On the morning of November 30, 2019, the eighth 2019 Xiamen International Design Week (XIAMEN DESIGN WEEK) opened grandly at the Red Dot Design Museum, which will last until the end of December. This design week is co-sponsored by the Xiamen Municipal People's Government, the German Red Dot Agency and the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Light Industrial Crafts. It is jointly organized by the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Commerce, the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, the People's Government of Huli District of Xiamen City and Xiamen Media Group.

Ms. Guo Guirong, Deputy Mayor of Xiamen Municipal People's Government, and Dr. Peter Zack, founder and chairman of the Red Dot Award Organization, delivered speeches on the spot. Mr. Dai Zhiwang, Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of Xiamen Municipal Party Committee, and Mr. Huang He Ming, Director of Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Ms. Chen Min, Deputy Director of Xiamen District Management Committee of Fujian Pilot Free Trade Zone, Ms. Lin Zhenya, Deputy Director of Xiamen Municipal Bureau, mr. Vito Olazemu, Vice President of Red Dot Award, Mr. Qiu Zhijian, Chairman of Red Dot Asia, Mr. Lin Hongmei, Vice President of Xiamen Radio and Television Group, Chairman of Xiamen Media Group, and members of Xiamen Media Group attended.

As the voice of the latest design force in contemporary China, this Xiamen International Design Week takes "Looking for Good Contemporary Designs" as the theme, bringing together 1000 top design works and viewpoints from around the world, facing the most cutting-edge design creative trends, drawing on the supply of the latest designs, and inspiring your creative inspiration. Through "one prize, two meetings, three exhibitions, four forums and more than 30 supporting activities", promote design-led investment promotion and project construction to help urban innovation, industrial upgrading, enterprise transformation and talent promotion.


Annual feast
/Announces 2019 "CGD Contemporary Good Design" Award Winning Works/

The 2019 "CGD Contemporary Good Design" award ceremony was held in the Concert Hall of Xiamen International Convention Center on the evening of November 30. After his speech, Dr. Peter Zack, founder and chairman of the Red Dot Award, officially kicked off the ceremony and gathered with guests and winners from all over the world to announce the winning works of the 2019 "CGD Contemporary Good Design" award.

The scope of the 2019 "CGD Contemporary Good Design" award has expanded to 49 categories. Many works with innovative performance, various quality functions, rich connotation, emotion and environmental protection concept stand out in this competition. Of the 873 outstanding works successfully shortlisted for the 2019 "CGD Contemporary Good Design" award this year, 174 were awarded, of which 160 won the winning award and 14 won the gold award. This year's "CGD Contemporary Good Design" award-winning works show that with the gradual clarity of the needs of contemporary design users, the future of the interconnection of technology and people, and the "interconnection" of intelligent products is just around the corner. Contemporary design should be given more Expectations to assume more social responsibilities and serve people's lives.

Service upgrade
/Help the design industry to incubate and empower/

On November 30, the 2019 CGD Contemporary Good Design and Design Docking Meeting and the 2019 CGD Contemporary Good Design and One-on-One Review Meeting were held at the Red Dot Design Museum. While the Xiamen International Design Week held a one-on-one review meeting, CGD Contemporary Good Design and Design Docking Meeting was specially added to provide face-to-face design cooperation services for design-related parties through experience sharing, master comments, design docking and other links, covering design demand release, design service transaction, design right confirmation and rights protection, design product sales and other related fields, and is committed to building a one-stop docking platform for the design industry.

Gordon Bruce, Mario Selic, Vincent Créance, Sun Xinxi and Huang Weizu met with designers as representatives of the 2019CGD Contemporary Good Design One-on-One Review Meeting. They provided significant one-on-one on-site consultation for the winners of the "CGD Contemporary Good Design" award. The designers and brands listened to the comments of the design masters at the meeting and gained valuable professional advice.

As one of the main activities of the 2019 Xiamen International Design Week, CGD Contemporary Good Design and Design Docking Meeting is 2019 to build a "design-investment-production-sales" integrated design industry service platform as the goal. Through the signing of two strategic cooperation (namely: Red Dot Design Museum e-commerce expansion cooperation and strategic cooperation with Anne Stock), the two giant resources of domestic e-commerce sales and copyright comprehensive service are linked, to provide CGD contemporary good design winners with sales promotion and right confirmation and rights protection services; The scene also brought together enterprises including Xiaomi Technology, Lake Electric and other well-known domestic brands to introduce product development trends, release the latest design requirements, show the trend of the consumer market, and made zero-distance docking with the red dot and previous award-winning designers and design organizations of contemporary good design present, it fully realizes the platform function of design docking from product incubation to design empowerment.


