China Red Star Design Award is the only national design award that aims to encourage domestic enterprises' independent innovation, help create their own brandings and improve their products' competitveness in the international market.
www.redstaraward.org
Eligibility
Eligible products include:
•those developed and designed by Chinese domestic-funded enterprises or designers and are or will be batch sold in China and abroad. They must own independent intellectual property rights or are designs that don't infringe other artificial persons or individuals' intellectual property rights.
•products which have been sold in the past two years or will come into the market in next year.
Only one product can be submitted by each enterprise or designer.
Products that won a China Red Star Design Award in the past are not qualified to enter.
Prizes
The following prizes will be awarded:
•Best of the Gold Prize
•Gold Prizes (8)
•Best Originality Prizes (10)
•Excellent Prize
•Best Team Prize
•Best New Designer Prize
The best new designer will be selected from the designers of awarded products who has been working for less than three years.
Assessment criteria
Innovation: stresses on the integration of technology and art, effectively makes use of new technology, material and craft; possesses unique design concept, provides new problem-resolving methods, directs the trend of product development.
Utility: is human oriented, possesses rational function and structure, and shows good performances of ergonomics, safety and duration.
Economic Benefit: meets market demands, owns a good value for the price, helps to increase the enterprise's income and enhance its brand value.
Environmental-friendliness: considers green, energy saving and recycling.
Craft: makes good use of crafts and materials, and its quality meets the related domestic and foreign standards; it is suitable for mass .production
Aesthetics: demonstrates a special style and harmonious appearance and color.
Jury
The screening committee is composed of domestic and foreign experts.
Top row, L-R:
Peter Zec, Red Dot Award (Germany)
Ralph Wiegmann, International Forum Design (Germany)
Brandon Gien, Australian Design Awards(Australia)
Toshiyuki Kita, Good Design Award (Japan)
Francois Lenfant, Europe & Middle-East (EMEA),GE Healthcare (France)
Kristina Goodrich, Industrial Design Society of America (United States)
Martin Darbyshire, Tangerine Design Co. (United Kingdom)
Bottom row, L-R:
LEE II-kyoo, Korea Institute of Design Promotion (Korea)
Wen-long Chen, Nova Design Co., Ltd (Taiwan, China)
Chen Dongliang, Beijing Industrial Design Center, Beijing Industrial Design Promotion Organization (China)
He Renke, Hunan University, China Industrial Design Association (China)
Liu Guanzhong, Tsinghua University,China Industrial Design Association (China)
Alberto Canetta, Italian Design Agency (Italy)
LAM, Yanta, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hongkong, China)
Registration
Applicants must register online on the Red Star Award website.
About the China Red Star Design Award
Established in 2006, China Red Star Design Award is a yearly social award organised by Beijing Industrial Design Center(BIDC). In 2008, Red Star received 3146 products from 565 applicants which came from 13 provinces, 4 municipalities and Hong Kong. Since 2006, 54 famous experts from 12 countries and areas including Germany, USA, UK, Japan, Korea, China, China Hong Kong and China Taiwan have served on the juries of Red Star.
Organiser
China Red Star Design Award Committee
Host
Beijing Industrial Design Center
Sponsor
China Industrial Design Association
Beijing Industrial Design Center
New Economy Weekly
Support
Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission