New Launch | 2025 Asian Vanguard Art and Design Award (AVADA) Global Call for Entries Officially Opens!
From Asia to the world, from creativity to the future. Since its establishment in 2023, the Asian Vanguard Art and Design Award (AVADA) has rapidly grown into a premier platform for emerging creative forces worldwide. With professional authority, international vision, impartial evaluation, and support for realization as its core features, the Award has become a significant competition platform in the Asian and global creative design community.
Retrospect · 2023 Inaugural Launch
The inaugural 2023 Award, initially held as the Asian Vanguard Art and Design Exchange Exhibition, garnered unexpectedly widespread attention, receiving over 3,700 works from 18 countries and regions. Participants included universities, studios, and design agencies from across the Asia-Pacific, yielding a multitude of works rich in experimental spirit and cultural depth. Exhibited at the ASEAN International Convention and Exhibition Center through the Asia Design Week platform, the Award received media coverage from institutions such as the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University and the Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology, establishing its international reputation.
Momentum · 2024 Global Expansion
Submissions increased substantially, with entries arriving from 43 countries and regions across five continents, marking a significant enhancement in international influence. In addition to active participation from major Asian organizations, the Award attracted submissions from world-leading institutions like Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Royal College of Art. The jury panel brought together distinguished designers and scholars from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Egypt, and other nations, constructing a diverse and professional evaluation system. Winning works were successively exhibited at various Asian design weeks/festivals and university tours. On-site displays received consistent praise from guests, including the President of the World Design Organization™, among other Chinese and international dignitaries.
Furthermore, winning works were featured in reports by prestigious universities both domestically and internationally. Related exhibitions and creative outcomes garnered attention from official media outlets like Xinhua News Agency and Hebei Satellite TV, and received in-depth coverage in several magazine special features. This propelled the integrated development of design with industry, culture, and education, further highlighting the Award's professional value and social significance.
Departure · 2025 Upgraded International Call for Entries
Distinct from previous editions, to strengthen the united dissemination of Asian design power and foster profound international exchange of creativity and culture, the 2025 Award is jointly organized by Asia Design Week in collaboration with several authoritative design organizations from Asia and Eurasia.
With the strong support of design organizations from around the world, this edition of the Award sincerely invites designers, university students, professional creators, and young design teams from across the globe to participate in this Asian creative event and jointly shape the future of cultural innovation.
Organizer
Asia Design Week
Co-Organizers
International Public Association "Union of Designers", Russia
Macao International Design Alliance
Industrial Design Development Association of Taipei
The Korean Society of Illustration Research
Korea Society of Color Studies
Malaysian Graphic Design Association
Mongolian National Designer's Association
Host
Asia Art and Design Association, Competition Committee of the Asia Design Week Organizing Committee
Collaborating Organizations
Design Asia Collective
Sino-European International Design Culture Association (Belgium)
French International Association of Artists and Designers
Union of Architects and Designers of Kazakhstan
Hong Kong Artists Association
Hong Kong Multimedia Design Association
Hong Kong Contemporary Art Association
Macau Poster Design Association
Macau Product Design Association
China-Korea Creative Design Association
Beijing Design Society
Zhejiang Industrial Design Association
Jilin Industrial Design Association
Hainan Art and Design Association
Hainan Advertising Association
Shenzhen Industrial Design Association
Hebei Future Industrial Design Innovation Center
Harbin Creative Design Center
Hubei Cultural and Creative Industry Association
Guangxi Stage Art Society
Quanzhou Creative Industry Association
Kunming Landscape Architecture Design Association
Guangxi Baise Photographers Association
China Youth League of Design (in no particular order)
Supporting Organizations
European Product Design Award
HAOGE Type
ASEAN-China Design Convergence Competition
Macao Design Week
Goldreed Industrial Design Award
Lilac Creative Design Award
Yangtze River Delta International Cultural & Creative Products Expo
Guangxi Innovation Design Week
Oriental Design Award
Kuala Lumpur Design Festival
International Poster Exhibition of Asian Urban Culture
Shanghai International Advertising Festival
Star Glory Award (in no particular order)
Academic Support Organizations
Design and Art Studies
Landscape Architecture Frontiers
Hunan Packaging
Journal of Art and Design Studies
Public Welfare Support Organization
Beijing Guanghua Design Development Foundation
Student Category
Includes graduate students, undergraduate students, and junior college students (graduates within one year are eligible to participate).
Professional Category
Covers professionals such as teachers, designers, artists, engineers, and others.
Submission Scope: Outstanding art and design works are welcomed from institutions, enterprises, associations, and organizations across all countries and regions worldwide.
We sincerely invite teachers, students, designers, and creative professionals to submit their outstanding works! Works that have previously won awards in domestic or international design competitions, for which the author still retains the usage rights/copyright, are also welcome to participate.
Art Category
Traditional Fine Arts: Chinese Painting, Oil Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Comic, Watercolor, Pastel, Sketch, Speed Painting, Calligraphy, Seal Engraving, etc.
Film and Media: TV Commercials, Commercial Photography, Micro-film Commercials, Short Videos, Creative Advertising Videos, Creative Photography, Promotional Videos, Digital Imaging, etc.
