About KPA

About the KunPeng Global Design Award (KPA)

In parallel with the Shenzhen Design Week, the Kunpeng Global Design Award is organized to discover designers with creativity, vision, foresight, and influence. It also aims to enhance the exchanges and cooperation among all designers from different countries and inspire the industrialization of creative designs as well as the promotion of creative design concepts.

 

The KPA 2024 targets 5 categories: Urban Design / Industrial Design / Fashion Design/ Digital Design / Communication Design.

 

While its most eye-catching feature is the total prize of 5,000,000 CNY, KPA strives to brand and promote the winning designs and their authors through various activities, such as tour of exhibitions, constant media coverage, etc. Thus, SDA will become one important and effective window through which foreign designers and design institutions could enter the huge Chinese market.

 

About the Shenzhen Design Week

The Shenzhen Design Week is a big initiative engineered by the authorities to support the design communities. With the first edition starting in late April 2017, it is an international annual design event sponsored by the Shenzhen Municipal Government, administered by the Shenzhen Innovation & Creative Design Development Office.

 

It aims to provide platforms for international exchange, communication and cooperation in various design categories. It also provides good opportunities for designers from around the world to showcase their talents through different events such as exhibitions, workshops, and forums, etc.

 

Scholars, policy makers, managers, students in relevant fields and professional designers all over the world are welcome to participate in these events happening simultaneously during the course of one week over different parts of the city. 

 

About the City of Shenzhen

Being the first special economic zone in China, Shenzhen grows from a small fishermen village of 300,000 people ashore South China Sea to a metropolis of over 20 million with the nation's fastest growing economy in just 40 years.

 

Recognized as the birth place of China's modern design, Shenzhen has been attracting design talents around the country and her flourishing design industries cover various categories, including graphic, industrial and product, fashion, architectural, interior, etc.

 

In 2008, Shenzhen was designated the City of Design by UNESCO and joined the Creative Cities Network which currently consists of 180 members.

 

In recent years, the Municipal Government of Shenzhen has been strongly supporting the design communities and boosting the design industries with large investments, aiming to transform the manufacturing hub of the world into a premium design hub.

Awards & Prizes

  • 可持续发展特别奖

    SASD

    CNY
    250,000
    1
  • 金奖

    Gold Award

    CNY
    150,000
    5
  • 银奖

    Silver Award

    CNY
    60,000
    25
  • 铜奖

    Bronze Award

    CNY
    20,000
    50
  • 优秀奖

    Merit Award

    CNY
    10,000
    150
  • 提名奖

    Nomination Award

    honorary prize
     
    100

1. The "Special Award for Sustainable Development" is set up in order to reinforce public interest and promote the spirit of building a community with a shared future for mankind, with CNY 250,000. This special award winner will be named by the special final jury composed of the chairmen of five Juries.

Winner of the Special Award will be chosen from all entries and is not limited to projects that have already received other awards. Winner of the Special Award can also be winner of other awards.

 2. All prizes are pre-tax amount. All prizes are subject to income tax in accordance with local law, or KPA Secretariat can pay the prize after paying tax on winners’ behalf.

 3. The payment of the prize could take up to 6 months. Winners are required to provide all the info and materials needed for the payment to the KPA secretariat before deadline. If submission of info and materials is delayed, the recipient of the prize changes or any other unexpected situation happens on the winner's account, the KPA Secretariat has the right to postpone the payment and Secretariat's explanation shall be final.

4. Overseas winners (including the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions) can ONLY use personal accounts to receive the payment. If the prize recipient and the entrant are different entities or individuals, a Prize Reception Authorization Letter is required.

Schedule

Call for Entries: March 2024
Online registration deadline: 7 April 2024
Tangible projects submission deadline (Arrival date at the secretariat warehouse): 7 April 2024
Final judging: 13-14 April 2024
Award presentation ceremony and exhibition: Late April 2024

Categories

  • Urban

    Urban

    • Urban planning and management & Municipal Services
    • Landscape & Public Space
    • Architecture
    • Interior
    • Urban design projects generated by AI

    Urban

  • Industrial

    Industrial

    Telecommunication

    Automobiles & Vehicles

    Sports & Leisure

    Babies & Kids

    Office

    Lighting

    Household

    Medicine & Health

    Robotics

    Industrial design projects generated by AI

    Industrial

  • Fashion

    Fashion

    Apparel

    Accessories

    Bags & luggage

    Fashion design projects generated by AI

    Fashion

  • Digital

    Digital

    New media

    Interface & User Experience Design

    Film and Animation

    Digital design projects generated by AI

    Digital

  • Communication

    Communication

    Identity & Branding

    Advertising

    Packaging

    Publishing & Print Media

    Illustrations

    Posters

    Typography & Signage

    Communication design projects generated by AI

    Communication

Registration and Application

Entrants must register on the official website of the Award (k-p-a.design) and submit supporting documents (all materials must be written in English) before 24:00, 7 April 2024 (GMT+8:00) by following the steps below):
  • 01

    REGISTER & CREATE MY ACCOUNT

    Read the terms and conditions carefully, create user name and password before logging in.

  • 02

    COMPLETE PROJECT INFO ONLINE

    Log in to the account, complete information about designers and projects, upload profile photos and project materials, save and submit.

  • 03

    DELIVER PROJECT

    Deliver tangible projects(after receiving the notification email of shipping tangible projects) and make sure “entry label” is attached and the projects arrive at the designated warehouse before 24:00 7 April 2024 (GMT+8:00).  

1.Please do NOT deliver projects to the Secretariat office! Address of the warehouse will be sent to the entrant’s registered email with the notification email of shipping tangible projects.

2. Entrants must submit the supporting and other legal documents requested by the KPA Secretariat by 24:00 7 April, 2024 (GMT+8:00). Templates can be downloaded from the "download" section of k-p-a.design.

3. Please keep the original copies of the above documents. THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE has the right to re-inspect the documents after the final judging. Please wait for the official email notification for details.

4. Entries for Urban Design, Digital Design, illustration, poster and AI projects can be submitted online for judging without shipping tangible objects.