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Introduction

China has unique, flourishing markets that are comprised of a diverse group of people with strikingly distinct lifestyles and preferences. In order to compete in the Chinese market, designs have to be more than just functional and aesthetically pleasing. Designs must go above and beyond to accomplish a strategic goal that is extraordinary, innovative, and beneficial to both the user and society. This is a successful design.

China's Most Successful Designs Awards seeks to honor the top international designers and enterprises for their designs that are most successful in the Chinese market. Designs are judged by looking at an all-encompassing view of the design from its conception to its commercial outcome.

Our Mission

China's Most Successful Design Awards is created to empower, celebrate, and elevate our Industry of Design. It is guided by the vision to improve the value provided to business and society through successful design.

Organizers

  • Shanghai Industrial Design Association

    Shanghai Industrial Design Association (SIDA), whose predecessor was the Shanghai Industrial Design Promotion Association was founded in March, 1993. SIDA, together with enterprises or industrial design staffs involved in the product design industry have voluntarily compose a multi-industry, professional and non-profit social organization. The Shanghai Municipal Economic Committee is in charge of the organization.

  • Shanghai Creative Industry Center

    Shanghai Creative Industry Center was established on November 6th, 2004 and began to function on April 28th, 2005. Established with the approval of the Economic Commission of Shanghai Municipal Government and the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Social Organizations, Shanghai Creative industry center is a specialized organization in promoting the development of Shanghai’s creative industries. The center’s mission is to coordinate resources, formulate development targets and strategies, strengthen the guidance, construct a platform, promote the assembly, and establish a system, thus gradually forming a modern industry structure supported by the individual creative industry enterprises and clusters on the platform of “Shanghai Centre of Creative Industry”, and driving the overall development of Shanghai creative industry.

Operator

  • China Bridge International

    As China’s first design management consultation company, CBI offers a multitude of services including insight and analysis, innovation & design strategy and innovation management training. CBI cooperates with firms all over the world from small innovative companies to world famous international groups. CBI is a bridge for partners, enabling success through insight, innovation and design.

Media

  • Forbes China

    ForbesChina is the only Chinese official version of Forbes website. Committed to creating “wealth in China”, ForbesChina.com will maintain the spirit of the world's top financial magazine “Forbes” which owns global wisdom to lead China's spirit of entrepreneurship, innovation and globalization, serves affluent population and those who want to realize their wealth dream.

  • Shanghai Business Review

    Shanghai Business Review is the leading English language magazine for senior management of international companies headquartered and operating in Shanghai. The magazine’s editorial focuses on providing a comprehensive summary of the main business developments in China and on issues of practical importance to international companies in China’s largest city, Shanghai. All editorial fully independent, wide-ranging and objective in the coverage it provides.

  • id-China

    www.id-china.com.cn is a professional website established in 2005. It focuses on China interior design and construction industry. The website embodies a large collection of latest design cases from home and abroad, as well as innovative products and latest information about design industry. Meanwhile, as a fully interactive website with professional database and search engine, it builds communication and service platform between designers and product materials.

  • Bill Wang

    Billwang was established in September 2000 which was a Internet communication platform based on industrial design as the core of the creative design industry. Website now has 35 million designers as their members. Membership covers the mainland, Taiwan and foreign-related institutions, students, teachers, business executives and well-known practitioners of industrial design

  • DESIGN IN CHINA

    CHNdesign was founded in 1999 and has grown as one of the most influential interactive design media in China, covering the services of excellent portfolio, articles, design human resources and so on. As a portal design website, CHNdesign has attracted more than130,000 registered member and 1000 online exhibition halls for company and designers.

  • China Design Network

    China Design Network was founded in the late of 1998, the first network service providers. After ten years of exploration and development, a clear model, rich content, strong competitiveness of the website is completely set up. The services are related to graphic, package, interior, interactvie , digital , industrial and fashion design and etc.

  • Sina House

    With the innovative concept of “Real Estate Society ”, Sina House presents both massive traffic and massive data, combining professional online media and professional real estate, and commits to creating comprehensive information service platform and more professional vertical online real estate media.

