Car Design Awards China 2013

Future Car Design in China  
Registration opened
Entries closed
Shortlist announced
Awards ceremony
  1 Nov 2012
14 Jan 2013
Mar 2013
18 Apr 2013

  Eligibility
Design briefs
 


 

2013 winners announced click here

SHANGHAI 18 APRIL 2013:  Winning entries for the 2013 competition were announced in a glilttering ceremony in Shanghai last night. Guo Jiayi, who is studying at the China Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA) under the tutelage of Ed Wong, won the overall accolade of Student Design of the Year.  He was one of the nine individual Awards winners announced in a ceremony hosted by Chris Bangle, former design chief of BMW.

The competition, in its 4th year, attracted record entries from a record number of design schools. The judges were highly complimentary about the quality and innovation of design from the students.

Read the story on Car Design News  

Also announced were the winners of the seating design competition organised by Lear, which was the premier sponsor of Car Design Awards China this year.

The 2013 results will update the Design School League Table for China, to be published shortly.

 

Competition entrants worked to briefs set by design chiefs at Audi, JAC, Qoros, Volvo Trucks and Volkswagen. Entries were judged by a panel of distinguished senior designers whose background is both inside and outside China.


A short video from 2012 Awards
If you are based in China please click on
this link to watch the video



About the competition

On this site are:

 

Competition outline

  • Design briefs set by OEMs.
  • Support from schools and  teachers. 
  • Free registration and 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 will be publicised on this site.
  • The shortlist is narrowed down to finalists whose work will be displayed at the Awards ceremony in Shanghai.                                                                                


9 Awards categories and one Overall Winner
for 2013 

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

And finally, from amongst the categories winners, the judges chose one entry to become:

  • Student Design of the Yea


Timing

  •  Registration opened 1 November 2012
  •  Entries closed 14 January 2013
  •  Shortlist announced mid March 2013
  •  Awards ceremony Shanghai 18 April 2013

 
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