On 16 December 2024, the Lilac Creative Design Award ceremony, supported by WDO, guided by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Heilongjiang Provincial Committee and the Propaganda Department of the CPC Harbin Municipal Committee and hosted by Harbin Design Center, was held at Harbin Grand Theatre. A total of more than 900 people, including officials from relevant departments at provincial and municipal levels, representatives from universities and enterprises in the province, and design elites from around the world, attended this event.

Under the banner of the theme Creative Design Links the World, the Lilac Creative Design Competition set four major categories, namely industrial creative design, digital creative design, visual creative design, and cultural creative design. After two rounds of evaluation, the large slope hard rock excavation machine from Shenyang Innovation Design Institute Co., Ltd. won the praises of evaluation experts and a gold award for its excellent design appearance and forward-looking design concept.

Attendees discover the winning works in the exhibition space. Photo credit: Harbin Design Center

A total of 5 pieces of works won a silver award, including Glass Robot – Global Online Operation from Israeli designer Ron Ferencz and 9YFQ-2.26 Square Baling Machine from Heilongjiang Dewo Technology Development Co., Ltd., a total of 18 pieces of works won a bronze award, including BabyAlpha from Harbin Weilan Innovative Technology Co., Ltd. and M2P Pocket Vacuum Cleaner from inDare Design Strategy Limited, and a total of 74 pieces of works won the Lilac award.

Winners from the industrial creative design category, which included Shenyang Innovation Design Institute’s hard rock excavation machine. Photo credit: Harbin Design Center

Taking the Lilac Creative Design Award Ceremony as an opportunity, the event organizer will successively hold a series of colorful Heilongjiang Creative December activities, such as Harbin International Creative Design Forum, the Opening to the North-New Quality Design academic seminar and the founding conference of the Opening to the North-University Creative Design Achievements Transformation Alliance, the design and industry matchmaking conference and the creative design investment promotion conference.

WDO President Thomas Garvey, who was also a member of the jury, speaks during the award ceremony. Photo credit: Harbin Design Center

The activities will be centered on the main venue of Harbin Grand Theatre and radiate to several sub-venues such as Harbin Central Street Songlei Shopping Mall, Xicheng Red Square and Chinese Baroque Street, forming a grand scene of multi-point linkage, mutual reflection and city as the exhibition venue. Furthermore, the activities will shape an international design cooperation platform with the linkage of conferences, exhibitions and awards, converge the world’s top design innovation resources, gather the talent chain, activate the innovation chain, lay out the industrial chain, and continue to create a favorable atmosphere for the development of the province’s creative design industry.

To learn more about Lilac Design Award 2024 and this year’s winners, please visit their website.