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.
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.
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.
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.
Urban
Industrial
Telecommunication
Automobiles & Vehicles
Sports & Leisure
Babies & Kids
Office
Lighting
Household
Medicine & Health
Robotics
Industrial design projects generated by AI
Fashion
Apparel
Accessories
Bags & luggage
Fashion design projects generated by AI
Digital
New media
Interface & User Experience Design
Film and Animation
Digital design projects generated by AI
Communication
Identity & Branding
Advertising
Packaging
Publishing & Print Media
Illustrations
Posters
Typography & Signage
Communication design projects generated by AI
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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.
