The Beijing Design Week (BJDW)is an annual citywide cultural event co-hosted by Chinese ministry of culture and Beijing Municipal People’s Government. The event will last two weeks, and overlap the National Day Holiday(1st—7th October) of China every year. Attracting over 2,000 designers, institution representatives and industry experts, over 5 million visitors(person-time), and more than 100 accredited news media in attendance every year, BJDW has become the largest and most influential platform in Asia for display, promotion, exchange and trading of creative designs.

Hiiibrand International Creative Platform.  Hiiibrand is a platform that enables broad communications and interactions among creative, artistic and design talents across the world.  Since 2010, Hiiibrand has successfully hosted over 30 authentic and professional international competitions, and has attracted over 30,000 people from more than 100 countries and regions to participate, who come from various creative fields including identity, children’s books, illustration, typeface, product design and photography. It has also won support and endorsement from over 200 domestic and overseas professional agencies, organizations, institutions and media, such as ico-D, ATypI, etc. Hiiibrand also organizes high-standard competitions and cultural events on behalf of governments and corporations. To this day, we’ve organized more than 100 cultural communication activities in diversified forms, including exhibitions, lectures, workshops, sharing sessions, story-telling sessions and study tours, having an impact on more than 5 million people around the world.  Hiiibrand is committed to integrating global high-quality creative resources and creating a top creative platform through competition operations, exhibition planning, artist agency, design creation, and copyright licensing.

Macau Design Centre (MDC) is the first platform to give Macau designers , design enterprises and design lovers the opportunity to exchange , promote , learn and cooperate. MDC has started operating on the 15th of November, 2014 . Formerly and old deserted factory at the Areia Preta, is the first innovative multi-functional building designed to promote Macau’s cultural creative industry.

 

Shenzhen Culture, Creativity & Design Association (SCCDA) is a social organization commissioned by Shenzhen municipal government to bridge and connect the local government with the cultural, creative and design industries.  

SCCDA serves to operate and brand the “City of Design” programme and is responsible for the promotion of "Shenzhen Design", the integration of the city's cultural and creative design resources and strengths, and the domestic and international communication and cooperation with fellow Creative Cities and professional design institutions at home and abroad.

SCCDA has played an important role in the organization of major design events in the city, including Shenzhen Design Week (SZDW), Shenzhen Global Design Award (SDA), Shenzhen Design Award for Young Talents (SDAY), Shenzhen-Hong Kong Design Twin-cities Exhibition among others. The association has contributed to the promotion of Shenzhen’s city image and the branding of “City of Design”.

Zhejiang Modern Intelligence and Manufacturing Promotion Center is a civil non-profit organization organized by China Academy of Art (CAA), registered in Civil Affairs Bureau of Zhejiang Province on February 5, 2016. It is established as an operational entity mainly for holding each session of Design Intelligence Award (DIA) with relevant activities including launch conference, evaluation processes, exhibitions and award ceremony, as well as providing services as research project, consultancy, social training, design conferences and exhibitions, information communication services, etc.

Zhuhai Macau Design Centre is founded by Macau Design Centre and Zhuhai Huafa Group with the sponsor and support of the Macau and Zhuhai Government., aims to expand the business market for local creative design industry , to integrate the creative design resources from domestic and overseas areas, to encourage the development of creative design industry of Macau and Zhuhai, in order to build a comprehensive service platform for the creative design industry for the both places.

Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau is an independent, non-profit organisation that creates programs and opportunities for dissemination and discussion related to memory, oral history, testimony, visual arts, the Cuban nueva trova, digital art, graphic design, inspired by historical and literary legacy of Pablo de la Torriente Brau and using new technologies of communication and artistic creation. Centro Pablo gathers a community of graphic designers who have participated in competitions, exhibitions, workshops for a decade. The Centre has organised the Salon de Arte Digital for 11 years, closely linked to the work of graphic designers. The Center has organised competitions and exhibitions on cultural issues related to their work programs, memory, Cuban nueva trova, digital art. The program has also developed Compartiendo sue?os / Sharing Dreams, which includes graphic designers from Cuba and the United States and has been shown in Cuba and US cities, Spain and Argentina.

