Designverse Awards 2024-2025

Designverse Awards 2024-2025

Global Design Ecosystem Big Data Research Award

Designverse Awards, as a core product of YoungBird’s global design ecosystem big data research & service platform, evolved from Designverse Ranking, which went online in 2019 and continuously accumulated data and judgment criteria. After three years of operation, it has upgraded to Designverse Awards.

Designverse Ranking is an important component of the Designverse platform, developed based on global design awards and professional media data and algorithms. It fills the market awareness gap for development and design agencies. Through user co-construction and continuous collection, refinement, extraction, and summarization of actual projects and events, it allows global development agencies and design resource agencies pursuing beauty and quality to connect.

Designverse Awards is an award platform that connects design resource agencies and development agencies, accurately targeting the design resource pool of design subfields for development agencies, and empowering design resource agencies. Through the unique functions of big data and data monitoring, search ranking, resource linking, and brand promotion provided by the award platform, it allows them to reflect on their position in the design industry and solidify their brand through the promotion and publicity services of the award platform.

Designverse Awards aims to recognize design agencies, brands/companies, and highly influential events that have made outstanding contributions to the big design industry chain. Through rankings’ digital filtering and platform empowering by content promotion, we provide participating agencies with long-term brand growth incubation and consulting services, support originality with awards, and help participating agencies enhance the value of their digital assets, enabling them to be discovered and recognized by the industry, and to tap into a wider range of potential business opportunities. Furthermore, the award serves as a platform center for publicizing intellectual property rights, assisting in confirming the publication dates of entries’ intellectual property, supporting and encouraging the originality of entries, and providing support and endorsement for the rights protection of entries.
Design resource agencies: including scheme design, technical consultants, professional consultants, specialized consultants, operation consultants, etc.
Development agencies: such as government, government development platforms, developers, brand owners from various industries, high-quality private owners, etc.

The final jury panel of the Designverse Awards consists of industry leaders who have a concrete understanding of the big design industry ecosystem, accumulated cooperation experience, and judgment, as well as specialized judges with international perspectives and experience leading renowned works. Together, they evaluate the “Designverse Awards Jury Grand Prize” in various subcategories of space, product, and brands/major events categories, and select the “Designverse Awards Outstanding Prize” from them.

The “Designverse Awards Outstanding Prize” includes six Outstanding Prize in space category (architecture, landscape, interiors, technical consultants, professional consultants, specialized consultants), four Outstanding Prize in product category (residential, office, social and leisure, transportation), and two Outstanding Prize for annual major events.

Members of the final jury panel have the right to recommend 2 participating agencies directly shortlisted for Nomination Prize, and also have the right to set up Special Jury Single Prize. The final jury panel of 2024-2025 Designverse Awards will gradually announce 18 specialized judges after the launch of the awards.

The Designverse Awards sets four categories of awards for space, product, and brands/major events categories, namely Nomination Prize, Special Honor Prize, Jury Grand Prize, and Outstanding Prize. For the Designverse Awards 2024-2025, new categories of awards have been added for space and product categories, including Concept Nomination Prize, Concept Special Honor Prize, Concept Jury Grand Prize, and Concept Outstanding Prize.

A. Space Category
Targeting all space design resource agencies, the entry categories include scheme (such as architecture, landscape, interior), technical consultants (such as structural, MEP, transportation, etc.), professional consultants (such as curation, multimedia, signage and wayfinding, etc.), specialized consultants (such as pre-planning consultant, sustainable engineering consultant, etc.) and their respective subcategories, a total of 94.
Space Category – Concept
Targeting all space design resource agencies, the entry categories include scheme (such as architecture, landscape, interior), technical consultants (such as structural, MEP, transportation, etc.), professional consultants (such as curation, multimedia, signage and wayfinding, etc.), specialized consultants (such as pre-planning consultant, sustainable engineering consultant, etc.) and their respective. subcategories, a total of 94.

B. Product Category
Targeting all enterprises/brands of product category, the entry categories include residential (such as home building materials, home furniture, household appliances, etc.), office (such as office supplies, office equipment, office furniture, etc.), social and leisure (such as social space supplies, cultural space supplies, etc.), transportation (such as vehicles, boats, aviation, etc.) and their respective subcategories, a total of 24.
Product Category – Concept
Targeting all enterprises/brands of product category, the entry categories include residential (such as home building materials, home furniture, household appliances, etc.), office (such as office supplies, office equipment, office furniture, etc.), social and leisure (such as social space supplies, cultural space supplies, etc.), transportation (such as vehicles, boats, aviation, etc.) and their respective subcategories, a total of 24.

