Designverse Awards 2023-2024

01 AWARDS OVERVIEW

Designverse Awards aims to recognize outstanding contributions made by design agencies, brands/enterprises, and influential events in the broader design industry. This award serves as a platform that connects design resource agencies with development agencies, providing access to a pool of design resources for the latter while supporting the former. The platform offers unique features such as big data and data monitoring, search ranking, resource linking, and brand promotion. These functions enable design resource agencies to comprehensively evaluate their positions in the industry and improve their innovation and design capabilities. Additionally, utilizing the publicity and promotional services provided by this award platform can enhance these agencies' own brand building endeavors.*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.

02 FINAL REVIEW JUDGING PANEL

The final review judging panel is composed of 36 industry leaders who have a specific understanding of the design industry ecosystem, accumulated experience in collaboration, and sound judgment, as well as specialized jurors with international perspectives and extensive experience leading renowned works. Together, they will collectively select the "Designverse Awards Jury Grand Prize" in various sub-categories under space, product, and brands/major events categories. From these selections, the "Designverse Awards Outstanding Prize" will be determined, including six Outstanding Prize in space category (architecture, landscape, interiors, technical consultants, professional consultants, and specialized consultants), four Outstanding Prize in product category (residential, office, social and leisure, transportation), and two Outstanding Prize for annual major events. The final jury member also has the right to recommend two participating agencies directly shortlisted for Nomination Prize and set Special Jury Single Prize. *

The order of final jury member is sequenced according to the alphabet sequence of each one's family name.

03 AWARDS PROCESS
The evaluation process for the Designverse Awards consists of two stages: preliminary review and final review. Evaluation System The [Designverse Awards Nomination Prize] and [Designverse Awards Special Honor Prize] are selected based on statistics and analysis of big data that permeate the entire industry and search rankings. *The search ranking of design resources within the designverse platform is an important basis for award evaluation. *The ranking of space category (architecture, landscape, interior) on the Designverse Ranking is an important basis for award evaluation. *Brands / Major Events refers to the IP ranking on the designverse platform as an important basis for award evaluation. The final review judging panel selects the [Designverse Awards Jury Grand Prize] and [Designverse Awards Outstanding Prize]. *For more information on Award Setting, Process and Evaluation System, please click the words. 

04 AWARDS SETTING & ENTRY CATEGORIES
In different review stages, there are four level prize set for space category, product category, brands/major events category, respectively Designverse Awards Nomination Prize, Designverse Awards Special Honor Prize, Designverse Awards Jury Grand Prize and Designverse Awards 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. 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.

05 TIMELINE
[1] REGISTRATION STAGE

Early Bird Submission：2023.7.18 - 2023.9.10Regular Submission：2023.9.11 - 2023.12.10Extended Submission：2023.12.11 - 2024.1.31Payment Deadline：2024.2.1*Above dates follow UTC/GMT+0 23:59. [2] REVIEW STAGEPreliminary Review：2024.2.5 - 2024.3.5Final Review：2024.3.11 - 2024.4.8 [3] REVIEW RESULT NOTIFICATIONNotificaiton of Nomination Prizes：2024.2.21 - 2024.2.25Notification of Special Honor Prizes：2024.3.6 - 2024.3.10Notification of Jury Grand Prizes：2024.4.1 - 2024.4.8Notificaiton of Outstanding Prizes：2024.4.9 - 2024.4.15 [4] AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENTList of Nomination Prizes Announced：2024.4.18List of Special Honor Prizes Announced：2024.4.20List of Jury Grand Prizes Announced：2024.4.24List of Outstanding Prizes Announced：2024.4.26 [5] PUBLICITY & PROMOTIONPayment Deadline of Publicity & Promotion Fee：2024.4.30Publicity & Promotion：2024.4.18 - 2024.12.31Consulting & Evaluation Report and Vide.

06 ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
[1] The Designverse Awards is open for global registration and is available to agencies of space design category, design agencies/brands of product category, and brands/major events planning/operating agencies.[2] Entries must have been completed within the past five years from July 18, 2023. Entries shall be completed/purchased/used between July 18, 2018 and July 17, 2023, and can be announced publicly on the deadline of registration, January 31, 2024. [3] The entrant must be a legal entity or individual with primary responsibility, including but not limited to the manufacturer and distributor of goods, the owner of buildings, the supplier of software or media, and the organizer of project development and research. [4] If multiple parties are involved in the entry, joint registration is allowed. The entrant must be chosen, and all other members must register on designverse platform (www.designverse.com.cn). *For detailed submission requirements, please click the words.

07 REGISTRATION
[Step 1] Log in to designverse platform at www.designverse.com.cn, register the homepage of agency and  *The review fee covers the mandatory benefits for winners of Nomination Prize, Special Honor Prize, Jury Grand Prize and Outstanding Prize, respectively the certificate of award (digital), the right to use the Designverse Awards logo, showcasing on the designverse platform, news release of winning works, digital yearbook. *Please click the words to see AWARDS BENEFITS.

08 AWARDS INSTITUTIONS
Organizer: designverse (www.designverse.com.cn) Award Execution:  designverse Big Data Research Center designverse Content Center designverse Matching Center Academic Support: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

09 CONTACT US
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