Contemporary Good Design 2018 Winners Exhibition at Red Dot Design Museum Essen

2018-07-25

The special exhibition of Contemparory Good Design had its grand opening at Red Dot Design Museum Essen in Germany at 6:30pm on May 3rd local time. It's the first recorded exhibition displaying large-scale state-of-the-art designs from China in the history of Red Dot Design Museum Essen.

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 Red Dot Design Museum Essen, Germany

This exhibition enjoyed widely attention of Chinese Consulate-General in Düsseldorf and was attended by Vice Consul-General Tao Lili, Consul Xu Lin, Consul He Wenbo. Vice General Manager Xu Huan of the Xiamen Culture Media Group together with about 100 guests from local media and design institutions attended the vernissage.

This exhibition was held at the Red Dot Design Museum Essen from May 4th to June 3rd 2018. Prof. Dr. Peter Zec, founder and CEO of the Red Dot Design Award, Tao Lili, Vice Consul-General of Chinese Consulate-General in Düsseldorf, and Xu Huan, Vice General Manager of Xiamen Media Culture Group delivered welcome speeches at the opening ceremony.

 

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 Prof. Dr. Peter Zec, founder and CEO of the Red Dot Deisgn Award

Prof. Dr. Peter Zec, founder and CEO of the Red Dot Design Award, Head of Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen and Senior Advisor of International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), is the former President of ICSID and Chairman of International Design Alliance (IDA).

Red Dot Design Award is the only world-leading design competition which owns a museum to showcase the award-winning works. The site of Red Dot Design Museum Essen is one of the important industrial heritages of the 20th century, listed in the World Heritage Sites in 2001 by the UNESCO. On an area of 4,000 square meters and with over 2,000 collections, Red Dot Design Museum Essen is regarded as the world’s largest museum for contemporary designs, attracting the visits of about 150,000 designers, enterprise delegates and design enthusiasts from around the world each year. The museum has turned Essen, the small city in western Germany, into a must-visit destination for the global designers.

Besides the “Design on stage”, the annual highlight of Red Dot exhibiting the award-winning works, part of the awarded products are selected as the permanent exhibits in the Red Dot Design Museum Essen. Thus the museum has become a leading show field admired by the global brands, such as Apple, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Adidas, GROHE, etc., to represent their views and insights on design.

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Red Dot Design Museum Essen, Germany

It makes extraordinary significance that the exhibition “Contemparory Good Design: New Asian Moods and Award-Winning Products” made its debut at this globally well-known museum. The exhibition organiser hopes to attract the world’s focus on the excellent Chinese innovative designs and the efforts which those enterprises and designers have made to upgrade China’s design and manufacturing industries.

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 Special Exhibition “Contemparory Good Design: New Asian Moods and Award-Winning Products

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Tao Lili, Vice Consul-General of Chinese Consulate-General in Düsseldorf, Germany

Tao Lili highly acclaimed “Contemparory Good Design Award”, an international cooperation extending the Sino-German friendship, and the exhibition’s significance of offering a better understanding of China to the western world.

Xu Huan remarked in her welcome speech that Contemparory Good Design Award (CGD Award), an international design award opened to the designers and manufacturers worldwide and tailored to the Chinese market, was co-founded by Xiamen Culture Media Group and Red Dot Design Award in 2015. Over the past three years, CGD Award had received a total of over 6,000 entries from over 20 countries and regions including China, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea and Thailand. CGD Award has witnessed the success of over 400 award-winning products and their creators.


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CGD Gold Winner 2017

Wootop

 

 

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CGD Winner 2016

Stainless Steel Espresso Coffee Maker

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CGD Winner 2015

Rocking Zen Chair

The visitors to the exhibition, wearing the G-shaped logo badge representing CGD’s spirit “the Path to Success”, were impressed by those high quality Chinese products and even wondered where to buy them. The visitors spoke highly of the designs and considered that, instead of the former stereotyped image of “low quality and cheap plagiarism”, those exhibits showcased professionally creative and innovative designs, a new profile of “Made in China” products. These designs are in an effort to address the combination of spiritual culture and material consumption, to offer better designs and more options for the users, to improve the visual environment through ingenious design, to maintain elegant oriental life in the globalised competition. These superior designs, rooting in the oriental philosophy and meeting with the international standards, make a perfect interpretation of “Contemparory Good Design”. 

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Visitors wearing CGD logo badge

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Visitors experiencing Meditation Seat Ware, CGD Gold Winner 2016

 

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Dirk Schumann (L), renowned German designer and Red Dot juror, attended the exhibition.

As the debut of CGD’s world tour 2018, more exhibitions have been held successively in Italy, Spain, Malta and Taipei city, spreading the “new Asian moods” and the power of Chinese innovation designs worldwide for the design enthusiasts.

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Special Exhibition “Contemparory Good Design: New Asian Moods and Award-Winning Products

 

Contemparory Good Design Award believes and welcomes more enterprises and designers across the globe taking part in the competition. The organiser will offer specialised and multiple services for winners in a manner of fairness and equality based on the professional global team, forging ahead and achieving a brighter future for Chinese industrial design along with participating enterprises.


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