Considered Asia's version of the Red Dot Design Award, the VMARK award received more than 300 submissions and used a jury of globally esteemed professionals. Its assessment criteria recognize the innovation's impact on everyday life.
About VMARK Vietnam Design Week and VMARK Awards
The VMARK Design Award strives to promote creative design in Vietnam, encourage the design thinking process, and transform society’s perceptions about the capabilities of designers. As such, VMARK hopes to grow and develop economies, promote culture and social life, and generally improve human life.
The VMARK Vietnam Design Awards is a Vietnamese design award system powered by VDAS to recognize the best designs, design innovations, and design concepts submitted by individuals, businesses, and corporations.
The VMARK Award is given during VMARK Vietnam Design Week as a means of recognizing the quality of award-winning designs through screening by the professional judging panel from international design associations.
How are winners selected?
Winning projects must meet the judging criteria, and the VMARK Design Annual Award is awarded to entries that use design to solve problems for a better life. Awards are judged based on the following:
- Innovation: Products must facilitate a modern and convenient lifestyle to improve the quality of living and working environments to create a sustainable future.
- Green design: Products encourage community awareness and use eco-friendly materials, and contribute to building a better and more sustainable life for the environment.
- Identity: In line with Vietnamese values and culture.
- Functionality: Highly practical and provides convenience and advanced facilities for a new life.
- Community: Contributing to the community, new processing techniques, and friendly materials benefiting the social community.
With regard to the host country, any person or organization from around the world may participate so long as their product is used in Vietnam.
Entries will undergo two rounds of screening by the judging panel, which includes internationally renowned experts, design professors, and presidents from prestigious design & architectural organizations worldwide.
The FRENZ “Designed for Life” philosophy
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