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  • Call for entries: 2025 APDC Awards

    Shanghai , China

    APDCAWARDS is an international design event sponsored and hosted by APDC Asia Pacific Design Center. It has been 14 years since its foundation. The design works of all previous contests are created by outstanding design institutes and designers, which come from  Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Dubai, Italy, France, Netherlands, […]

  • Designverse Awards 2024-2025

    Shanghai , China

    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. New categories and awards for "Space - Concept" and "Product - […]

  • 2023 World Design Cities Conference

    Shanghai , China

    The 2nd World Design Cities Conference (WDCC), hosted by Shanghai Municipal Government, will take place in Shanghai from Sep.26 to Oct.2 this year. With the theme of "Design beyond Creativity", the event comprises high-level forums (e.g. International Design 100 Summit, 12th Emerging Practices Design Research and Education Conference), thematic exhibitions (e.g. NICE Commune), release ceremony, […]

  • Designverse Awards 2023-2024

    Shanghai , China

    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 […]

  • World Campus Masters 2023-2024

    Shanghai , China

    World Campus Masters Selective  Design Program (short for "WCM") was launched by Young Bird Plan in 2019. This program, composed by two parts - "World Campus Masters Excellent Course Works Exhibition" and "World Campus Masters Annual Course Works Selection", is committed to recognizing the fresh blood of contemporary design through evaluating course works and graduation designs from global young students and designers in different regions and cultures. 

  • DESIGN SHANGHAI

    Shanghai , China

    Design Shanghai group exhibition partners with authoritative design influences to celebrate established and emerging brands, design talents and projects of the year. The shows partner with leading design and creative studios, luxury fashion brands and influential media titles to create unique design experience for all the participants and visitors, including the trend forecasts, online showroom, […]

  • 2022 PRI²DE CREATIVE CAMP MOVABLE CHAIR INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION

    Shanghai , China

    Hosted jointly by HKRI and the international competition platform, Young Bird Plan, the initiative is aimed at collecting design works of movable chairs from around the world. Using HKRI’s successful projects in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Bangkok as launchpads, the key thematic element “45” was chosen to celebrate HKRI’s 45th anniversary. With the goal of […]

  • WORLD CAMPUS MASTERS SELECTIVE GRADUATION DESIGN PROGRAM 2021

    Shanghai , China

    World Campus Masters Selective Graduation Design Program (short for "WCM Program”) is launched by an international design competition platform Young Bird Plan, and it is committed to recognizing the fresh blood of contemporary design through evaluating graduation designs from global young designers in different regions and cultures. It encourages original design and design thinking in […]

  • SHANGHAI WORLD EXPO

    Shanghai , China

    Design Shanghai is one of the world's most prestigious international design events and Asia's premier design event. Constantly breaking new ground, it has set a precedent in China's ever-growing design community. Showcasing the best design brands and galleries from across the globe, Design Shanghai provides a unique and exciting platform to network and establish long-term […]

  • CHINA INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE FAIR (CIFF)

    Shanghai , China

    CIFF covers the entire industry chain including home furniture, homedecor & hometextiles, outdoor & leisure, office furniture, commercial furniture, hotel furniture and furniture machinery & raw materials. The spring and autumn session host over 6000 brands from China and abroad, gathering over 340,000 professional visitors in total. CIFF creates the world’s most preferred one-stop trading […]

  • DESIGN SHANGHAI

    Shanghai , China

    Design Shanghai is one of the world's most prestigious international design events and Asia's premier design event. Constantly breaking new ground, it has set a precedent in China's ever-growing design community. Showcasing the best design brands and galleries from across the globe, Design Shanghai provides a unique and exciting platform to network and establish long-term […]