The Design Values Award (DVA) is an international award celebrating contemporary Chinese design. Launched in 2024 through a collaboration between the V&A Museum in London and Design Society in Shenzhen.
With categories in Fashion and Textile Design, Architecture and Environmental Design, Product Design and Visual Communication and Interactive Design, the Award celebrates outstanding achievements across diverse fields, highlighting China’s influential role in global design. It honours designs that enhance quality of life, foster sustainable development, and tackle pressing global challenges - creating a platform for impactful and meaningful innovation.
Building on the V&A and Design Society’s partnership established in 2017, the Award continues a legacy of exhibitions, projects, and research advancing Chinese design.
Open to professional designers, studios, collectives and students from all backgrounds, the Award celebrates Chinese creativity and invites participants to shape the future of Chinese design worldwide.
