SHNU: Good news came that art works of SHNU won the 2009 German Red Dot Design Award -- the largest and most renowned design competition in the world. The work Frizzy Light was designed by Pang Ming, a young teacher of SHNU College of Fine Arts and three SHNU junior students Chen Liang, Song Jiaqi and Fu Yixia. This November, the winners will go to Singapore to attend the awarding ceremony. Frizzy Light will be exhibited in the Red Dot Museum in Singapore for a year and recorded in its almanac. A brief introduction of Red Dot Design Award: The red dot design award is a large and coveted international product design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. The aim of the prize is to honor outstanding design quality and trendsetters. Since 1955, designers and producers can apply for the prizes with the winners being presented in an annual ceremony. Winning products are presented in the red dot design museum on the premises of the Zollverein World Cultural Heritage site in Essen. The red dot is awarded in three different categories: Product design / design team The oldest of the three awards, “the red dot award: product design” had been known as Design Innovation until 2000. The competition is open to several fields of manufacturing, including, but not limited to furniture, home appliances, machines, cars and tools. Communication design Since 1993, the red dot award: communication design is awarded for outstanding achievements in the fields of corporate design, advertising, interactive media or sound design. Design concept Since 2005, red dot established the red dot design museum Singapore and also an award for design innovations and design concepts. The “red dot award: design concept” centers on design concepts, on ideas and visions that are new, creative and exciting. The competition distinguishes truly creative achievements and thus pays tribute to the high potential of young, up-and-coming creative talents, designers and design companies around the world. （Edited by Jessica） |
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