Since 1953 iF has been a capable and reputable provider of design services at the interface of design and economy. It is our aim to strengthen public awareness of design. To achieve this, we take great care in extending the communication network that we have built through our designoriented activities over the years. With our iF awards we have become one of largest and most respected design centers in the world. The iF logo, which is given to the winners of our competitions, has become an internationally acknowledged symbol of outstanding design. It serves as a beacon for design-interested audiences in the global economies. However, our team not only organizes the iF competitions: under the label "organized by iF" we also manage third party projects and offer our multi-faceted know-how in the areas of competition design and management and in all questions related to design and economic issues. The iF profile For more than fifty years, iF Industrie Forum Design e.V. has been located in the grounds of the Messe Hannover in Germany. A result of the 1953 "Sonderschau formgerechter Industrieerzeugnisse", the iF Industrie Forum Design e.V. was complemented in 2001 by the iF International Forum Design GmbH, which is responsible for all areas of business, and particularly for the renowned iF competitions.

JDP is Japan's only institution dedicated to comprehensive promotion of design. Truly comprehensive, this promotion encompasses the internationally recognized Good Design Award program—held for more than 60 years—and activities at Good Design Marunouchi and Tokyo Midtown Design Hub to share compelling design and explore its potential.

Since its creation in 1973, Design Center of the Philippines is at the forefront of pushing a national design agenda directed at driving global competitiveness and uplifting the quality of life. 

As the Philippines’ leading agency committed to cultivating a culture thriving on creativity, value creation and innovation, Design Center’s efforts go beyond promoting the value of good design and onto inspiring industries to create innovative human-centered solutions to address and anticipate challenges, shifts, and disruptions of the fast-changing and currently uncertain times. The agency also serves as a nucleus of the creative and design communities in the Philippines, fostering synergy and collaboration among them, the academe, the government, and innovation partners. 

Design Center leverages on a five-point Future-proofing by Design strategy aimed at equipping the Philippines’s design and creative ecosystem to look ahead of trends, development, and advances to anticipate inevitable movements and requirements in the future.   

• Future-proofing by Skills-Building

Provides learning and development that aim to instill a design mindset and skillset that fuses creativity with technical ability and interpersonal competencies in the next generation of globally competitive Filipino designers as well as support professionals in the Philippine design industry.

• Future-proofing by Enterprise-Building 

Offers strategic design services to micro, small and medium enterprises for increased market competitiveness and business sustainability as well as MSME resiliency.

• Future-proofing by Innovation-Building 

Advances the design agenda through forward-looking design research and development and by revolutionizing approaches to local materials to compete in the global market. 

• Future-proofing by Community-Building  

Through thought leadership conferences, workshops and design talks, the agency hopes to connect Filipinos to good design and Philippine design to the world by serving as a hub for creative minds to exchange ideas, share experiences, and explore solutions to create systemic and strategic changes in creating better realities moving forward. Further, Design Center aspires to build a community of design ambassadors and champions that encourage competitiveness and drive innovation.

• Future-proofing by Design Culture-building of a Nation 

Currently, Design Center is working on creating more awareness on the intentional and critical use of design, both as process and as strategy, through the development of a Philippine National Design Policy. The agency envisions the Philippines as a design-culture nation, where design is a critical component in national planning and development; a driving force for economic competitiveness and social innovation; and a key tool in providing a better quality of life. 

For the years ahead, Design Center envisions a nation built on a strong foundation of design culture, equipping and inspiring every Filipino with the right tools to create freely, design purposefully, and innovate boldly.  

Established in 1955, the (CPC) was organised by fifty public and private commercial and industrial businesses. CPC has combined innovative concept elements and its own ample business management force to integrate marketing modules and mechanisms with consultation to help Taiwan's creative industry to grow, connect innovative products to the market, promote marketing and to substantiate new business opportunities and profitable operations.

2020 is the founding year of the Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI), the TDRI plans to consolidate public resources from a wide range of government agencies with “the power of design,” promoting design as a central governance value and as a national defense strategy. The Institute is expected to guide the sustainable development of industries and society, which should in turn improve the living quality of the general public. It can assist the government in making national design policy and increasing governance efficiency. In addition, through an integrated interdisciplinary approach, the Institute will introduce design-based thinking into government administration, drive talent cultivation in the private sector, and build businesses that lead the design industry.