01 Awards Overview
Designverse Awards is the world’s first design ecosystem big data research award, dedicated to honoring design institutions, enterprises, organizations, and individuals that have made outstanding contributions to the greater design industry chain in the fields of space design (architecture, landscape, interior, technical consultancy, professional consultancy, specialized consultancy), product design (product design, product branding), and social innovation (brands, events). The award aims to drive sustainable development across the global design industry.
With the core mission of “Connecting Global Design Resources to Build a Data-Driven Design Value Evaluation System”, Designverse Awards leverages Designverse Ranking, platform search data, and global public sentiment analysis to focus on three categories: Space Design, Product Design, and Brand/Major Events. By leading specialized subdivisions within the design industry, the award upholds the healthy and positive development of the design ecosystem.Through platform content promotion empowerment and intellectual property protection, the award provides long-term brand incubation & consulting services to applicants. It supports originality, helps participants enhance the value of their digital brand assets, secures industry recognition, and unlocks access to broader potential business opportunities.
02 Entry Categories
Designverse Awards 2025-2026 are structured into 5 main entry categories, each containing subcategories and subdivisions:
– Space Category(4 subcategories, 93 subdivisions): scheme (architecture, landscape, interior), technical consultants (such as structural, MEP, curtain wall, etc.), professional consultants (such as curation, multimedia, etc.), specialized consultants (such as sustainable engineering consultant, etc.)
– Space Category – Concept(4 subcategories, 93 subdivisions): scheme (architecture, landscape, interior), technical consultants (such as structural, MEP, curtain wall, etc.), professional consultants (such as curation, multimedia, etc.), specialized consultants (such as sustainable engineering consultant, etc.)
– Product Category(4 subcategories, 24 subdivisions): residential, office, social and leisure, transportation
– Product Category – Concept(4 subcategories, 24 subdivisions): residential, office, social and leisure, transportation
– Brand/Major Events Category(4 subcategories, 30 subdivisions): corporate/brand, regional/city, international projects, domestic projects
03 Awards Setting
Designverse Awards is an international competition recognizing excellence in design. It includes five main categories: Space, Space – Concept, Product, Product – Concept, and Brand/Major Events. Each category features four major prizes: Nomination Prize, Special Honor Prize, Jury Grand Prize, and Outstanding Prize. Notably, the Space – Concept and Product – Concept categories include Concept Nomination Prize, Concept Special Honor Prize, Concept Jury Grand Prize, and Concept Outstanding Prize.
04 Evaluation Mechanism
The Designverse Awards evaluation mechanism consists of preliminary data based review which involves statistical analysis, search, and ranking based on global design industry information—and a final selection through voting by a jury panel composed of industry leaders and renowned experts.
Evaluation Process
1. First Stage: Preliminary Data Based Review
The Designverse Big Data Research Center supports the awards committee by leveraging global design industry data for statistical analysis, search rankings, and references. This process helps generate Nomination Prize (unlimited) and Special Honor Prize (Top 3 in each subcategory).
2. Second Stage: Jury Panel Voting Selection
The jury panel votes based on Innovation (40%), Sustainability (30%), and Social Impact (30%) to determine the Jury Grand Prize (Top 1 in each subcategory) and the Outstanding Prize (21 outstanding selections across all categories).
Jury Panel
The jury panel consists of 36 global industry leaders and renowned experts, including: 12 representatives from international development institutions, 12 representatives from domestic development institutions, and 12 representatives from internationally recognized and well-known domestic brands.
The panel members possess deep insights into the design industry ecosystem, extensive collaborative experience, unique judgment, a global perspective, and expertise in leading acclaimed projects. They evaluate entries through a scoring system combined with written comments, selecting winners for the Jury Grand Prize in the Space, Space – Concept, Product, Product – Concept, and Brand/Major Events categories. From these, the panel further selects 21 Outstanding Prize winners, distributed as follows: 6 in the Space Category (architecture, landscape, interior, technical consultant, professional consultant, specialized consultant), 6 in the Space Category – Concept (architecture, landscape, interior, technical consultant, professional consultant, specialized consultant), 4 in the Product / Product – Concept categories (Residential, Office, Social and Leisure, Transportation), and 2 in the Brand/Major Events Category (corporate/brand, regional/city, international project, domestic project). Each jury member has the right to directly nominate two institutions for the Nomination Prize and to propose a Special Jury Prize.
The final jury panel of the Designverse Awards 2025-2026 consists of 36 jurors who are design and development brand experts, including Li Hu, Libin Chen, Li Xiang, Tony Brown, Li Mengdi, Penghui, Adam Li Mengzhou, Cindy Zhou, Tomus Hu, Liu Yichun, Yantian Zhou, Alessio Zhang, David Mohney, Yang Xiaodong, Shikyo Fu, Shao Shu, Eidy Wang, Hanson Wang, Zhu Xiaofeng, Tao Zhang, Michael Mesaric, Wang Hui, Dennis Tu, Pingjie Du, Chris Chen, Yanguo Cai, Ingres Zheng, Jacques Ferrier, Ray Bai, Meng Fanhao, Taku Hibino, Taeg Nishimoto, Huo Zhongyan, Zhang Changcheng, Zhong Ming, Cai Yidong. They have joined the Designverse Awards 2025-2026 as final jurors, helping the awards integrate diversity, equity, and professionalism.