C. Brands/Major Events Category
Targeting all major events planning/operating agencies, it is mainly divided into four categories：corporate/brand (such as awards, exhibitions, promotional activities, etc.), regional/city (such as art festivals, biennials/triennials, trade shows, etc.), international projects (such as art festivals, biennials/triennials, awards, etc.), and domestic projects (such as art festivals, biennials/triennials, media, etc.).

Registration
Step 1: Online Submission of Participating Works

Login to the official website of Designverse (www.designverse.com.cn) to register your agency and upload participating works.

*Complete the agency’s homepage information, including the company’s Chinese and English names, company logo, company introduction, expertise subfields, etc.

*Complete the content of the participating works, including well-illustrated texts, project information, image library, etc.

*For registration and uploading guide, please click the link: https://www.designverse.com.cn/en/help?id=51

Step 2: Send an Email to the Official Email Address of the Awards Committee

After completing the first step of online submission of participating works, add the WeChat account (DesignverseAwards) and send an email to the official email address of the Awards Committee: [email protected]. The subject of the email should be: Confirmation of Registration for Designverse Awards + Name of the Participating Agency + Name of the Participating Work.

Step 3: The Awards Committee Confirming Your Registration and Sending Registration Payment Form

After receiving the registration email and confirming it, the Awards Committee will send the registration payment form via email. Participants are required to complete the payment before the deadline specified.

Participants who fail to make the payment within the specified period will have their registration canceled.

Early Bird Registration Fee ： 2850 （CNY）/ 394（USD）

Regular Registration Fee ： 3680 （CNY）/ 509（USD）

Extension Registration Fee ： 4680 （CNY）/ 647（USD）

⭐️Special Support: Start-up Design Agencies Participating in the Awards

After paying the registration fee of CNY 980, if a participant’s entry wins a prize in the preliminary stage and has the opportunity to advance to the final stage, it will need to pay the remaining registration fee according to the regular amount. (This applies to one entry; if there are two or more entries, the same principle applies)

Definition of start-up design agencies: architectural design agency 9 years, landscape design agency 7 years, interior design agency 5 years，industry/product design agency 3years.When applying for the award, the start-up design agency needs to provide the organization’s business license as an attachment to the email, and the text in the email should say “Apply for special support”.

The above registration fees do not include taxes and are the cost for one participating work (Unit: RMB). For information on promotion and publicity fees, please consult the Awards Committee.

The review fee includes the essential award-winning benefits of Designverse Awards.

Benefits for Submitting Entries
1.Submit One Entry

Participants who pay the registration fee of RMB 3680 will automatically receive the following rights:A. Usage rights for the designverse platform’s cosmic yellow pages, where they can provide one contact method publicly (valued at RMB 3240/year).B. Co-building bonus points for adding media and awards to the Designverse Ranking.C. Quarterly usage rights for the Designverse Ranking (valued at RMB 2450/year).D. Professional improvement services from the Designverse Matching Center, including one-on-one guidance on how to enhance platform information for co-building and achieve higher rankings on the rankings.

2. Submit Two Entries

Participants who pay the registration fee of RMB 7360 will automatically receive the following rights:A. Usage rights for the designverse platform’s cosmic yellow pages, where they can provide two contact methods publicly (valued at RMB 6480/year).B. Co-building bonus points for adding media and awards to the Designverse Ranking.C. Semi-annual usage rights for the Designverse Ranking (valued at RMB 4900/year).D. Professional improvement services from the Designverse Matching Center, including one-on-one guidance on how to enhance platform information for co-building and achieve higher rankings on the rankings.

3. Submit Three Entries

Participants who pay the registration fee of RMB 11040 will automatically receive the following rights:A. Usage rights for the designverse platform’s cosmic yellow pages, where they can provide contact information publicly, with no limit on the quantity (valued at RMB 3240/year for each contact method).B. Co-building bonus points for adding media and awards to the Designverse Ranking.C. Annual usage rights for the Designverse Ranking (valued at RMB 9800/year).D. Professional improvement services from the Designverse Matching Center, including one-on-one guidance on how to enhance platform information for co-building and achieve higher rankings on the rankings.