Recently, four iF Design Awards, well known as Oscar Awards in the design industry, went to the graduate students of 2019 programme Industrial Design Engineering at our school. The four projects that received iF Design Talent Awards are as follows:

1. “SocialArk” App

Team members: Wang Zhangzhi, Hao Yue, Zheng Xinglin and Li Xiaoqian from 2019 programme Industrial Design Engineering, School of Software Technology

Supervisors: Dr. Yao Cheng, Hu Yuqi (graduate of Industrial Design Engineering)

2. Color Guardian

Team members: Huang Muling, Zhang Lingyan and Zou Yuping from 2019 programme Industrial Design Engineering, School of Software Technology

Supervisors: Dr. Yao Cheng, Hu Yuqi (graduate of Industrial Design Engineering)

3. Algae Oxygen Machine

Team members: Zhou Yingyi from 2019 programme Industrial Design Engineering, School of Software Technology

Supervisors: Dr. Zhou Leijing, Dr. Luo Shijian

4. Flavored Book

Team members: Li Xiaopeng, Jin Mengmeng and Deng Zihan from 2019 programme Industrial Design Engineering, and Su Shan from 2018 programme Industrial Design Engineering, School of Software Technology 

Supervisors: Mr. Zhao Xiaoliang, et al.

Founded in 1953 by Germany's oldest industrial design institute, the iF Design Award is hailed as the Oscar Award in the design industry. It is known as one of three most famous design awards in the world alongside Red Dot and IDEA.

The iF Design Talent Award is set up for students and young designers from all over the world. It is devoted to looking for innovations that may change the world and designs that may lead the development of products in the future. The iF Design Talent Award requires young designers to broaden their horizons and come up with creative solutions to the problems faced by mankind.

The theme of this competition was the UN sustainable development goals. With more than 10,000 entries worldwide, only 112 of them won the iF Design Talent Award — the percentage was as low as 1%.