Present your talents to an audience of design professionals from international and Chinese OEMs by entering this competition. 

You will work to briefs set by the car companies, and the best of your designs will be put on show at a glamorous Awards ceremony held during the upcoming Beijing Auto Show. There you will mingle with famous design directors and be publicised to the world's design community on Car Design News. Successful students will win a fully-funded placement at Western design school.

2012 is the third year of this annual competition, which is open to students of any design discipline studying in China. It has quickly established itself as the premier forum for car design students to announce their arrival on the domestic and world stage.

Enter the competition, and be a designer who wants to make an impact.

About the competition

Students are again challenged to design cars for tomorrow’s China. Using briefs set by carmakers – both foreign and Chinese – you are invited to be creative and innovative in proposing concepts for tomorrow’s car-buyers in the world’s biggest auto market.

On this site you will find:

• the briefs set for the 2012 competition
• the prizes
• past winners of the Car Design Awards China competition
  

Competition outline

• Design briefs set by OEMs.
• Support from schools and  teachers. 
• Registration is free and is open to students currently studying full time in any design discipline at a design school in China.
• The judges will select a shortlist of entries, which will be publicised on this site.
• The shortlist will be narrowed down to finalists whose work were displayed at the Awards ceremony in Beijing.
• Winners will be invited to travel in the Fall (Autumn) of 2012 for a free placement at one of the European or American design schools which are our partners in the competition.                                                                                      
   

10 Awards categories and one Overall Winner for 2012 

• Best Exterior Design
• Best Interior Design
  
• Best Luxury Concept
  
• Best Lifestyle Design
  
• Best Use of Materials
  
• Best Eco Solution
  
• Best Innovation
• Best Production Model
• Best Virtual Design
  
• Special award for Best Design In Harmony With China's Heritage

The judges will chose one of the category winners as the overall Student Designer of the Year



Prizes

• fully-funded short term placement at one of three Western Design Schools for the winners
  
  this year's partner schools are:
  
  College for Creative Studies - Detroit, US
  IAAD - Torino, Italy
  Strate College - Paris, France
  Umeå Institute of Design - Umeå, Sweden
  Coventry University - Coventry, UK
  
  
• promotion, Car Design News membership and magazine subscription to support the automotive design courses at the schools of the winners

Timing

•  Registration open 4 November 2011
•  Entries close 12 February 2012
•  Shortlist announced mid March 2012
•  Awards ceremony Beijing 21 April 2012
  
  

 
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