #252699)

256

Leaderboard Score.

36

Jbbc Branding Consultancy

(ID #269155)

688

Leaderboard Score.

37

Roberta Borges

(ID #248231)

225

Leaderboard Score.

38

Michael Liebert

(ID #221074)

208

Leaderboard Score.

39

RedPeak Global

(ID #342995)

1.213

Leaderboard Score.

40

Corinna Holthusen

(ID #339236)

196

Leaderboard Score.

41

Eduardo Dulla Costa

(ID #266892)

144

Leaderboard Score.

42

David Osborn

(ID #270682)

144

Leaderboard Score.

43

Takeo Hirose

(ID #275994)

144

Leaderboard Score.

44

Atsuko Tateno

(ID #238068)

144

Leaderboard Score.

45

Mathias Weil

(ID #232227)

144

Leaderboard Score.

46

Matthieu Bouvier

(ID #236220)

144

Leaderboard Score.

47

Chris Tattersall

(ID #244383)

144

Leaderboard Score.

48

Soren Nielsen

(ID #249116)

144

Leaderboard Score.

49

Sergei Didyk

(ID #182659)

100

Leaderboard Score.

50

Pierluigi Fossa

(ID #291877)

100

Leaderboard Score.

51

André Roger Zwadlo

(ID #296019)

100

Leaderboard Score.

52

Jongmin Park

(ID #292584)

100

Leaderboard Score.

53

Duc Bui

(ID #293316)

100

Leaderboard Score.

54

Daisuke kawashima

(ID #280176)

100

Leaderboard Score.

55

Jiayi Lu

(ID #154370)

105

Leaderboard Score.

56

Senichiro Nogami

(ID #226267)

81

Leaderboard Score.

57

Rosa Maria Rühling

(ID #243951)

81

Leaderboard Score.

58

Kousaku Hirano

(ID #220622)

64

Leaderboard Score.

59

Frank Pham

(ID #220728)

64

Leaderboard Score.

60

Yuichi Horikawa

(ID #220269)

64

Leaderboard Score.

61

Arina Taghvaei

(ID #199740)

64

Leaderboard Score.

62

Christian Jung

(ID #220201)

64

Leaderboard Score.

63

Fukuma umi

(ID #254898)

64

Leaderboard Score.

64

Matteo Mescalchin

(ID #161045)

41

Leaderboard Score.

65

Jason Elias

(ID #220083)

36

Leaderboard Score.

66

Yen-Yu Chen

(ID #157266)

80

Leaderboard Score.

67

Yasumichi Morita

(ID #134825)

222

Leaderboard Score.

68

Paulus Kristanto

(ID #162473)

57

Leaderboard Score.

69

Diego Otero Rodríguez

(ID #107927)

37

Leaderboard Score.

Design Leaderboard Features


Time-relevant rankings to discover who is best today.

Global Rankings

Respects and honors the absolute best designers in all categories, in all countries, in all groups.

Category Rankings

Recognizes the excellent success of outstanding designers for a given design industry.

In-Group Rankings

Celebrates the success of professional designers, design agencies, start-ups, and large enterprises distinctly.

In-Year Rankings

Provides insights into who is/was best of best in design in a given year, for all categories, all countries, all groups.

Metal Rankings

Distinguishes and clusters designers based on their design award achievement levels.

Group × Category

Honours the very best professional designers, design agencies and brands within a given category.

Group × Year

Highlights the outstanding achievements of designers, design agencies and brands for a given year.

Group × Metal

Provides insights into design award achievements of large brands, design agencies and design professionals.

Designer Profiles

Promotes high-ranking designers in the design leaderboards with statistics and historical data.

Explore

Prestigious Rankings and Ratings for Good Design

There are many prestigious rankings and ratings systems for design, but most of these focus on life-time achievements or popuplarity. Design Leaderboards is all about recent successes, helping you discover rising talents and most innovative brands today.

Premium Features


Already included premium and exclusive features.

Meritocratic

Design Leaderboards are achievement based rankings.

Time Relevant

Latest and current achievements have higher weight for rankings.

Infographics

Ranked entities are provided free Design Leaderboard Infographics.

Certificate

Ranked entities are provided free Design Leaderboards Certificate.

Universal

Rankings are inclusive for all design industries from all countries.

Recognition

Design Leaderboards recognizes outstanding designers.

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No additional costs. Pay only one time and get lifetime updates!

DIGITAL-ENTRY

FREE

INCLUSION FOR WINNERS

  • 1 Digital Nomination
  • Exhibition
  • Yearbook
  • Trophy
  • Certificate
  • Media Relations
Popular

PRO-ENTRY

FREE

INCLUSION FOR WINNERS

  • 1 Pro-Nomination
  • Gala-Night
  • Exhibition
  • Yearbook
  • Trophy
  • Press Release
  • Media Relations

GOLD TICKET

FREE

INCLUSION FOR WINNERS

  • 1 Pro-Nomination
  • Gala-Night
  • Exhibition
  • Yearbook
  • Trophy
  • Added Prestige

Popular Questions


Time-relevancy is the main difference. Almost all other prestigious and prominent rankings for good design, such as the World Design Rankings, R+ Designer Rankings, DAC Design Classifications, are based on lifetime achievements of ranked entities; as such any and all past awards and accolades for good design contributes to the rankings with more or less same importance, even if such achievements were over 10 years ago. While this class of rankings respectfully recognize the lifetime achievements of the award-winning entities, because of their focus on lifetime achievements and equal weight for past and recent successes, these systems do not necessarily help you easily discover who is best of best in design, at right this moment. Design Leaderboards is time-relevant and gives exponentially more weight to recent successes of the awarded designers, and helps you discover who is best of best in design today, right now; this is the most significant difference between Design Leaderboards and other meritocratic ranking and rating systems for good design.

Design Leaderboards remove barriers of entry, and reduces gatekeeping. Because most other prestigious and prominent rankings for good design, such as the World Design Rankings, R+ Designer Rankings, DAC Design Classifications, are based on lifetime achievements of ranked entities, this creates a significant barrier of entry for new comers; innovative upstarts, creative young designers, radical start-ups, and newly awarded designers and upcoming brands find it difficult to get listed in other ranking systems where there are entities with dozens if not hundreds of achievements over decades that carry them to the top of the rankings. Journalists and media members use these rankings to feature designers and brands that incorporate good design, as such Design Leaderboards create immense value for newly awarded designers and help them get further recognition, publicity and awareness for their award-winning good designs.

Design Leaderboards platform is run and managed by the A' Design Award and Competition. To get included in the Design Leaderboards, you need to be a winner of the A' Design Award. A' Design Award is an international design accolade for good design where nominated entries are voted by a grand jury panel of prominent academics, influential journalists, and experienced design professionals. Designers from all industries and all countries take part to attain national fame and international prestige. Winners of the A' Design Award are granted the A' Design Prize that includes over 80 benefits such as invitation to Gala-Night in Italy, Physical Exhibition of Awarded Works, pagination and inclusion of awarded works in a Hardcover Yearbook, 3D Metal Printed Award Trophy in luxury black box, printed and framed Certificate, among many other benefits including but not limited to complimentary lifetime inclusion in Design Leaderboards. Read more and enter your works to the A' Design Awards for awards consideration and potential rankings inclusion.

Yes, of course. You will get included in the Design Leaderboards for free if you win the A' Design Award since inclusion in Design Leaderboards is one of the many perks awarded to you within the context of the A' Design Prize. Learn more about the A' Design Prize now.

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