Submission: January 31st, 2024
Registration: January 31st, 2024
Language: English
Prizes: View website
Type: Open
01 AWARDS OVERVIEW
Designverse Awards aims to recognize outstanding contributions made by design agencies, brands/enterprises, and influential events in the broader design industry. This award serves as a platform that connects design resource agencies with development agencies, providing access to a pool of design resources for the latter while supporting the former. The platform offers unique features such as big data and data monitoring, search ranking, resource linking, and brand promotion.
These functions enable design resource agencies to comprehensively evaluate their positions in the industry and improve their innovation and design capabilities. Additionally, utilizing the publicity and promotional services provided by this award platform can enhance these agencies’ own brand building endeavors._
02 FINAL REVIEW JUDGING PANEL
The final review judging panel is composed of 36 industry leaders who have a specific understanding of the design industry ecosystem,
accumulated experience in collaboration, and sound judgment, as well as specialized jurors with international perspectives and extensive experience leading renowned works. Together, they will collectively select the “Designverse Awards Jury Grand Prize” in various sub-categories under space, product, and brands/major events categories. From these selections, the “Designverse Awards Outstanding Prize” will be determined, including six Outstanding Prize in space category (architecture, landscape, interiors, technical consultants, professional consultants, and specialized consultants), four Outstanding Prize in product category (residential, office, social and leisure, transportation), and two Outstanding Prize for annual major events. The final jury member also has the right to recommend two participating agencies directly shortlisted for Nomination Prize and set Special Jury Single Prize.
03 AWARDS PROCESS
The evaluation process for the Designverse Awards consists of two stages: preliminary review and final review.
Evaluation System
The [Designverse Awards Nomination Prize] and [Designverse Awards
Special Honor Prize] are selected based on statistics and analysis of
big data that permeate the entire industry and search rankings.
*The search ranking of design resources within the designverse
platform is an important basis for award evaluation.
*The ranking of space category (architecture, landscape, interior) on
the Designverse Ranking is an important basis for award evaluation.
*Brands / Major Events refers to the IP ranking on the designverse
platform as an important basis for award evaluation.
The final review judging panel selects the [Designverse Awards Jury
Grand Prize] and [Designverse Awards Outstanding Prize].
___04 AWARDS SETTING & ENTRY CATEGORIES_In different review stages,
there are four level prize set for space category, product category,
brands/major events category, respectively Designverse Awards
Nomination Prize, Designverse Awards Special Honor Prize, Designverse
Awards Jury Grand Prize and Designverse Awards Outstanding Prize.
A. Space CategoryTargeting all space design resource agencies, the
entry categories include scheme (such as architecture, landscape,
interior), technical consultants (such as structural, MEP,
transportation, etc.), professional consultants (such as curation,
multimedia, signage and wayfinding, etc.), specialized consultants
(such as pre-planning consultant, sustainable engineering consultant,
etc.) and their respective subcategories, a total of 94.
_B. Product Category
Targeting all enterprises/brands of product category, the entry
categories include residential (such as home building materials, home
furniture, household appliances, etc.), office (such as office
supplies, office equipment, office furniture, etc.), social and
leisure (such as social space supplies, cultural space supplies,
etc.), transportation (such as vehicles, boats, aviation, etc.) and
their respective subcategories, a total of 24._
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C. Brands/Major Events CategoryTargeting all major events
planning/operating agencies, it is mainly divided into four
categories：corporate/brand (such as awards, exhibitions, promotional
activities, etc.), regional/city (such as art festivals,
biennials/triennials, trade shows, etc.), international projects (such
as art festivals, biennials/triennials, awards, etc.), and domestic
projects (such as art festivals, biennials/triennials, media, etc.)._
05 TIMELINE__[1] REGISTRATION STAGE
Early Bird Submission：2023.7.18 –
2023.9.10
Regular Submission：2023.9.11 – 2023.12.10
Extended Submission：2023.12.11 – 2024.1.31
Payment Deadline：2024.2.1*
Above dates follow UTC/GMT+0 23:59.
[2] REVIEW STAGE
Preliminary Review：2024.2.5 – 2024.3.5Final
Review：2024.3.11 – 2024.4.8
[3] REVIEW RESULT NOTIFICATION
Notificaiton of Nomination
Prizes：2024.2.21 – 2024.2.25Notification of Special Honor
Prizes：2024.3.6 – 2024.3.10Notification of Jury Grand
Prizes：2024.4.1 – 2024.4.8Notificaiton of Outstanding
Prizes：2024.4.9 – 2024.4.15
[4] AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT
List of Nomination Prizes
Announced：2024.4.18List of Special Honor Prizes
Announced：2024.4.20List of Jury Grand Prizes
Announced：2024.4.24List of Outstanding Prizes Announced：2024.4.26
[5] PUBLICITY & PROMOTION
Payment Deadline of Publicity & Promotion
Fee：2024.4.30Publicity & Promotion：2024.4.18 –
2024.12.31Consulting & Evaluation Report and Video Shooting：2024.6 –
2024.11
06 ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
[1] The Designverse Awards is open for global registration and is
available to agencies of space design category, design agencies/brands
of product category, and brands/major events planning/operating
agencies.
[2] Entries must have been completed within the past five
years from July 18, 2023. Entries shall be completed/purchased/used
between July 18, 2018 and July 17, 2023, and can be announced publicly
on the deadline of registration, January 31, 2024.
[3] The entrant must be a legal entity or individual with primary
responsibility, including but not limited to the manufacturer and
distributor of goods, the owner of buildings, the supplier of software
or media, and the organizer of project development and research.
[4] If multiple parties are involved in the entry, joint registration
is allowed. The entrant must be chosen, and all other members must
register on designverse platform (www.designverse.com.cn [8]). _*For
detailed submission requirements [9], please click the words._
07 REGISTRATION
[Step 1] Log in to designverse platform at www.designverse.com.cn [8],
register the homepage of agency and upload the entry.
[Step 2] After submitting materials, please contact us by adding
WeChat below or sending an email to awards@designverse.com.cn with the
subject “Confirm Registration for Designverse Awards + Participating
Agency Name + Submitted Entry Name”.
[Step 3] After receiving the confirmation email of registration, we
will send a payment request for the review fee by email. Participants
are requested to complete the payment before February 1, 2024. If
payment is not confirmed by the deadline, the entry shall be
disqualified.
*_The review fee covers the __mandatory__ benefits for winners of
Nomination Prize, Special Honor Prize, Jury Grand Prize and
Outstanding Prize, respectively the certificate of award (digital),
the right to use the Designverse Awards logo, showcasing on the
designverse platform, news release of winning works, digital
_yearbook.
*_Please click the words to see AWARDS BENEFITS [10]._
08 AWARDS INSTITUTIONS
Organizer: designverse (www.designverse.com.cn [8])
Award Execution:
designverse Big Data Research Center
designverse Content Center
designverse Matching Center
Academic Support: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
09 CONTACT US
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