Crafts: Ceramics, Printing and Dyeing, Lacquer Art, Fiber, Textile, Woodworking, Tie-dye, Wood Carving, Horn Carving, Metal, Leather, Folk Painting, Paper-cutting, Weaving, Paper Art, and other intangible cultural heritage and arts and crafts suitable for exhibition, as well as other artistic works.
Design Category
Industrial Product Design: Product Design, Industrial Manufacturing, Equipment Products and Mobility Tools, Cultural and Creative Products, Smart Product Design, etc.
Architecture and Environmental Design: Architectural Design, Urban Planning Design, Landscape Design, Interior Design, Exhibition Design, Public Space Design, etc.
Visual Communication Design: Advertising Design, Graphic Design, User Interface (UI) Design, User Experience (UX) Design, Brand Identity (VI) Design, Book Binding Design, Packaging Design, Typography Design, Emoji Design, etc.
Digital Media Art: Game Design, Advertising Design, Animation and Video Design, Web Design, Interaction Design, APP Design, etc.
Fashion and Costume Design: Fashion Design, Jewelry Design, Accessory Design, Digital Fashion Design, etc.
AIGC Category: Generative Art (created using AI generative art tools such as MidJourney + manual secondary design; please fill in the creative description, interpretation, AIGC tools used and the reasons for their selection on the form), AI Image Creation, AI Short Video Creation, AI Product Design, AI Installation Design, etc.
Pure Physical Object Category: Applicable to works without display boards or design drawings, including Smart Fashion, various Installation Artworks, New Biomaterials for Design, Ceramic Art, Wearable Technology and Interactive Installations, 3D Printed Works, etc.
Call for Entries Phase
(Now - June 15, 2025) Participating teams and individuals are required to complete the application form and submit their works as instructed. Participants can submit their works from the launch date.
Award Evaluation
Preliminary Review Phase: (June 15, 2025 - July 10, 2025)
Final Round Material Submission: (July 10, 2025 - August 15, 2025) Evaluation will be conducted through expert review to determine the final winners for each award category.
Final Review: (August 16, 2025 - August 25, 2025)
Winners Announcement
(September 1, 2025) The list of winners will be published on the official website and WeChat public account.
Exhibition Tour for Outstanding Works
Distribution of Certificates and Awards
Certificate Benefits
Winners will receive certificates jointly issued and endorsed by Asia Design Week and its co-organizers, including the Macao International Design Alliance, Industrial Design Development Association of Taipei, The Korean Society of Illustration Research, Korea Society of Color Studies, Malaysian Graphic Design Association, and the International Public Association "Union of Designers", Russia.
Offline Exhibition Tour (Exhibition Certificate)
Outstanding award-winning works will be featured in a global exhibition tour and exhibited jointly with strategic supporting organizations.
In 2025, in addition to collaborations with exhibition tour universities and organizations in Mainland China, Macao, Malaysia, South Korea, and Thailand, exhibition venues will also include confirmed partner events and locations such as the Hebei International Industrial Design Week, Macao Design Week, the Yangtze River Delta International Cultural & Creative Products Expo, the Kuala Lumpur Design Festival, the National Art Gallery of Malaysia, and the Meraki Art Gallery in South Korea. (Specific requirements for the exhibition tour will involve selecting different types of outstanding works for exhibition based on the exhibition themes of the various collaborating organizations).
Online Exhibition
In addition to Asia Design Week and other partner platforms, winning works will be featured on the Dongtian Art Platform (CAACOSMOS), an online art community launched by the China Academy of Art on April 8, 2023. Participants can also apply for digital copyright protection services on the Dongtian Art Platform if they wish.
Support for Emerging Designers and Artists
Outstanding emerging artists and designers will receive support from the Asian Vanguard Culture Fund. In addition to having their works exhibited, they will also be interviewed and featured by international media.
Based on participants' willingness, opportunities will be provided for project collaboration such as the auction of artistic works for commercial realization, design realization, as well as opportunities for art collaborations or the development of original derivatives.
Media Promotion and Dissemination Services
Promotion will be conducted via the official Asia Design Week website, WeChat public account (Service account: 亚洲设计周), and Little Red Book (小红书: Asia Design Week).
Promotion services will also be available through other strategic supporting organizations, such as journals, magazines, and media news matrices.
All winners of the Grand Award, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Special Invitation, and Excellence Awards are authorized by the organizing committee to use the official "Asian Vanguard Art and Design Award (AVADA)" logo (applicable only to winners from 2025 onwards) in the display, promotion, publication, and subsequent promotion of their works. This signifies their honorary status, enhances the professional recognition of their works, and amplifies their international reach.
Entry Requirements
All entries must comply with the relevant laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China and the participant's country or region of residence. They must respect different ethnicities, genders, and religious beliefs, and must not contain any discriminatory, offensive, politically sensitive, or otherwise inappropriate content.
If the work involves maps, geographical names, or national/regional identifiers, it should adhere to internationally accepted standards and comply with the relevant specifications of the organizers. If content is used improperly and leads to disputes, the organizers reserve the right to disqualify the entry and void its score. Participants must bear all consequences arising therefrom.
