GUANGZHOU DESIGN WEEK is an annual international event for promoting innovation and design that takes place in Guangzhou every end of year since 2006, organized by GUANGZHOU MUNICIPALITY. In 2007,Guangzhou Design Week has become the ever first & only design event in China, jointly endorsed & promoted worldwide by the top three design organizations in the world, International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI); International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA)

Themed by “WIN BY DESIGN”， Guangzhou Design Week includes Exhibition, Forum + Conference, Award+ competition, workshop & Thematic Event, covering diversity of design fields such as industrial design, branding & Communicating design, cityscape & architecture design, interior design and fashion design etc.

In Guangzhou Design Week every year, Guangzhou becomes a wonderful carnival for designers, an interactive communicating platform between designers and entrepreneurs, an information center to share the world leading design conceptions and trends, a human resource center gathering plenty of design talents, a great chance for brands from home and abroad, leading trends life style, improving brands images and winning the market by creative original products

Logo of Guangzhou Design Week is designed by the Danish INDEX: Godfather  Johan Adam Linneballe, President & CEO of Scandinavian Branding A/S. Figuring the a f human, with western face and the eastern shape. It looks like first Chinese character of Guangzhou in shape of a flying man or a Chinese dragon rooted man is thinking.
 

In GZDW07, Carlos Hinrichsen, president of ICSID, Shrikant Nivasarkar, president of IFI and Jacques Lange, president of ICOGRADA, exchanging views on the role of design industry in the region economy growth. 

More than 200 distinguished designers home and abroad have participated in Guangzhou Design Week, spreading and exchanging modern design concepts, as well as getting a direct express to the design market in China.

By superior level and widest influence in China, many products, designers, enterprises have realized their value from winning in the awards organized in Guangzhou Design Week.

Forums are always extreme hot in Guangzhou Design Week, where designers can touch the future trend through great speeches and classic cases, as well as sponsors enjoys a valuable professional promotion platform

According to the incomplete statistics, there are around 2000 articles reporting GUANGZHOU DESIGN WEEK by over 300 different medias home & abroad through more than 1000 participating reporters every year.

“DESIGN IN UK”, “THE DANISH SESSION”, “ITALY DAY”, such kind of events is organized by the local foreign consulates in Guangzhou Design Week, promoting design industry of their countries. 














For many great brands, projects and products, designers’ circle is their first choice of distribution channel and this annual international design event becomes a platform of their commercial promotion.

From GE Edison Award 2006 to Kohler (China) 10th Anniversary Celebration, from GAC Automobile Design Competition to Feel Design in Mayland International Resort, Guangzhou Design Week is the excellent choice for enterprises, products and projects to promote their branding.