China's Most Successful
Text via Dutch consulate HongKong:
Shanghai, 4 November 2011: Last Friday saw the celebrations of the winning designs at the ceremony of the annual China’s Most Successful Design Awards. The awards seek to honor the top international designers and enterprises for designs that are the most successful in the Chinese market.
Over 300 guests (Please check the VIP list followed) joined the festive ceremony held at Shaks Pavillion in Shanghai. Designers, thought leaders in the industry, government officials and over 20 media gathered to celebrate and elevate the industry of design. Joint organizers of the Awards Ceremony, were Forbes China and CBi China Bridge. Main sponsors were Kokuyo and Materialise.
Organized by the Shanghai Industrial Design Association and Shanghai Creative Industry Center, China’s Most Successful Design Awards attracted 349 entries in total. The 83 winning designs, chosen by group of leaders, pioneers and educators from the international design community, were revealed during the ceremony.
“The awards ceremony has been a huge success!” Cathy Huang, CEO, CBi China Bridge said. “We believe, by increasing an awareness of innovation and design we can build a better environment for our industry in China as well as globally. We want to emphasize the importance of design and innovation in business. In a crowded marketplace, there is no place for one hit wonders; successful design delivers.”
Dune by Studio Roosegaarde won a Most Succesful Design Award. Artist and designer Daan Roosegaarde (1979) remarkable works of art function as a documentation of the dynamic relation between architecture, people, and technology.
His designs, such as ‘Dune’ and ‘Intimacy’, are tactile high-tech environments in which viewer and space become one. This connection, established between ideology and technology, results in what Roosegaarde calls techno-poetry.
Its most recent version is filled with hundreds of interactive lights and sounds. 'Dune' investigates nature in a futuristic relation with urban space by means of looking, walking and interacting.
