The 2022 Grand Design Award (formerly the "Station Cool Award") has entered the countdown to the collection of works. The contest is open until March 25, march 26 to June 15 is the judging period, and the finalists will be announced on June 16. Welcome designers and industry organizations from all over the world to actively register, share design results, establish a consensus of co-creation, and make design a "big design" that really improves people's lives and leads innovation and progress.
The Grand Design Award, sponsored by China Design Platform StationKu.com, with the mission of "Discovering and Enhancing design value", collects works for eight categories and five major industries, including graphic design, brand design, interaction design, illustration art, digital film and television, etc.
The Organizing Committee of the Grand Design Award specially invited authoritative experts and industrial leaders in various fields of creative design to serve as judges for judging, and invited nearly 3,000 Designers certified by Zhanku to form a preliminary jury to select the best works in various business fields to ensure the professionalism, authority and credibility of the Big Design Award.
Outstanding works will be recognized as a recognition of their outstanding design achievements and contributions to the design industry. Station Cool will also help excellent designers get more opportunities for industry exchanges and cooperation.
What is the Grand Design Award?
Authority, high vision, globalization
Since 2017, the Grand Design Awards have been held four times, with designers and industry institutions from many countries and regions participating in the competition, judged by creative leaders, who have been working in different design fields for many years, with rich experience and outstanding achievements.
In 2020, the 3rd Grand Design Award (formerly the "3rd Station Cool Award"),after 7 months of solicitation, was professionally selected by 19 authoritative judges in various fields, including Gao Shaokang, design partner of Jin Liugao, Yan Xiaoli, founder and editor-in-chief of Dandelion Children's Bookstore, Sun Jun, contemporary photography artist Sun Jun, industrial designer Yang Mingjie, etc., and finally awarded 13 important classification awards, with a total of 45 trophies.
Among them, Sun Shisheng's mobile phone brand digital short film work "OPPO RENO" won the gold medal in the digital short film category, Qian Hao's work "Dove Beauty Body" won the gold medal in the font category, and Nuclear Moment Change Culture Co., Ltd. won the gold medal in the concept design category with "Three-Body - Concept Design"...
At the 2021 Station Cool CUBE Design Conference, Ji Xiaoliang, editor-in-chief of Station Cool Network and chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Big Design Award, introduced that in order to let more good designs and good works be seen, the 2022 Station Cool Big Design Award has been upgraded:
First, the registration method is upgraded, not only can you register yourself, but also nominate others, and have the opportunity to win the Bó Lè Award.
Second, nearly 3,000 station cool certified recommended designers formed a preliminary evaluation jury, so that more excellent eyes can discover good designs together.
The third is to add industry awards based on different business fields, as well as organizational awards awarded to outstanding industry institutions.
Fourth, in order to increase the selection dimension, this year's Big Design Award specially invited a number of business judges who have been in the business field for many years and have deep industry insight and successful experience to select excellent works in various business fields.
At the upcoming Station Cool Spring Creators Conference, the grand design award judges will also share the design experience of Dadao to Jane on the spot.
More than 20 authoritative judges
Select global good designs
The judging line-up for this year's competition is equally strong. Wang Min, professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and deputy director of the Academic Committee, served as the chairman of the grand design award review committee, Ji Xiaoliang, editor-in-chief of Zhanku.com, was the chairman of the organizing committee of the grand design award, Sagi Haviv, partner and chief designer of Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv studio, served as the review consultant, Wang Yuefei, founder of Wang Yuefei Design Co., Ltd., Yang Mingjie, founder of YANG DESIGN and Yangshe, Xin Xiangyang, founder of XXY Innovation, Portrait photographer Xiao Quan, Shenzhen Graphic Design Association Chairman Zhang Hao, The Nine founder Xiong Chao, well-known photographer Zhang Yue and other 17 creative experts and leaders served as judges, all of whom have made outstanding achievements in various fields of creative design.
At the same time, Ma Yiyuan, COO of Hanyi Font Library, Kama, head of Kuaishou Communication Center, Li Ruofan, general manager of Timi Art & Design Center, Du Jing, brand design director of Ideal Automobile and designer of Ideal Brand Center, and Shi Zhenhong, EXECUTIVE president of Beijing International Advertising Media Group, served as the business judges of this year's Grand Design Award.
The professional judges will comprehensively consider the multiple dimensions of design value and select outstanding works with sensible value, goodwill, co-creation resonance, leading innovation, and long-term sustainability.
Big Design Award empowers creators
Five major rights and interests to help good design
Each individual design category of the Grand Design Award is divided into a gold award, a special award for judging, and an excellent award, and a special industry award, an organization award, a Bole award, and a power award for all categories.
Winners will receive:
Credibility Awards Honors
The winner will receive a trophy certificate recommended by the industry's authoritative judges and the China Influential Designer Platform, and the gold award will only be awarded 1 seat per design category.
Authoritative design quality certification
All winning entries can receive the lifetime free use of the "Grand Design Award Winner" logo. Endorse the quality of the design with professional awards to help the entries get greater value.
High-vision industry exchanges
Winners of the "Gold Award", "Special Jury Award", "Industry Award" and "Organization Award" will be invited to attend the annual Grand Design Awards ceremony and various forms of Zhanku offline salons to share, and interact face-to-face with creative pioneers from the global design, media and industry circles.
Continuous promotion of design brands
The Grand Design Awards has established a media promotion network covering different industries and channels with more than 100 mainstream media. Continue to track the award nodes such as the selection of reported works, offline salons, award ceremonies, and yearbook releases, and continue to expose the winners in the whole society and further enhance the social influence of excellent design.
More industry exposure/collaboration opportunities
The Organizing Committee of the Grand Design Award will help recommend winners and outstanding participants to carry out in-depth cooperation with enterprises in various industries, further enlarge the value of the award, and transform excellent design into actual productivity.
Whether it is offline conferences and forums such as Zhanku CUBE (Zhanku Spring Creator Conference, Zhanku CUBE Design Conference), Zhanku Heroo CLUB and other offline conferences and forums, or Zhanku co-creation services - working with designers to provide one-stop design creative solutions for corporate brands, they all aim to create more scenes and help excellent design creative creators get more opportunities for exchanges and cooperation with brands in various industries.
How do I register?
2022 Grand Design Awards Entry Process
The 2022 Design Awards welcome submissions from professional designers, design agencies (teams), companies and brands from all over the world. All entries must be designed between June 30, 2020 and March 25, 2022, and submitted online through the Platform.
The competition is open to eight categories and five major industries of graphic design, brand design, interaction design, illustration art, digital film and television, industrial product design, photography and space design. In order to let the judges have a clearer understanding of your design ideas, please describe your project background, design goals, ideas, and innovative features in detail. Entrants submit their works according to their personal wishes, and the number of declarations is unlimited. For more details, please visit the official website of the PC Design Award for details.
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