The Designnova Award International Innovation Design Competition sponsored by the Central Academy of Fine Arts has been successfully held in Beijing, Chengdu, Qingdao, Haikou, Fuzhou, Zhengzhou and Foshan since 2010-2018, which has promoted China's creative design Industrial development and provided an important platform to support the growth of Chinese cutting-edge designers’s strength.
By encourages designers to create social and fashion-oriented design, we advocate setting strategy that combines fashion trends research with actual production, which can quickly and effectively integrate through industry chains to achieve commercialization. The Designnova Award aims to become a professional service platform that integrates learning, research, production, and sales.
The competition choose "wing" as the core concept. First, ”wing” means the design itself. It’s the symbol of design becoming a fertile ground for social innovation and one of the most dynamic development areas in the modern industry. The "wing" also represents the best innovative design today. In a groundbreaking innovation idea, new practical solutions almost inevitably bring society a new meaning. At the same time, "Wing" also represents the meaning and heart of the Designnova Award. We hope that the Designnova Award will become the successful wing of outstanding designers and support the innovative design which shows the most social significances and values.
The registration was officially started on June 17, 2019, the deadline was October 8, 2019. After eight years of development, the competition will focus more on social innovation design and innovative lifestyles, the future development and the abilities of commercialization of the products. This year's competition breaks the conventional method of classification, including three categories: social innovation, innovative products, and innovative communication. Participants can submit to the corresponding categories. The organizing committee of the competition will invite international and domestic expert judges to join preliminary and final trials in mid-October 2019, and the winners will be released in mid-November. We sincerely invite all design institutes, professors and students, independent designers, Chinese and foreign companies to participate!
Participants includes:
Chinese and foreign companies, art and design institutions, freelance designers, art and design college professors and students, etc.
Collection category:
Social innovation category: (1 gold, 5 silver, 10 copper, excellent prize 20)
—Public art
—Space design
—Service design
—Green design
—Concept Design
Innovative product categories: (1 gold, 5 silver, 10 copper, excellent prize 20)
—Furniture / Home Supplies / Interior design / Furnishing Art, etc.
—Intangible cultural heritage / Traditional handicraft protection and innovation / Jewelry / Ceramics, etc.
—Clothing / Accessories (boxes, bags, shoes, scarves, hats, etc.)
—Garage Kit / Educational Toys, etc.
—Culture / Art / Tourism Derivatives, etc.
Innovative communication category: (1 gold, 5 silver, 10 copper, excellent award 20)
—Illustrator / Picture Book / Book / Typeface / Poster
—Brand / Logo / Packaging —Environmental graphic design / wayfinding design
—Visual information design / Dynamic graphic design / UI interface design / Interactive design
—Digital Marketing / Creative Advertising / Experimental Animation / Video Packaging
Evaluation criteria:
Artistic, innovative, technical, fashionable, practical, etc.
Prize setting: (total amount of bonus before the tax of 530,000 yuan)
Grand Prize： (pre-tax bonus 50,000 yuan)
Set by each category:
Gold Award：20,000 yuan before tax, trophy and award certificate
Silver Award：pre-tax bonus of 10,000 yuan, trophy and award certificate
Bronze Award：pre-tax bonus of 5,000 yuan, trophy and award certificate
Awards for excellence ：2,000 yuan before tax, trophy and award certificate
Finalist ：winning certificate
Judges of the 2018 Designnova Award Competition
2018 Designnova Award Ceremony
Precautions：
1. Please visit the official website: www.designnova.cn to download the exhibition board template, entry form, and copyright statement.
2. Refer to the exhibition board template to complete the entry documents. Please fill in the complete information in the entry form. The copyright statement should be printed and signed and then scanned into an electronic copy.
3. Entries must be sent in the form of a ZIP file, name of the file: candidate name + region + entry category; package includes: entry board + entry form + copyright statement, submitted through the official submission mailbox: join@designnova.org
4. For dynamic graphics, visual information design, interactive experience design, service design entries, if the file size over 500MB, please send the CD directly to the Executive Committee Office: Room 110, Building 8, ID City, Shunyi District, Beijing DIDC International Designers Club 101318, CD and envelope, please indicate "2019 Designnova Award Entry + Name + Region + Entry Category"
5. The number of entries is not limited. The submitted works must be original works of the author. If the works infringe on the copyright rights of others, privacy rights, copyrights, trademark rights, etc., the entrants shall bear all legal responsibilities.
6. Do not repeat the submissions of the winning entries that have participated in the previous Designnova Awards. Once found, the qualifications for the finalists will be unconditionally canceled.
Schedule:
Collection time: 2019/6/17-10/8
Review time: 2019 / mid-October
Winning list release time: early November
2019 Awards Ceremony and Exhibition Time: December 2019
Contact information:
Mailing address: DIDC International Designers Club, Room 110, Building 8, ID City, Houshayu, Shunyi District, Beijing 101318
Contact: Ms Li
Tel: 010-18516963667 (Monday to Friday, 9:00-17:30, excluding holidays)
Official website: www.designnova.cn Submission
email: join@designnova.org
Official WeChat public number: DESIGNNOVA
Official Weibo: DIDC CLUB
Host by
Central Academy of Fine Arts
Organizer :
City Design School, Central Academy of Fine Arts
Urban Design and Innovation Institute , Central Academy of Fine Arts
The Research Center of Urban Visual Culture，Central Academy of Fine Arts
Supported by
China Interior Decoration Association
Chinese Arts and Crafts Society
Co-organiser:
China Industrial Design Association
Art Design Institute , Central Academy of Fine Arts
UNESCO International Folk Art Organization (IOV)
Design Art Committee, Chinese Artists Association
National Association of College Art Education Experts
Shenzhen Graphic Designers Association
China Interior Decoration Association Art Committee
China G7 Creative Design Alliance
International Association of Commercial Artists
Beijing art graduation season, etc.
Overseas co-organizers:
ICO-D International Design Association
American Industrial Designers Association
Italian Industrial Design Association
Australian Design Association
British European Design Association
British Visual Communication Association
International Multimedia Association Quebec, Canada Mission Design
Hong Kong Designers Association
Hong Kong Global Design Alliance, etc.
Design product sales platform support:
China Copyright Protection Center
Beijing Copyright Protection Center
Yi dog copyright e-commerce platform
The Innovation Incubation Research Base supports:
People's Government of Lecong Town, Foshan City, Guangdong Province
Cooperation media: Phoenix Television CCTV Network Beijing TV Station China Radio International Xinhua Net| Sina Phoenix Net Netease Sohu Artron ui China Designboom Art China Visual China 9 Gutian Road Lu Junyi designonsite, etc.
Organizing Committee of the 9th Designnova Award International Innovation Design Competition
Sep 18, 2019
