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Creative Contest 2013

To celebrate its official launch, Fundator is pleased to announce its first creative contest for creators who have great ideas wanting to make it realized!

The goal of this contest is to boost creators in Asia by awarding prizes and offering chances to get ex- posed to China, Hong Kong, S. Korea and Japan; Asia is full of ambitious, creative and ground-breaking people. As we believe in these people, Fundator wants to support them to let their dreams come true through this contest first.

Call for entries: 2013 Successful Design Awards – China

What is successful design?

Successful design is the crystallization of intelligence, inspiration and passion; it requires first-class management ability and should ultimately achieve business success.

This award is the premier international competition honoring successful design in the Chinese market covering various disciplines of design. It seeks to honor top international designers and enterprises for their designs that are most successful in the Chinese market.

2013 Successful Design Awards – China is happy to announce that it’s that time of the year again!

You are invited to take the challenge to compete with the world’s best.

The 8th annual Successful Design Awards – China will begin accepting submissions on February 19th. Final submissions will be available until June 30th, but be sure to submit before April 30th to take advantage of our early bird offer.

More info at Successful Design Awards

Enviro Future

Hunan University’s School of Design and British Council China came together recently to organise a series of sustainable design events, which focused on upcycling and pursuing a low-carbon economy. University teams from both the UK and China battled it out in a competition to generate the best low-carbon products. The exhibition, which showcased final results, ended just yesterday, but project submissions and outcomes can now be viewed online. See them here.

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The First Biomimicry and Design Innovation Training in China

The Biomimicry 3.8 Institute, IDEA Design Lab, TongJi University and GIGA are holding the first ever Biomimicry and Design Innovation Training in Asia.

The training, held amidst a subtropical forest and UNESCO Biosphere reserve, will introduce you to a whole new way of viewing and valuing the genius that surrounds us.
This workshop will improve your ability to innovate sustainably in your field using the biomimicry philosophy and methodology.
You will learn how to translate the world of biology to design, engineering, business, education, and more.

This includes hands-on experience with the deep patterns of the way life works, a biomimicry design challenge, the essential elements of biomimicry, and the biomimicry thinking design approach. No matter your background or sphere of work, this workshop will unveil the world of life-inspired innovation and its application to your work.

Learn more at IDEA Design Lab

Eco Chic Design Award 2013

The EcoChic Design Award is a sustainable fashion design competition challenging emerging fashion designers to create mainstream clothing with minimal textile waste. The 2013 cycle is open to designers in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, UK, France, Belgium and Germany. Following months of inspired design and rigorous judging, eight finalists will compete for career-changing prizes.

Visit the official site of Eco Chic Design Award

DAFF Design, Art & Fashion Fair – May 26 & 27 Shanghai

TICT is proud to present the fourth installment of Shanghai’s Design, Art & Fashion Fair.

DAFF is Shanghai’s biggest biannual lifestyle community event. Aimed at giving China’s creative leaders and rising talent a platform to interact, share ideas, and promote new projects, the event gives an unprecedented opportunity to connect with and inspire the public at large.

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Evonik Designer Day 2

Last week I was invited to join an event organized by Evonik and co-hosted by S-Point Design in Shanghai. The event started with some time to network between the materials specialists and invited designers, followed by a nice buffet lunch.Then the actual sharing of materials samples and knowledge were given by different materials specialist, ranging from sustainable, high impact resistant, chemical to other high performing properties plastics. The hospitality was really good. We felt the friendly presence of the Evonik team who approached everyone with great conversations. They presented a ‘Designbox’, which is a nice collection of different categories of high performing plastics that were showcased with product samples and information how to apply. The most impressive sample was a small rapid prototyped robot hand made of laser sintered polyamide powder. I really recommend everyone who is in the product design business to get in touch with Evonik to learn more about their exciting materials.

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Droog Copies China

Dutch design collective Droog turned the notion of piracy in China on its head by unveiling its own copies of Chinese objects in a Guangzhou shopping centre a few weeks ago.

While Chinese companies and the government strive to shed their copycat reputation, The New Original project suggests that the process of imitation can be more than mere replication when small adaptations are made to the knock-off goods, potentially driving innovation.

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Significant Cars Debut at Auto Shanghai 2013

Auto Shanghai 2013 (the 15th show since it began in 1985), showcases the best new cars and concepts from both domestic and foreign automakers. China’s significance as the world’s fastest growing car market is evident in the decisions by some of the industry’s top brands to debut their newest models in Shanghai.