05 Awards Schedule
Early Bird Submission: 2025/4/1~2025/6/10
Regular Submission: 2025/6/11~2025/11/11
Delayed Submission: 2025/11/12~2026/1/26
Deadline for Registration Fee Payment: 2026/1/27
*The above times are based on the Beijing Time.
Awards Announcement
Nomination Prize and Special Honor Prize Announcement: 2026/3/24
Jury Grand Prize Announcement: 2026/4/8
Outstanding Prize Announcement: 2026/5/1
06 Entry Requirements
[1] The Designverse Awards are open for global registration. Spatial design agencies, product design agencies, brands/enterprises, and brands/major events planning/operating agencies are all eligible to apply.
[2] Participating works must have been completed within the past five years. Works completed/purchased/used between April 1, 2020 and the deadline for registration of this award.You can have your submitted works publicly announced on the official designverse website after registration and submission.
[3] There is no time or space limit for concept works, such as past bidding, unrealized designs, projects under construction or designs that have not been put into production. Entries in the Space Category – Concept must demonstrate innovation, forward-thinking vision, and sustainability, while entries in the Product Category – Concept should showcase technological advancements and breakthroughs in user experience.
[4] Participants must be legal entities or individuals with primary responsibility, including but not limited to manufacturers and distributors of goods, building owners, software or media suppliers, project developers, and research sponsors.
[5] For works involving multiple participants, joint registration is allowed. One party must be designated as the main participant, and all other members must be registered on the designverse platform.
[6] Participants must own the copyright of their submitted works and ensure there are no intellectual property disputes. When applying, they must carefully fill in the registration details, including institution profile, logo, and visual/text materials of the work. Once awarded, the submitted information cannot be arbitrarily modified.
07 Registration
Online Submission of Works
1. Website Registration (https://www.designverse.com.cn/): Please log in to the designverse official website and register an account as an organization.2. Fill in Organization Information / Upload Submitted Work(s): Please complete your account information, including organization name, introduction/profile, awards history, and upload the organization logo as the profile picture. Then, go to the Personal Center(Account) to upload your submitted works, including project name, project credits, descriptive text, image uploads, and other visual content in the image library.
* For registration/upload guidelines, please click the following links:
https://www.designverse.com.cn/article/space/451864 ( Space, Space – Concept, Brand/Major Events categories)
https://www.designverse.com.cn/article/industry/451987 (Product, Product – Concept categories)
Email to Awards Committee
1. Send Submission Email: Please add the official WeChat account (DesignverseAwards) and send an email to the official awards committee email address (awards@designverse.com.cn). The email subject should be: Confirm Registration for Designverse Awards 2025-2026 + Institution Name + Submitted Work Name. Please also attach a scanned copy of the institution’s business license. The awards committee will respond with the relevant payment information for the submission.
2. Complete Payment / Confirm Successful Registration: The participating institution must complete the payment before the corresponding deadline. Please send the payment receipt to the official awards committee email (awards@designverse.com.cn). You will then receive a confirmation notice that your registration has been successfully completed.
Registration Fee
Early Bird Fee: RMB 2850
Regular Fee: 3680
Extension Fee: 4680
08 Awards Benefits
Standard Benefits
A. Designverse Awards certificate (digital version service)
B. Digital yearbook（digital version service）
C. Right to use the Designverse Awards logo service
D. Winning works released and distributed on relevant social media platforms under designverse service
E. designverse platform’s homepage first screen & prize tag & IP page display and priority recommendation (including award logo)
F. The logos of winning agencies/brands on the designverse platform homepage display (limited to Jury Grand Prize & Outstanding Prize)
Premium Benefits
A. Designverse Awards trophy & certificate (copy version)
B. Column interview and new media articles publication and promotion: Choice among”Eyes on Me”, “Super Nova” and “Top Talk” columns.
C. Short video “Designverse Discover You” case collaboration.
D. Brand Image / Content Enhancement Special Planning
09 Intellectual Property Statement
Participants in the Designverse Awards (including but not limited to design agencies/companies/brands) hold complete intellectual property rights to their submitted works and authorize the organizer to reasonably use the aforementioned intellectual property for advertising and public promotion purposes related to the Designverse Awards. The organizer has the right to publish, exhibit online/offline, and release the works of participants in multimedia formats such as videos on media platforms. All works submitted by participants (including but not limited to design agencies/companies/brands) are original creations of the participants and must not contain any content that infringes upon the intellectual property rights of any third party. In the event of any infringement or allegation of infringement, the infringing party will bear all legal consequences and be disqualified from participating or receiving any prizes.
10 Awards Institutions
Organizer: designverse
Strategic Partnership: Zhangjiang Shang
Executive: Designverse Big Data Research Center
Designverse Content Center
Designverse Matching Center
For any inquiries, please send an email to awards@designverse.com.cn
For more details, please visit: https://www.designverse.com.cn/article/space/452086
