SHANGHAI, July 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Nippon Paint "Future Star" Young Designer Contest has launched a series of social practice activities in seven cities: Guangzhou, Suzhou, Chengdu, Tianjin, Changsha, Wuhan and Kunming. Nippon Paint led the contestants into home improvement companies and star design studios, giving everyone the opportunity to communicate face-to-face with industry leaders, providing a platform for more than 200 young designers to get in close contact with the industry, and stimulating the contestants' design inspiration and infinite expectations for career development.
Nippon Paint "Future Star" Young Designer Contest Social Practice Series Activities Guangzhou Station
The 12th "Future Star" Young Designer Competition, organized by Nippon Paint China and the Chinese University Students' Zhi Xing Promotion Program, was officially launched in April this year, and is committed to using the professional strength of production, learning and research to allow every young designer who loves design to get a platform for communication, learning and growth, and at the same time to provide enterprises with potential talents, and promote the two-way empowerment of design talents and industry partners. The theme of the 2024 competition is "Global Vision, Local Rebirth", which requires young designers to pay attention to and understand the global trend of ecological and environmental protection, and realize the harmonious coexistence of design and humanity.
The "Future Star" social practice series of activities played an important role in the growth of the contestants. During the event, the young designers had face-to-face communication with the big names in the real design working environment, which not only gave them a deeper understanding of the theme of this competition, but also an unforgettable experience of reviewing their original intentions and looking forward to their future career development. Ye Wujian, President of Guangdong Xingyi Decoration Group Design and Research Institute and Chairman of the Group's Design Council, and Li Zhong, Design Director of Kunming Zhuhanjingdi Design Co., Ltd., respectively explained how buildings adapt to local conditions with real cases with the titles of "Construction and Folding of Residences" and "My Tea Horse Road"; Ren Jun, Chief Architect of Tianyou Design and Professor of the School of Architecture of Tianjin University, shared the technical system and design concept of near-zero energy consumption, zero emission and zero carbon buildings from the perspective of sustainable development strategy, and discussed the green design method of combining architecture with nature. Founder of STUDIO. A number of design experts represented by Yu Haoling, the design director of Y Interior Design Office, shared their design paths, discussed the prospects of the industry and the employment expectations of enterprises, encouraged students to persevere because of love, and also built confidence for students who were confused and confused.
Contestants and design experts face-to-face communication (left 1: Ye Wujian, President of Guangdong Xingyi Decoration Group Design and Research Institute and Chairman of the Group Design Council; Left 2: Li Zhong, Design Director of Kunming Zhuhan Jingdi Design Co., Ltd.; RIGHT 1: FOUNDER OF SHANGSHEJIA INTERIOR DESIGN, STUDIO. Yu Haoling, Design Director of Y Interior Design Office; 2nd from right: Ren Jun, Chief Architect of Tianyou Design and Professor of School of Architecture, Tianjin University)
In this event, Nippon Paint also invited young designers to walk into Nippon Paint's "Industry 4.0" digital and intelligent production workshop to learn about the industry's leading intelligent production process, and also led them to feel the painting experience of Nippon Paint Magic Paint, in order to inspire them to have more design inspiration. Not only that, the competition has also visited 10 well-known universities in China such as Tsinghua University and Tongji University to give lectures, gathering judges and representatives of the 2023 award-winning students to communicate and share with the students face-to-face, encouraging more design students to actively participate, and promoting the two-way flow of future design talents and the industry with a higher-level competition.
Nippon Paint took young designers to experience painting and displayed Nippon Paint's "Industry 4.0" digital and intelligent production workshop (Left: Tianjin Railway Station; Top right: Changsha Station; Bottom right: Wuhan Station)
Nippon Paint has always attached great importance to talent training, and is committed to empowering talent development by creating high-level and international professional design competitions, injecting a steady stream of vitality into the development of the industry. Driven by the dual-track competition system, the 2024 Nippon Paint "Future Star" Young Designer Competition will join hands with industry partners and designers to continue to incubate new design forces, and provide talent support for the high-quality development of the industry through a diversified talent training and selection system. The collection of entries for the competition is still in full swing, and we look forward to you who have the potential to become a "future star" with shining creativity and enthusiasm for design, and move towards the broad future together.