Brief Introduction

Shenzhen Graphic Design Association (hereinafter referred to as “SGDA”), established in 1995, is the first nonprofit professional organization on graphic design in China, aiming to exhibit the excellent design achievement, encourage and advance the academic spirit of professional creation and exploration, promote the society to focus on design, improve the development of graphic design, and academic exchanges between SGDA and other international professional organizations. SGDA respects every member, shares the honor with them and strives to be the academic researcher and practitioner with innovative and leading ideas.
 

Since 1992, the founder of SGDA has initiated the first professional exhibition on graphic design, “Graphic Design in China (hereinafter referred to as GDC)”, having great influence at home and abroad and becoming the symbol one in China. After that, the graphic design industry in Shenzhen has been flourishing, with more and more professional designers, so SGDA was established formally in 1995.
 

SGDA has held the GDC 96, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13,15and17 successfully after its establishment. It started to set a 2-year competition exhibition from 2005 and also organized various exhibitions and academic exchanges like Communication Poster Exhibition, GDC Invitational Exhibition, Modern Design Exhibition in France, X Exhibition, Creation Exhibition over 30-year Reform & Opening-up and other top-grade ones. In addition, it publishes albums of painting, almanacs and periodicals annually to make graphic design popular and accepted by the society. On the occasion that Shenzhen was granted “City of Design” by UN, graphic design won a wide reputation as the representative design industry in Shenzhen. SGDA has communicated with USA, Germany, France, UK, Japan, Italy, Denmark and South Korea successively, and held exhibitions in many countries to make Chinese design go globally.
 

Nowadays SGDA has over 200 members, who have won prizes of design competitions around the world and international exhibitions for many times, and gained internationally-renowned design artistic achievements. Besides, design service of Shenzhen designers, throughout large-scale enterprise groups and cultural institutions in China, made great contribution to economic construction and enterprise development of China, especially Shenzhen, bringing enormous economic and social value.
 

SGDA will continue with the past and open up the future, carrying on its fine tradition and professional spirit, persisting in the pursuing for professional quality and academic spirit to promote the development of graphic design actively in the new era.

secretaria office address: Room 1707, B Building, Galaxy Century ,Caitian Road,No.3069, Futian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. P.C. 518016
Tel: +86-755-8860 6391
E-mail: info@sgda.cc
www.sgda.cc