The Golden Pin Design Award is now open for entries! The Golden Pin Concept Design Award is also accepting submissions for innovative proposals. 

The Golden Pin Design Award, is one of Asia’s most influential design competitions. It is open to global teams and companies, targeting commercialized works on the market. Each year, the award certifies the quality of outstanding designs and highlights their role in driving R&D, innovation, and brand value.

The Golden Pin Concept Design Award is open to unrealized design concepts or proposals, welcoming submissions from students, designers, and companies, either individually or in teams. The top three Best Design Award winners will each receive a cash prize of NT$300,000, supporting the transformation of concepts into reality.

Winning entries will gain significant international exposure, opportunities for industry collaborations, and potential market expansion. We invite designers and businesses worldwide to participate and showcase their best work. 

Submit your entry today and be recognized for your excellence in design!

Key Dates (GMT+8 Taipei Time)

• Early Bird Deadline: 17:00, May 20 (Tue.), 2025
• Regular Registration Deadline: 17:00, June 24th (Tue.), 2025 
• Award Ceremony: December 2025, at the Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taiwan

Categories:

Product Design, Communication Design, Spatial Design, Integration Design

Registration Fee – Golden Pin Design Award:

• Early Bird : NT$7,000 per entry
• Regular : NT$9,000 per entry

Registration Fee – Golden Pin Concept Design Award:

• Early Bird : NT$1,000 per entry
• Regular : NT$1,500 per entry

Official Website: https://goldenpin.org.tw/goldenpin/en

Join the 10th Design Intelligence Award – call for entries!

Established in 2015 and hosted by Cumulus partner China Academy of Art, the Design
Intelligence Award (DIA) is the first international academy award in China’s design field. It
serves as a platform for the evaluation, promotion, exchange and cooperation of contemporary
innovative design, as well as an innovation accelerator that transforms creative ideas into
industry and the future. With “Intelligence of Humanity, Living Wisdom, Fusion of Tech & Art,
Brain of Industry, Empathetic Life Intelligence, and New-Quality Intelligent Form” as its core
values, DIA champions the return to the fundamental essence of design “Intelligent
Manufacturing”.

We warmly invite designers, entrepreneurs, institutions, and students worldwide to participate
in the 10th edition of DIA!

This year’s DIA Features two main groups: the Product Group and the Innovation Incubation
Group.

Product Group：
– Application Deadline: 20.06.2025
– Eligibility: Open to all enterprises, universities & colleges, institutions, and individuals.
– Entry Requirements:
Entries must either (1) be products launched within 2 years prior to the submission date,
or (2) be unreleased prototypes with industrial feasibility
– Categories: Cultural Innovation, Life Wisdom, Industrial Equipment, and Digital
Economy.

Innovation Incubation Group:
– Application Deadline: 20.09.2025
– Eligibility: Exclusively open to university-affiliated teams. Participants must submit
either a valid student ID or a graduation certificate issued within the past 5 years.
– Entry Requirements: Entries must be unreleased products capable of delivering
functional and aesthetic prototypes by November 1, 2025.
– Categories: Life Health, Smart Cultural Tourism, Smart Mobility, Intelligent Hardware.,
and an open-ended category (“X”), encourages exploration of unknown fields.

Participation in the DIA is free, and the award offers a total prize fund of 5 million RMB
(approximately €625,000).

Ready to showcase your innovation to the world?
Learn more about DIA: https://en.di-award.org/
Register now: https://en.di-award.org/?invite=FL2025-AHWX5L5

See the call for entries here DIA call for entry- Cumulus

This is your chance to be a part of history. Together we can make the future reusable.

Introducing Rebrand Reuse (https://rebrandreuse.org/), a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to design the symbol for reuse: the icon of the future. Presented by the PR3 Global Standards Panel, Rebrand Reuse is a global design initiative open to all, 18 years of age or older. We’re calling on designers, creatives, sustainability advocates, and changemakers everywhere to submit their symbol designs by June 15, 2025(extended deadline).

Learn more and submit your design at https://rebrandreuse.org/.

Proudly presented by the PR3 Global Standards Panel, a RESOLVE project.

