2015 10th ‘Hardware Prize’ Chinese Hardware Industrial Design Competition

Introduction
Hardware Prize-Chinese hardware industrial design competition has been held for nine times since its foundation in 2006. With the support of sponsors and cooperators, all previous works in competition have been making progress in aspects of quantity and quality. The competition attracts participation and support of designers from dozens of colleges and universities, design companies across the country as well as numerous independent designers. In order to improve innovative design ability of hardware in China, display new idea, concept of product innovation, promote hardware industrial development in China, and reinforce intellectual property right protections and international competition, Hardware Cup 10^th Chinese hardware industrial design formally opens.

Theme of competition： The Future of Lives Depends on the Innovative Design

Participants

Teachers and students home and abroad in related majors

Design company and independent designers

Other design amateurs

Sponsors
Sub-Committee of Industrial Design Teaching Guidance in Institutions of Higher Learning In Ministry of Education

People’s Government of Yong Kang

Supporters

National Public Service Demonstration Platform for Minor Enterprises

Technical Innovative Service Platform For Industrial Design of Zhejiang

Zhejiang Science and Technology Bureau

Economic and Information Committee of Zhejiang

Organizers

Hardware Industrial Design Demonstration Base of Zhejiang
Yongkang Science and Technology Bureau
Yongkang Economic and Information Bureau

Sponsoring enterprise
Zhejiang Haoda Industry and Trading Co., Ltd.
Zhejiang Sinda Aluminium Industry Co., Ltd.
Zhejiang Juli Industrial Trading Co., Ltd.
Yongkang Zhengguang Industrial Product Design Co., Ltd

Submit your entries E-mail：wjds2015@126.com

Contact: Miss Jiang

Address: NO 189, Zizheng Road, Economic Developmental Zone, Yongkang, Zhejiang;

Tel: +86(579) 87026260 Fax: +86(579) 87026207

Judging Panel
Judging panel is composed by expert professors from industrial design professional teaching guidance sub-committee in institutions of higher education of ministry of education domestic prestigious universities and colleges like Hunan University, Zhejiang Industrial University and so on.
Director: He Renke, dean of Academy of Arts in Hunan University, professor, doctoral adviser, director in sub-committee of industrial design teaching guidance in institutions of higher education of ministry of education.
Vice director: Zhou Xu, professor, doctoral adviser, Member of sub-committee of art design teaching guidance in ministry of education;

Vice director: Peter Litzlbauer, dean of Stuttgart National Institute of Art in Germany

Judging Criteria

Innovation, 30%
2. Marketing value and feasible, 20%
3. Modeling innovation and color harmony, graphic design, 20%
4. Video file and rendering, 30%

Categories of Competition

Haoda vacuum cup Competition

Product categories: all kinds of vacuum cup

Sponsoring enterprise: Zhejiang Haoda Industry and Trading Co., Ltd.

Website: http://zjykhaoda.cn.alibaba.com/

Keyword: fashion, functional, energy-efficient

Sinda aluminium cooker Competition

Product category: aluminium made non-stick pan, accessories like panhandle and so on
Sponsoring enterprise: Zhejiang Sinda Aluminium Industry Co., Ltd.
Website: www.sindaal.com
Keyword: new materials, technology

Juli security door and lockset competition

Product categories: security door and lockset, lock handle, electronic lock, fingerprint lock and so on
Sponsor enterprise: Zhejiang Juli Industrial Trading Co., Ltd.
Website: www.cnjinlei.com

Keyword: novel appearance, practice, multiple functions, new concept

Zhengguang healthy products competition

Product categories: beauty bar, pedicure, face steaming machine, face lift machine, massage cappa, massage belt and so on
Sponsor enterprise: Yongkang Zhengguang Industrial Product Design Co., Ltd.
Website: www.ykzgsj.icoc.cc

Keyword: practice, humanity, environmental protection and fashion;

Awards setting

For each category, there is one golden prize, two silver prizes, three bronze prizes, and six excellent prizes as well as several entry prizes set. If the golden prize is vacant, the bonus will be used in additional setting of silver, bronze and excellent awards.

Prize	Numbers of Winner	Bonus (RMB)	Other awards
Golden prize	1	¥50,000 ($8000)	Certificate, Crystal trophy
Silver prize	2	¥20,000 ($3000)	Certificate, Crystal trophy
Bronze prize	3	¥10,000 ($1500)	Certificate, Crystal trophy
Excellent prize	6	¥3,000 ($450)	Certificate
Entry awards	Several		Certificate
Total bonus of each category	¥138,000 ($21200)
Total bonus of 10^th Hardware Prize	¥552,000 ($84800)

Schedule:

1	May，2015– 30 August	Call for Entries (No entry fee)
2	September, 2015	Initial assessment for semifinalists
3	Within 15 days after initial assessment publishing	Submit video file and more views of the design work
4	October, 2015	Final adjudication
5	November, 2015	Award ceremony

Regulations of entries

The work must be original without infringement on intellectual property rights; the same work participating in competition can’t be contributed for many times; if repetitive prize winning is found when the competition results are publicized, or there is other non-honest behaviors, the organizing committee will cancel its qualification and inform organizing committees of other major competitions.
The work should conform to the theme of competition.
The work should consider marketing value and feasible.
The product scheme having participated in other design competitions or becoming third-party service design can not participate in the competition.
The layout is limited for one piece of work, which is composed by the following contents: category of competition, overall effect picture, partial effect picture, more than two main views, design instruction, name of work (there should be NO name of participants or any other signs in work; Images (maximum of three) must be A2 in size (420mm x 594mm), jpg format and 150dpi. Images must include the topic, renderings or photos, core structure (component) drawings, basic sizing and description in Chinese/English. Finalist designs must provide more accurate and detailed information, including but not limited to videos.
After publishing semifinalists of competition, the semifinalists should provide video file and more views of the design work before final judging.

Intellectual property right

The intellectual property rights of golden, silver, bronze and excellent prize in the competition belong to title co-organizers and organizing committee of competition. Title co-organizers have the right to make patent application for winning works before exhibition. The designer possesses common right of signature for patent. If title enterprise makes industrialization of design achievements, it will provide for designer with certain economic award based on industrial degree. As to winning works, the participants should not transfer, publish and participate it in other exhibition. Otherwise, the organizing committee has the right to investigate and affix legal liability.
Organizing committee of competition has right of exhibition, publishing and publicizing as to all works participating in competition. The title co-organizer enjoys benefits to make re-design, exhibition, publishing and publicizing in other forms as to winning works in competitions. Other units and individuals should not publicize, publish and exhibit design schemes of winning products and can not transfer to the third party. Otherwise, the organizing committee has the right to investigate and affix legal liability.
The legal liability resulted from behaviors of participants like plagiarism, and theft of commercial secrets is in charge by participants and the sponsor has the right to cancel its qualification to participate in competition.
The sponsor retains final power of interpretation as to the competition.

The Official Website of winning works in past ‘Hardware Prize’ competitions: http://www.ykwjdesign.com

Entry Form Download Here