  • Tencent Weibo

    Tencent Weibo has more than 200 million registered users, 130 million monthly active users. Tencent weibo and other basic functions to listen to the dialogue on, gradually add images to it, the video forward pass, weibo on the wall, voice, weibo and other innovative features. Currently, Tencent weibo has been achieved to open up with more than 15 products inside the Tencent, especially with IM, SNS platform integrated into three-dimensional social networking platform is an important part. Tencent weibo is becoming China's largest and fastest Internet, interactive communication platforms.

Operator

  • 100% Design

    100% Design Shanghai is a unique exhibition in China featuring leading brands of contemporary interior design products which are strictly qualified by a Design Advisory Panel. The exhibition showcases original designs of furniture, lighting, bathroom/kitchen and floor/wall coverings and it seeks to create a dynamic atmosphere for the proliferation of innovative and trendsetting ideas. 100% Design Shanghai is the premiere venue for Exhibitors to interact and meet the buying needs of key specifies and buyers.

  • Dutch Design Workspace

    Dutch Design Workspace was established in 2010. It is supported by Dutch Design Fashion Architecture (DutchDFA). This economic support programme is a unique collaboration between public and private partners. It involves the Dutch ministries of Foreign Affairs, Economic Affairs and Education, Culture & Science and Dutch sector Institutes from the creative industry field. The Dutch Design Workspace aims to offer a soft landing for Dutch Design brands in China by supporting them with shared office space in the centre of Shanghai and a special team that will develop the support based on the business planning of each participant.

  • UPA China

    UPA China (Usability Professionals’ Association China) was established in April 18, 2004 as the China chapter of the UPA. As the first non profit organization of User eXperience, we are committed to creating a platform for leading user experience development in China.

  • CIE-Shanghai

    Creative Industry Expo Shanghai 2011 (CIE) , one of the biggest design show in Shanghai, will be held from Oct. 26 to Nov. 1st at Shanghai Mart with nearly 18800 square metres exhibition space. It is organized by stronge alliance between government agencies and IDG Group, which make sure that CIE will attractive high quality visitors and VIPs, and totally different from the other design shows. Welcome to CIE and promote your business in Chinese creative industry field.

  • AustCham Shanghai

    The Australian Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai (AustCham Shanghai) strengthens Australia-China business, government and community relationships and promotes Australia as a creative and reliable provider of high-quality business solutions.Highly active, the Chamber has gained more than 160,000 website page views and hosted more than 100 China-centric business and marketing events since January 2011.It has six active industry committees for specific groups of membership interest, regularly hosts high-level guest speakers and its membership base includes more than 370 companies and individuals doing business in China. AustCham Shanghai was founded in 1994 and operates on a non-partisan, non-profit-making basis funded by membership subscriptions, sponsorship and activities. It has a dynamic Corporate Social Responsibility program which makes significant annual donations to the People’s Republic of China community outreach activities.

Sponsors

  • KOKUYO

    KOKUYO, the Japan’s leading stationery and office furniture company, was established in 1905 as manufacturer of bookkeeping paper products. Over decades, KOKUYO expanded its products furniture business. After launching it, KOKUYO has continuously developed its values to Japanese business customers from workstyle and workspace perspectives. As a result, KOKUYO has established its innovative and creative value propositions in the office furniture business. Here in China, backed by our concept “people + design”, we will deliver functional and artistic office space and furnitures for Chinese business customers.

  • Materialise

    With its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium and branches all over the world, the Materialise Group is best known for its activities in the field of rapid industrial and medical prototyping. Apart from having the largest capacity of rapid prototyping equipment in Europe, Materialise enjoys a worldwide reputation as provider of innovative software solutions. As such, Materialise has acquired the position of market leader for 3D printing and Digital CAD software in addition to being a major player in medical and dental image processing and surgery simulation. Moreover, through its unique .MGX by Materialise division for design products, Materialise has opened the market for customized Rapid Manufacturing. Recently the company launched a new service: i.materialise. i.materialise is an on-line service offering customized 3D creation and 3D printing service to consumers. Consumers interested in creating their own unique design, can have it printed via i.materialise. The customer base includes all large companies in the automotive, consumer electronics and consumables sectors. Its medical and dental products are used worldwide by famous hospitals, research institutes and clinicians. Unique design shops all over the world rely on .MGX by Materialise. The group has several subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the USA, and employs over 900 people in its 4 divisions.

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