Sponsors
Premier sponsors
CH Auto Technology Co. Ltd is a professional automotive R&D service company, founded on August, 2003 in Beijing, China. CH-Auto has provided customers worldwide with automobile design development and engineering services. Furthermore, CH-Auto provides extra services such as Competitive Benchmarking, show cars, electric cars and car electric products. To date, CH-Auto has serviced more than 30 renowned automotive manufacturers at home and abroad, and has undertaken more than 40 complete vehicle and improvement modification projects such on various passenger cars, SUV, MPV, roadsters and pickup trucks. Our success is measured by the many well-known and popular vehicles already on the market.
www.ch-auto.com
Brief sponsors
sponsors the design brief New mobility for China (click for full brief)
Daimler AG is one of the world’s most successful automotive companies. With its divisions Mercedes-Benz Cars, Daimler Trucks, Mercedes-Benz Vans, Daimler Buses and Daimler Financial Services, the vehicle manufacturer is one of the biggest producers of premium passenger cars and the largest global manufacturer of commercial vehicles.
Daimler Financial Services provides a comprehensive range of financial services. The current brand portfolio includes Mercedes-Benz, smart and Maybach and the commercial vehicle brands Freightliner, Western Star, Fuso, Setra, Orion and Thomas Built Buses.
www.daimler.com
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sponsors the design brief
Chevolet MiFun (click for full brief)
General Motors Company, one of the world's largest automakers, traces its roots back to 1908. With its global headquarters in Detroit, GM does business in some 120 countries.
The General Motors-China relationship dates back more than eight decades.
Now GM has 11 joint ventures and two wholly owned foreign enterprises as well as more than 35,000 employees in China. GM, along with its joint ventures, offers the broadest lineup of vehicles and brands among automakers in China. Products are sold under the Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Opel, Wuling and Jiefang nameplates.
The Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC) is a joint venture between GM and SAIC. It provides automotive engineering services including design, development, testing and validation of components and vehicles.
www.gm.com
Jianghuai Automobile Co., Ltd. (JAC) was founded in 1964 and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (600418) in 2001.
JAC has been a comprehensive automaker with full-line independent brand vehicles in China, including light, medium and heavy-duty trucks, MPVs, SRVs, sedans, bus chassis, buses, engineering machinery, engines, gearboxes and other key components. After 40 years of development, JAC has achieved an annual production capacity of over 500,000 units and ranks within the top 10 of the Chinese auto industry.
JAC owns a national-level R&D Center in Hefei and opened China's first overseas R&D Center in Turin, Italy, in 2005, and a second one in Tokyo, Japan, in 2006. JAC is dedicated to strict quality control and constant management improvement. In 2006, JAC was awarded the "Recommended Brand for Export" and the "Most Competitive Brand in Market".
www.jac.com.cn
sponsors the design brief Head turner vehicle for post '90s generation (click for full brief)
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www.nissan.com.cn
The Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. In 2009, the Group increased the number of vehicles delivered to customers to 6.336 million (2008: 6.257 million), corresponding to an 11.3 percent share of the world passenger car market.
In Western Europe, the largest car market in the world, just over one in five new cars (20.9 percent) come from the Volkswagen Group. Group sales in 2009 came to 105.2 billion Euros (2008: 113.8 billion) and profit after tax in the 2009 financial year amounted to 0.9 billion Euros (2008: 4.69 billion).
The Group is made up of nine brands from seven European countries: Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, Skoda, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini and Scania.
www.volkswagen.com
Category sponsors
What does
luxury mean today? It stands for an extraordinary voyage through products and experiences celebrating the most precious beauty, the highest levels of performance, the most outstanding creations, and a recently added but fundamental element: respect for the environment.
Alcantara® is a material which graces the most luxurious creations in various fields of application. It is used in the seats and upholstery of modern cars; public and private furniture and articles of clothing and accessories. Being refined and elegant and available in a wide range of colours and textures, Alcantara® is a natural choice for those who desire to get the most from the products they use every day. Its beauty is not something ephemeral or delicate, but will persist over time; its softness to the touch will not be lost, even after many washes. Furthermore, Alcantara® is environmentally friendly: the company quantifies, reduces and actually sets off all the CO2emissions created during its entire manufacturing cycle.
It’s hard to imagine a world without Alcantara®.
