香港双年展 HKDA Asia Design Awards 09

HKDA Asia Design Awards 09— Asia-Pacific Design Biennale 2008/09Edited by viction:ary

Organised by the Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA), the HKDA Asia Design Awards has been a Who’s Who of design excellence inside Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region since 1975. For the year 08/09, honouring the diligent hard work of today’s designers with the theme ‘Work your guts out’, the comprehensive, multi-disciplinary award has received 2,071 entries from destinations including China, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taipei and Hong Kong.
As an extension of the Awards, HKDA Asia Design Awards 09 compiled over 350 winning and merited projects spanning a wide range of categories in the fields of graphic, product, spatial and new media. Opening with the section of Judges choice & Complimentary, this publication introduces a rich source of distinguishing designs culled by a judging panel of globally respected design icons including Stefan Sagmeister (USA) and Kaoru Kasai (Japan) for graphics, Eric Chan (USA) for products, Thomas Heatherwick (UK) and Rocco Yim (HK) for spatial design, along with Fabio Simoes Pinto (Brazil) and Matt Pyke (UK) for the area of new media design.