IAI AWARDS 2012 Asia Pacific Design Biennial Awards Ceremony the acclaimed design Oscar was held at the Shanghai International Conference Center on December 12, 2012.The specifications and lineup of awards giving guests can be called the most ever.
The design authority who comes from Italy,Holland, United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan ,Hong Kong ,Taiwan, as well as domestic gathered at awards site gave prizes for Chinese and foreign award-winning designers.
After three rounds of accreditation,there are more than 300 sets of finalists competing for 12 awards in three categories.The 300 sets of finalists are come from more than a thousand sets of entries.
Through the assessment and Liang zhitian Education Award, the World's Top ten Outstanding Chinese Designer, Lifetime Achievement Award and some other awards. The highest award of the annual Interior Design Awards won by Hong Kong's Luo lingjie and Long huiqi.Lin weier won the year's most Influential Designer of Honor.Ling zida once again shows his own strength and won several awards after 2011 .
The top ten outstanding Chinese designers are Guan yongquan,Lin weier, Singapore Colin seah, France Jiang qionger, Malaysia Vincent Koh Ling zida,Shi nanqiao,Yang bangsheng,Chen yaoguang,United States Luo lingjie and Hu rushan.
The contest theme of this year is "pure design". It aims to encourage participants thinking not only from the Design concept of heritage and innovation but also show more thinking about design from a pure design point of view.At the same time,we hope that the design should has exploration on the design process and technology to create and open up a new world, especially in the field of green low carbon environmental design IAI Asia Pacific Design Biennial Competition guided by the advocation of "pure design" direction.The designers should think about the future design direction under the global environment, discuss how to combine culture essence of East and West. "Heaven," with the green concept of traditional Chinese culture should be applied to the actual design and stand higher in design aesthetic,be more clearer in design beliefs and values a little deeper in the era development and cultural heritage,be a little more diverse in design technique with modern technology .
The awards got by local designers are not so much, but there are still a lot of cutting edge designers elected with award nomination and excellence award.Compared with the previous session of the biennial competition, local designers have significant progress on the design concepts and design techniques,especially in the formulation of the concept of green design . They take no more a luxury design,no more over design and no more purely visual impact design,they are gradually matured from the Sentimental, originality from imitation , creative from the origina.China design is in a high speed development. However, local designers still missing some realms and skills in design innovation and in supporting the concept of innovation performance skills,especially in the design language expressions. they lack of a design theory support system.Local designers need to be further improved in perspective and fixed targets of mastering design concept creation. Identified only works no people talk only standards not balance.Perhaps this is the principle of IAI Asia Pacific Interior Design Biennial Grand Prix competitions, and also a reason to attract the local designers. IAI Asia Pacific Fedreation of designers will continue to play a lead role in promoting engine and design direction of the design industry in organizing future international design contest.
It is reported that this year's winning entries will be invited to participate in a traveling exhibition of Milan, Holland,Singapore and some other countries, the winning set will subsequently be published.