"Shanghai Design 10×10" is an exhibition project of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts that extends the concept of "Shanghai Design", with the concept of“building the platform”,“gathering energy”,“sharpening mutually”and“creating the future together”. It brings together top design organizations and design institutions with a long history and influence across continents from all over the world to hold“Shanghai Design 10×10 International Awards Exhibition”or“Shanghai Design 10×10 Global Design Summit”every two years.

The aim is to build a global design exchange platform and enhance the global influence of Shanghai Design, the design capital of Shanghai based on Shanghai and embracing the world. By exhibitions, forums, publications and other dimensions, it will build the best platform to connect global design "competition xaward x master x masterpiece", and shape the top hall for global design award exchange and interaction. At the same time, it has established cooperation with the world's top design competition organizations and design institutions to gather the essence of global design.

We have held two "Shanghai Design 10×10" sessions successfully in 2018 and 2019, where top design elites from around the world discussed design and the future with design works and design language at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, sending out a design manifesto from Shanghai to designers around the world. 2020 is not a quiet year, but also an extraordinary year. The New Crown Virus ravaging the world does not stop the creative footsteps and design ideals. We use the Internet as a medium to build the virtual platform of "Shanghai Design 10×10" to rekindle the flame of design, connect the global design grand prix, and show the new perceptions, new experiences and new thoughts of global designers from the perspective of products, architecture and visual communication under the community of human destiny. It will promote the voice of global design in Shanghai and the future of design in Shanghai.

The ADC Annual Awards, part of The One Club for Creativity, is the oldest continuously running industry award show in the world. Now heading into its incredible 100th year, these Awards celebrate the very best in advertising, digital media, graphic and publication design, packaging and product design, motion, experiential and spatial design, photography, illustration and fashion design all with a focus on artistry and craftsmanship.

The ADC Annual Awards also offers a tiered pricing structure designed to make it easier for smaller agencies, studios and freelancers to participate. Larger companies pay the standard entry fee; smaller shops get a discount on entries (amount varies by discipline) and freelance creatives and one-person shops are eligible for an even greater reduction in their entry fee.

Outstanding entrants are selected by highly respected juries, and honored with coveted Gold, Silver and Bronze Cubes, presented at the Annual Awards Gala. Beyond these Cubes, however, ADC Annual Awards winners join a rich legacy of past honorees that include some of the most influential artists of the past century.

The One Club for Creativity exists to support and celebrate the success of the global creative community.

The CSO International Poster Biennial in Mexico is a civil association founded in 1989 with the aim of creating an international project dedicated to poster, with the premise that it is such an effective medium of message transmission that there had to be an agent in charge of recollecting the information to make history of the graphics. Even more importantly, the Poster Biennial was thought since its beginnings as an information exchange platform of creators, where related projects are impulsed or born.

BICM+ is the brand of all the products that the Poster Biennial organizes, that is to say, the total of projects that are under this non-profit civil society organization’s charge.

Ever since posters came into people’s life, no matter how the times change, posters have always visualized the artist’s views of and reflections on politics, economy, culture and life, promoting social progresses and economic growth, and enriching cultural life. Posters are worthy of study as an important literature and also as a visual indicator of the social development in different times, indicating social problems, cultural phenomena, popular aesthetics and trends of thoughts. Today, with the rapid development of the world, this is a great era of change. The future has arrived, when art designs are made with new media instead of the old, into an interactive interface between individuals and the society. This year's China international poster biennale aims to explore and exhibit the innovations from different countries and regions in the new era and to promote cultural exchanges and mutual learning among international professional designers.

Since 2003, when the 1st China International Poster Biennale was held in Hangzhou by the West Lake, the exhibition has always been China's top-notch international competition of poster design, a cultural exchange program approved by the Ministry of Culture. In the past 16 years, it has been one of the poster contests and exhibitions that are academically advanced and are appealing to the international graphic designers.

China International Poster Biennial is sponsored by the China Academy of Art, organized by CAA’s School of Design and China Design Museum. It is intended to present the up-to-date art-of-the-skill of graphic design and the charm of posters. Hopefully, via competing, exhibiting, lecturing, publishing, interviewing and reviewing, it will grow into an important platform in China’s design teaching and study.

The DFA Design for Asia Awards is the flagship programme of the Hong Kong Design Centre, celebrating design excellence and acknowledging outstanding designs with Asian perspectives. Since its launch in 2003, the DFA Design for Asia Awards has been a stage upon which design talents and corporations can showcase their design projects internationally.

The programme is comprised of five major awards: Grand Award, Grand Award for Culture, Grand Award for Sustainability, Grand Award for Technology and Category Award. Entries to the Category Award are recruited by open submission, while entries to the other four are by nomination. For the Category Award, entrants submit design projects in one of 23 categories under four key design disciplines, namely Apparel & Accessory Design, Communication Design, Environmental Design and Product & Industrial Design. Gold, Silver, Bronze and Merit Awards are presented to winners in each category. Design projects are judged on four criteria – overall excellence, use of technology, impact in Asia as well as commercial and societal success.

The judges are design professionals and experts attuned to design developments in Asia and experienced in serving as judges for Hong Kong and international design awards.

Good Design Australia is an international design promotion organisation responsible for managing Australia’s annual Good Design Awards and the Australian Design Council. The Australian Design Council was recently re-established as a not-for-profit industry body to advocate for a design-led future for Australia and to champion the role and importance of design to address complex social, economic and environmental challenges. With a proud history that dates back to 1958, Good Design Australia remains committed to promoting the importance of design to business, industry, government and the general public and the critical role it plays in creating a better, safer and more prosperous world.

