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Global Design Awards HONOR Talents
HONOR Talents Global Design Awards is committed to bringing together those at the forefront of youth art. It aims to mobilize the rich resources of the HONOR brand to support, empower and incubate more original forces. The project continues to focus on art design, end product experiential design and new forms of design expression to further the global discourse between art and technology. We hope the world can witness the talents of these young creative minds, and consumers can constantly experience the beauty of technology and art innovation.
HONOR believes that two things are indispensable in future life, namely technology and art. Tech makes our life more convenient while art makes our life sublime.
Contest Schedule
Submission Open
25th May
Submission Deadline
22nd October
Judging
Mid to late October
Winners Announced
Mid to late November
Number of uses: The campus recruitment PASS card and the internship recruitment PASS card each have one opportunity to use.
Effective Period: Current student winners are valid to participate in campus recruitment and internship recruitment on the date of award announcement, before they graduate with their current degree. For more recruitment information, please refer to HONOR Recruitment's official website.
Recruitment position:
Design position.
For marketing design positions, please select "Sales Management Trainee", and for product and design positions, please choose "UX Design & Research Engineers".
(1) Sales Management Trainee:
Job Responsibilities
① Product Launch Manager: Leading product direction, formulating market strategy, planning launch plan, mobilizing market resources such as channel, retail, marketing, etc. to achieve maximum sales of end-user products, setting up market order and high-end brand development.
②Sales Guru: Developing channel strategy, plan, establishing, maintaining and promoting channel partner connections and relationships, as well as implementing business plans to realize sales growth.
③ Retail Expert: Provides global vision and career development opportunities, leading the design planning of various store displays and new product launch promotions, etc.
④ E-Commerce Sales & Operations: Grasp the pulse of the Internet's growth, responsible for the analysis, planning and implementation of product marketing and event plans on large Internet e-commerce platforms, including content management and related marketing events planning, operational data analysis, etc.
Job Requirements
① Bachelor's degree or above.
② Excellent learning, communication and coordination skills as well as insightful analytical skills.
③ Knowledge of minor languages such as Arabic, Spanish and Russian is a plus.
④ Experience in societies or social practice will be an added advantage.
⑤ Willing to broaden your global perspective and willing to accumulate experience in different countries and cultures, enthusiastic and energetic personality, open-minded and willingness to embrace change. Place of Work: Global, subject to global assignments.
(2) UX Design & Research Engineer
Job Responsibilities
Focus on discovering opportunities to improve product UX, adhere to user-centric experience design orientation, and improve UX through design and innovation; undertake user research, scene interaction design, visual information communication, dynamic design, human factors research, HCI and other related work for each of HONOR's end-user products; responsible for collaborating with designers to quickly build UI prototypes on various platforms. Includes the following specific job directions:
① User Research: Responsible for user research and user testing, discovering opportunities to improve product UX through qualitative and quantitative analysis of user behavior, and evaluating usability status.
② Interaction Design: Responsible for the design of human-computer interaction scenarios, logic, tasks and operation processes.
③ Visual Design: Responsible for the visuals, colors, innovation, visual interaction, and diversified presentation of the product interface, and undertake work related to how products convey visual information and their visual language.
④ Dynamic Design: Responsible for the dynamic and 3D design of product interfaces, and undertake the whole process from design conception, creation, prototype, debugging and implementation.
Job Requirements
① Industrial design, digital media design, visual design, interaction design, computing, user studies, etc.
② Mastery of one or more of the following: interaction design, graphic/3D visual design, HCI design, motion design, 3D modeling and rendering.
③ CET-4 or above, with strong reading, writing and speaking skills.
1. After submitting artworks on the official website of HONOR Talents Global Design Award, post the image and text on Sina Weibo or Xiaohongshu under the tag "HONOR Talents" to participate in the selection for the "Best Interactive Participation Award".
2. The text must include information such as the hashtag "HONOR Talents", as well as the name and description of the work. You must use the HONOR Talents contest design template, and post the overall visual design image.
3. The event will end at 23:59 Beijing time on October 8, 2023. The organizer will count the reposts, comments and likes before the deadline, and the top six contestants with the highest total of these three will win the award.
4. If the same contestant submits multiple works, only their most popular work will be taken into account and they cannot win the award multiple times.
5. If the works selected for the "Best Interactive Participation Award" have won the "Global 1st Place", "1st, 2nd or 3rd Place of any track", "Best New Talent Award", "Judges' Choice Award" and "AIGC Innovation Award", they will defer their place for the "Best Interactive Participation Award" to the next eligible participant who has not received the above awards.