Alcantara®. Can you imagine?
www.alcantara.com
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www.3ds.com
Headquartered in Detroit, Michigan-USA, Eagle Ottawa is one of the world’s largest suppliers of leather to the automotive industry. With a longstanding tradition of blending “old world” craftsmanship with leading-edge technology – such as the industry leading anti-soiling finish system Ansolé™ – Eagle Ottawa creates customized grains, textures, aromas and high-durability performance to surprise and delight the most discerning of tastes. The company’s award-winning leather can be found in over 100 current models worldwide. Our customers are: Acura, BMW, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, Honda, Hummer, Hyundai, Infiniti, Jaguar, KIA, Land Rover, Lexus, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Pontiac, Opel, Renault, Toyota and Volkswagen.
www.eagleottawa.com
Faurecia
Faurecia is the world’s sixth largest automotive supplier, with four key business groups: Automotive Seating, Emissions Control Technologies, Interior Systems and Automotive Exteriors. In 2010, the Group posted sales of $18.22 billion. The company employs 75,000 people in 33 countries at 238 sites and 38 R&D centers.
Inspired Design
Innovation, style, comfort and perceived quality are the hallmarks of Faurecia Design. More than 50 designers at eight studios around the world prioritize the consumer experience to create vehicle environments that surprise and delight the end-user while respecting the environment and enhancing an automaker’s brand.
www.faurecia.com
Founded in early 2010, Icona brings together some of the best of European design, engineering, modeling and prototyping experience in the automotive sector, for the benefit of its customers in China and Asia.
Created in response to the growing demand for high quality projects, Icona is unique among European design studios. The entire design team is based permanently in China, in the heart of Shanghai’s Pudong district, close to customer location.
Through its integrated partnership with sector leaders Tecnocad Progetti and Cecomp located in Torino (Italy), Icona offers complete range of services for vehicle development, including styling, engineering, manufacturing of design models and prototypes.
www.icona-stc.com
Johnson Controls is a global diversified technology and industrial leader serving customers in more than 150 countries. The company’s 162,000 employees create quality products, services and solutions to optimize energy and operational efficiencies of buildings; lead-acid automotive batteries and advanced batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles; and interior systems for automobiles.
Johnson Controls Automotive Experience is a global leader in automotive seating, overhead systems, door and instrument panels, and interior electronics. The company supports all major automakers in the differentiation of their vehicles through its products, technologies and advanced manufacturing capabilities. With more than 200 plants worldwide, Johnson Controls is where its customers need it to be. Consumers have enjoyed the comfort and style of Johnson Controls products, from single components to complete interiors. With its global capability the company supplies more than 30 million cars per year.
www.johnsoncontrols.com
Qoros Auto Co., Ltd. (“Qoros Auto”) is a new international automotive corporation, aiming to become the first China-based automotive company to enjoy international acclaim. Qoros Auto, launched in December 2007, owns 3 design and engineering centers located in Munich (Germany), Graz (Austria), and Shanghai (China), together with a manufacturing plant based in Changshu, Jiangsu Province of China.
As an independent joint venture, Qoros Auto has vowed to deliver global young metropolitan consumers a first-grade and distinctive driving experience, with excellent quality, an elegant design, and an enjoyable experience. Based on in-depth observation and by understanding the exacting demands of international consumers, Qoros Auto incorporates European car manufacturing craftsmanship, leading edge technology, together with design simplicity and functionality. The first Qoros car is scheduled to launch in 2013, both in China and Europe.
www.qorosauto.com
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www.yf.sh.cn
Prize sponsors
sponsors the prize of 2 weeks fully-funded placement (Detroit, US)
Located in the heart of Detroit, the College for Creative Studies (CCS) is a world leader in art and design education and prepares students to enter the new, global economy where creativity shapes better communities and societies. A private, fully accredited college, CCS enrolls 1,400 students pursuing Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees.
Students in the undergraduate program can major in Advertising, Art Education, Crafts, Entertainment Arts, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Design, Photography, Product Design and Transportation Design. Students in the MFA program can major in Design and Transportation Design.
www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu
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www.coventry.ac.uk
sponsors the prize of 2 weeks fully-funded placement (Torino, Italy)
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www.iaad.it
sponsors the prize of 2 weeks fully-funded placement (Paris, France)
Strate Collège is a French graduate school for Industrial Design, providing instruction to students up to a Master's level diploma (5-year curriculum). Other courses at Strate Collège include a Licence-level Modelling course (equivalent to a Bachelor level course, 3-year curriculum) and a post-graduate Industrial Design and Innovation Management Master's.
www.stratecollege.fr
sponsors the prize of 2 weeks fully-funded placement (Umeå, Sweden)
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www.dh.umu.se