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Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen
The World's Third Red Dot Design Museum

Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen is the third Red Dot Design Museum in the world and the only one in China, introducing more than 10 international design exhibitions, design courses and design projects every year, displaying more than 1,000 award-winning designs of the four Red Dot from 70 countries and regions around the world, and providing more than 300 award-winning design works in various functional areas for experience, which is the best entry point to learn about the global design trends and experience the charm of design up close. The Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen is the best entrance to learn about global design trends and experience the charm of design up close. Through high-quality international design exhibitions, forward-looking design trends and exploratory discussions, as well as public education programs, the Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen hopes to present the top level of design in various fields and the innovative thinking of designers and design teams at multiple levels; provide professional support and a platform for cooperation in design creation and practice; and expand the outreach of design, so as to allow design to benignly intervene in the society, enhance the public's awareness of and participation in design and promote the upgrading of cities and industries; and ultimately, expand the reach of design to enhance the awareness of and participation in design. It will also promote the upgrading of cities and industries, and ultimately create a city brand of "Design Capital" to promote the development of world-class cultural and technological industries.

Red Dot Design Award, founded in Germany in 1954, looks back at a tradition spanning more than 60 years. Every year, Red Dot receives more than 17,000 submissions from 70 countries. It is one of the most influential design awards in the world. In 1955, the exhibition “Ständige Schau formschöner Industrieerzeugnisse” opened in Essen, which was the initial form of Red Dot Design Museum. The world's first Red Dot Design Museum was located in the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen, Germany. The exhibition space was designed and remodeled by the Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Lord Norman Forster (a well-renowned architectural designer known for Apple's headquarters building) on the basis of the abandoned boiler house. In 2005, the second Red Dot Design Museum was established in Singapore. In 2017, the Singapore Red Dot Design Museum moved to its present location along the Marina Bay after a 12-year period since it was first established in 2005 along Maxwell Road. It is also the physical embodiment of Red Dot Awards.

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Design Landmark


In 2018, the Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen, operated by Xiamen Culture Media Group, will also become a hub between international design and Chinese design. The museum presents the top level of design and innovative thinking in various fields, including the regular exhibition: The Form of Success, curated by Prof. Dr. Peter Zec, the founder and CEO of Red Dot, which features 600 brands from around the world, and the first authorized exhibition by Apple. Each year, there will be 10 special thematic exhibitions, leading visitors into the diverse world of design. In addition, the museum houses the world's first Red Dot Design Space, a second work space for creative workers, and the world's first Red Dot Design School.

Museum Sections
The First Red Dot Design Museum that Brings Together Award-winning Designs from Three Competitions Categories of Red Dot Design Award

World's First Red Dot Design School

The world's first Red Dot Design School, gathering global design resources, creating an international high-end design thinking cultivation and industrial upgrading coaching platform; collaborating with city managers, enterprises, universities and designers to form China's most innovative and influential creative community; providing comprehensive solutions for urban renewal and industrial upgrading.
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Exhibition

By uniting 70 countries’ award-winning designs from Red Dot Award: Product Design, Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design and Red Dot Award: Design Concept, the exhibition showcases top-level design and leading designers and design teams’ creative thinking from various fields, and leads designers and companies to explore the latest industrial design trends.

Except the three regular exhibitions, each year, Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen presents the latest Red Dot award-winning designs in three special exhibitions, highlighting trends from design, material and market in product design, communication design and design concept. Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen aims to present top-level design and leading designers and design teams’ creative thinking through more than 10 high-quality international design exhibitions annually. Furthermore, it will also collaborate with top design brands to showcase leading designs from various fields in a multi-facet way including new filed, cross-boundary cooperation, classic design, new market, social design, etc.
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Red Dot Shop

Red Dot Design Shop brings design enthusiasts a selection of design products from around the world. In addition to award-winning designs from the Red Dot and the Contemporary Good Design Award, you can also buy co-innovated products created by the Red Dot Design Center in collaboration with outstanding designers from around the world. During the opening of the museum, we also highlighted the "XMENLY" cultural and creative products that are unique to Fujian and Southern Fujian.
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Press

5th Anniversary丨Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen Grand Reopening!
Social Design Action | The Synergy of Design - Social Design Exhibition 2023 @Chengdu