World's first exhibition
/Release the latest global design trends/

On November 30, as the first exhibition in the world, the 2019-2020 Red Dot Product Design Award winning works exhibition, the 2019-2020 Red Dot Brand and Communication Design Award winning film exhibition, and the 2019-2020 "CGD Contemporary Good Design" award winning works exhibition were opened in the Red Dot Design Museum one after another. This design week brought the latest global design trend into China through the display of the latest winning works of the Red Dot Design Award and the winning, to enable the majority of design enthusiasts to grasp the trend and draw inspiration from it.

The 2019-2020 Red Dot Product Design Award boutique exhibition was held at the Red Dot Design Museum. This is the world's first stop for the award-winning works tour after the 2019 Red Dot Product Design Award was announced. Six major theme areas, gathering more than 600 works from 400 brand enterprises in more than 60 countries around the world, including nearly 100 products in the world's first Apple authorized exhibition area, face the highlights of cutting-edge products and new design trends, and provide domestic audiences with the first opportunity to get close to the world's top designs.

The 2019 "CGD Contemporary Good Design" award-winning works exhibition focuses on the theme of "Looking for Contemporary Good Design" and displays nearly 200 outstanding works of the 2019 "CGD Contemporary Good Design" award. From 49 categories and angles, it shows the outstanding design of different aspects of contemporary society and reflects the latest consumption development trend.

The 2019 Red Dot Brand and Communication Design Award Selection Film Festival is also the world's first stop for the award-winning works tour. It selects the works that won the "Red Dot Best Design" award in the final selection of the 2019 Red Dot Brand and Communication Design Award. Through dynamic films, it intuitively and perfectly presents the most cutting-edge designs of this year.


Master wisdom confrontation
/The agitation and collision of creative thinking/

In order to stimulate people's interest in design and inspire design thinking in the industry, 2019 Xiamen International Design Week has specially set up a main forum and sub-forums to gather the world's top social views, discuss cutting-edge design trends and share design through multi-level and multi-angle debates and confrontations. Best business practices.

2019 the main forum of Xiamen International Design Week, with the theme of "design is strategy", we invited Dr. Peter Zack, founder and chairman of German Red Dot Award, Mr. Ren Tian, vice chairman of Xiaomi Group Design Committee, head of Xiaomi IoT User Experience Center, and Ms. Chen Yan, general manager of Tencent User Research and Experience Design Center, on the themes of "design is strategy" and "design empowerment", I would like to share with you their thoughts and practices in their respective fields.

The Station Cool Salon held on December 7 is a well-known design portal with the largest number of users in China. Station Cool and Xiamen International Design Week jointly hold a design salon and will invite many new domestic designers to share it on the spot. On December 8, the TEDxShapoweiWomen held at Xiamen Cangjiang Theater will be held from the perspective of women, bringing a brand-new thought "sloughing" change. In addition, PechaKucha Night takes "her design" as its theme, pay attention to female design practitioners, female design products market, and design for women's service.

30 Creative Activities
/Looking for Good Contemporary Design/

In addition to the main activities, 2019 Xiamen International Design Week also has a series of related supporting activities all over the island. Supporting activities include Make It Happen design workshops that are open to young designers, artists, and creators with a certain professional maturity to test and practice how to use design thinking to transform imagination and interests into real applications; the designer leads the team, Walk the streets to see design, talk about design, and jointly explore new ways to improve the community through observation of design examples; one of a series of campus activities initiated by the Red Dot School of Design, the design energy theory aims to cultivate new forces for Chinese design with the help of red dot global design resources. It is connected with local designers, design institutions and brands by Xiamen International Design Week to create exhibitions, salons, bazaars and other types of design creative activities in various places in Xiamen. These supporting activities bring together the world's top design works, take you to face the most cutting-edge design creative trends, draw on the latest design supplies, and stimulate your creative inspiration.

This Xiamen International Design Week runs through the theme of "Looking for Contemporary Good Design" and has carried out in-depth and diverse activities. It will take you into the world of design from a new perspective, allowing you to see the latest design trends in the world. Bring you profound design creativity inspiration.