6. The organizer will contact the winners through the information gathered on the official website of the contest, Sina Weibo "HONOR" account or Xiaohongshu "HONOR Mobile" account. For the complete privacy statement and terms of entry, please refer to the official website of the contest.
Awards
Global 1st Place x 1
$ 11200
Award Certificate
1st Place x 1
$ 3500
Award Certificate
2nd Place x 2
$ 1600
Award Certificate
3rd Place x 3
$ 1100
Award Certificate
1st Place x 1
$ 4200
Award Certificate
2nd Place x 2
$ 2100
Award Certificate
3rd Place x 3
$ 1400
Award Certificate
1st Place x 1
$ 2800
Award Certificate
2nd Place x 2
$ 1100
Award Certificate
3rd Place x 3
$ 800
Award Certificate
1st Place x 1
$ 3500
Award Certificate
2nd Place x 2
$ 1600
Award Certificate
3rd Place x 3
$ 1100
Award Certificate
1st Place x 1
$ 8400
Award Certificate
2nd Place x 2
$ 4200
Award Certificate
3rd Place x 3
$ 2800
Award Certificate
Special Awards
AIGC Innovation
Award x 10
$ 700
Entries selected from those created using AI
Best New Talent
Award x 25
$ 700
Entries selected from university student submissions worldwide
Judges' Choice
Award x 25
$ 700
Entries selected from all submissions
Best Interactive Participation Award x 6
$ 70
Detailed Rules for BestInteractive Participation Award
Work Usage
Opportunities
Opportunity for the Work to Be Applied
HONOR will develop outstanding award-winning works into HONOR's products, bringing innovative experiences to HONOR's global consumers and becoming the "representative works" of the youth.
Exhibition Exposure
Opportunities
Exhibition Exposure Opportunities
HONOR collaborates with local and international mainstream media to promote and publicize the event, and will continue to follow the creative stories and personal experiences of the outstanding winners. At the same time, HONOR will bring outstanding works to be showcased all over the world, such as HONOR product launches and brand events, international large-scale exhibitions, international forums and conferences, art exhibitions, etc., to further enhance the social influence of the outstanding talents and their works.
Industry Exchange
Opportunities
Industry Exchange Opportunities
The winners will have the opportunity to participate in HONOR's official events, participate in empowerment courses, and have face-to-face interactions and learning with industry experts from around the world and within HONOR.
Invited Judges
Ma Sai
Professor of Tsinghua University and Dean of the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University
Ma Juncheng
Professor and doctoral supervisor of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Dean of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts City Design School
Yuan Youmin
Professor and doctoral supervisor of the China Academy of Art, Dean of the China Academy of Art International College, Dean of the EDNA Joint Institute, China Academy of Art
Zhou Hongtao
Professor of College of Design and Innovation (D&I) and Vice Dean of Shanghai International College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University.
Zhao Lu
Professor of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Vice Dean of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts
Anna Meroni
Deputy Dean of the School of Design of Politecnico di Milan
Caterina Di Bert
The president of Italian Fashion Culture Centre, the founder and president of CDB Fashion, the Former Head of Milan’s Istituto Marangoni
Yrjö Sotamaa
Professor Emeritus, Aalto University, Finland, Chairman, Ateljé Sotamaa, Finland
Xiao Hui Wang
Crossover Artist
Ben Hughes
British Industrial Designer, Former Director of Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins, London
Ji Tie
Dean of School of Design, Hunan University
Yunuen Esparza
Mexican Contemporary Artist
Johannes Neubacher
WWD China Co-founder and VP, Media and Fashion Industry Expert
Xiao Yong
Professor of visual design, Central Academy of Fine Arts CAFA in Beijing. Professor at The Macau University of Science and Technology
He Yu
Dean, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Arts College of Sichuan University
Ge Feng
Head of UX Design, HONOR
Guo Rui
CMO, HONOR Device Co., Ltd.
Yuan Ze
Head of Industrial Design, HONOR
Contest Design Themes
Renewal of life · Return
Contemplate human beings' relationship with all things
Cultural Prosperity · Celebration
A Totem of Renewing Festive Culture
Genesis · The Future
Imagine the Innovative World of the Future
Category
Visual Communication Design
The Visual Communication Design category
includes Wallpapers, Themes, Watches and Open Designs