The German Design Awards are an international pacesetter when it comes to current design practice, as well as staying competitive in a globalised economy. The award bestows accolades solely on those projects that are pioneering in the German and international design sphere. This high standard is assured by an international jury consisting of prominent individuals from the whole gamut of design sectors. Their assessments are of incalculable value, for any designer who impresses this jury is demonstrably an expert when it comes to design innovation and also has the rare ability to closely monitor customer desires and market trends. Winners of the German Design Awards are the cream of the crop. Their achievements will be showcased for an influential audience, and the scope of their networks, their market clout, and their reach in their home markets and abroad will grow – and with it their opportunities to achieve success in their work.

Golden Bee was born in 1992, suddenly, unexpectedly and expected. Iron Curtain collapsed, ended the era of visual famine, the world became open. In 1990, I found myself for the first time abroad, at Biennale in Brno, plunged into it supersaturated and multilingual environment, which turned the native and clear, through the universal language of design. Biennale in Brno, which was held its founding father Jan Rajlich Sr., was inspiring cultural patterns and a real teacher for Golden Bee. Then, in this capacity, it added, and another old biennales -- in Warsaw, Lahti and Fort Collins. Almost simultaneously with Golden Bee appeared poster festivals in Chaumont, Mexico, Trnava, Sofia and Kharkov. Peers Moscow biennale became its partner and friends. The beginning of 90s proved the turning point of time not only for Russia. The entire design world experienced a paradigm shift, the output of postmodernism to the forefront of history, the computer revolution, the onset of the digital era. This is largely determine the vector of development of Golden Bee. Searching of fresh visual language, creative innovations, experiments plastic, deepening kultural creating value of design is most clearly manifested itself in the poster. Therefore, the Poster became Golden Bee a key competitive category. Today, despite all the talk about "death of poster" one by one, created new poster biennales -- in Bolivia, Italy, China, Ecuador... Together with its "brothers and sisters", older and younger, the Moscow biennale forms a kind of global network of design events that monitor of visual culture and determine its development. Over time Golden Bee, became "Global". Firstly, it is beautiful sounds Golden Bee -- Global Biennale. But most importantly Golden Bee has grown so much that a naming began to look quite organically. In 2020, Golden Bee 14 received more than 30,000 entries. This is a new world record. I dedicated it to the memory of Jan Rajlich who would have turned 100 this year.

Established in 1981, Taiwan’s Golden Pin Design Award is the most influential design award in the global Huaren market. The planning and handling of the awards, the prize-giving ceremony, and all other related activities are executed by Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI). In 2015, the Golden Pin Design Award launched three separate awards — the GOLDEN PIN DESIGN AWARD, GOLDEN PIN CONCEPT DESIGN AWARD, and YOUNG PIN DESIGN AWARD. The purpose of each award is to commend outstanding innovation in design within different target demographics.

Renovated from the "Macau Design Biennial" which was founded by the Macau Designers Association at 1994,  "Macau Design Award" is a historical and professional design competition. From 2017, "Macau Design Biennial" turning from cross-strait platform to the new position of exploring international design new power. From policy to operation, we have tried many innovations and gradually aligned with international design competitions. In order to bring together the world's new superior design power, promote local design power in Macau, and shift the focus of activities from past exhibitions to the competition itself, the "Macau Design Biennial" was officially renamed to "Macau Design Award".

Macau Design Award focuses on the recognition of designers and customers,  promotion of design concepts, the exchange of regions and other platforms and also continue sticking to its tenet: find out talents in Macau, respond actively to the creative cultural policy from Macau government, and set up a cultural exchange platform.

Design Business Chamber Singapore (DBCS), previously known as Designers Association Singapore, was founded in 1985 by a diverse group of forward-thinking designers.

DBCS’ vision is to establish a community of practice that embraces design-led innovation as a key driver for sustainable growth. They do so by forging partnership opportunities between the design and business communities.

In the recent years, the tagline – Better Business by Design – was incorporated as their manifesto. Their ultimate aim is to rally businesses and communities to not just achieve Better Business by Design but to use design for social good.

Sponsor: Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University

Organizer: Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts Heritage Regeneration Studio

General Advisors: Feng Yuan, Zeng Chenggang, Wang Dawei

Chief Curator: Apex Lin, Pang-Soong, Chen Qing

Academic Chair: Chen Qing

Executive Director/ Chief Designer: Cai Wenchao

Visual Design: Cai Wenchao

Design Assistant: Chen Zijian, Xing Rong

Digital Exhibition Hall: Mei Shuzhi (702 Design)

Copywriting Coordinator: Lu Dandan

Executive Team: Chen Ran, Lou Jiayi, Yan Yang, Zhang Shunkai, Yuan Zhiwei, You Kaiwen, Huang Houwang, Li Ziming, Wang Siyu, Wang Meng, Li Xingxing, Ma Jun, Li Meng, Zhou Shufang, Wu Yao, Li's Lanfang

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Supporters:

The Art Directors Club

Autonomus University of San Luis PotosÍ

China Academy of Art

Hong Kong Design Centre

Good Design Australia

German Design Council Foundation

Russian Univisity of Graphic Design

Taiwan Design Research Institute（TDRI）

Macau Designers Association

Design Business Chamber Singapore