Audi, for example, have debuted their newest A3 and S3 models. Both are compact cars that offer near luxury driving experiences at a slightly more accessible price point than most of the Audi lineup. The sedan version of these cars will be produced in China.

Buick, now arguably GM’s most successful brand in China, debuted 3 new sedans in New York, but saved its stunningly beautiful Riviera plug-in hybrid concept car for Shanghai. This bold, forward-looking concept car was designed by both Buick’s Shanghai GM design team as well as GM’s Pan-Asia Technical Automotive Center. Buick says the Riviera concept is inspired by the Chinese saying “the greatest good is like water,” and that the body’s sculpted shape is designed to capture the “dynamic nature of water”.

Domestic automaker Chery showed off its ‘Beta’ 5 concept crossover SUV, which has styling to go head to head against the likes of the BMW X5 and Infiniti FX37. Whether it has the performance chops to also compete in driving dynamics remains to be seen.

Auto Shanghai 2013 runs from April 21 through 29, at the Shanghai New International Expo Center, in Pudong.

LuxeHome Shanghai June 9-11

LuxeHome is a dedicated sourcing platform for manufacturers of high-end homeware, interior décor products and classic furniture. Aimed at the local market and with over 70% of the exhibitors having production capabilities, LuxeHome represents a competitively priced, advantage-laden sourcing platform for trade buyers, agents, wholesalers, retailers and designers in China. These industry professionals come together to do business, promote products, expand domestic market, consolidate the business relations and exchange ideas in China’s trendiest cosmopolis: Shanghai…

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“xingshi Cup”2013, An International Product Design Competition

Guidelines “China should become an innovative country”, “We should form an internationally competitive personnel system that is capable of firing the creativity and talent of people, and thus foster a dynamic environment in which everyone can fully tap their potential and put their talent to best use”, “To develop a strong socialist culture in China, it is critical to inspire the cultural creativity of the whole nation” and “We should promote integration of IT application and industrialization” were raised during the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

In order to change from “made in China” to “created in China”, “Xingshi-Cup” aims through innovation to bring the products, the designers and the producers together within their industry.

Visit the official site of Xingshi-cup

Shanghai Fashion Week April 11 – 16

Shanghai Fashion Week, is a fashion event held two times every year in Shanghai, each time lasting for seven days which is a part of Shanghai International Fashion Culture Festival which usually lasts for a month.

Supported by the Ministry of Commerce of P.R.China, Shanghai Fashion Week is a business and cultural event hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Government. With more and more young designers and models, Shanghai Fashion Week is aiming to build up an international and professional platform, to attract top design talents from all over the world.

The current organizer of Shanghai Fashion Week is Shanghai Textile Group, who is in the center of the textile and clothing network in China.In cooperation with many consulates of other countries in Shanghai, Shanghai Fashion Week also invites many international designers to come present their latest work. It’s also a venue for those designers who are targeting China.

As part of Fashion week, Mode Shanghai puts on the Fashion Trade show, offering an expansive window into China’s vast geography of regions and markets, while providing a channel for export sales of international brands and China’s emerging designers. In 2013 Mode Shanghai will collaborate with ENK International, the leading fashion apparel trade show producers headquartered in New York.

Mode Shanghai 2013 will be held from 12-14 March 2013. It will cover approximately 25,000 sqm at the state-of-the-art Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Pudong, Shanghai.

Visit the official site of Shanghai Fashion Week

Pecha Kucha #21

WHEN: April 11th, 2013
WHERE: Dutch Design Workspace, 600 Shaanxi Lu, Block 3, Floor 3, Shanghai

Shake off your winter blues because it’s time for the Shanghai Pecha Kucha #21, the exciting and fast paced event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. After a successful edition of Pecha Kucha at the tail end of 2012, DDWS is stepping into 2013 with a whole new lineup of movers, shakers, and innovators. April 11th, at our office building’s 5th floor venue warehouse.

It’s free, it’s fun, it’s an event not to be missed. So be sure to stay tuned as we update our roundup of creators for the night. See you there!

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Eco Design Fair 2013

On Saturday, April 13th and Sunday, April 14th, 2013, the Eco Design Fair will bring together an anticipated audience of over 10,000 people from around Shanghai to the Cool Docks looking to learn about green healthy living, and seeking earth-friendly alternatives in fashion, food, energy, transportation, wellness, home, gardening, finance and more.