In principle, once an entry is successfully submitted, modifications to the registration information will not be permitted. Resubmission of the same work under a new registration will also not be accepted. Please carefully review and fill out all registration materials.
Once registration is completed, withdrawal from the competition is not allowed. The organizing committee will not refund the entry fee.
Works may be entered into multiple categories of this competition based on their design content and presentation form. Entries and fees must be submitted separately for each evaluation category.
Award information for winners will be compiled based on the order provided in the registration form. In principle, requests to adjust award information will not be accepted.
In principle, entries should not display the school name, author's name, or other event logos.
Entries must be original works. Plagiarism or misappropriation is strictly prohibited. Infringement upon the intellectual property rights of third parties is forbidden. Any disputes involving intellectual property rights are the sole responsibility of the participant and are unrelated to the competition. The organizing committee reserves the right to disqualify any such entries.
All authorship rights and related intellectual property rights of the entries remain with the participants.
The organizing committee reserves the right to promote, exhibit, publish, distribute, display, and tour all entries across various media platforms.
The organizing committee reserves the right to the final interpretation of all terms and conditions of the competition and matters not covered herein.
Author Limit Requirements
There are no restrictions on the number of submissions per author or the categories entered.
Each entry may have no more than 5 authors and no more than 2 instructors.
Judging Mechanism and Criteria
The competition will be evaluated in two rounds. The preliminary review will be conducted by a panel comprising members of the organizing committee, senior corporate design directors, university professors, and industry experts. After an initial screening of eligible entries, they will be passed to the preliminary review specialists for selection. The final review will invite top experts from Mainland China, Hong Kong (China), the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Mongolia, and other countries and regions (to be announced soon).
Judges will evaluate entries according to scoring indicators including artistic expression, innovation, social value, and commercial potential, which will be weighted differently based on the category of the work. The corresponding awards will be determined by calculating the average scores.
The competition results will be published on the official website for a period of no less than 5 days.
Image Format Specifications
No more than 3 images. No limit on individual image dimensions, resolution of 300 dpi, each image under 5MB. Format: JPG/PDF.
Note: Art, craft, and similar works must be photographed from various angles. Products that have been manufactured must include images of the physical object. The design layout should include a complete description of the work's design, such as the inspiration source, overall rendering renderings, product detail images, dimension drawings, color scheme, materials, design concept, and social value embodiment. (A unified format requirement will be provided after the work is shortlisted and for subsequent exhibitions.)
Video Format Specifications
Video length does not exceed 3 minutes, resolution no less than 1920x1080. Video formats: mp4, webm, ogg.
Submission Methods
To facilitate statistics, submissions will be collected based on the location of the participating unit and then evaluated uniformly.
Mainland China Region - Submission Link:
https://docs.qq.com/form/page/DVXJHVGdCQU1DY0Fw
Overseas General Region (Submissions accepted from all areas except partner regions) - Submission Links:
https://docs.qq.com/form/page/DVUVWSHZHYkh0SFJq
Or
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DGZkTLTrHZbImnoSn6PYFJmcKzOvh_0qIDEkn5Yo7QM/edit
China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan Region - Submission Link:
https://docs.qq.com/form/page/DVVZtbkFxVkZXU21m
Russia Partner Region - Submission Link:
https://docs.qq.com/form/page/DVXZpc0F3Zkx5ckFQ
South Korea Partner Region - Submission Links:
https://docs.qq.com/form/page/DVWJQZHVzVHRFaUdS
Or
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/108fztEl9wEak2oviiK6CiTP-7wJVEf5E0MaZbdbCqwg/edit
Malaysia Partner Region - Submission Link:
https://docs.qq.com/form/page/DVUd6Q2NuYW5ZUFF4
Entry Submission and Preliminary Review Fee
Student Category:
90 RMB / per entry ($13 USD / per entry)
Professional Category:
Individual Participants (Teachers and other art and design enthusiasts): 120 RMB / per entry ($17 USD / per entry)
Enterprises: 180 RMB / per entry ($25 USD / per entry)
Entry Shortlist Final Review Fee
Student Category:
180 RMB / per entry (approx. $25 USD / per entry)
Professional Category:
Individual Participants (Teachers and other art and design enthusiasts): 220 RMB / per entry ($30 USD / per entry)
Enterprises: 400 RMB / per entry ($55 USD / per entry)
Payment Methods
For all regions, QR code payment is the primary method. WeChat Pay, Alipay, UnionPay, and Cloud QuickPass are accepted. (Payment Receiver: Hangzhou Yizhi Culture Communication Co., Ltd.)
2.Via PayPal account: designweekasia@gmail.com
Note: When making the payment, please be sure to fill in "First Author's Name + Work Title" in the remarks column. Take a screenshot of the payment confirmation (or online banking screenshot) and upload it along with your entry in the registration link for committee verification. To ensure the fairness and orderly progress of the competition, once the fee payment is confirmed, it is generally non-refundable. We appreciate your understanding.
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