In 2018, the world's third Red Dot Design Museum was officially completed in the former Terminal 2 of Xiamen Gaoqi Airport. On August 18, 2021, the temporary exhibition hall was moved to Xiamen Fliport C&E Center due to the need for airport renovation. The Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen brings together winning designs from three competitions categories of Red Dot Design Award and the Contemporary Good Design Award, and features the world's first Red Dot Design School and the Red Dot Design Space.
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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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.
Spatial Design
The architectural design of the museum is
based on the flightpath concept. Each visitor entering the museum is like a
flying aircraft. The moving paths of visitors inside the museum thus form countless flightpaths.
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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First Red Dot Design Library and SPACE
SPACE is located on the second floor of the museum. Based on the concept of
“the second studio for the creators”, it turns 1,000m² of space into a comfortable
and creative space. Inside SPACE, the world’s first Red Dot Design Library brings
together a wide collection of design books and visitors can search Red Dot
award-winning entries from the query system.
There are over 300 award-winning designs with over 100 styles in 18 function sections. Creative workers,
designers and tourists can intuitively enjoy those design and feel the changes brought by design to their lives.
Red Dot Design Award receives more than 17,000 pieces of works from 70 countries around the world annually.
Red Dot Institute breaks them down to 4 categories: Doing, Working, Living, Enjoying, which is the basic concept
of Space’s planning, layout and design. It not only systematically presents Red Dot award-winning products, but
also gives visitors the chance to experience and use them, and to feel their quality of function, seduction,
use and responsibility.
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Design School
Red Dot Design Award has top global partners including thousands of brands, innovation institutes and design schools,
and hundreds of international authoritative design professors and experts from the three awards. Relying on
Red Dot Design Award’s design resources and forward-looking explorations on design trends, the Design School has an
objective to create a world-class top design platform to promote design thinking and industrial upgrading.
Along with city governors, companies,
schools and designers, it aims to build the most innovative and influential creative design community in China.
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Bring together world-leading design resources to empower creators in China
Integrate good design with good technology to drive the growth of world-class culture and science sector
Strive to become “Design Capital” to better attract internationally-renowned companies
Introduce the latest award-winning creativity to cultivate top talents for creative design
Inspire—Through exhibitions, workshops and SPACE, to promote innovation inspiration and design thinking among industries, companies and individuals.
Connect—Through workshops, SPACE and project cooperation, to provide industries, companies and individuals the opportunity of connection and mutual benefit.
Involve—Through workshops and project cooperation, to facilitate upgrading for industries, companies and individuals.
Support—Through workshops and project cooperation, to solve urban and social issues using the power of design.
As the world's third Red Dot Design Museum, Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen aims to present top-level design and leading designers and design teams’ creative thinking from various fields in a multi-facet way through high-quality international design exhibitions, forward-looking discussion and exploration on the design trends, and public education projects. It provides professional support and a cooperation platform for design practitioners and expands the connotation of design. By blending good design into the society, it enhances public awareness and participation in design, and promotes urban and industrial upgrading, which eventually leads to the establishment of the “design capital” as the city’s brand and advance the vision of developing world-class culture and technology industry.
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