UM professor Lampo Leong and doctoral graduateDr Chao Yang receive ‘Red Dot Award: Best of the Best’ in Germany

Lampo Leong, Distinguished Professor and director of the Centre for Arts and Design in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Macau (UM), and Chao Yang, a doctoral graduate of UM, received the 2024 ‘Red Dot Award: Best of the Best’ in Germany for their design Cheers, Macau!. Known as the ‘Oscars of the design world’ and ranked among the world’s top three most prestigious design honours, the Red Dot Award celebrates outstanding design, with the ‘Red Dot Award: Best of the Best’ being one of the highest distinctions, awarded only to works that demonstrate exceptional creativity and superior quality. The winners of the 2024 ‘Red Dot Award: Best of the Best’ include design teams from over 50 globally renowned brands such as the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Louis Vuitton, Lufthansa, IBM, Bombardier, Hyundai Motor Company, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, as well as acclaimed designers such as Kashiwa Sato, creative director of UNIQLO.

The award ceremony of the Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design 2024 was held in Berlin, where Prof Leong and Dr Yang received their award. The jury described their work as stunning, calling it ‘a beautiful blend of art, typography, ancient techniques (wild cursive Chinese calligraphy), and international consumer products that reflects a contemporary awareness of environmental issues.’ Their work was also selected for exhibitions such as the ‘Best Brands & Communication Design – Red Dot Winners Selection 2024’ and ‘World’s Best Communication Design 2024 and Highlights from NRW’. It has been showcased at the Museum of Communication Berlin and the Red Dot Design Museum Essen, and will be exhibited in other Red Dot museums worldwide.

Prof Leong also serves as associate master of Chao Kuang Piu College at UM. He has mentored many master’s and doctoral students, including Chao Yang, who is now a full professor at Beihang University. Prof Leong has received over 120 international awards, including a gold award at American Good Design, a gold medal at the Creative Quarterly International Arts Competition in New York, a Silver A’ Design Award in Italy, and a silver award at the MUSE Design Awards in the US. He has also been awarded funding from the China National Arts Fund and honoured with the Great Wall Award, one of the highest accolades in the field of communication in China. His works have been selected for over 460 national and international exhibitions and have been featured in museums around the world. These include the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Palace Museum in Beijing, the National Museum of China, the National Art Museum of China, Today Art Museum in Beijing, Times Art Museum in Beijing, the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong, Hubei Museum of Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen Art Museum, and the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning.

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