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 supported by the Organizing Committee of the Shenzhen Design Week and Kunpeng Global Design Award, administered by the Shenzhen Innovation & Creative Design Development Office.
The Shenzhen Design Week is a big initiative engineered by the authorities to support the design communities. With the first edition starting in late April 2017, it is an international annual design event sponsored by the Shenzhen Municipal Government, administered by the Shenzhen Innovation & Creative Design Development Office.
It aims to provide platforms for international exchange, communication and cooperation in various design categories. It also provides good opportunities for designers from around the world to showcase their talents through different events such as exhibitions, workshops, and forums, etc.
Scholars, policy makers, managers, students in relevant fields and professional designers all over the world are welcome to participate in these events happening simultaneously during the course of one week over different parts of the city.
Being the first special economic zone in China, Shenzhen grows from a small fishermen village of 300,000 people ashore South China Sea to a metropolis of over 20 million with the nation's fastest growing economy in just 40 years.
Recognized as the birth place of China's modern design, Shenzhen has been attracting design talents around the country and her flourishing design industries cover various categories, including graphic, industrial and product, fashion, architectural, interior, etc.
In 2008, Shenzhen was designated the City of Design by UNESCO and joined the Creative Cities Network which currently consists of 180 members.
In recent years, the Municipal Government of Shenzhen has been strongly supporting the design communities and boosting the design industries with large investments, aiming to transform the manufacturing hub of the world into a premium design hub.
1. The "Special Award for Sustainable Development” is set up in order to reinforce public interest and promote the spirit of building a community with a shared future for mankind, with prize of CNY 150,000. This special award winner will be selected by the special final jury composed of the chairmen and vice-chairmen of five Juries.
Winner of the Special Award will be chosen from all entries and is not limited to projects that have already received other awards. Winner of the Special Award can also be winner of other awards.
2. All prizes are pre-tax amount. All prizes are subject to income tax in accordance with local law. KPA Secretariat will pay the prize after paying tax on winners’ behalf.
3. The payment of the prize could take up to 6 months. Winners are required to provide all the info and materials needed for making the payment to the KPA secretariat before deadline. If submission of info and materials is delayed, the recipient of the prize changes or any other unexpected situation happens on the winner's account, the KPA Secretariat has the right to postpone the payment and Secretariat's explanation shall be final.
4. Overseas winners (including those from the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions) can ONLY use personal accounts to receive the payment. If the prize recipient and the entrant are different entities or individuals, a Prize Reception Authorization Letter is required.
Urban Design
Urban Planning and Management & Municipal Services
Landscape & Public Space
Architecture
Interior Design
Industrial Design
Telecommunication
Automobiles & Vehicles
Sports & Leisure
Babies & Kids
Office
Lighting
Household
Medicine & Health
Robotics
Industrial design projects generated by AI
Fashion Design
Apparel
Accessories
Bags & luggage
Fashion design projects generated by AI
Digital Design
New media
Interface & User Experience Design
Film and Animation
Digital design projects generated by AI
Communication Design
Identity & Branding
Advertising
Packaging
Read the terms and conditions carefully, create user name and password before logging in;
Log in to the account, complete information about designers and projects, upload profile photos and project materials, save and submit;
The organizing committee will conduct a material review of the projects submitted by the designers before the online application deadline (24:00, 6 April 2026). Designers can log in to their accounts to check the status of their projects.
Deliver tangible projects or additional materials as per the instructions in the email (after receiving the notification of passing the material review) and make sure the projects arrive at the designated warehouse before 24:00 6 April 2026 (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 6 April, 2026 (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 ORGANIZER has the right to re-inspect the documents after the final judging. Please wait for the official email notification for details.
4.Entries for Urban Design, Digital Design, illustration, poster and AI projects can be submitted online for judging without shipping tangible objects.
