Established in 1972, the Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA) is the first of its kind in Hong Kong for practicing designers and design administrators, with aims to encourage the use of quality design and uplift the appreciation of quality design in the community. HKDA Awards was the most established multi-disciplinary design competitions in Asia-Pacific which organized by HKDA since 1975. From
1980 onwards, it became a biennial event. HKDA Awards was not simply a design competition to honour design excellence. HKDA Awards used design competition as an engine to energize a series of event (seminars, awards presentation ceremony, exhibitions etc) as a yearlong campaign which aims to promote Hong Kong Design to the world and enhance Hong Kong’s image as one of the major creative hub in Asia-Pacific. After playing one of the important roles in the design scene of Asia-Pacific for 36 years, HKDA Awards had started accepting entry submissions outside of Asia-Pacific in 2011 and became a global event. It was appropriately renamed to HKDA Global Design Awards (GDA). In HKDA GDA2011, 14 world-class judges have been invited to be the jury panel, attracting thousands of entry pieces from 40 destinations around the world including Mainland China, USA,Great Britain, France, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong and so forth. In 2013, we look forward to make HKDA GDA2013 open an important
page in the desing history.
