Chinese companies began to participate in design awards a long time ago, but it wasn't until Xiaomi, Hammer, and other Internet companies made a big splash that design awards became popular in China's tech sector, and made winning a design award one of the requirements for publicizing the launch of a new product. On the one hand, there is a proliferation of design awards, and on the other hand, the pursuit of design awards by so many companies has really boosted the level of design in the country, and the products that win design awards are not necessarily better than the rest of the competition, but they are certainly not bad, so the design awards are definitely doing more good than harm for the development of the industry.
Now let's sort out the basics of the major design awards and deepen our understanding of design awards.
iF Design Award
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The iF Design Award, or "iF" for short, was founded in 1953, and is organized annually and regularly by the iF Industrie Forum Design Hannover, Germany's oldest industrial design organization. Regularly organized by the oldest industrial design organization in Germany - iF Industrie Forum Design Hannover. The German IF International Design Forum selects the iF Design Award every year, which is famous for its "independent, rigorous and reliable" judging concept, aiming to enhance the public's awareness of design, and its most important gold award is known as "the Oscars of the product design industry". (This and much more information from Baidu Encyclopedia).
The awards are divided into product design (Product), packaging design (Packaging), communication design (Communication) three areas, each area has a lot of categories, each area will be awarded hundreds of awards each year, but only a few dozens of can get the iF design gold award, it can be said to get the iF design awards and is not particularly difficult. It can be said that winning an iF design award is not particularly difficult, but only winning a gold design award is more outstanding. In 2013, for example, the product design award has 981 product awards (you can play the iF logo), of which 50 gold awards; packaging design awards 346, of which 20 gold awards; communication design awards 83, 5 gold awards; cumulative total of 1,410 award-winning works, 75 gold awards.
In addition, there are design talent awards for students, which will not be introduced here.
Entry Process
Registration, Submission, Selection, Prize. Registration begins at the end of June and closes in mid-October, with a discounted fee for early registration. After registration closes, you can submit your work, and the results are announced in early February, and then the awards are presented in mid-March, and the exhibition begins.
Fees and benefits
In 2019, for example, the registration fee is divided into fees and award fees, product and packaging design awards cost about 3,000 euros, and communication works awarded about 2,000 euros.
The rights and benefits of the winners include products and publicity can use the iF logo, exhibited in museums, participate in the celebration party, etc. PS If the award is not willing to pay the money after the award, the award is to be withdrawn, so to participate in the election to be the award of the funds ready.
The red dot design award?
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As for the value of the awards each of the own assessment.
IDEA Design Awards
The IDEA awards in the United States is called International Design Excellence Awards, the United States Industrial Design Excellence Awards. IDEA by the United States BusinessWeek (BusinessWeek) hosted by the Industrial Designers Society of America (Industrial Designers Society of America) as a judge. IDEA is an industrial design competition organized by BusinessWeek and judged by IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America). The awards were established in 1980 and are given to products that are already on sale.
In addition to the more famous design awards there are some of the following, the basic process is similar, the industry has a certain degree of influence, as for the gold content of the award is also different.
Domestic Red Star Award, in 2006 by the China Industrial Design Association, Beijing Industrial Design Promotion Center, the Development Research Center of the State Council, "New Economy Guide" magazine *** with the initiation and together with the relevant domestic local industrial design associations jointly organized by the Beijing Industrial Design Promotion Center to host the awards. 2009, the Red Star Award and the Red Dot Award in Germany to sign a strategic cooperation agreement; in 2010 and 2012, respectively, with the Korean Goodwill Award, the Red Star Award and the German Red Dot Award signed a strategic cooperation agreement; in 2010 and 2012, respectively, with the Korean Goodwill Award. In 2009, Red Star Award signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Red Dot Award of Germany; in 2010 and 2012, it realized mutual recognition of standards with Good Design Award of Korea and International Design Award of Australia respectively. The award is the "Oscar of China's design industry". The collection of Red Star Award starts in March-April every year, the final evaluation is held in September, and the award ceremony is held in November to announce the list of award-winning products and publish the yearbook.
Japan's GOOD DESIGN AWARD Good Design Award, commonly known as G-mark, was created in 1957.
Denmark's INDEX Design Award, established in 1965 by the Danish Design Association.
Taiwan's Gold Dot Design Award
GOOD DESIGN Australia