The 2012 winners have been announced, click here to see the full results.
Students present their talents to an audience of design professionals from international and Chinese OEMs by entering the Car Design Awards China competition.
They work to briefs set by the car companies, and the best of the designs are put on show at the glamorous Awards ceremony. There students mingle with famous design directors and are publicised to the world's design community on Car Design News. Successful students 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.
About the competition
Students were again challenged to design cars for tomorrow’s China. Using briefs set by carmakers – both foreign and Chinese – they were invited to be creative and innovative in proposing concepts for tomorrow’s car-buyers in the world’s biggest auto market.
On this site are:
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- 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 select a shortlist of entries, which are publicised on this site.
- The shortlist is narrowed down to finalists whose work was displayed at the Awards ceremony in Beijing.
- Winners 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
...plus one entry, which was not a category winner, but which the judges felt deserved special recognition and which was awarded the
And finally, from amongst the categories winners they assessed, the judges chose just one entry to become:
- Student Design of the Year
Prizes
- fully-funded short term placement at one of the partner 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 an Interior Motives magazine subscription to support the automotive design courses at the schools of the winners
Timing
- Registration opened 4 November 2011
- Entries closed 12 February 2012
- Shortlist announced mid March 2012
- Awards ceremony Beijing 21 April 2012
In the past
