revealed : 19 Jan 2023 at 04:00
The Redress Design Award 2023 is accepting purposes from rising trend designers world wide, together with Thailand.
(Photograph courtesy of Redress Restricted)
That is the thirteenth cycle of the world’s largest sustainable trend design competitors that educates and empowers rising trend designers about round design, in opposition to the background that 80% of a product’s environmental influence is laid down on the design stage.
Organised by Hong Kong-headquartered, Asia-focused environmental NGO Redress, the academic competitors attracts candidates from over 50 international locations and enjoys assist from over 150 universities globally, with hundreds of hopeful designers battling to showcase their modern design abilities on the worldwide stage to get the possibility to collaborate with main trend companies. In line with Redress, Asia accounts for round 60% of world exports of clothes, textiles, and footwear. The equal of 1 garbage truck of textiles is landfilled or burned each second and the style business is chargeable for 10% of world carbon emissions — greater than all worldwide flights and maritime delivery mixed.
Headquartered within the coronary heart of Asia, Redress is in a major place to handle the problem of waste inside the trend business and to construct a world through which trend is round.
This yr, the competitors is open to rising designers and college students with lower than 4 years {of professional} expertise, specializing in each womenswear and menswear unique assortment designs.
This is a chance for them to pursue their goals in the neighborhood, be supported of their careers by their fellow designers and forge friendships alongside the best way.
On-line purposes may be made till March 16. Ten finalists will likely be introduced on Could 10 and they’ll go to Hong Kong in September for the Grand Remaining Week actions.
Those that make it to the semi-finals or past will be part of the Redress Design Award Alumni Community, a group providing varied profession enhancement alternatives in sustainable design, with alumni achievements together with trend weeks, model collaborations and extra.
There are a number of prizes on supply, with a improvement fund pot of HK$80,000 (340,000 baht) to be distributed among the many highest-scoring finalists. All finalists and semi-finalists will obtain academic and career-enhancing prizes.
