The 2025 ICIAD Product Design Award, themed “Cultural Connectivity · Intelligent Synergy · Sustainable Future,” focuses on integrating humanistic values, technological innovation, and ecological responsibility into product design. The competition encourages designers to redefine product narratives based on cultural DNA, fostering the integration of traditional craftsmanship and regional symbols with digital technology and intelligent manufacturing. Designers are encouraged to adopt a user-centered approach, exploring a balance between functional innovation, emotional engagement, and sustainable product lifecycles, thereby promoting cultural communication and low-carbon transformation in daily life. By recognizing outstanding works that embody cultural depth, commercial potential, and social value, the award aims to build a global innovation ecosystem for product design, drive industry upgrading, and offer solutions with both aesthetic and practical value for the future of human lifestyles.
As a key category of the 2025 ICIAD International Cultural Innovation Art & Design Awards, the ICIAD Product Design Award is open to industrial designers, brand organizations, university faculty and students, and independent creators worldwide. We seek product design proposals rooted in culture and driven by innovation. Entries should demonstrate creative reinterpretation of cultural symbols, deep insights into user needs, and the ability to integrate eco-friendly materials, circular design concepts, and smart technologies. The competition will serve as a platform for cross-disciplinary collaboration, promoting in-depth connections between designers, technology enterprises, cultural institutions, and the manufacturing sector. The award sets a new benchmark for the global product design industry by balancing cultural empowerment, technological advancement, and sustainable development, illuminating future consumer trends and the co-creation of social value.
