Future¡¤Green Creativity
The recruit notice of 1st Vantage water heater industrial design competition

Zhongshan Vantage Inc. whose predecessor is Zhongshan Vantage Co.Ltd founded in April,1992has established on Nov.28th, 2001. At present, Vantage has set up kitchenware, water heater, solar energy three departments. For many years, Vantage have had"Reliablility¡¢Responsibility¡¢Innovation¡¢Win-win"as the core of their business culture.They devote themselves to be the brand leader of kitchenware of the whole country and the kitchenware producer and suppliers of the whole world.

Product magazine is the first new sharp magazine media which discuss the product stands in the marketing angle. She devotes in advancement of enterprises' product innovation design, and has high prestige and value in domestic industrial design. As the most effective element of promote product added value, design has been accepted generally by the people, design is become more and more important to enterprise's function. In order to promote student and field overall product design level, boost domestic and international design exchange, excavates the water heater domain design talented person, Zhongshan Vantage Inc. water heater department unites media product magazine, collects the water heater product design proposal to the general colleges teachers and students, the design companies and the designers.

The subject of competition:
Future¡¤Green Creativity

Sponsor:
Product magazine
Zhongshan Vantage Inc. water heater department

Support Universities:
Tsinghua University                     Zhejiang University
Hunan University                       Tongji University
Guangzhou University                   Shenzhen University
Henan University of Technology
Shantou Unieversity
Guangdong University of Technology
Zhengzhou Institute of Aeronautical Industry Management
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts          Japan Chiba University
German Darmstadt Applied Technology University
 North Korea University

Special Support:
Industrial design education committee of National Ministry of Education
Industrial Design Branch of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society

Units:
Shenzhen CIDF Industrial Design Management Co.Ltd

Special Assistance:
Design Online
Denmark CBD International Design Company

Media Support:
China Business New Daily Newspaper
China Marketing Magazine

Entry content and requirements :
1. Family-oriented civilian water heaters and scouring bath products with creative design, including gas water heaters, electric water heaters and water supply, heating composite Bigualu;
2. It can be based on the life of the products used functions, appearance, energy conservation and improvements in materials, or future-oriented conceptual creativity and can also be revolutionary alternative to traditional products solutions;
3. Comply with the principles of green design innovative and bold ideas have a certain market value.
4. Emphasize the "people of the design, green energy" of characteristic industrial design.

Competition committee:
Vetting Committee Director : He Renke Dean of Art and Design Institute of Hunan University, Professional teaching Chairman of the National Steering Committee of industrial design
Vetting Committee Honorary Director : Huang Qijun CEO of Zhongshan Vantage Inc.
Vetting Committee Executive Director: Du Jianjun Executive Chief Editor of Product magazine

Vetting Committee Members:
Lu Xiaobo Professor, Vice Chairman of Academy & Design, Tsinghua University
Dean of Information Arts &Design Department
Sun Shouqian Professor, the Secretary-General of industrial design branch of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society
Yin Zhengsheng Professor, the director of product design department of environment and design institute of Tongji University
Tong huiming Professor, the vice chief of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Zhao Yongzhi Executive Director of web Design Online
He weijian General manager of water heater department of Vantage Inc.
Nils Toft CEO of CBD international design company
Chonbuk       National University department of industrial design college of art

Application scope and requirements :
1. Application offer to all the major professional and industrial design institutions in china or abroad;
2. Competition opened to all independent designers;
3. Professional design agencies;
4. Designers from geographical, age, professional, service companies and other restrictions to individuals or companies participating may;
5.Original works , and no counterfeit or violations of intellectual property rights of others;
6. Conceptual design products must consider the technique of modern manufacture or industrial., design programmes have achievable;
7. Design needs in the context of their product design, and consistent with the theme of this competition;
8. Design needs fully consider the market value of the products to some extent the future trends;
9. Participants or teams of each programs not more than three entries;
10. Had participated in the design contest or other third-party services for product design programs not participating;
11. Participants are not charged any fees.

The request of participative work
1.Three dimensional view, perspective effect chart, sample or tablet held during imperial audience of design proposal.
2.The instruction of the product and the designer team
3.Design procedure declaration
4.The participative work must submit the electronic document compact disc, the document definition above 300dpi, the Tiff form; the document size is A3 (420 MM X 290 MM). Whether has conforms to the modern society's esthetic tendency, as well as whether has the certain market value
5.The work accepted also have to provide dimensional scaled model and electronic modeling IGES document compact disc

The standard of evaluation
1.Whether conforms to the subject of this competition, as well as whether conforms to this session's participative scope; Whether the design product plan does have foresightedness, how about the innovation degree
2.Whether has conforms to the modern society's esthetic tendency, as well as whether has the certain market value
3.Whether volume production has the feasibility from modern manufacture technology aspect.
4.User's value, including convenience, comfortableness, security, usability, general function and so on.
5.Whether it has the original creativity in deriving the cultural element
6.Expressing the demand of the green design in saving the production cost, the energy consumption, the new material selects and so on

The schedule of competition
3.25-6.30 The stage of work collection
7.10Initially comments
7.15Inform
8.26Final comments
8.26 Promulgation

The establishment of award
Golden Prize: 2 RMB 30000
Silver Prize: 3 RMB 10000
Copper Prize: 5 RMB 5000
Outstanding Prize: 10 Souvenir
Organizing Prize: 5 Certification

The rights and interests of winners
1.Rights and interests all prize-winners obtain the correlative award the certificate, all honors permanent are effective;
2.The students who participant will obtain with Vantage designs the branch of manufacture to link up the exchange the opportunity, first will obtain Vantage to practise or the cooperative opportunity;
3.Other prize-winners will design the branch of manufacture with Vantage to establish the exchange relations, first will obtain the cooperation opportunity;
4.All participants in the promulgation round-trip the transportation expense (domestic train ticket) to give to reimburse
5.All awarded products will be exhibited in the Vantage product innovation museum
6.All awarded products will be exhibited in "Product" magazine

The ownership of Intellectual property rights
1.The intellectual property rights of all participative work belong to the sponsor. The sponsor has the rights on the plan which carries on re-engineering, production, demonstration, publication, other forms propaganda
2.To the golden prize, the silver prize and the copper prize design proposal, water heater department of Vantage Inc. as one important sponsor has the right to apply intellectual property rights protection in the State Intellectual Property Office of P.R.C for these works.
3.After the activity and promulgates finished, any unit and individual does not have to propagandize, publish, exhibit these design proposal of awarded and participative work of this competition and does not have to the third party transfer, otherwise, the sponsor has the right to investigates the legal liability.
4.Sponsor has the rights to explain this competition in responsibility. If there is any change about competition time, please follow the final notice of the organizing committee.

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Contact with the organizing committee
Add: Rm.F/G, 15/F Block B Fortune Plaza, 7060 Shennan Road, Shenzhen, P.R.China
Tel:0755-82879215 82879285
Fax::0755-82879295
Contact: Chen ling ,Fu Qian , Mao Hongmin
Email£º2006huadi@163.com

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