“Small Firms, Great Projects” Submission

2024 "Small Firms, Great Projects" Programs, 19th Edition

We're thrilled to announce that Small Firms, Great Projects is back, and it's better than ever! Small Firms, Great Projects offers a platform for small business owners to amplify their firm's visibility in print and online. In its 19th Edition, Small Firms, Great Projects will encapsulate our vibrant community, spotlighting your innovative processes shaping our city. From adaptive reuse and ADUs to parklets and shared spaces, we're celebrating the best local ingenuity in 2024. How does your firm contribute to enhancing the Bay Area's built environment?

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Submission Eligibility

Open to small firms representing San Francisco Bay Area architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, and architectural lighting, Small Firms, Great Projects 19th edition provides a platform to feature their best work in print, online, and in conjunction with AIASF programming.

Featured work and profiles may include any client sector, or built project type completed within the past five years. Firms may submit work for a profile in a one-page layout or two-page spread. Firms may submit projects previously published in Small Firms, Great Projects, or other publications.

Submission Deadline

Early Bird Deadline: Thursday, June 13, 2024. Submissions are due by 5:00 PM (PST).

Regular Deadline: Thursday, June 27, 2024. Submissions are due by 5:00 PM (PST).

Layout Options + Pricing

One–Page Layout

Members:

  • Early Bird Deadline: $650
  • Regular Deadline: $700

General:

  • Early Bird Deadline: $950
  • Regular Deadline: $1,000

Two–Page Spread

Members:

  • Early Deadline: $950
  • Regular Deadline: $1,050

General:

  • Early Deadline: $1,650
  • Regular Deadline: $1,750

2024 AIASF Sustaining Sponsors and Center for A+D In-Kind Donors are eligible for the Member discount. Entry Fees are nonrefundable. Submissions must be fully completed and entered before the deadline.

Benefits You Receive When You Submit an Entry

You’ll Get Exposure (for a long time!)

It’s true: submitting to Small Firms, Great Projects gives you exposure to potential clients for the long-term. Individuals are still coming into our office for our complimentary past publications. With quarterly content refreshes tied to AIASF topical programming conversations, viewers will visit the dynamic digital publication throughout the year.

Networking

In the design world, collaborating with people is integral to business. Having your work in our publication alongside other skilled design firms is an easy way to connect with like-minded people.

Strengthen Your Firm's Reputation

Having your work in an AIASF publication increases the chances that a client will trust your business. AIASF is nationally and internationally recognized, and engaging with AIASF elevates your firm’s profile!

Programming Opportunities
Through curated firm tours and topical panel discussions across a year, AIASF and the Center for Architecture + Design will continue to spotlight SFGP participants. Interested in submitting a SFGP-related program proposal for the Architecture + the City Festival (September 6-27)? Submit HERE through June 7, 2024.

Submission Details

The online submission form will collect:

  • Firm Details + Description
  • Firm Logo — recommended 3” W x 3” H image in a JPG format, 300 DPI Resolution
  • Main Image + Caption — recommended 12” W x 10” H image in a JPG Format, 300 DPI Resolution
  • Detail Image + Caption — recommended 3” W x 3” H image in a JPG format, 300 DPI Resolution
  • Full-Page Image + Caption (2 Page spread only) — recommended 10” W x 12” H image in a JPG Format,
    300 DPI Resolution
  • Photographer Agreement (recommended, but not required) — a suggested template for the agreement (specific to a design competition, but adaptable for other uses) is made available by the American Society of Media Photographers here

All image specs are recommended to ensure content is of the highest quality. Copy must be clear, concise, and written in the third person.

Call for Editorial Submissions (Optional)

Submit an editorial pitch for an article for consideration in the either print or digital editions. Submissions for editorial content should highlight content different from firm profiles, this is your chance to showcase another project or promote your firm's area of expertise. AIASF will contact selected contributors to coordinate their submission. There is no additional charge to participate.

This year's editorial articles will highlight the best of everything local in 2024, focusing on the processes and policies shaping our city, such as designing all-electric, office-to-housing, adaptive reuse, ADUs, building shared spaces, and so much more that make our region unique and innovative.

Participants are invited to pitch editorial articles highlighting how small firms contribute to their local communities by advancing processes and policies that move the needle for positive change. The 19th edition of SFGP is interested in showcasing the Process, from start to finish. We want to hear your architecture and design expertise on topics ranging from sustainable housing and neighborhood vitality to safe streets and downtown revitalization.

Editorial submissions should focus on one or more of these topics. Have an idea that relates to the theme? Propose a topic of your own!

We reserve the right to make edits to all submissions for grammar, clarity or otherwise noted.

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To collect submissions, AIASF uses the Submittable platform. To access the submission form, you will need to log in to an account with Submittable; if you do not already have a login, you may set one up here.

Our Publisher

AIASF is excited to partner with Innovative Publishing on the publication of the Small Firms, Great Projects program. For advertisement opportunities outside of design firm profiles, please contact Innovative at 844.423.7272 or advertise@innovativepublishing.com.

Questions

Sophia Teng
Communications Coordinator
steng@aiasf.org