With support from partners Accenture Song, Cumulus Association, Droga5, Hello Tomorrow Comms, The One Club for Creativity.

#RebrandReuse

2025 Submission is NOW OPEN!
’Designs for a Sustainable Life’

Are you creating projects that shape a more sustainable world and a better future?
Join the Seoul Design Award 2025 and be part of a global movement where design drives positive change.

Since its inception in 2019, this non-profit international award has celebrated transformative design solutions that improve lives and communities. With participants from over 80 countries, the award continues to recognize projects that redefine sustainability through creativity, collaboration, and impact.

Be part of this dynamic global network of sustainable design innovators!

For more details on the Call for Entries, visit our website.

HKDI, our member in Hongkong, is organising a series of master lectures themed “Digital Disruption” from 25 March to 2 April 2025, offering a captivating exploration of digital art and media design.
Bringing together experts from Mainland China, Hong Kong and the Czech Republic, this series will delve into how digital art is reshaping traditional boundaries, fostering innovation, and disrupting current practices for the future in a multi-disciplinary context.

Join HKDI in exploring the transformative power of digital art and its impact on design and media art.

Registration Link: https://forms.office.com/r/rnDYH7KNtZ

PROJECT 1:+++++Design for the Circular Economy+++++
Ulster University – Belfast Campus
Supervisors: Prof I Montgomery, Dr P Dunlop (jai.montgomery@ulster.ac.uk)

This project focuses on developing sustainability design solutions and offers the successful candidate the opportunity to create new approaches for dealing with waste consumables and equipment. Addressing sustainability problems can include policy-driven solutions, new technology or knowledge transfer schemes, new information sets in design and engineering, and innovation in the circular economy. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who can demonstrate an interest in the sustainability change agenda from local and international perspective, linking original research with global challenges and partnership building from a design, engineering, or cognate discipline.

Applicants should be able to propose and undertake research initiating new ways of working whether in sustainable creative practice, re-use and the circular economy, recycling, policy document review and design, or innovative design solutions that can bring real benefits to society and/or commerce. Good design can change behaviours and a user-centred approach to problem-solving we believe will ultimately provide for a more sustainable future.

This is a cross-disciplinary design and engineering project with the opportunity to benefit from relevant co-supervision in a related discipline in other parts of the University. The successful candidate will take a key role in developing cutting-edge research in the design and engineering discipline with access to the latest international research through the library’s extensive academic resources and networks and through our collaborations with relevant industries. This is an internationally relevant project and links with other institutions and research centres will be supported and encouraged.

Read more here

Apply by Feb 24!

PROJECT 2:+++++Design Culture and the Trail of Innovation++++
Ulster University – Belfast Campus
Supervisors: Prof I Montgomery, Dr P Dunlop

This project focuses on the development of design solutions and offers the successful candidate the opportunity to review, evaluate, and develop new perspectives on innovation, skills development, craft and technology. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who can demonstrate an interest in the change agenda from local and international perspective, linking original research at Ulster with the impact of knowledge and technology transfer and the resultant change in working practices and knowledge advancement.

Applicants should be able to propose and undertake research initiating new ways of working whether in sustainable creative practice and the development of innovative design solutions that can bring real benefits to society. Good design can change behaviours and it is the change agenda that has created modal shifts in society – particularly as we move closer towards the third machine age. The interpretation can vary from art and design research practice to a more traditional academic thesis structure – dependent on the individual project proposal, the particular skillset of the applicant, and their methodology.

This is a cross-disciplinary design project with the opportunity to benefit from relevant co-supervision in a related discipline in other parts of the University. The successful candidate will take a key role in developing cutting-edge research in the design discipline with access to the latest international research through the library’s extensive academic resources and networks and through our collaborations with relevant industries. This is an internationally relevant project and links with other institutions and research centres will be supported and encouraged.

Read more here.

Apply Feb 24!

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Day to day research will involve the generation and testing of new ideas, the introduction of new models, and development of new prototypes within the broad spectrum design and engineering research. The successful applicant will have dedicated desk space, full access to many world-wide academic research databases, an annual stipend and access to supplementary support funds as well as ongoing supervision support and further training through Ulster’s Doctoral College.

Any queries email me: jai.montgomery@ulster.ac.uk