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Summit Co-hosts 2026 Kapok Design Awards, World-Class Jury Lineup Unveiled to Lead Global Residential Design Upgrade
Time : 2026-07-27
News | New Pearl Group International
As the exclusive tile partner of the 2026 Kapok Design Awards, Summit under New Pearl Group announces the full jury roster of the 2026 Kapok Design Awards, a landmark China-originated design honor certified by IFI, ICSID and ICOGRADA. Gathering top global design masters including Masayuki Kurokawa and Chi Wing Lo, the 2026 Kapok Design Awards sets a new authoritative benchmark for global residential product design and interior design, while summit anchors the cross-border dialogue between China Procelain manufacturing and international top design circles.
Launched in 2006 as the core project of Guangzhou Design Week, Kapok Design Awards stands as China’s longest-standing, most reputable and globally recognized residential design award, holding irreplaceable industry positioning in Asia’s home design ecosystem. Unlike fragmented design awards focusing solely on aesthetics, Kapok Design Awards centers on upgrading human living quality, with the core mission of design-driven industrial upgrading. It builds a complete evaluation system covering design concept, product design and interior design, linking designers, manufacturers, brands and end consumers to form a closed-loop design industry ecosystem. For 21 years, Kapok Design Awards has exported forward-looking design philosophies to the market, and launched the C.D.A China Design Global Initiative in 2024, pushing outstanding Kapok Design Awards winning works to global exhibitions, media and business channels, becoming the core platform for Chinese design to reach overseas markets.
The authority and industry-leading value of 2026 Kapok Design Awards is fully embodied by its unprecedented jury lineup. The 2026 Kapok Design Awards organizing team appoints Kelvin Goh as Executive Chairman to oversee exhibition visual upgrading and international curation, while Siza Cham acts as Chief Observer to supervise all judging procedures for absolute fairness. The 27-member jury committee integrates cross-border elites covering product design, furniture creation, color aesthetics, fashion, commercial strategy and academic research, uniting Japanese design godfather Masayuki Kurokawa, world-renowned Chinese designer Chi Wing Lo, top European design strategists, Korean interior design leaders and China’s industrial design professors. This multi-dimensional jury panel judges entries from innovation, ergonomics, sustainability, commercial practicability and humanistic value, redefining global residential design evaluation standards and guiding the whole building materials and home furnishing industry to balance artistic creation, manufacturing feasibility and market demand.
For the global procelain tile and construction material industry, Kapok Design Awards delivers clear forward-looking guidance. As a leading Chinese procelain brand under New Pearl Group, summit deeply recognizes that Kapok Design Awards’ judging criteria — innovation, environmental friendliness, humanized function and sustainable craft — perfectly align with summit’s R&D logic for global procelain tile products. The 2026 Kapok Design Awards divides competitions into Design Concept Award, Product Design Award and Interior Design Award, with strict scoring rules covering material application, environmental compatibility, long-term durability and space integration. These standards push tile manufacturers like summit to break traditional material thinking, combine global design aesthetics with advanced procelain production technology, and develop tile products that fit diverse international residential space styles.
The 2026 Kapok Design Awards also accelerates the internationalization of Chinese building material design via the C.D.A Worth-Seeing Chinese Design program. All summit’s innovative tile entries shortlisted for Kapok Design Awards will obtain global exposure opportunities through GIA global resource alliance, connecting with overseas architects, interior designers and high-end distributors. This cooperation enables summit to absorb the jury’s cross-cultural design insights, optimize product lines for European, Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern markets, and convey Chinese procelain manufacturing strength to global design communities through Kapok Design Awards’ authoritative platform.
As the co-brand partner of Kapok Design Awards 2026, summit will join the year-round judging, special exhibition and award ceremony events held December 4–8. The 2026 Kapok Design Awards open for global submissions, welcoming designers and building material brands worldwide to participate. Jointly with top global design masters, summit will keep practicing design-driven industrial innovation, empower Chinese procelain design to go global, and lead the world residential design industry toward more humanized, eco-friendly and aesthetically advanced development.
