KPA 2025

ABOUT KPA

The Kunpeng Global Design Award (KPA) aims to discover designers with creativity, vision, foresight, and influence. It also aims to enhance the exchanges and cooperation among all designers from different countries and inspire the industrialization of creative designs as well as the promotion of creative design concepts.

This award is guided by the Shenzhen Innovation & Creative Design Development Office, and hosted by the Shenzhen Media Group and the Shenzhen Culture, Creativity & Design Association.

Awards & Prizes

本届大奖将延续往届做法,继续设置高额奖金,具体设置细节将稍后公布。

Judging Panels

(I) Each category has its jury Committee with five jury members, and each jury Committee is responsible for selecting the Gold, Silver, Future Award winners. Each jury Committee consists of world-leading designers, managers of design organizations, editors of design magazines or digital media, or professors of leading design institutes from different countries and cities. Members of the Jury committee are recognized authority and outstanding professional achievements worldwide. Biographies of jury members will be announced on the official website at least one month before the judging dates. The Chair of each jury Committee is elected by the members of the Jury of each category and is responsible for convening the meetings, monitoring the assessment procedure and delivering the final results.

 

(III) Members of the juries should not enter the competition. If an entry is a project designed by a juror, or involving a juror, or a project by an entrant who has previously cooperated with a juror or is currently cooperating with a juror, the relevant juror should NOT participate in the review of this entry.

 

(IV) The organizer will invite world-leading architects, designers, professional magazines or publication editors, and professional organizations to nominate projects. The list of nominators (individuals and institutions) will be posted on the official website in due course.

 

(V) The judging is mainly based on the tangible objects, images and supporting materials. The panels will meet and judge in Shenzhen. Tangible projects and supporting materials of entries will be presented at the jury meeting (Some of the overseas jury members will participate in the final judging meeting through real-time connection). The panels will name all the awards winners in this final judging.

Registration and Application

Entrants must register on the official website of the Award (k-p-a.design) and submit supporting documents (all materials must be written in English) before 24:00, 30 September 2025 (GMT+8:00) by following the steps below):
  • 01

    REGISTER & CREATE MY ACCOUNT

    Read the terms and conditions carefully, create user name and password before logging in.

  • 02

    COMPLETE PROJECT INFO ONLINE

    Log in to the account, complete information about designers and projects, upload profile photos and project materials, save and submit.

  • 03

    DELIVER PROJECT

    Deliver tangible projects(after receiving the notification email of shipping tangible projects) and make sure “entry label” is attached and the projects arrive at the designated warehouse before 24:00 July 2025 (GMT+8:00).

1.Please do NOT deliver projects to the Secretariat office! Address of the warehouse will be sent to the entrant’s registered email with the notification email of shipping tangible projects.

2. Entrants must submit the supporting and other legal documents requested by the KPA Secretariat by 24:00, 30 September 2025 (GMT+8:00). Templates can be downloaded from the "download" section of www.k-p-a.design.

3. Please keep the original copies of the above documents. THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE has the right to re-inspect the documents after the final judging. Please wait for the official email notification for details.

4. Entries for Digital Design and AI projects can be submitted online for judging without shipping tangible objects.