Call for entries - Hong Kong Smart Gifts Design Awards

The Hong Kong Smart Gifts Design Awards (HKSGDA), the first Smart Gifts Design Awards ever in Hong Kong, is organized by The Hong Kong Exporters' association (HKEA) in collaboration with The Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI), and supported by government funding under the CreateSmart Initiative (CSI).

With the funding support from "CreateHK," HKEA successfully initiated the HKSGDA. It is to encourage more Hong Kong giftware, manufacturers, and exporters to create their own designs by making use of advanced technology, innovative skills, and the integration of marketing and business strategy. More value has been added to their products and services, and they even use this as one of their core enterprise strategies to forward more new valued creations in order to sustain and enhance their competitiveness. In the long run, it may also help nurture new talents in both the design industry and exports & manufacturing industries.

"Hong Kong Smart Gifts Design Awards" (HKSGDA) is not only a pure product design competition targeted for designers, but an award for every suitable company, designer, and student who is able to create consumer products suitable for future development and exploitation in various aspects.

Therefore, it proposes:

• To motivate and recognize companies who have engaged in original design

  & creativity and apply such initiative successfully to transform their giftware business in the next two years.

• To showcase their success to the industry, i.e. their "smartness".
• To nurture new talents in the institutes and develop well-rounded business, design skills, and strategy for the long-term development of the industry.
  

Deadline:

• Deadline for online submission of entries: March 23^rd 2012
  

For further information:

• http://www.smartgiftsdesignawards.org.hk/

Publication: 09/03/2012